Ali Hussein Shihab (5 May 1961 – 26 October 2016) was an Iraqi
football midfielder
A midfielder is an outfield position in association football.
Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
who played for
Iraq
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in the
1986 FIFA World Cup.
1986 FIFA World Cup Mexico
He also played for Al-Talaba.
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, Natiq Hashim
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and Basil Gorgis
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.
Ali was part of a Talaba team that included Iraqi internationals Jamal Ali and Hussein Saeed
Hussein Saeed Mohammed ( ar, حسين سعيد محمد, born 21 January 1958) is an Iraqi former footballer who played as a forward for the Iraqi Premier League club Al-Talaba and the Iraqi national team and is a former president of the Iraq ...
which won three league titles during the 80s. He played in all three games in the 1986 World Cup lining up against Paraguay, Belgium and hosts Mexico.[ Ali was also part of the team that won the ]1982 Asian Games
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in India, which included Raad Hammoudi, Falah Hassan and Hussein Saeed.[
He died on 26 October 2016.
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Career statistics
International goals
''Scores and results list Iraq's goal tally first.''
References
1961 births
2016 deaths
Iraqi men's footballers
Iraqi expatriate men's footballers
Iraq men's international footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Al-Talaba SC players
Olympic footballers for Iraq
Footballers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
1986 FIFA World Cup players
Asian Games medalists in football
Footballers at the 1982 Asian Games
Asian Games gold medalists for Iraq
Medalists at the 1982 Asian Games
Iraqi expatriate sportspeople in Libya
Expatriate men's footballers in Libya
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