Raad Hammoudi Salman al-Aredhi ( ar, رعد حمودي سلمان العارضي; born May 1, 1958) is a retired Iraqi

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player who represented his country as a

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in the Olympics and the World Cup. He is known as being the most successful goalkeeper in Iraqi football, leading Iraq to the

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. He made his international debut in 1976 against Turkey. Raad was an important part of the Al-Shorta side, captaining them to the Iraqi League in season 1979/80. He took three penalties for Al-Shorta, scoring two and missing one. He was goalkeeper of the tournament during Iraq's win in the 1979 Gulf Cup, when he conceded just one goal in six games, he was also in goal when Iraq won the Asian Games in 1982. Raad started his career in 1972 when he joined second division club Kuliya Al-Shurta (where he won the Iraqi Central Second Division), a team which along with Shurta Al-Najda and Aliyat Al-Shorta were replaced in the top-flight by Al-Shurta Sports Club. Raad played in the 1984 Olympics and 1986 World Cup in Mexico, where he played in the two games against

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. In 1999, Raad was placed by the German-based Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS) as Iraq's 4th best player of the century behind the likes of

Ahmed Radhi Ahmed Radhi Humaiesh Al-Salehi, ( ar, أحمد راضي هميش الصالحي, 21 April 1964 – 21 June 2020) was an Iraqi footballer who played as a forward. Regarded as one of Iraq and Asia's best players of all-time, Radhi scored the onl ...

Hussein Saeed Hussein Saeed Mohammed ( ar, حسين سعيد محمد, born 21 January 1958) is an Iraqi former association football, footballer who played as a Forward (association football), forward for the Iraqi Premier League club Al-Talaba SC, Al-Talaba ...

and

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. He is currently the president of the Iraqi Olympic Committee.

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Sportspeople from Baghdad Iraqi footballers 1976 AFC Asian Cup players 1986 FIFA World Cup players Iraq international footballers Living people Olympic footballers of Iraq Footballers at the 1984 Summer Olympics Asian Games medalists in football Footballers at the 1982 Asian Games FIFA Century Club Al-Shorta SC players 1958 births Asian Games gold medalists for Iraq Association football goalkeepers Medalists at the 1982 Asian Games {{Iraq-footy-bio-stub

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