Shawqi Aboud (in

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شوقي عبود) ( Adhammiya, Iraq 1927 - d. Baghdad 2008) was an Iraqi coach who managed the Iraqi national team on three occasions. He was born in Adhammiya where his father worked for the Capital Municipality, it was there he first got the taste of sports growing up in Baghdad and playing at the local sports grounds of the area. In 1954, Shawqi traveled to England to take part in a training course along with

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. He spent a month in England where he got to know Irish coach

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, formerly a professional with Everton and

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who joined the Iraq delegation on their return to Baghdad to manage the Iraq army team. Cook spent six months training the Iraq army team at the

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Camp on a wage of only a few Iraqi dinars, where they played a number of friendly games, with Shawqi playing a few matches for Iraq in the outside right position, as well as working as one of Cook’s coaching assistants. In the mid-Sixties Shawqi Aboud coached

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and his revolutionary tactical philosophy using the Brazilian 4-2-4 which won the

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and a variation of Bill Nicholson’s 3-3-4 deployed by Tottenham Hotspurs 1961 double winning side saw the

lift four trophies over a single season.

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Iraqi football managers Iraq national football team managers 1927 births 2008 deaths {{Iraq-footy-bio-stub