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 Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, the Persian Gulf and K ...

in the 1986 FIFA World Cup.1986 FIFA World Cup Mexico
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and

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. Ali was part of a Talaba team that included Iraqi internationals Jamal Ali and

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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

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in India, which included Raad Hammoudi, Falah Hassan and Hussein Saeed. He died on 26 October 2016.

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 {{Iraq-footy-midfielder-stub