Ahmed Radhi

Ahmed Radhi (Arabic أحمد راضي, DMG Ahmad Radi, born March 21, 1964 in Baghdad ) is a former Iraqi football player and current politician.

Sporting career

His athletic career began Radhi in some youth sports clubs in the capital, before the age of 18 he joined the Iraqi first division club Al- Zawraa 1982. For Al - Zawraa he played until 1985, when he signed a contract with Al- Rasheed, a newly founded by Uday Hussein Club. With Al- Rasheed, he was between 1986 and 1989 three-time Iraqi champions and won in 1987 and 1988 the Iraqi Cup.

In 1989 he went back to his former club Zawraa 1993-1994 he played briefly with Al - Wakrah SC in Qatar before he came back to Zawraa and 1999 there ended his active career. With Al- Zawraa he won in 1991 and 1999, the Iraqi league and the Iraqi Cup (1991 and 1993).

Outside of Iraq won Radhi 1985, 1986 and 1987, the Arab Champions League three times in a row and reached the final of the 1989 Asian Cup national champion, in the Al- Rasheed, however, lost against Al -Sadd of Qatar.

National

His debut in the Iraqi national was Radhi on 28 April 1983 in a 2-1 victory over Egypt in Cairo and scored in this game, also his first international goal. With the Iraqi team, he was in 1984 and 1988 winner of the Golf Cup and also took part in the Olympic Games in Seoul. His biggest success was the participation in the Football World Cup 1986 in Mexico, where he scored the only previous World Cup matches in the country in the 1-2 defeat against Belgium.

1988 elected him to the IFFHS Asian Player of the Year. Overall, he played 73 international matches in which he scored 42 goals ( behind Hussain Saeed and Laith Hussein Shihab number three of the top goal scorers in the country). In 1997, he played in a 6-1 victory over Pakistan his last international game.

End of career

After the end of his sporting career he became manager at Al- Zawraa and worked for the Iraq Football Association. During the elections of 15 December 2005, he joined the Sunni Iraqi unity and supported her election campaign. In July 2007 he retired as a successor to the retiring Abd al- Nasir al - Janabi in the Iraqi parliament. Since October 2009 he is a member of the Iraqi National Movement.