Personal Life
Ammu Baba was one of the few prominent Iraqis to openly confront Saddam Hussein's Uday, the president of the Iraqi Football Association. After the Iraq war all of his family, including his children, moved to Chicago where there is a sizeable Assyrian community, while he stayed in Baghdad, where he ran a football academy for teenagers. On January 20, 2006, the 71-year-old Baba was attacked in his home, where he was tied, blind-folded, beaten, and then robbed.
Ammo Baba died at the age of 74 on Wednesday the 27th of May 2009, after suffering from Diabetes and its complications in Duhok. He was buried at Baghdad's largest stadium as he requested before his death.
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