Iraq National Football Team
The Iraqi national football team (Arabic: منتخب العراق لكرة القدم) represents Iraq in international football and is controlled by the Iraq Football Association.
Read more about Iraq National Football Team: AFC Asian Cup 2007, Kits, World Cup History, Inter Confederations Competitions History, Current Coaching Staff, Schedule and Recent Results, Current Squad, Coaches, Most Capped Players, Top 10 Goalscorers, Team Captains, Trivia
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“You can’t be a Real Country unless you have A BEER and an airline—it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER.”
—Frank Zappa (1940–1993)
“We love the indomitable bellicose patriotism that sets you apart; we love the national pride that guides your muscularly courageous race; we love the potent individualism that doesn’t prevent you from opening your arms to individualists of every land, whether libertarians or anarchists.”
—Tommaso Marinetti (1876–1944)
“In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty’s torch. In football you run over somebody’s face.”
—Donald Hall (b. 1928)
“Is my team ploughing,
That I was used to drive
And hear the harness jingle
When I was man alive?”
—A.E. (Alfred Edward)