Hadi Abbas

Football player

1915 –

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Who is Hadi Abbas?

Hadi Abbas was a football player and coach.

During the 1930s and 40s, Abbas was considered as one of the most talented left sided forwards of his generation. He played for Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya and the Iraqi army national side in a career that spanned nearly twenty years.

He scored several important goals during his playing days, including one against Syrian club Al-Barada in 1938 while guesting for the Baghdad Olympic Club and one against the Polish Army in 1943.

After retiring he turned to coaching at Nadi Al-Feili in Baghdad and in 1958 he supervised the first Iraqi junior national side made up of the brightest prospects from Baghdad areas of Al-Rasafa and Al-Karkh. The group of youngsters included the likes of Abid Kadhim, Hassan "Balah" Ali, Husham Atta Ajaj, and Latif Shandal, all of whom would go onto play for the full national side.

He also had a hand at football administration, and in 1959 he was elected president of the Iraq Football Association, which he held for three years.

In 1959 during the qualifiers for the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, Hadi took charge of the national side for the last three matches, having been Shawqi Aboud's assistant for the first match against Lebanon.

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Born
1915
Baghdad
Nationality
  • Iraq
Lived in
  • Baghdad

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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