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, Iraq

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) is a former Iraq

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i football

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 player and a current politician

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. Widely regarded as Iraq's best player of all-time, Radhi scored the only Iraqi goal in the 1986 FIFA World Cup

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 against Belgium. He was voted the 1988 Asian Footballer of the Year

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.

Radhi's international career came to a bitter end in 1997; when he failed to save Iraq from a shocking first-round elimination in the 1998 World Cup Asian qualifiers

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. Two years later, Radhi ended his career as a footballer in 1999, after he led local side Al-Zawraa to another league title.

In October 2007, he was nominated by the opposition Iraqi Accord Front

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 to the Council of Representatives of Iraq, replacing Abd al-Nasir al-Janabi

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, who had resigned to join the insurgency.

Achievements

• Chosen in the Asia's Top 10 Players of the Century list by IFFHS.
• Top scorer of the Qatari League in 1994
• Asian Footballer of the Year
  Asian Footballer of the Year
  The Asian Footballer of the Year is an award that annually honors Asian footballer each year, has been conferred by Asian Football Confederation since 1994...
  
   1988
• Top scorer of the 1988 Arab Nations Cup
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   in 1988
• Top scorer of the Iraq Super League
  Iraq Super League
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  in 1986 and 1991