SOCCER PLAYER

Ahmed Radhi

1964 - 2020

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Ahmed Radhi Humaiesh Al-Salehi (Arabic: أَحْمَد رَاضِي هَمِيش الصَّالِحِيّ, 21 April 1964 – 21 June 2020) was an Iraqi footballer who played as a striker. Nicknamed "Al-Saher" (The Magician) in his playing days and regarded as one of Iraq's and Asia's best players of all time, Radhi scored the only Iraqi goal at the FIFA World Cup in its 1986 edition, a low shot to the corner of the net against Belgium in a 2–1 defeat. He was voted the Asian Footballer of the Year in 1988. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Ahmed Radhi is the 6,096th most popular soccer player (down from 3,414th in 2024), the 342nd most popular biography from Iraq (down from 327th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Iraqi Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Ahmed Radhi ranks 6,096 out of 21,273. Before him are Viktor Pasulko, Constantin Gâlcă, Olle Nordin, Ken Matsumoto, Juan Carlos Oleniak, and Nobutoshi Kaneda. After him are Antonio Nocerino, Akemi Noda, Daichi Hakkaku, Zygmunt Kalinowski, Yoshiharu Horii, and Branko Miljuš.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1964, Ahmed Radhi ranks 508. Before him are Martha Wells, Herman Gref, Tetsuji Hashiratani, Ron Harper, Brett Hull, and Hamish Harding. After him are Taisia Povaliy, Anneke von der Lippe, Guga, Ashot Anastasian, Hitoshi Tomishima, and Fofi Gennimata. Among people deceased in 2020, Ahmed Radhi ranks 728. Before him are Juan Sol, Bob Kulick, Ann Reinking, Pau Donés, Aurlus Mabélé, and Bryan Sykes. After him are Timothy Ray Brown, Diana Serra Cary, Enrique Múgica, Haruma Miura, Karel Neffe, and Danny Hodge.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Ahmed Radhi ranks 342 out of 384. Before him are Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi (1954), Selim Bayraktar (1975), Ahmed Al Safi (1971), Jafar Salmasi (1918), Raad Hammoudi (1953), and Muntadhar al-Zaidi (1979). After him are Abu Azrael (1978), Charles Saatchi (1943), Sadeq Larijani (1961), Muhsin al-Ramli (1967), Huner Saleem (1964), and Mari Emmanuel (1970).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Iraq

Among soccer players born in Iraq, Ahmed Radhi ranks 3. Before him are Hussein Saeed (1958), and Raad Hammoudi (1953). After him are Younis Mahmoud (1983), Hawar Mulla Mohammed (1981), Samir Shaker (1958), Nadhim Shaker (1958), Ali Hussein Shihab (1961), Ali Adnan Kadhim (1993), Basil Gorgis (1961), Aymen Hussein (1996), and Nashat Akram (1984).

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