Iraq Disbands National Team

The Beautiful Game found this 6/27/2008 on unprofessionalfoul.blogspot.com [flag]

I've been doing some research and collecting information on Iraqi football lately. Essentially, it boils down to things are really different over in Iraq for many obvious reasons. In fact, much of it is downright scary. Despite knowing that things are less than stable over there, it comes as a complete shock that the Iraqi National Football Team has been disbanded after failing to progess in ... [link]

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Published 6/27/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (The Beautiful Game) at The Beautiful Game
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