Morning all,
Just a great interesting article about Iraq making the final.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6916230.stm
I thought the highlight of the article was this:
'he BBC's Nicholas Witchell in Baghdad says the win was a genuine moment of national pride and pleasure, which crossed the sectarian divisions between Iraq's different communities.
Just a great interesting article about Iraq making the final.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6916230.stm
I thought the highlight of the article was this:
'he BBC's Nicholas Witchell in Baghdad says the win was a genuine moment of national pride and pleasure, which crossed the sectarian divisions between Iraq's different communities.
Just as the Iraqi team has Sunni and Shia Muslims and Kurds playing alongside each other, the celebrations brought members of all those communities out onto the streets, he adds.
They cheered and waved Iraqi flags, sharing, perhaps, the first such moment of national pride in recent years, our correspondents says.'
Great to see football bringing people
together.
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I hope Iraq wins the final, it'd be good for them to have something
to cheer about.
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The BBC's Nicholas Witchell in Baghdad says the win
was a genuine moment of national pride and pleasure, which crossed the
sectarian divisions between Iraq's different communities.
Just as the Iraqi team has Sunni and Shia Muslims and
Kurds playing alongside each other, the celebrations brought
members of
all those communities out onto the streets, he adds.
They cheered and waved Iraqi flags, sharing, perhaps,
the first such moment of national pride in recent years, our
correspondents says.'
A bit of journalistic platitude one does not often associate with BBC. What the article fails to mention was that there were two suicide bombings in these crowds, and at least 50 people were killed, and more wounded. Football unfortunately cannot, and does not, solve real problems, and to suggest otherwise is irresponsible in my view.
I'm very glad for the Iraqi players though, this is their first real chance to be spotted and signed by clubs from Europe. Iraq's always had talented players (they were at the World Cup in 1986) but Saddam's regime prevented them from plying their trade overseas.
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Yeah go Iraq!! They definitely do need soomething to cheer them up
Botafogo - Rio de Janeiro and Wellington Phoenix, my two teams til death do us part.
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I rock, you rock , we all rock for Iraq!!
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Watch out for Iraq's bombs, they're deadly.
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According to Veitch they were celebrating the victory in the Tamaki
yacht club (auckland) car park this morning at 4.30am and 7 or 8
police cars turned up.
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Is it not going to get mentioned on here that they won the asian
cup?
That's got to be huge for a country like Iraq, good on them
and way to stick it to the AFC.
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This has to be the most amazing football story of the year and I
can't see it being beaten unless Phoenix win the A League final 20
- 0.
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This has to be the most amazing football story of the year and I
can't see it being beaten unless Phoenix win the A League final 20
- 0.
But that would be next year, would it not?
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