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Raad Hammoudi Football player

Raad Hammoudi Salman (April 20, 1953) is a retired Iraqi football player who represented his country as a goalkeeper twice during the 1986 FIFA World Cup. He is known as be ing the most successful goalkeeper in Iraq as leading them to the 1986 FIFA World Cup.He made his international debut in 1976 against Turkey. Raad was an important part of the Al-Shorta side, captaining them to the Iraqi League in season 1979/80. He was goalkeeper of the tournament during Iraq's win in the 1979 Gulf Cup, when he conceded just one goal in six games, he was also in goal when Iraq won the Asian Games in 1982. Raad started his career in 1972 when he joined second division club Kuliya Al-Shurta, a team which later merged with Shurta Al-Najda and then later Aliyat Al-Shorta to form Al-Shurta. Raad played in the Olympics and 1986 World Cup in Mexico, where he played 2 games against Paraguay and Belgium. In 1999, Raad was placed by the German based Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS) as Iraq's 4th best player of the century behind the likes of Ahmed Radhi, Hussein Saeed and Habib Jafar. He is currently the president of the Iraqi Olympic Committee.