Career
He was voted the 1988 Asian Football player of the Year. Ahmed Radhi was perhaps one of the most outstanding Iraqi goalscorers of his generation. He was a striker capable of scoring any kind of goal whether a volley from 35 yards, a free-kick or an easy tap-in.
He starred at the 1986 World Cup finals in Mexico, scoring Iraq’s first & only goal in the World Cup in a 2-1 defeat against Belgium, he was also denied a goal in Iraq’s first World Cup game against Paraguay when the referee blew his whistle a split-second before his header crossed the line.
After the finals, his club First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Rasheed were offered $1m by Uruguayan giants Nacional for their star player, but it was quickly rejected. In 1988, was voted Asian player of the year and 9th best Asian player of the century in 1999.
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.
Two years later, Radhi ended his career as a football player in 1999, after he led local side First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Zawra"a to another league title.
In October 2007, he was nominated by the opposition Iraqi Accord Front to the Council of Representatives of Iraq, replacing Abd al-Nasir al-Janabi, who had resigned to join the insurgency. Scores and results list Iraq"s goal tally first.