Iraqi National Football team seek political asylum

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Three players and the assistant coach of the Iraqi squad have gone AWOL from a training camp following a match in Australia. The team had been scheduled to play matches with Lebanon and Syria following the Olympic qualifier however coach Saadi Toma informed the Iraqi FA that himself and three players would be applying for political asylum.

Iraq had stunned the footballing world this past summer by winning the Asia Cup yet the players have all voiced concern over their safety in the past. Star player Younis Mahmoud who plays club football in Qatar fears to return back to Iraq despite his heroic status whilst in the nineties players had been tortured by Uday Hussein after losing important matches.
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