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Tyrrell Hatton, three others share lead at PGA Heritage PAGE 14 MONDAY, JULY 22, 2020 Iraqi football legend Ahmed Radhi succumbs to COVID-19 man but returned to Iraq in Qatari clubs mourn the passing 2007 for a career in politics, replacing a member of par- away of former Al Wakrah star liament who defected to join the bloody insurgency rag- AFP/TNN Wakrah, whom the football ing across the country. BAGHDAD star represented in the QSL, He was an unsuccessful mourned his death. Radhi candidate in the 2014 and IRAQI football legend was the top-scorer for Al 2018 elections with the Na- Ahmed Radhi died Sunday Wakrah in the QSL during tional Alliance, a coalition of from complications linked to 1993-94 season scoring 16 Sunni and Shiite figures. COVID-19, the health min- goals. When news of his death istry said, just hours before In a video reportedly broke, football fans in Iraq he was to be flown for treat- from his hospital bed on Sat- exploded in grief. ment in Jordan. urday, Radhi could be seen in “With great sadness and Radhi, 56, scored what a green jersey struggling to sorrow, we mourn our life- remains Iraq’s only World breathe as medics in full pro- long companion, our fans’ Cup finals goal in 1986 tective gear try to treat him. ardent star, the unrivalled against Belgium. “Sometimes it’s hard to Former Iraqi footballer Ahmed athlete and son of Iraq, He had been hospitalised breathe but that’s normal,” Radhi during his swearing in Ahmed Radhi,” said Iraq’s last week in Baghdad after he could be heard telling ceremony as a new member of new sports minister Adnan testing positive for coronavi- the medical team, his voice the parliament Darjal, himself a former rus but had checked out on strained.
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