"Whatever his name" .. Basem Qassem criticizes the handover of the Iraqi team to a foreign coach

The former coach of the Iraqi national team, Basem Qassem, said that the foreign coach will not succeed with the "Lions of Mesopotamia", whatever his name is.

"They compared the results of my matches with the national team and the matches of the Slovenian coach Katanic," he said on the "Iraq Sport" website.

Basem Qassem did not explain why he saw the inability of foreign coaches to succeed with the Iraqi teams, especially since the history of the Rafidain Lions refers to the outstanding successes achieved by foreign coaches, including the Brazilian Jorvan Vieira, who led Iraq to win the Asian Cup in 2007, an achievement that no Iraqi coach had before, while Brazilian Edo managed to lead him to the 1986 World Cup Finals in Mexico.

The Iraqi Football Association had recently contracted with the Dutch coach Advocaat instead of the Slovenian Katanic, but the Dutch failed miserably in his second match in the qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup when the Rafidain Lions suffered a heavy loss against Iran with a severe three.

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