Adil Basher

Iraqi footballer and coach From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Adil Basher (Arabic: عَادِل بَشِير الْحَاتِم; 1 January 1926 – 9 October 1978) was an Iraqi football player and coach that led Iraq to the 1964 and 1966 Arab Cup.

Full name Adil Basher
Date of birth (1926-01-01)1 January 1926
Place of birth Mosul, Iraq
Date of death 9 October 1978(1978-10-09) (aged 52)
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Adil Basher
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Full name Adil Basher
Date of birth (1926-01-01)1 January 1926
Place of birth Mosul, Iraq
Date of death 9 October 1978(1978-10-09) (aged 52)
Place of death Baghdad, Iraq
Managerial career
Years Team
1962–1964 Iraq
1966 Iraq
1971–1972 Iraq
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Born in Mosul in 1927, Adil Basher completed his primary and secondary education in the northern Iraqi city before moving to Baghdad to enroll at the Military College (Kuliya Al-Askariya), where he played for their football team as a defender. He graduated in 1951 and was one of the players that made a quest appearance for Al-Haras Al-Malaki against Pakistan in 1950. He continued his career after leaving Kuliya Al-Askariya in 1954 in a player-coach role at army teams Al-Firqa Al-Thaniya and Al-Firqa Al-Thalitha.

Adil traveled to England in 1954 where he earned a coaching badge at a training course in Lilleshall, and returned to Baghdad in time to represent Iraq at the 1955 Asian Military Games in Tehran.

He later turned to coaching in the late 1950s, which where he found more success than as a player, and was named coach of the military team in 1960 and eventually national coach in 1964.[1][2][3]

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