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Ammo Baba carried by the crowd after a win in Baghdad, 1964

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Ammo Baba carried by the crowd after a win in Baghdad, 1964

Place: Baghdad · today Iraq
Date: 1964

Sports Portrait

The footballer Ammo Baba, the Assyrian who became Iraq's star forward, is carried shoulder-high through a dense, cheering crowd. The Arabic caption on Commons says this was after a 4-1 win over the Czechoslovak side Trenčín at the Scouts Stadium in Baghdad on 26 January 1964.

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