Hussam Fawzi (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Hussam Fawzi Naji (born 3 September 1974 in Iraq) is an Iraqi footballer who is a forward, and former captain of the Iraq national football team. He represented Iraq whilst playing his club football at Al-Zawraa. He played for in Iraq at the time when Uday Hussein was in charge of the national team. Hussam was included in the 1996 and 2000 squads for the Asian Cup. The Iraqi football team came into public attention when newspapers started publishing stories of how Uday was known to punish players physically for achieving poor results in matches. This was used as one of the many reasons used by Tony Blair for justifying the Iraq war.