Only one of the 16 players from the squad which travelled to Turkey would remain in the side for Iraq’s next international fixture that was played six years later. The sole survivor was Jamil Abbas who captained Iraq in their first full international against Morocco at the 1957 Pan Arab Games in Beirut and became one of the Iraqi national team’s longest serving players with a statue built in his honour after his retirement at the old Kashafa Stadium in Baghdad, where it stands today. He was employed by the Ministry of Education and was a secretary at the Iraq Football Association.