fullname years clubs birth_place position birth_date managerclubs article_title name
abdul-hadi abbas al-mahami 1932-1950 al-quwa al-jawiya baghdad , iraq forward 1915 nadi al-feili iraq iraq u16 hadi abbas
 hadi abbas -lrb- هادي عباس -rrb-
hadi abbas

hadi abbas -lrb- 1915 -- 1990s -rrb- was a football player and coach .
during the 1930s and 40s , abbas was considered as one of the most talented left sided forwards of his generation .
he played for al-quwa al-jawiya and the iraqi army national side in a career that spanned nearly twenty years .
he scored several important goals during his playing days , including one against syrian club al-barada in 1938 while guesting for the baghdad olympic club and one against the polish army in 1943 .
after retiring he turned to coaching at nadi al-feili in baghdad and in 1958 he supervised the first iraqi junior national side made up of the brightest prospects from baghdad areas of al-rasafa and al-karkh .
the group of youngsters included the likes of abid kadhim , hassan `` balah '' ali , husham atta ajaj , and latif shandal , all of whom would go onto play for the full national side .
he also had a hand at football administration , and in 1959 he was elected president of the iraq football association , which he held for three years .
in 1959 during the qualifiers for the 1960 olympic games in rome , hadi took charge of the national side for the last three matches , having been shawqi aboud 's assistant for the first match against lebanon .
he was one of many sportsmen who held memberships with the iraqi communist party that were rounded up and imprisoned by the new baathist government after the bloody coup of february 8 , 1963 .
he was later released by authorities but kept himself out of the limelight until his death .
at the time of ruling hashemite monarchy , hadi had been incarcerated at the notorious nugrat al-salman prison in nassriya for his communist sympathies , and supervised the city 's local youth team for a short spell .
