Defence, Iraq
Sourced facts, dated and on the record. Squad membership, and his club when a source names one. Nothing invented; we don’t make players up.
At a glance
age
32
sourced with the squad
position
Defence
Iraq
our board
#1318
of 1424 rated players
folded so far
158′
3 appearances
transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers
0.30
35th percentile of peers
On the pitch
Minutes on the pitch for Iraq. The goals come or they do not; we log either.
goals
0
assists
0
caps
3
minutes
158′
goals and assists from our captured match events · caps and minutes from the appearance record
Sourced
- squad
- Iraq · Defencefootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
Sourced context, nothing more. It never touches a call.
Our rating · the working
the board →1539 ±69
his quality rating: club, age and measured output. The board orders by this plus his World Cup form, less a discount for how much we can measure him.
How the number is builtopenclose
1530 full roster Elo (−10 from national-team results)
the ± is how settled the number is, more minutes, tighter band
Tier 2, lineups + results, how rich the evidence is, not just how much
at or near his peak, no projected upside from age
Where he starts (his team’s strength, we refuse to invent what we haven’t measured) plus two fixed nudges make the quality rating above; the last line is what national-team results have added since, taking it to his full roster Elo.
- starts at Iraq's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point
- 1556
- age curve at 32 (defences' curve)measured from the open archive by our own study (defenders: the published literature's shape), never fitted to our calls
- -10
- transfer market value, a sourced market-consensus quality prior (the stronger reading for him here)his percentile among minutes-qualified peers, from club seasons
- -7
- quality rating · club, age + measured output
- 1539
- form: national-team results, 3 appearances158 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI
- -10
- full roster Elo · with results
- 1530
Rating trend
-190 over 4 updatesSeeded from his team’s rating, then moved by the matches he actually played. A shadow signal, it never touches a live call.
Where the -7 skill term comes from
Not a reputation, a measurement. We score every shot in the data ourselves and rank him among minutes-qualified peers; a fixed arithmetic turns that rank into points.
- measured
- 0.30 transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers
- his rank
- 35th percentile of qualified peers
- scored from
- the CC0 Transfermarkt community mirror; a market-consensus quality prior, taken at a capped weight where it reads a player higher than our (fixed, partial) shot/event data can
- the arithmetic
- 46 pts/σ × z(35.1th) = 46 × -0.38 × 0.4 (position weight) = -7
Where the -10 was earned
The earned line, opened up by competition. World Cup finals count 1.5×, qualifiers and cups 1×, friendlies and club football half, so a tournament night moves him most.
- World Cup finals1 app · 95′
- -10
- internationals, qualifiers & cups1 app · 35′
- -1
- international friendlies1 app · 28′
- +1
His latest nights
- 2026-06-26World Cup finals · 95′▼ −10
- 2026-06-04international friendlies · 28′ · team result only▲ +1
- 2025-10-14internationals, qualifiers & cups · 35′ · team result only▼ −1
Each night’s move blends his team’s result with his own match stats, saves for keepers, tackles and duels for defenders, creation for midfielders, finishing up front. “Team result only” marks games where the feed carried no player stats.
A forward-only shadow signal, as of 2026-06-26. The skill term comes from our own xG models over the open archive; the rest is earned, recorded per appearance, auditable, never back-filled. It never moves a live call.
At this World Cup
What the tournament has done to his rating since the first whistle on 11 Jun, and the matches behind it. Each night’s move blends his team’s result with his own performance, shrunk for sample size, so a strong game nudges the number rather than spiking it.
▼ −10
1 appearance · 95′ · 1 graded by his own stats
The matches behind it
- 06-26lost by 5 · 95′ · his stats graded▼ −10
The same movement shown beside his name on the board, opened up. “Team result only” marks nights the feed carried no player stats. A forward-only shadow signal; it never touches a live call.
The notebook
The lines a beat writer keeps, except every one of ours is read off the ledger above, auditable to the night. Nothing invented.
standing
#1318 of 1424 rated players on our board.
the rough one
The night that cost him most: −10 – World Cup finals, 2026-06-26. We don't erase those.
What he’d cost · our estimate
We don’t price him yet. Our fee model leans on the level he plays at, and no trusted source has given us his club’s strength. We’d rather show nothing than a number we don’t trust.
In our coverage · Iraq’s record
- at Senegal5–0Called it
- at France3–0Called it
- v Norway1–4Called it
The newsroom’s calls on Iraq. Team-level, never dressed up as a player stat.
Squad · sourced
- Ahmed Basil
- Ahmed Qasem
- Ahmed Yahya
- Aimar Sher
- Akam Hashem
- Ali Al-Hamadi
- Ali Jassim El-Aibi
- Ali Yousif
- Amir Al Ammari
- Aymen Hussein
- Fahad Talib
- Hussein Ali
- Ibrahim Bayesh
- Jalal Hassan
- Kevin Yakob
- Manaf Younis
- Marko Farji
- Merchas Doski
- Mohanad Ali
- Mustafa Saadoun
- Rebin Sulaka
- Youssef Amyn
- Zaid Ismail
- Zaid Tahseen
- Zidane Iqbal