Baghdad mayoralty to build museum for deceased coach

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Baghdad’s mayoralty has agreed to build a museum for the deceased Iraqi soccer coach, Ammo-Baba, the director of the Olympic sport academy said on Tuesday. “The museum will be built at the Shaab Stadium in Baghdad where Ammo Baba was buried last month,” Dr. Abdulrazaq al-Taee told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The Iraqi presidency expressed its financial and moral support for this initiative,” he said. On May 27, former Iraqi soccer player and coach Ammo Baba lost consciousness at Din Dar Hotel, where he was staying and died a few minutes before reaching Izdai Hospital. Emmanuel Baba Dawud (born November 27, 1934 in Baghdad, Iraq), better known as Ammo Baba, is a former Iraqi Assyrian international soccer player and coach of the Iraq national football team. He scored the first international goal for Iraq in 1957 against Morocco at the 2nd Pan Arab Games in Beirut and later returned to the team as the coach in 1978. Duhuk is a city in the far northern part of Iraq to the borders with Turkey. It has about 500,000 inhabitants, mostly consisting of Kurds and Assyrians. MH (P) / SS 1