Duhuk’s sportsmen bid farewell to Ammo Baba

DUHUK / IraqiNews.com: Duhuk’s soccer players on Thursday escorted the body of well-known Iraqi coach Ammo Baba in its final stage before being flown to Baghdad to be buried there. IraqiNews.com news agency attended the farewell ceremony, where the players carried the casket and walked around Duhuk playground, according to Ammo Baba’s well. On Wednesday (May 27) evening, 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. SS (P)/SR 1