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Iraq coach Graham Arnold has achieved something at the World Cup no other Australian has
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Australian coach Graham Arnold has steered Iraq's national team back onto the world stage for the first time in 40 years and their second ever appearance in the tournament.
Such is his hero status that football officials tried to get him citizenship, but the story of how he got there is unexpected.
Arnold is the first Australian coach to take teams to two World Cups, guiding the Socceroos to Qatar in 2022 before switching allegiances.
Over the course of 28 months, with eight spent living in Baghdad, he's taken the squad through an arduous 21 qualifying games complicated by grounded flights out of the Middle East.
Iraq head coach Graham Arnold: ‘We’re capable of doing something that will shock the world’ | World Cup 2026
Australian has had to contend with war, 50C heat and playoffs to steer country to a first World Cup in 40 years
Twenty-eight months, 21 games, four rounds, a 117th-minute penalty and a playoff. A coach stuck in Dubai where he watches war start over the water, bombs shaking everything. A team trapped in Baghdad first and Jordan next, missiles flying around them. A scrambled 9,000-mile trip to Mexico where it all rests on one night, the very last country to make it. And, when they do finally land, the hero whose goal took them there is held up by the FBI and the man whose photographs are due to document history is turned back. There may never have been a journey to a World Cup quite like Iraqâs.
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