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Iraqis revel in soccer shocker

By Brian Church
Special to ESPN Insider

Sunday, August 15, 2004

ATHENS, Greece -- For Mohaman Hiwa and thousands of other Iraqis, this city became a mini-Baghdad Sunday night. Hiwa attended the Iraq-Costa Rica Olympic soccer qualifier at Karaiskaki Stadium, which is named for a Greek War of Independence hero who was shot dead nearby in 1827 (killed by his Ottoman enemies from the front -- or his Greek revolutionary comrades from the back; like many a penalty decision, it remains controversial). "I love Iraq, I love soccer," Hiwa told Athens Insider, which ...

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