Ammo Baba

Ammo Baba
Personal information
Full name Emmanuel Baba Dawud
Date of birth (1934-11-27)27 November 1934
Place of birth Baghdad, Iraq
Date of death 27 May 2009(2009-05-27) (aged 74)
Place of death Dohuk, Iraq
Position(s) Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1951–1954 RAF Employees' (Assyrian) Club
1954–1955 Al-Haras Al-Malaki
1955–1957 Al-Athori
1957–1959 Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya
1959–1962 Al-Athori (player-manager)
1962–1964 Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya
1964–1965 Maslahat Naqil Al-Rukab
1965–1967 Al-Kuliya Al-Askariya
1967–1968 Maslahat Naqil Al-Rukab (player-manager)
1968–1970 Al-Kuliya Al-Askariya
International career
1953–1967 Iraq Military 55 (21)
1953–1967 Iraq 17 (12)
Managerial career
1970–1974 Al-Kuliya Al-Askariya
1974–1975 Al-Jaish
1976–1978 Al-Tamim Province XI
1978–1980 Iraq
1980–1981 Al-Talaba
1981–1984 Iraq
1986 Al-Rasheed
1986–1987 Al-Tijara
1987–1988 Iraq
1988–1989 Iraq
1991–1992 Al-Zawraa
1992 Al-Shorta
1992–1993 Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya
1993 Iraq
1993 Qatar SC
1993–1994 Al-Zawraa
1994–1995 Al-Karkh
1995–1996 Ramadi FC
1996 Iraq
1997 Iraq
1997 Al-Shorta
1997–1998 Al-Zawraa
1998–1999 Al-Talaba
1999–2000 Salahaddin FC
2000 Iraq U17
2000–2001 Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya
2001–2002 Al-Shorta
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Emmanuel Baba Dawud (27 November 1934 – 27 May 2009), better known as Ammo Baba (Arabic: عمو بابا, Syriac: ܥܡܘ ܒܒܐ), was an Iraqi football player and coach of the Iraq national football team.[1]

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.

  1. ^ Donabed, Sargon George. “Persistent Perseverance: A trajectory of Assyrian history in the modern age.” In Routledge Handbook of Minorities in the Middle East, edited by Paul S. Rowe, 115–131. London: Routledge, 2018.