{"id":57393,"date":"2026-04-04T16:14:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T19:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogdoprosperi.com\/?p=57393"},"modified":"2026-04-04T13:14:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T16:14:29","slug":"iraque-travessia-epica-na-volta-a-copa-do-mundo-depois-de-40-anos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogdoprosperi.com\/?p=57393","title":{"rendered":"Iraque: Travessia \u00c9pica na Volta \u00e0  Copa do Mundo Depois de 40 Anos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Os Le\u00f5es da Mesopot\u00e2mia esperaram 40 anos para retornar \u00e0 Copa do Mundo e tiveram que trilhar um caminho muito dif\u00edcil para isso.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Desde a invas\u00e3o liderada pelos EUA em 2003, o pa\u00eds tem sido not\u00edcia por seu caos, viol\u00eancia e instabilidade \u2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Jo\u00e3o Duerden \u2013 The Guardian \u2013 4 abril 2026 (12h35)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Se algu\u00e9m merece a chance de comemorar o retorno do Iraque \u00e0 Copa do Mundo, esse algu\u00e9m \u00e9 Aymen Hussein, e n\u00e3o apenas porque o atacante marcou o gol da vit\u00f3ria na final da repescagem intercontinental contra a Bol\u00edvia na ter\u00e7a-feira.<\/p>\n<p>Nascido e criado em Kirkuk, no norte do Iraque, uma regi\u00e3o afetada primeiro pela guerra e depois pelo Estado Isl\u00e2mico, Hussein perdeu o pai em um ataque da Al-Qaeda em 2008. Seis anos depois, seu irm\u00e3o desapareceu e o jovem jogador de futebol foi for\u00e7ado a fugir com os membros restantes de sua fam\u00edlia. O futebol proporcionou a Hussein uma sa\u00edda e esperan\u00e7a. Agora, ele deu ao seu pa\u00eds, que se recupera dos horrores recentes, mas ainda suscet\u00edvel \u00e0 instabilidade regional generalizada, como mostram os eventos atuais, um dos momentos mais felizes de sua hist\u00f3ria recente.<\/p>\n<p>Talvez tenha havido desespero nas ruas de Roma, Copenhague e Vars\u00f3via na noite de ter\u00e7a-feira, mas na manh\u00e3 de quarta-feira, sob o sol de Bagd\u00e1, o cen\u00e1rio era diferente: torcedores agitavam bandeiras, dan\u00e7avam e cantavam. Bem longe dali, no M\u00e9xico, onde os Le\u00f5es da Mesopot\u00e2mia disputaram sua primeira e \u00fanica Copa do Mundo at\u00e9 hoje, em 1986, a sele\u00e7\u00e3o nacional voltou a campo\u00a0para derrotar a Bol\u00edvia por 2 a 1.<\/p>\n<p>O pa\u00eds esperou 40 anos por isso. Hussein esperou nove. Quando tinha 21 anos, disse que queria levar o Iraque \u00e0 Copa do Mundo. Agora, ele conseguiu. Este camisa 9 \u00e0 moda antiga apareceu na \u00e1rea oito minutos ap\u00f3s o in\u00edcio do segundo tempo para marcar o gol da vit\u00f3ria.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_57401\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57401\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"57401\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogdoprosperi.com\/?attachment_id=57401\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogdoprosperi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https___media.trivela.com_.br_main_2026_04_aymen-hussein-scaled-e1775019559506.webp?fit=1867%2C1050&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1867,1050\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"https___media.trivela.com.br_main_2026_04_aymen-hussein-scaled-e1775019559506\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Comemora\u00e7\u00e3o de Aymen Hussain e o t\u00e9cnico Graham Arnold &amp;#8211; foto: IMAGO \/ Middle East Images)&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogdoprosperi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https___media.trivela.com_.br_main_2026_04_aymen-hussein-scaled-e1775019559506.webp?fit=940%2C529&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-large wp-image-57401\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogdoprosperi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https___media.trivela.com_.br_main_2026_04_aymen-hussein-scaled-e1775019559506.webp?resize=940%2C529&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"529\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-57401\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Comemora\u00e7\u00e3o de Aymen Hussain e o t\u00e9cnico Graham Arnold &#8211; foto: IMAGO \/ Middle East Images)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Era tarde demais para que os torcedores iraquianos em Monterrey ousassem sonhar, mas n\u00e3o t\u00e3o tarde a ponto de os sul-americanos n\u00e3o terem tempo de se lan\u00e7arem ao ataque em busca do empate. Eles tiveram mais finaliza\u00e7\u00f5es, 16 a sete, e 16 escanteios a dois. No fim, por\u00e9m, quando o apito final soou, isso realmente n\u00e3o importava. A \u00fanica coisa que importava era voltar ao cen\u00e1rio mundial.<\/p>\n<p>A Copa do Mundo de 1986 foi ofuscada internacionalmente e manchada em seu pr\u00f3prio pa\u00eds. Uday Hussein, filho de Saddam Hussein, controlava a equipe e instaurou um regime de terror e brutalidade. Apesar do tormento, a sele\u00e7\u00e3o se mostrou competitiva, sofrendo tr\u00eas derrotas, contra B\u00e9lgica, Paraguai e M\u00e9xico, todas por apenas um gol de diferen\u00e7a.<\/p>\n<p>A espera para o retorno foi longa e a jornada desta vez foi a mais \u00e1rdua nas eliminat\u00f3rias para esta Copa do Mundo ampliada. O Iraque disputou 21 jogos rumo a Boston, local de sua estreia no Grupo I contra a Noruega, em 16 de junho. A equipe come\u00e7ou na segunda fase, com seis jogos, terminando em primeiro lugar no grupo. Na terceira fase, enfrentaram 10 partidas, mas n\u00e3o conseguiram garantir uma das duas vagas diretas para a Copa do Mundo em seu grupo de seis times, perdendo para a Jord\u00e2nia, e assim seguiram para a repescagem.<\/p>\n<p>Em maio de 2025, Graham Arnold assumiu o comando. O experiente treinador havia levado a Austr\u00e1lia por uma trajet\u00f3ria semelhante, passando pelos playoffs, at\u00e9 as oitavas de final da Copa do Mundo de 2022, onde enfrentou a Argentina, que viria a ser a campe\u00e3. Seu sucesso lhe rendeu o pr\u00eamio de melhor t\u00e9cnico do torneio, concedido pelo jornal L&#8217;\u00c9quipe. O treinador de 62 anos foi contratado para classificar o Iraque, e conseguiu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTenho que agradecer muito aos jogadores\u201d, disse Arnold depois de ter sido erguido para o alto em Monterrey por membros do elenco. \u201cA \u00e9tica de trabalho deles, eles mostraram a verdadeira mentalidade iraquiana e se entregaram de corpo e alma, por isso vencemos o jogo. Digo a eles: estou muito feliz por termos feito 46 milh\u00f5es de pessoas felizes. Principalmente com o que est\u00e1 acontecendo no Oriente M\u00e9dio neste momento, estou muito feliz por eles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Os f\u00e3s de toda a \u00c1sia certamente n\u00e3o ir\u00e3o invejar o sucesso. Desde a invas\u00e3o liderada pelos EUA em 2003, o pa\u00eds tem sido not\u00edcia por seu caos, viol\u00eancia e instabilidade. Isso tornou o triunfo na Copa da \u00c1sia de 2007 ainda mais impressionante. Contudo, isso n\u00e3o levou o Iraque de volta \u00e0 Copa do Mundo.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Inconsist\u00eancia, azar e a impossibilidade de jogar as eliminat\u00f3rias em casa contribu\u00edram para repetidas derrotas. Desta vez, a expans\u00e3o do torneio obviamente ajudou \u2013 o Iraque n\u00e3o teria chegado nem perto se a \u00c1sia tivesse as tradicionais quatro ou cinco vagas. Poder jogar em casa, na cidade portu\u00e1ria de Basra, no sul do pa\u00eds, tamb\u00e9m foi um fator importante, embora jogar diante de 60 mil torcedores apaixonados traga sua pr\u00f3pria press\u00e3o para uma equipe desesperada por sucesso.<\/p>\n<p>Mas agora h\u00e1 mais experi\u00eancia no elenco, que conta com v\u00e1rios jogadores que atuam em clubes europeus. Jovens talentos como Ali Jasim, Zidane Iqbal e Aimar Sher ter\u00e3o a oportunidade de mostrar ao mundo o que podem fazer ao lado de estrelas mais experientes como Hussein e Jalal Hassan.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c9 um grupo dif\u00edcil, com a Fran\u00e7a e o Senegal, campe\u00e3o africano (podemos dizer isso?), logo ap\u00f3s a estreia, com Erling Haaland e companhia. Mas, depois de tudo o que o pa\u00eds e seu her\u00f3i artilheiro, Hussein, passaram, este \u00e9 o desafio mais bem-vindo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Os Le\u00f5es da Mesopot\u00e2mia esperaram 40 anos para retornar \u00e0 Copa do Mundo e tiveram que trilhar um [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102107496,"featured_media":57406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wpai_generated_summary":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36820279,53870],"tags":[788449906,569949222,241207],"class_list":["post-57393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-copa-2026","category-futebol","tag-aymenhussein","tag-copa2026","tag-iraque"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - 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