Imagine a team in Iraq comprising of members from all 3 main sections, Shia, Sunni and the Kurds. Sounds difficult to achieve in the kind of sectarian conflicts ongoing in Iraq today, with death squads, bombings, and so on; but was possible. An Iraqi football team, in a keenly contested final in Indonesia won the Asian football cup by defeating the Saudi Arabian team. Who would have thought it possible? A team, handicapped by the conflict in their home country is galvanized enough to run through all their opponents and bring home a major victory.

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