The Australian-born Iraq international sits down with World Soccer to reflect on a football journey that has taken him from Sweden to Brighton to Kurdistan

The shisha bars all along King Abdullah Street in downtown Amman are packed. It’s late evening and the customers are talking about the summer of 2026. Jordan have just qualified for the World Cup for

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Apart from the half-empty stadiums, the extreme heat, pitch complaints and the hour-plus interruptions to matches due to lightning, the USA’s warm-up for 2026 went pretty smoothly with the Club World

You joined Liverpool in January 2008 and spent eight-and-a-half years there. How do you look back on it? It’s a combination of honour, privilege and fulfilled dreams. Playing football from early child