Adnan Hamad

Adnan Hamad Majid Al-Abbassi (Arabic: عَدْنَان حَمَد مَاجِد الْعَبَّاسِيّ; born 1 February 1961) is an Iraqi football manager and former player, who is the head coach of Saudi Pro League club Al-Orobah.

He later went on to make over 20 appearances for the national team winning the 1985 Pan-Arab Games & and 1985 Arab Cup.

After being plagued by injuries during the latter parts of his career, he went into coaching and managed his home club Samarra in a player-coach role in the 1992–93 season.

Adnan was back as the national coach of Iraq for the second time a year later after Milan Zivadinovic was sacked.

Hamad led Iraq to the second round of the 2002 FIFA World Cup qualifiers before he was replaced by Croatian Rudolf Belin after two consecutive defeats to Bahrain and Saudi Arabia in the opening three matches of the tournament.