Abdul-Wadud Khalil Jumaa Al-Janabi (Arabic: ودود خليل; born 1927) was an Iraqi football and basketball player.
As a student he represented the College in table tennis, water polo, badminton and the track and field athletics and captained their football and basketball teams.
He was apparently studying in Vienna and the club paid for his food and lodgings and while in Austria he claimed he broke a goalkeeper’s wrist with a penalty strike.
[1][2][4][5] In 1948 Wadud captained the Iraqi Basketball side in their first match at the Olympics against the Philippines recording 11 points in ten minutes.
The 1948 Summer Games in London was the first and only time Iraq fielded a basketball team as they suffered five of the worst-ever defeats in Olympic history.
The Greek referee Kosto Cicis praised his commitment in defending his goal against the Turkish flood that witnessed most of the Iraqi players fall in despair and defeat except for Wadud who continued to fight, “standing tall as a large oak tree against the strong winds and stormy sky.”[1][2][5][4] Khalil went onto play for the Austrian Police Club Polizei SV Wien and then after four years in Vienna he left for West Germany to work at the Iraqi Embassy in Bonn and formed his own football side from the local Arab community.