Raad Hammoudi Salman al-Aredhi (Arabic: رَعْد حَمُّودِيّ سَلْمَان الْعَارِضِيّ; born 1 May 1953[1]) is a retired Iraqi football player who represented his country as a goalkeeper in the Olympics and the World Cup.
He is known as the most successful goalkeeper in Iraqi football, leading Iraq to the 1986 FIFA World Cup.
Raad was an important part of the Al-Shorta side, captaining them to the Iraqi League in season 1979/80.
Raad started his career in 1972 when he joined second division club Kuliya Al-Shurta (where he won the Iraqi Central Second Division), a team which along with Shurta Al-Najda and Aliyat Al-Shorta were replaced in the top-flight by Al-Shurta Sports Club.
In 1999, Raad was placed by the German-based Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS) as Iraq's 4th best player of the century behind the likes of Ahmed Radhi, Hussein Saeed and Habib Jafar.