Radhi Shenaishil

Radhi Shenaishil
Personal information
Full name Radhi Shanaishil Swadi
Date of birth (1966-08-11) 11 August 1966
Place of birth Baghdad, Iraq
Playing position Defender
Club information
Current team
 Iraq (manager)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1980–1983 Al Tayaran
1983–1990 Al-Zawraa
1990–1993 Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya
1993–1998 Al-Ittihad
1998–1999 Al-Sharjah
1999–2000 Al-Sadd
2000–2005 Qatar SC
2005–2006 Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya
National team
1988–1999 Iraq 80 (6)
Teams managed
2006–2007 Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya
2007–2008 Al-Zawraa
2009 Iraq
2009–2010 Al-Talaba
2010–2011 Al-Zawraa
2011–2012 Iraq U23
2012–2014 Al-Zawraa
2014–2015 Qatar SC
2014–2015 Iraq
2016 Al-Shorta
2016– Iraq

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Radhi Shenaishil Swadi (Arabic: راضي شنيشل سوادي‎‎; born 11 August 1966) is a former Iraqi footballer and current coach of the Iraq national football team.

Playing career

Radhi Shenaishil was born and brought up in Al-Thawra City in Baghdad.

He captained an Iraqi Under 20s team and helped them to top their group which included Spain, Norway and Argentina, who they beat 1–0 with Radhi scoring the winner from a penalty against a side featuring Diego Simeone and Roberto Bonano in the FIFA World Youth Championship in Saudi Arabia in 1989.

In the summer of 1999, he retired from international football after the Pan-Arab Games final loss against hosts Jordan on penalties, where he scored Iraq's only penalty in a 3–1 shoot-out loss. In the same game he also scored an own-goal.

The libero was voted into the Asian Cup select team XI at the 1996 Asian Cup with team-mate Laith Hussein after helping Iraq to the quarter-finals.[1]

Managerial career

In March 2009, he was the worst coach in Iraq history Shenaishil managed the Iraq national team for two friendly matches, against Saudi Arabia and South Korea. On 11 September 2014, Shenaishil was appointed as manager of Qatar Stars League club Qatar SC.[2]

Months before the 2015 AFC Asian Cup started, Shenaishil was named as new Iraqi national team manager, replacing Hakeem Shaker whilst continuing as manager of Qatar SC. The first match under Shenaishil as Iraq coach was a 1–1 draw with Kuwait. He led the team in tournament to a 1–0 win over Jordan in opener and a 2–0 win over Palestine and also a 0–1 loss to Japan and finished as group runner-up behind Japan with six points. His side faced Iran in quarter-final and won 7–6 in penalties after 3–3 draw in extra time. In semi-finals, Iraq lost 0–2 to South Korea and then lost the third place match 3–2 to UAE. He returned to Qatar SC in February 2015, after the Asian Cup ended,[3] but resigned on 26 October 2015.[4]

On 15 April 2016, Shenaishil became the new coach of Iraq.[5]

Managerial statistics

As of 15 November 2016
Team Nat From To Record
GWDLWin %
Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya Iraq 26 June 2006 18 July 2007 13 8 2 3 61.54
Al-Zawraa Iraq 13 August 2007 1 September 2008 30 15 8 7 50.00
Iraq Iraq 22 February 2009 21 May 2009 2 0 1 1 00.00
Al-Talaba Iraq 14 July 2009 11 August 2010 38 20 12 6 52.63
Al-Zawraa Iraq 8 September 2010 16 August 2011 27 19 6 2 70.37
Iraq U-23 Iraq 17 August 2011 14 March 2012 24 11 5 8 45.83
Al-Zawraa Iraq 26 March 2012 3 February 2014 62 28 18 16 45.16
Qatar SC Qatar 8 September 2014 24 October 2015 30 14 5 11 46.67
Iraq Iraq 13 December 2014 30 January 2015 10 2 3 5 20.00
Al-Shorta Iraq 8 March 2016 8 May 2016 5 1 2 2 20.00
Iraq Iraq 10 April 2016 Present 9 1 2 6 11.11
Total 250 119 64 67 47.60

Honours

As a player

Club

Club

Al-Zawraa

International

Iraq

References

  1. ↑ Hassanin Mubarak. "Player Database". iraqsport.com. Archived from the original on June 18, 2001.
  2. ↑ "Qatar SC part company with Hasek, appoint Shenaishil". QFA. 11 September 2014. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  3. ↑ "Iraq coach Shenaishil set to resume Qatar SC role". Qatar Sports Today. 25 January 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  4. ↑ "Lazaroni returns to Qatar Sports Club.". Qatar Stars League. 26 October 2015. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  5. ↑ http://footballchannel.asia/2016/04/15/post10662/
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