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Kasim makes international debut
           
           


  YASER Kasim this afternoon makes his international debut for Iraq in their Asian Cup qualifier against China.

           

http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/news/headlines/11054987.Kasim_makes_international_debut/?ref=rss
           
           
           

He had a good, if quiet, game by all accounts.

Good man.

The press room would have been an interesting place to be, if you were Sam.

Struggling to find any info on this or a match report. Got any links in English please Flash? All i can glean is that he played the full 90 and they won 3 - 1.

It was on North Korean State TV.

Not much to go on myself Jayo. There's this facebook page though : https://www.facebook.com/ExpatIraqiPlayers?ref=stream and some people on twitter watched the game and said he did alright.

http://www.goalsaim.com/iraq-vs-china-3-1-highlights-2014-asian-cup-qualification/

From those highlights it's quite clear to see Kasim ran the show and deserved MOTM

Two and a half minutes highlights of one goal, it wasn't even that good.

I have to agree that Kasim stood out a mile from the rest and easily MOTM.

The commentator needs to show more enthuasim

I haven't even seen the highlights, but its clear Kassim was MoM.

They would have lost at least 5-0 without him. FACT!

He also stands for a free tibet. One in the eye for the evil communist regime, for SuperKasim will not stand for such inhumanity.

I heard he saves puppies in his spare time.

I watched most of the game and Kasim did well, played largely his usual game and usual position for 90 mins. Iraq were the better side for the bulk of the game so his job was mainly moving the ball simply to feed a pacey wide attack - he did hit some longer balls but not vastly successfully. He kept the ball well, showed his strength in holding off Chinese players but took a while to get used to a fairly duff and fussy ref.

Iraq were a bit if a 'broken team' with Yaser working nicely with the defensive unit but there wasn't that much interplay between the two sections. China were worse though and only tested later for the last 30 mins or so. Yaser didn't stand out hugely but he certainly wasn't the weakest Iraq player.

Otherwise MoM. Particularly for his second half exposé of corruption among Dubai visa officials and extensive fundraising to help protect the Patagonian miniature shrew.

 Flash heart now expert on International games that he doesn't attend...

 :D  :hmmm:  :sheep:

Last time we had two internationals actually play on one night? Bodin and Fjortoft?

I was wondering that. although I was thinking Buttigieg and an other..

Players capped whilst still on Town's books isn't that long a list is it. Certainly not in my memory from early 70s - Rod Thomas, Ray Treacy, Trevor Anderson, Bryan Hamilton, Alan Mcloughlin, Paul Bodin, Jan Aage< Buttigieg (?)Ricky Shakes, Yaser and Mass. Sure there must be a few others. Was Rory Fallon capped whilst with us?

You can add Fitzroy Simpson to that list, and maybe Lescinel Jean-Francois?

Commingues?

Did Thomas Dossevi play for Togo during his season at Swindon?

Manks?

The closest Amankwaah got to Ghana was wearing a sweatband.

Didn't he nearly take a bullet?

Jimmy Quinn & Bruan Hamilton for Norn Iron.

Dave Mitchell?

Doubt it as they weren't at the club at the same time....It's an interesting question, to which I'll give a bit of thought. Iraq played the Convicts in WC qualification....which could have thrown up the interesting situation of two Town players on opposite sides, probably for the first time since Harold Fleming and Jock Walker.  

Kevin Horlock.

My comment wasn't that they played in the same team etc just that they were capped at international level while playing for Swindon.

 Horlock and Bodin has to be a possibility, both capped in 95.

Buttigieg was never capped during his 4 weeks at Swindon, Malta had no internationals between 2 June 1990 & 31 October 1990. He was with us for September 1990.

Ricky Shakes got a 1 cap for T&T while playing for us.  Oddly he then went on the get caps for some other Caribbean country.

Nestor Lorenzo?

Did Alan McLoughlin and Nestor Lorenzo play in the same side?

I never realised Nestor Lorenzo had Irish grandparents on his maternal side

I meant for Swindon but I guess you knew that.

Yes but Nestor was never capped while at Swindon.

Was he really only with us a month? Jeez he must have been shite for me to remember seeing him.

Yes he was and yes he was! he did look awful for us I remember that much.

Made his debut on the same day Adi Vivash did against Middlesboro, he lasted 90  mins but Adi lasted just over 20 and was the first time I remember a sub being subbed for playing shit....TBF he did come on as a left winger and looked so out of place.

Interestingly that day the Swindon side had Buttigieg, Mcloughlin and Bodin as current internationals at the time but also future internationals Simpson, Horlock, Calderwood and Shearer.

The name Buttigieg is completely new to me, I must have seen him play though.

He started 2 games and came on as sub in 2 games in September 90, he was a fullback on loan from Brentford and was awful.

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

See Casper Sloth was playing for Denmark last night....any relation?

We don't talk about the Danish branch of the Sloth family...

There's a video of highlights focusing on Kasim on this page: https://www.facebook.com/ExpatIraqiPlayers?ref=stream

The boy makes it look easy.

He kept the ball well and played the simple pass. Wish a few English midfielders could do that.

Best i ever saw hear do that was Hazard...genius and the ball stuck to him like glue.

I've never seen anyone since do the circular thing like he did. (if that makes sense)

Byrne did it in the last game  :)

Yep you're right.Ok, I've not seen it for 15 years until last Saturday :)

It's called a Marseille turn/roulette.

His feet were tiny (and probably still are!). I held his football boots on one of the Finland tours, they were like children's.