Khalil Wadoou

Abdul-Wadud Khalil Jumaa Al-Janabi (Arabic: ودود خليل; born 1927) was an Iraqi football and basketball player. He competed in the men's basketball tournament at the 1948 Summer Olympics, and was the captain of the first Iraq national football team.

Biography Khalil was born in Baghdad and excelled at football, basketball, hockey and water polo. He was even trained by Englishman George Raynor who selected the 17-year-old to play at right halfback against Lebanon in 1945 in Baghdad.

There are no records of Wadud Khalil making an appearance for Austria Wien's first team but the Iraqi captain could have played for one of the club’s reserve 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.

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. He remarked, "I formed two teams from the Arab community, the first a football team and the second a basketball team in the name of the Arab Youth. The two teams fought dozens of matches with amateur club teams, and the two sides continued up until the year 1959, as I got older and was busy with the preoccupation of life." Khalil returned to Baghdad in his later life and married but did not have any children. Nothing is known about his whereabouts; however, he is believed to have died after 2006.