A wall-length trophy cabinet dominates the office of Safeen Kanabi, the portly president of the Kurdistan Football Association (KFA). Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kurdistan captain Khaled Musher. Our dream is to become an independent state.”Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kurdistan beating Székely Land in the opening match. “We tell them, ‘The peshmerga are fighting out there so you need to perform on the field.’”Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kurdistan goalkeeper/vice-captain Sarhank Mohsin. The team remain blindly optimistic about independence, but evidence points otherwise: Iraqi Kurdistan’s political elite are as factional as the football team.

Source: The Guardian October 14, 2016 11:10 UTC