epa01745299 Nuns carry a picture of a former Iraqi soccer player and coach Ammo Baba, 75, at Virgin Maria church in Baghdad, Iraq on 29 May 2009. Ammo Baba, born on 27 November 1934 in Baghdad, was a former Iraqi Assyrian international soccer player and coach of the Iraqi national football team. He scored the first international goal for Iraq in 1957 against Morocco at the 2nd Pan Arab Games in Beirut and later returned to the team as the coach in 1978. Baba has died of cancer in a hospital in Dahuk province on 27 May, northern Iraq after long illness. EPA/ALI ABBAS
