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'''Emmanuel Baba Dawud''' better known as '''Ammo Baba''' ([[Arabic language|Arabic]]: عمو بابا, {{lang-syr|ܥܡܘ ܒܒܐ}}) (born November 27, 1934 in [[Baghdad]], [[Iraq]] – May 27, 2009 in [[Duhok, Iraq|Duhok]], [[Iraq]]), was a former [[Iraq]]i and ethnic [[Assyrian Chaldean people|AssyrianChaldean]] [[Christian]] international [[Football (soccer)|football]] player and coach of the [[Iraq national football team]]. He scored the first international goal for Iraq in 1957 against [[Morocco national football team|Morocco]] at the [[2nd Pan Arab Games]] in [[Beirut]] and later returned to the team as the coach in 1978.
==Playing career==
Ammo Baba, exploded onto the middle eastern football scene at the age of 16 in a Pan Arab School Championship in [[Cairo]] for the Iraqi schoolboys against the home nation Egypt in 1951 after being spotted by Iraqi schoolboys' coach Ismail Mohammed playing for the Liwa Al-Dulaim school province team. It was the same coach that gave him the nickname 'Ammo Baba', and also advised him to move to Baghdad to play for one of Iraq's top teams. <ref>{{cite web|publisher=Goal.com|author=Mubarak, Hassanin|title=Ammo Baba: The Amazing Story Of Iraq's Football Legend |url= http://www.goal.com/en/news/1775/asian-editorials/2009/05/29/1292246/ammo-baba-the-amazing-story-of-iraqs-football-legend/}}</ref>
Ammo who is still revered by generations who never saw him play, was an instinctive out and out goalscorer, known for his bicycle kicks or backward double-kicks as they are known in Iraq, heading ability, and the power of his shooting. He had an opportunist's eye for goal but also displayed magnificent technique and virtuoso skill of a great footballer.
Ammo was born in [[Baghdad]] on the British controlled military camp RAF Hinaidi but moved with his family to live on the Civil Cantonment on the large RAF base in [[Habbaniyah|Habbaniya]] in 1937, where he first learnt to play the game of football. After playing for his school team, he moved to RAF Employees' (AssyrianChaldean) Club in 1951 replacing legendary striker and fellow Assyrian Chaldean [[Aram Karam]], where he played with other famous Assyrian Chaldean footballers such as Hormis Goriel, Emmanuel "Ammo Simsim" Samson and [[Youra Eshaya]]. In 1954 he signed for Baghdad based Haris Al-Maliki where he was a huge success, scoring bundles of goals, season after season.
The prolific marksman was once the captain of a short-lived Arab national team during the mid-Sixties, in a Nasser-inspired experiment in Arab unity which failed due to the fact that, which Ammo Baba puts it 'no one wanted to play against us'. It had been the initiative of Arab radio station Sawt Al-Arab (Voice of the Arabs) in Cairo, and two of the best players from each Arab country were called up to take part in the team, from Iraq Ammo Baba, and Qais Hamed were selected. The team organised in [[Egypt]] did not play in any international competitions, managing only to play a few local teams in Cairo and Alexandria. Ammo Baba had been picked alongside Qais Hamed, and the team was able to beat Al-Ismaili, Al-Ittihad Alexandria, draw with Zamalek and lose to Tersana, with Ammo scoring the first goal for the Arab team, and hit another two goals against Al-Ismaili.
By the age of 20, becoming one of Iraq’s most prolific goalscorers at both local and international level, with a near perfect 100% goal-scoring ratio from 1955 to 1960. As a player, he could adapt to any position, and played in defence, midfield and attack in his playing career.
A national championship winning coach at the age of 23 at Nadi Athori, made even more impressive when you think it was done with an Assyrian Chaldean only club policy, and in 1967, Ammo was coaching two teams in the Iraqi league. <ref>{{cite web|publisher=Iraqsport.wordpress|author=Mubarak, Hassanin|title=Ammo Baba: The King is dead, long live the King |url= http://iraqsport.wordpress.com/2013/05/27/ammo-baba-the-king-is-dead-long-live-the-king}}</ref>
He went onto play and coach Nadi Athori (Assyrian Chaldean Sports Club) to the Iraqi Cup Championship in 1960 beating his former employers Al-Jawiya 3-0 in the final, before returning to Al-Jawiya in 1962 after Nadi Athori were relegated from the Iraqi first division. He later played for Al-Maslaha and Kuliya Al-Askariya before calling it a day in 1970.
==Coaching career==