Famous People with Name Naji

Naji Shushan            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Naji Shushan: is a Libyan football defender currently playing for Al-Ittihad. He is a member of the Libya national football team.

Naji Majrashi            Origin/Culture/Country: Arabic

Naji Majrashi: is a football striker from Saudi Arabia, who plays for Al-Shabab.He also played for the Saudi Arabia junior team at the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship.

Hussam Fawzi Naji            Origin/Culture/Country: Arabic

Hussam Fawzi Naji: an Iraqi footballer who is a forward, and former captain of the Iraq national football team.He represented Iraq whilst playing his club football at Al-Zawraa. He played for in Iraq at the time when Uday Hussein was in charge of the national team. Hussam was included in the 1996 and 2000 squads for the Asian Cup.The Iraqi football team came into public attention when newspapers started publishing stories of how Uday was known to punish players physically for achieving poor results in matches. This was used as one of the many reasons used by Tony Blair for justifying the Iraq war.[1].

Wathiq Naji            Origin/Culture/Country: Arabic

Wathiq Naji: a former Iraqi national football player and Technical Manager (Head Coach) for the Iraq national football team. Wathiq Naji had prepared the Iraq national football team for the FIFA World Cup qualification in 1985. Hence, he successfully managed to guide the Iraq national football team to the last qualifying round of the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico. This came after subsequent and hard fought qualifying rounds which ended with a notable win over the United Arab Emirates national football team (The Head Coach of the UAE team was Carlos Alberto Parreira at that time). Where this is the only time in the Iraq football history that the squad could qualify to the FIFA World Cup.[1]

Kamal Naji            Origin/Culture/Country: Arabic

Kamal Naji: was the deputy representative of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in Lebanon and a former Fatah intelligence chief in the country. He was killed by a roadside bomb while visiting a refugee camp to calm recent violence.