Katie Couric's Notebook: Iraq's Soccer Success

By: Katie Couric
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Notebook: Iraq's Soccer Team

While life in Iraq continues to be bleak, last weekend the country had something to celebrate.

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by ericmichael1 August 1, 2007 5:55 PM EDT: Football is a two-edged sword. It can unite commonfans. It can also divide opponents. Attend a game in the UK and you can see the beauty and the anarchy.

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by petersemkiw August 1, 2007 2:20 AM EDT: Dear Katie,

The international language of soccer competition can often help foster understanding and friendship among nations, and bolster a nation's unity and pride, and hopefully, in some way, this was also the case in Iraq's recent soccer win. Soccer is perhaps the most international of sports, since it is played in so many nations of the world, and soccer is probably the world's most popular sport, and the world is always watching. The World Cup of Soccer in 2006 was the world's most watched television event ever, with about 28 billion people(including Lazio) all over the world watching that fabulous competition among nations. The Asia Cup is a prestigious soccer event as well.

Despite the recent bleak and trajic events in Iraq, the country's prestigious recent win in the Asia Cup, should be a source of national pride and unity, and even celebration, in a country marked by sectarian violence and divisions,and the steady barrage of terrorist attacks. The soccer team included courageous Shiite,Sunni and Kurdish soccer players, cooperating and playing very well together and winning in a sports event, which overrode sectarian divisions and differences, and served as an example of unity and strength to the peoples of Iraq.

Let's hope that this prestigious soccer win, in some way, will sow some seeds of national pride, unity, and strength that may eventually help pave the way to a more peaceful and united Iraq in the future,

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