Ali Al Hamadi

Ali Ibrahim Karim Ali Al-Hamadi (Arabic: عَلِيّ إِبْرَاهِيم كَرِيم عَلِيّ الْحَمَّادِيّ; born 1 March 2002) is an Iraqi professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Ipswich Town and the Iraq national team.

Biography Al-Hamadi was born in on 1 March 2002 in Maysan, Iraq. In 2003, during the early stages of the Iraq War, one year old Al-Hamadi and his family moved from Iraq to Toxteth, Liverpool, where they would settle and he would grow up. Al-Hamadi's father, Ibrahim, who was studying to become a lawyer at that point, was part of a peaceful protest against the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein and he ended up being jailed. His wife was pregnant, and with his father's help, was released and made his way to the UK. Like most Iraqis fleeing the war, Ali initially went to Jordan with his mother before they reunited with his father in Britain. The first time he met his father he was one-year and four-months old. He is a Shia Muslim.