Radhi Shenaishil

Radhi Shenaishil Swadi (Arabic: راضي شنيشل سوادي‎‎; born 11 August 1966) is a former Iraqi footballer and former coach of the Iraq national football team.

Radhi Shenaishil was born and brought up in Al-Thawra City in Baghdad.

He captained an Iraqi Under 20s team and helped them to top their group which included Spain, Norway and Argentina, who they beat 1–0 with Radhi scoring the winner from a penalty against a side featuring Diego Simeone and Roberto Bonano in the FIFA World Youth Championship in Saudi Arabia in 1989.

In the summer of 1999, he retired from international football after the Pan-Arab Games final loss against hosts Jordan on penalties, where he scored Iraq's only penalty in a 3–1 shoot-out loss. In the same game he also scored an own-goal.

The libero was voted into the Asian Cup select team XI at the 1996 Asian Cup with teammate Laith Hussein after helping Iraq to the quarter-finals.

In March 2009, he was the worst coach in Iraq history Shenaishil managed the Iraq national team for two friendly matches, against Saudi Arabia and South Korea. On 11 September 2014, Shenaishil was appointed as manager of Qatar Stars League club Qatar SC.

Months before the 2015 AFC Asian Cup started, Shenaishil was named as new Iraqi national team manager, replacing Hakeem Shaker whilst continuing as manager of Qatar SC. The first match under Shenaishil as Iraq coach was a 1–1 draw with Kuwait. He led the team in tournament to a 1–0 win over Jordan in opener and a 2–0 win over Palestine and also a 0–1 loss to Japan and finished as group runner-up behind Japan with six points. His side faced Iran in quarter-final and won 7–6 in penalties after 3–3 draw in extra time. In semi-finals, Iraq lost 0–2 to South Korea and then lost the third place match 3–2 to UAE. He returned to Qatar SC in February 2015, after the Asian Cup ended, but resigned on 26 October 2015.

On 15 April 2016, Shenaishil became the new coach of Iraq. in order to lead the team in the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC Third Round. The team did not perform and after losing five out of seven games, he was sacked on April 10th 2017.

Managerial statistics

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	D	L	Win %
Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya		26 June 2006	18 July 2007	7001130000000000000♠13	7000800000000000000♠8	7000200000000000000♠2	7000300000000000000♠3	7001615400000000000♠61.54
Al-Zawraa		13 August 2007	1 September 2008	7001300000000000000♠30	7001150000000000000♠15	7000800000000000000♠8	7000700000000000000♠7	7001500000000000000♠50.00
Iraq		22 February 2009	21 May 2009	7000200000000000000♠2	5000000000000000000♠0	7000100000000000000♠1	7000100000000000000♠1	05000000000000000000♠0.00
Al-Talaba		14 July 2009	11 August 2010	7001380000000000000♠38	7001200000000000000♠20	7001120000000000000♠12	7000600000000000000♠6	7001526300000000000♠52.63
Al-Zawraa		8 September 2010	16 August 2011	7001270000000000000♠27	7001190000000000000♠19	7000600000000000000♠6	7000200000000000000♠2	7001703700000000000♠70.37
Iraq U-23		17 August 2011	14 March 2012	7001240000000000000♠24	7001110000000000000♠11	7000500000000000000♠5	7000800000000000000♠8	7001458300000000000♠45.83
Al-Zawraa		26 March 2012	3 February 2014	7001620000000000000♠62	7001280000000000000♠28	7001180000000000000♠18	7001160000000000000♠16	7001451600000099999♠45.16
Qatar SC		8 September 2014	24 October 2015	7001300000000000000♠30	7001140000000000000♠14	7000500000000000000♠5	7001110000000000000♠11	7001466700000000000♠46.67
Iraq		13 December 2014	30 January 2015	7001100000000000000♠10	7000200000000000000♠2	7000300000000000000♠3	7000500000000000000♠5	7001200000000000000♠20.00
Al-Shorta		8 March 2016	8 May 2016	7000500000000000000♠5	7000100000000000000♠1	7000200000000000000♠2	7000200000000000000♠2	7001200000000000000♠20.00
Iraq		10 April 2016	10 April 2017	7001120000000000000♠12	7000200000000000000♠2	7000300000000000000♠3	7000700000000000000♠7	7001166700000000000♠16.67
Total				7002253000000000000♠253	7002120000000000000♠120	7001650000000000000♠65	7001680000000000000♠68	7001474300000000000♠47.43

As a player

Club

• Iraqi Premier League
  • Winner
    • 1991–92 Iraqi League with Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya
• Iraq FA Cup
  • Winner 4 times
    • 81, 82, 89 with Al-Zawra'a SC
    • 92 with Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya
• Al-Intisar Cup Winners
  • Winner 2 times
    • 84, 86 with Al-Zawra'a SC
• Arab Cooperation Council Championship Winners
  • Winner Once
    • 1989
• Qatar Emir Cup
  • Winner 5 times
    • 95, 96, 97, 98 with Al-Ittihad
    • 2000 with Al Sadd SC
• Qatari League
  • Winner Three Times
    • 1997/1998 with Al-Ittihad
    • 1999/2000 With Al Sadd Sc
    • 2002/2003 with Qatar SC
• Sheikh Jassim Cup
  • Winner 3 times
    • 2000 With Al Sadd SC
    • 2002,2004 with Qatar SC

As a manager

Club

Al-Zawraa

• Iraqi Premier League: 2010–11

International

• AFC Asian Cup fourth-place: 2015