Iraq’s ‘stadium of horrors’ in ruins, but the game goes on

Mohamed Fathi, coach of Mosul’s football club in northern Iraq, hardly recognises the ruined soccer stadium once used by Islamic State group fighters to fire rockets and lob mortars from. Piles of rubble lie alongside a pitch of bumpy sand. The high concrete stadium tiers surrounding it — with all seats torn out — look […]

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