{"id":295970,"date":"2025-11-20T01:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T01:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/295970\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T01:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T01:10:08","slug":"watch-the-moment-graham-arnolds-press-conference-is-stormed-by-jubilant-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/295970\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the moment Graham Arnold&#8217;s press conference is stormed by jubilant players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"wcl-typoNewsPerex\" itemprop=\"description\">Iraq converted a penalty in the 17th (yes, 17th) minute of second half stoppage time to eliminate the United Arab Emirates and advance to the March 2026 intercontinental playoffs. <\/p>\n<p>The 62-year-old former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/team\/australia\/xSrf6qMM\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Socceroos<\/a> manager took charge of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/team\/iraq\/K8aAGt6r\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iraq<\/a>&#8216;s national team in May 2025 with the sole goal of steering the nation to their first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/football\/world\/world-cup\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FIFA World Cup<\/a> appearance since 1986.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He moved one step closer to ticking that achievement off the list as they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/match\/football\/iraq-K8aAGt6r\/united-arab-emirates-Knrj3QiN\/?mid=nHQ6REdJ\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pipped the United Arab Emirates 3-2<\/a> in the fifth round of Asian qualifying.<\/p>\n<p>Iraq will be the AFC representative at next year&#8217;s intercontinental play-offs in which six teams will battle for the final two spots at the showcase event.<\/p>\n<p>Arnold was present at a post-game press conference at the Basra International Stadium when the players&#8217; celebrations spilled over from the dressing rooms into the media theatrette, with an embarrassed and humbled Arnold cowering in response.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Watch the incredible scenes below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iraq converted a penalty in the 17th (yes, 17th) minute of second half stoppage time to eliminate the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-295970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}