| On 1 February 2019 the AFC Disciplinary and Ethics Committee dismissed the protest lodged by the United Arab Emirates Football Association | Bassam al-Rawi's father, Hisham al-Rawi, played for the Iraq national football national in the 1990s |
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| 9 January 2019 , , 1—0 2—0 2 | : International [ ] Qatar• International career [ ] 2019 AFC Asian Cup [ ] Al-Rawi was included in 's squad for the in the United Arab Emirates |
In the same tournament on 22 January 2019, he scored his second international and the winning goal for Qatar against his country of origin, , which helped his team reach the quarter-finals of the competition.
28| Al-Rawi made his first international goal on 9 January 2019 in the against Lebanon | Career statistics [ ] Al Rawi in January 2018 International [ ] As of 23 February 2019 Year Apps Goals 2017 3 0 2018 8 0 2019 4 2 Total 15 2 International goals [ ] Scores and results list Qatar's goal tally first |
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| from the original on 28 December 2018 | Eligibility dispute [ ] On 30 January 2019, soon after the Asian Cup 2019 semi-final tie between the UAE and Qatar, which Qatar won with a 4—0 victory, the UAE FA lodged a formal appeal to the on the fact that Bassam Al Rawi, a 21-year-old defender born in Baghdad, did not qualify to play for Qatar on residency grounds of the Article 7 of the FIFA statutes, which states a player's eligibility to play for a representative team if he has "lived continuously for at least five years after reaching the age of 18 on the territory of the relevant association" |