This shirt is simply ridiculous. It looks completely off for Iraq, which mostly had very plain and basic shirts throughout its history. Apart from this, obviously. It was the second design Givova did for the Iraqis and it has a massive lion as an imprint, as well as cuneiform scripts all over the shirt.Given that I have actually been to Iraqi-Kurdistan for a vacation in 2021, seeing cuneiform in remote abandoned aqueducts, I was immediately fond of this shirt and thus got it shortly after its release, paying 60€ish for it at the time.
Now comes the sad part: This design was presented in 2020, when suddenly COVID kicked in and plenty of the Iraqi matches were cancelled. Before they could actually wear it, the FA decided to move on to Umbro, who gave them a perfectly boring plain template again. In other words: They never actually wore this beauty, unfortunately. Yet, I do love the shirt and am more than pleased to add it to the collection - only if just as a little memory of my trip to see cuneiform in the wild.