One of the strange paradoxes of the 15th and 16th rounds of the current Iraqi Stars League football season was the success of Nigerian professional Fidelis Koko from Al-Shorta football team, who scored 3 goals from 3 penalties in a single match. Meanwhile, Syrian Ala al-Din, playing for Mosul, failed to score from two penalties in a single match. The Nigerian professional Fidelis Koko, who has become the ace up the sleeve of Al-Shorta's coach Haider Ubaid, became the first player in the Iraqi Stars League this season to successfully convert 3 penalties in one match. In the 15th round, Koko led Al-Shorta to a crucial and hard-fought 3-2 victory over their guest, Amana Baghdad.
