Watch: Qatar score beautiful long-range goal during friendly with Iraq

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Akram Afif lit up the historic game in Basra with a corking strike from distance on Wednesday night

It seems that Qatar's efforts to prepare a competitive side for the 2022 World Cup are progressing well enough – on Wednesday, they beat Iraq 3-2 in a friendly.

It was the first international to take place on Iraqi soil since the lifting of a long-standing FIFA ban on the country hosting games, and 65,000 fans gathered in Basra to watch.

And the footballing highlight was this...

That's Akram Afif, scoring his second goal of the game (and the half) to put Qatar 2-1 in front.

Ismail Mohammad netted Qatar's third goal, while Ahmed Yasin and Hussein Ali replied for Iraq.

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Seb Stafford-Bloor

Seb Stafford-Bloor is a football writer at Tifo Football and member of the Football Writers' Association. He was formerly a regularly columnist for the FourFourTwo website, covering all aspects of the game, including tactical analysis, reaction pieces, longer-term trends and critiquing the increasingly shady business of football's financial side and authorities' decision-making.