Briefs 4-Iraq dissolves national soccer team after early exit

June 26 (Reuters) - Sports news in brief from around the world:

Soccer - Iraq's soccer federation has dissolved its entire national team and withdrawn from August's West Asian championships after their early exit from 2010 World Cup qualifiers.

The Asian champions, knocked out by Qatar in their final third round qualifier on Sunday, had disappointed the Iraqi people, and the entire team needed to be rebuilt, the federation said.

"Iraqis are not happy with the results," it said in a statement on Thursday.

Soccer - One of Kenya's feuding factions has challenged world governing body FIFA to start mediation between the country's two local rival groups within two weeks and recognise its members as the official Kenya Football Federation.

"We were duly elected in office but the Secretariat of FIFA has, in breach of its own statutes and in disregard to Kenyan laws, unlawfully withheld recognition," Sam Nyamweya, chairman of the government-registered KFF body that has no hand in national team affairs, said in a letter to FIFA.