28 Facts About Hussein Saeed

Hussein Saeed Mohammed is an Iraqi former footballer who played as a forward and is a former president of the Iraq Football Association.

Hussein Saeed is currently the Iraqi national team's highest scoring player with 78 goals.

Hussein Saeed started his professional football career at the age of 17, when he joined the Iraq national varsity football team and won the 1975 Arab Schools Games gold medal.

Hussein Saeed won two AFC U-19 Championships, two Arabian Gulf Cups, where he was the top goalscorer of both occasions and the best player of one, a World Military Cup, and an Asian Games gold medal.

Hussein Saeed was born on 21 January 1958 in Al Adhamiya, where most of the Al-Ubaid tribe lived, to a conservative Baghdadi family.

Hussein Saeed's mother is of Kurdish descent and was born in Arbil while his father is an Arab.

Hussein Saeed started playing football in the streets before joining Al-Iskan's youth center.

Hussein Saeed joined Al-Jamiea when he was 17 years old in 1975 with an invitation from the manager Jamal Salih who lived in Hussein Saeed's neighborhood.

Hussein Saeed was the top goalscorer of the league with 11 goals in 11 matches out of Al-Talaba's total 19 goals.

The next season, Hussein Saeed continued his battle for the top goalscorer in which he scored 17 goals surpassing his teammate, Rahim Hameed, with 8 goals.

Hussein Saeed finished the season as the top goalscorer of the league along with Al-Zawra'a's Ahmed Radhi and Al-Jaish's Rahim Hameed where, for the first time, every one of them scored 9 goals in the league.

The second half of the season witnessed the retirement of the team captain, Jamal Ali, in 1987, when Hussein Saeed was named the new captain of the team, although he only participated in the first stage of the league due to an association punishment against him.

Hussein Saeed returned to the top three goalscorers of the league table in 3rd with 12 goals along with Al-Zawra'a's Saad Abdul-Raheem.

Hussein Saeed was called up from the Iraq national under-17 football team to the reserves team of the Iraq national under-20 football team, where he first participated in the 1975 AFC Youth Championship, in which Iraq shared the title with Iran after they had a goalless match in the final.

Hussein Saeed continued to play in the youth team because the manager, Miodgard Stankovic, was Yugoslavian, reaching an understanding with Grcic.

Hussein Saeed played all the 630 minutes of Iraq's 7 matches.

On 21 February 1978, Hussein Saeed scored his first hat-trick with the senior national team in a friendly match against Algeria at the Al-Shaab Stadium.

Hussein Saeed was part of the Iraq military national football team that won the 1979 CISM World Military Championship in Kuwait City.

Hussein Saeed became the top goalscorer of the tournament with 10 goals, making him the all-time top goalscorer of the Arabian Gulf Cup.

Hussein Saeed started in Iraq's five matches of the 1980 Summer Olympics qualifiers played in Baghdad in which a goal against Jordan and two more against South Yemen.

Hussein Saeed participated in the 6th Arabian Gulf Cup in Abu Dhabi in 1982, scoring a total of five goals in the tournament: one against Oman, two against Bahrain, one against Saudi Arabia, and a last one against the UAE.

Hussein Saeed was the top goalscorer of the tournament with 7 goals and had received the Best Player of the Tournament award along with Oman's Ghulam Khamis.

Hussein Saeed appeared in all of Iraq's matches in the 1988 Summer Olympics qualifiers and scored four goals: three against Jordan and one against Qatar, getting qualified to the Summer Olympics for the third time in the row where they were knocked out again from the group stage after finishing 3rd in the Group B table.

Hussein Saeed returned to the Gulf Cup in the 10th Arabian Gulf Cup in Kuwait in 1990.

Hussein Saeed coached the team through the first half of the league of 25 matches before re-signing Odisho.

Hussein Saeed was accused of being of a Palestinian descent, torturing players, giving positions to Tikritis.

Accusations went to say that Hussein Saeed was Uday's representative in robbing Kuwaitis in the 1991 Gulf War.

The documents included Hussein Saeed gathering information about Al-Badri when he was staying in Saudi Arabia before joining them himself.