Hussain Said

Quick Facts

Full Name	Hussain Said
Occupation	Footballer
Date Of Birth	Jan 21, 1958(1958-01-21)
Age	66
Birthplace	Baghdad
Country	Iraq
Horoscope	Capricorn

Hussain Said Biography

Hussain Said is one of the most popular and richest Footballer who was born on January 21, 1958 in Baghdad, Iraq. Hussein Saeed was born 21 January 1958 in Al Adhamiya to a conservative Baghdadi family. His mother, who is Kurdish and was born in Arbil, is a native of Kurdistan. His father is Arab. His father, who was a fabric merchant and had moved the family from Al Adhamiya, to Al-Iskan.

Saeed began his professional football career when he was 17 years old. He joined the Iraqi national varsity football team, and won the 1975 Arab Schools Games silver medal. He joined Al-Talaba in 1975. There he spent 14 years, winning three league titles, and was the top goalscorer for the league award in each of three seasons. He was the top goal scorer in both the AFC U-19 Championships and two Arabian Gulf Cups. He also won the World Military Cup gold medal and the best player of the Asian Games.

Saeed’s first competition with the senior national team was the 1977 Merdeka Cup in Kuala Lumpur. He started in Iraq’s first match, against Indonesia, on 17 July 1977, and scored his first goal with Iraq after only 8 minutes from kickoff, scored a goal in Iraq’s 5–0 win over Thailand after 6 minutes, and scored Iraq’s only goal in their 1–1 draw against South Korea. Iraq finished in 2nd place in the table behind South Korea, meeting them again in the final where Iraq lost 1–0. Saeed played all the 630 minutes of Iraq’s 7 matches.

In the 1978 Asian Games, He scored a goal in Iraq’s 2-0 win over China in the preliminary group stage. In the semifinal group stage, He scored in Iraq’s 3-0 win over Kuwait and another goal in Iraq’s 3-0 win against India. Iraq lost in the Bronze medal game with China by a single goal. Saeed was also part of the Iraq military national football team squad that won the 1979 CISM World Military Championship in Kuwait City. He scored a goal against Austria in a 4–0 win, scored another goal in Iraq’s big 5–0 win against Bahrain in the group stage. He scored in Iraq’s semifinal match with Kuwait in a 2–0 win. He also scored Iraq’s first kick in the penalty shootout, in the final, against Italy after a 0–0 draw. Iraq won 4–3 on penalties and achieved the military cup. Saeed’s first appearance in the Gulf Cup of Nations was in the 1979 edition in Baghdad under the management of Ammo Baba. In Iraq’s first match, against Bahrain, he scored a hat-trick. He also scored Iraq’s two goals in their win over Qatar, scored a goal in Iraq’s huge 5–0 win against the UAE, and scored a super hat-trick in the 7–0 victory over Oman. Iraq achieved the cup after finishing in 1st place at 12 points, breaking Kuwait’s streak since the 1970 edition. Saeed also became the top goalscorer of the tournament with 10 goals, making him the all-time top goalscorer of the Arabian Gulf Cup.

Saeed, now known as Al-Jamea or Al-Talaba was 17 years old when he received an invitation from Jamal Salih, a manager who lived in Saeed’s neighborhood. Al- Jamea’s first match was against Al-Shorta in the 1975-76 Iraqi League. This resulted in Al-Jamea winning 3-0. His first goal for the club was in his second match against Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya. Al-Jamea won that match with Saeed’s goal. The club finished 8th. Although they came close to winning the league in 1976-77, they finished 2nd in the league table behind Al-Zawra’a. Saeed scored three goals in the 1977-78 season and his team finished 8th.

Hussain Said Net Worth

Hussain Said is one of the richest Footballer from Iraq. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Hussain Said 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Hussein Saeed Mohammed, Arabic: Hsyn siyd mHmd, was born 21 January 1958. He is a former president and forward of the Iraq Football Association. With 78 goals, Saeed is fifth on the list of international goal scorers. He is considered the best Iraqi player of the twentieth century, and ranks 25th in Asia’s Best Players of the Century. Saeed broke Falah Hazan’s record by becoming the most captained Iraqi player, with 110 caps. Hussein, currently the highest-scoring player for Iraq’s national team with 78 goals, is currently Hussein.

Saeed was transferred from the Iraqi national under-17 football team into the reserves team of Iraq’s national under-20 football team. This is where he participated for the first time in the 1975 AFC Youth Championship. Iraq and Iran shared the title after a goalless final. Miodgard Stankovic was the new team manager. Saeed was selected to the first eleven in 1976. He scored four goals against Sri Lanka and became the top goal scorer of the tournament with seven goals. The quarterfinal match against North Korea saw Iraq eliminated.

After the 4th Arabian Gulf Cup the managerial staff was changed and the Iraq Football Association assigned the Croatian manager, Lenko Grčić, as the new manager of the Iraq national football team, Saeed was called up to the national team, for the first time in his career, at the age of 18. He made his debut on 5 September 1976 in a friendly match against Saudi Arabia where they drew 0–0. He continued to play in the youth team because the manager, Miodgard Stankovic, was Yugoslavian, reaching an understanding with Grčić. Iraq achieved the 1977 AFC Youth Championship where Saeed scored the winning goal in the final, from a diving header in the 90th minute, against Iran in a 4–3 victory in Tehran. Saeed was also the top goalscorer of this edition with 9 goals, scoring his first national hat-trick against Afghanistan in Iraq’s 5–1 win. The same team represented Iraq in the first edition of the FIFA World Youth Championship in 1977 where they lost 3–1 to the Soviet Union, won 5–1 over Austria with Saeed scoring a hat-trick, and lost 4–0 to Paraguay which knocked them out of the competition.

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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. Although Iraq finished 1st in the table, they withdrew from the competition by an order from Former President Saddam Hussein to motivate Kuwait who qualified to the 1982 FIFA World Cup by letting them win which led to scratching all of Iraq’s results from the competition. In the same year, Saeed led Iraq to win their first ever gold medal in the Asian Games in the 1982 Asian Games, under the management of Ammo Baba, in New Delhi. In Iraq’s first match, Saeed scored a goal in an easy 4–0 win over Burma. He also scored two goals in Iraq’s 3–0 win against Nepal. In the quarterfinal, Iraq won over Japan with a single goal in extra time from Emad Jassim and, in the semifinal, they defeated Saudi Arabia with one goal. On 3 December, the final match was played between Iraq and Kuwait, where Saeed gained Iraq’s gold medal when he scored the winning goal in the 82nd minute of the match with a through pass from Karim Mohammed Allawi.

Facts & Trivia

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Saeed appeared in all of the nine 1984 Summer Olympics qualification match that was played by Iraq, scoring a goal against Bahrain in Iraq’s 2–1 win in Manama and another one against Malaysia in Iraq’s 2–0 win in Singapore. Iraq was qualified for the second time in the row to the Summer Olympics where Saeed scored Iraq’s only goal in the first match, against Canada, in the 83rd minute of a 1–1 draw. He also scored a goal in Iraq’s defeat against Yugoslavia 4–2. Iraq were knocked out of the competition after drawing a game and losing the other two.