Hussein Saeed

Quick Facts

Full Name	Hussein Saeed
Occupation	Association Football Player
Date Of Birth	Jan 21, 1958(1958-01-21)
Age	66
Birthplace	Baghdad
Country	Iraq
Birth City	Baghdad
Horoscope	Aquarius

Hussein Saeed Biography

Hussein Saeed is one of the most popular and richest Association Football Player who was born on January 21, 1958 in Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq. Hussein Saeed was born on 21 January 1958 in Al Adhamiya, where most of the Al-Ubaid tribe lived, to a conservative Baghdadi family. His mother is of Kurdish descent and was born in Arbil while his father is an Arab. The family moved from Al Adhamiya to live in Al-Iskan when his father, who had previously worked as a fabrics merchant, got a job in the Ministry of Construction and Housing.

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. In 1975, he joined Al-Talaba where he spent all 14 years of his career, achieving three league titles and getting the top goalscorer of the league award in three seasons. He 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.

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 joined Al-Jamea, currently known as Al-Talaba, when he was 17 years old in 1975 with an invitation from the manager Jamal Salih who lived in Saeed’s neighborhood. His first match for Al-Jamea was in the 1975–76 Iraqi League against Al-Shorta, which ended in a 3–0 win for Al-Jamea. He scored his first goal with the club in his second match against Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya, where Al- Jamea won with Saeed’s only goal. The club eventually finished in 8th place. They came very close to achieve the league in the 1976–77 season but they settled in 2nd place in the league table behind Al-Zawra’a. In the 1977–78 season, Saeed scored three goals with his team finishing in 8th place.

Hussein Saeed Net Worth

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

Hussein Saeed Mohammed (Arabic: حسين سعيد محمد ‎ , born 21 January 1958) is a retired Iraqi footballer who played as a forward for the Iraqi Premier League club Al-Talaba and the Iraqi national team and is a former president of the Iraq Football Association. Saeed is in fifth place in the list of top international association goal scorers, with 78 goals. Along with Ahmed Radhi, he is considered to be the best Iraqi player of the 20th century and features in 25th place in Asia’s Best Players of the Century list. On 24 April 1987, Saeed broke Falah Hassan’s record to become the most capped Iraqi player with 110 caps. Hussein is currently the Iraqi national team’s highest scoring player with 78 goals.

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. In the 1976 edition, Saeed was called up by the team’s new manager, Miodgard Stankovic, to be part of the first eleven, scoring four goals in Iraq’s first match, against Sri Lanka, and becoming the top goalscorer of the tournament with 7 goals. Iraq was knocked out in the quarterfinal, against North Korea.

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.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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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

Hussein Ranked on the list of most popular Association Football Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Iraq. Hussein Saeed celebrates birthday on January 21 of every year.

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.