Hussein Saeed
Hussein Saeed Mohammed (Arabic: حسين سعيد محمد, born 21 January 1958) is an Iraqi former footballer who played as a forward and is a former president of the Iraq Football Association. Saeed is in ninth place in the list of top international 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. Hussein's 78 international goals make him currently the Iraqi national team's highest scoring player.
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| حسين سعيد محمد | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16th President of the IFA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 27 June 2004 – 13 June 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Uday Hussein | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Najeh Humoud | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | Hussein Saeed Mohammed 21 January 1958 Al Adhamiya, Bagdad, Iraq | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Footballer Manager Football administrator | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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-Jamiea, who later became known as Al-Talaba, where he spent all 15 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.