Hussein Saeed
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| 16th President of the IFA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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In office 27 June 2004 – 13 June 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Uday Hussein | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Najeh Humoud | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born |
Hussein Saeed Mohammed Al-Ubaidi 21 January 1958 Al Adhamiya, Baghdad, Iraq |
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| Nationality | Iraqi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Footballer Manager Football administrator |
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Association football career
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| Playing position | Forward | ||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1975–1990 | Al-Talaba | (122) | |
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| 1975–1977 | Iraq U-20 | 12 | (18) |
| 1979 | Iraq Military | 6 | (5) |
| 1976–1990 | Iraq | 137 | (78) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1993 | Al-Talaba | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Hussein Saeed Mohammed Al-Ubaidi (Arabic: حسين سعيد محمد العبيدي , born 21 January 1958 in Al Adhamiya, Baghdad) 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 4th 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 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 Gulf Cups of Nations, 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. 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.
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