Hussein Saeed
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1985 Vice President of Al-Talaba 1992
1990 Member of the Iraq Football Association 2003
- Director of the Iraqi Olympic Committee Office of Foreign Relations -
- Vice President of the Iraq Football Association -
- Secretary of the Iraq Football Association -
1996 Member of the Asian Football Confederation Executive Committee 1998
2000 Member of the Arab League Council of Youth and Sport Ministers Sports Committee 2003
2002 Member of the Asian Football Confederation Executive Committee 2009
2002 Member of the Asian Football Confederation Fair Play Committee 2009
2002 Member of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association Media Committee 2011
27 June 2004 President of the Iraq Football Association 13 June 2011
2005 Member of the Union of Arab Football Associations Executive Committee 2009
29 April 2010 Vice President of the Union of Arab Football Associations 16 July 2013
Administrative roles
As of 16 July 2013 [ 79 ] [ 80 ]
Hussein Saeed Mohammed Al-Ubaidi ( , 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 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.