Hussein Saeed, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Hussein Saeed

Iraqi footballer

Date of Birth: 21-Jan-1958

Place of Birth: Baghdad, Baghdad Governorate, Iraq

Profession: association football player

Nationality: Iraq

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Hussein Saeed Mohammed Al-Ubaidi (Arabic: ???? ???? ???? ???????? , 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.