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| حُسَيْن سَعِيد مُحَمَّد | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 16th President of theIFA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 27 June 2004 – 13 June 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Uday Hussein | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Najeh Humoud | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | Hussein Saeed Mohammed (1958-01-21)21 January 1958 (age 67) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Footballer Manager Football administrator | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hussein Saeed Mohammed[1] (Arabic:حُسَيْن سَعِيد مُحَمَّد, born 21 January 1958) is an Iraqi formerfootballer who played as aforward and is a former president of theIraq Football Association. Saeed is in twelfth place in thelist of top international goal scorers, with 78 goals.[2] Along withAhmed 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.[3] Hussein's 78 international goals make him currently the Iraqi national team's highest scoring player.[4]
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 twoAFC U-19 Championships, twoArabian Gulf Cups, where he was the top goalscorer of both occasions and the best player of one, aWorld Military Cup, and anAsian Games gold medal.
Hussein Saeed was born on 21 January 1958 inAl Adhamiya, where most of theAl-Ubaid tribe lived, to a conservative Baghdadi family. 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.
Hussein Saeed started playing football in the streets before joining Al-Iskan's youth center. He led them to an Iraq Youth Centers' Championship, scoring ahat-trick in a 4–2 win againstAl-Zawra'a youth team and catching the eye of Dawoud Al-Azzawi, the manager of theIraq national under-17 football team and Iraq national varsity football team. Al-Azzawi called him up to the varsity team and, in his first competitive tournament with the team, he won the gold medal in the 1975 Arab Schools Games in Egypt.[5][6]
Saeed joinedAl-Jamiea when he was 17 years old in 1975 with an invitation from the managerJamal Salih who lived in Saeed's neighborhood.[5] His first match for Al-Jamiea was in the1975–76 Iraq FA Cup againstAl-Shorta, which Al-Jamiea won 3–0. He scored his first league goal with the club againstAl-Hilla in a 1–1 draw.[6] The club eventually finished in 8th place.[7] They came very close to achieve the league in the1976–77 season but they settled in 2nd place in the league table behindAl-Zawra'a.[8] In the1977–78 season, Saeed scored two goals with his team finishing in 8th place.[9]
Al-Jamiea became known asAl-Talaba SC ahead of the1978–79 season after merging with a new club of the same name, which saw Saeed reach the top three goalscorers of the league for the first time, netting six goals for Al-Talaba which made him the second top goalscorer behindFalah Hassan with only one goal and along with his teammate,Haris Mohammed, in 3rd. Al-Talaba finished in 3rd place in the table at 15 points.[10] The season after, in1979–80, Al-Talaba finished in 3rd place at 27 points in the league and reached the final of the1979–80 Iraq FA Cup where they came up againstAl-Jaish and lost on penalties 4–2 after a 1–1 draw.[11]
In the1980–81 season, Al-Talaba won their first ever league title after tying withAl-Shorta on both points and goal difference in the end where theIraq Football Association declared Al-Talaba as champions due to them having more wins than Al-Shorta. Hussein Saeed was the top goalscorer of the league with 11 goals in 11 matches out of Al-Talaba's total 19 goals.[12] In the cup, Al-Talaba reached the final for the second time in the row and came up against Al-Zawra'a and lost again in the final 1–0.[13] In the1981–82 season, Al-Talaba retained their league title, sitting in 1st at 34 points with Saeed being the second top goalscorer of the league with 11 goals, along withAl-Amana'sGhazi Hashim and behind Al-Zawra'a'sThamer Yousif.[14] They reached the cup final for the third time in the row and lost to Al-Zawra'a again 2–1.[15] The next season, Saeed continued his battle for the top goalscorer in which he scored 17 goals surpassing his teammate,Rahim Hameed, with 8 goals. Al-Talaba finished in 2nd place with one point away from the champions,Salahaddin.[16]
In the1983–84 season, Saeed came in third in the goalscorers table with 7 goals behind Al-Jaish's Rahim Hameed andAli Hussein Mahmoud. Al-Talaba finished as the runners-up for the third time in their history at 36 points behind Al-Jaish.[17] The season after, before the league was abandoned, Saeed scored 14 goals out of his team's 20 goals and was the top goalscorers of the league. The club finished in 5th place at 15 points and reached the quarterfinal of theAl-Rasheed Cup.[18][19]
The1985–86 season was one of Al-Talaba and Saeed's best season in their history where Al-Talaba achieved their third league title after beating their rivals at the time,Al-Rasheed, in front of 50,000 spectators, with Saeed's only goal from a penalty, finishing in 1st with 25 points from 15 matches.[20] Saeed finished the season as the top goalscorer of the league along with Al-Zawra'a'sAhmed Radhi and Al-Jaish's Rahim Hameed where, for the first time, every one of them scored 9 goals in the league.[21] As of that season, Saeed was also made the club's vice president. In the 1986 Saddam International Tournament, Saeed played for Baghdad XI, rather than Al-Talaba, because Baghdad XI was essentially the Iraq national team under a different name. Baghdad XI won all of their group matches including a victory over Saeed's club Al-Talaba to qualify for the semi-finals where they thrashed Al-Zawra'a to reach the final. However, Baghdad XI lost the final 2–1 to Al-Rasheed; Saeed scored Baghdad XI's only goal in the final in the 78th minute with a penalty.[22][23] Saeed returned to Al-Talaba for the1986 Iraqi Perseverance Cup between Al-Talaba and Al-Rasheed; Al-Rasheed won the match 2–1.[24] In the1986–87 season, Al-Talaba finished mid-table in 6th place at 49 points.[25] The second half of the season witnessed the retirement of the team captain,Jamal Ali, in 1987, when Saeed was named the new captain of the team, although he only participated in the first stage of the league due to an association punishment against him. The1987–88 season was the only season where Saeed hasn't scored any goals due to him not participating in many matches because of national duty.[26] They finished, for the first time since 1977–78, in 8th place at 30 points.[27] Saeed wasted Al-Talaba's hope in achieving the league title in1988–89 when he missed his penalty in the final of the league against their rivals, Al-Rasheed, after a 1–1 draw. The score was 4–3 to Al-Talaba but with Saeed's miss they got the equalizer and with his teammate missing the fifth penalty, Al-Rasheed won 5–4. Saeed returned to the top three goalscorers of the league table in 3rd with 12 goals along with Al-Zawra'a's Saad Abdul-Raheem.[28]
The last season that Saeed played in was the1989–90 season where he led his team through the first stage at 1st place until the 18th round on 19 January 1990 where he played his last match and scored his last goal with the club, against Al-Zawra'a, before the Iraq Football Association called him up in the last days for the10th Arabian Gulf Cup and after he scored 10 goals for his team.[29] This call-up made his team drop to 6th place after being the league leaders.[30] After finishing the Gulf Cup, he announced his retirement. In the total 15 season that Saeed has played for Al-Talaba he scored 122 goals and was the top goalscorer of the team for 10 seasons.[26] Although he retired, Saeed stayed as the vice president of Al-Talaba until 1992.[31]
Saeed was called up from theIraq national under-17 football team to the reserves team of theIraq national under-20 football team, where he first participated in the1975 AFC Youth Championship, in which Iraq shared the title withIran after they had a goalless match in the final.[32] In the1976 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 opening match, againstSri Lanka, and becoming the top goalscorer of the tournament with 7 goals. Iraq was knocked out in the quarterfinal, againstNorth Korea.[33]
After the4th Arabian Gulf Cup the managerial staff was changed and theIraq Football Association assigned the Croatian manager,Lenko Grčić, as the new manager of theIraq national football team, Saeed was called up to the national team, for the first time in his career, at the age of 18.[5] He made his debut on 5 September 1976 in a friendly match againstSaudi Arabia where they drew 0–0.[2] He continued to play in the youth team because the manager, Miodgard Stankovic, was Yugoslavian, reaching an understanding with Grčić. Iraq achieved the1977 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 inTehran.[34] Saeed was also the top goalscorer of this edition with 9 goals,[35] scoring his first nationalhat-trick againstAfghanistan in Iraq's 5–1 win.[36] The same team represented Iraq in the first edition of theFIFA World Youth Championship in1977 where they lost 3–1 to theSoviet Union,[37] won 5–1 overAustria with Saeed scoring a hat-trick,[38] and lost 4–0 toParaguay which knocked them out of the competition.[39]
Saeed's first competition with the senior national team was the1977 Merdeka Cup inKuala Lumpur.[2] He started in Iraq's opening match, againstIndonesia, 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 overThailand after 6 minutes, and scored Iraq's only goal in their 1–1 draw againstSouth 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.[40]
On 21 February 1978, Saeed scored his first hat-trick with the senior national team in a friendly match againstAlgeria at theAl-Shaab Stadium. His second competition was the1978 edition of the Merdeka Cup where he scored a single hat-trick againstSingapore.[2] Iraq finished in 2nd place behind South Korea again, leading to the second Merdeka Cup final between the two teams where Iraq lost 2–0.[41]
In the1978 Asian Games, He scored a goal in Iraq's 2–0 win overChina in the preliminary group stage. In the semifinal group stage, He scored in Iraq's 3–0 win overKuwait and another goal in Iraq's 3–0 win againstIndia.[2] Iraq lost in the bronze medal game with China by a single goal.[42] Saeed was also part of theIraq military national football team that won the 1979 CISM World Military Championship inKuwait City. He scored a goal againstAustria in a 4–0 win and scored a goal in Iraq's 5–0 win overBahrain in the group stage. He scored for Iraq's semifinal match withKuwait for a 2–0 win. He scored Iraq's first kick in the penalty shootout, in the final, againstItaly after a 0–0 draw. Iraq won 4–3 on penalties and achieved the military cup.[43]Saeed's first appearance in theArabian Gulf Cup was in the1979 edition in Baghdad under the management ofAmmo Baba. In Iraq's opening match, againstBahrain, he scored a hat-trick.[44] He also scored Iraq's two goals in their win overQatar,[45] scored a goal in Iraq's huge 5–0 win against theUAE,[46] and scored a super hat-trick in the 7–0 victory overOman.[47] Iraq achieved the cup after finishing in 1st place at 12 points, breakingKuwait's streak since the1970 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.[48]
Saeed started in Iraq's five matches of the1980 Summer Olympics qualifiers played in Baghdad in which a goal againstJordan and two more againstSouth Yemen. Iraq drew in points with Kuwait in theAsian Qualifying Tournament Group 1 which led to a playoff match that Iraq lost 3–2.[49] However, Iraq got qualified by replacingMalaysia.[50] In the1980 Summer Olympics in theUSSR, Saeed scored a single goal againstCosta Rica.[51] Iraq reached the quarterfinal and was beaten byEast Germany in a 4–0 loss.[52]
Saeed participated in the6th Arabian Gulf Cup inAbu 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.[53] Although Iraq finished 1st in the table, they withdrew from the competition by an order from Former PresidentSaddam Hussein to motivate Kuwait who qualified to the1982 FIFA World Cup by letting them win which led to scratching all of Iraq's results from the competition.[54] In the same year, Saeed led Iraq to win their first evergold medal in the Asian Games in the1982 Asian Games, under the management of Ammo Baba, inNew Delhi. In Iraq's opening match, Saeed scored a goal in an easy 4–0 win overBurma. He also scored two goals in Iraq's 3–0 win againstNepal. In the quarterfinal, Iraq won overJapan with a single goal in extra time fromEmad 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 fromKarim Mohammed Allawi.[55]
Iraq achieved their second Arabian Gulf Cup in the1984 edition inMuscat, with Ammo Baba as the team's manager. Saeed scored the two Iraqi goals in Iraq's opening match in a 2–1 victory,[56] scored a hat-trick in Iraq's 4–0 win over Saudi Arabia,[57] and also scored two goals in Iraq's fifth match against Kuwait in a 3–1 win.[58] Iraq were a match away from winning the cup but, unfortunately, Iraq lost against Qatar in a 1–2 defeat.[59] Iraq and Qatar had an equal number of points which led them to having a final decisive match. On 28 March, a final match between them was played. The two teams drew in the whole 90 minutes of the game. In extra time, Iraq scored a goal and Qatar leveled, taking the match to penalties where Iraq defeated Qatar 4–3.[60] Saeed was the top goalscorer of the tournament with 7 goals and had received the Best Player of the Tournament award along with Oman'sGhulam Khamis.[48][61]
Saeed appeared in all of the nine1984 Summer Olympics qualification match that was played by Iraq, scoring a goal against Bahrain in Iraq's 2–1 win inManama and another one againstMalaysia in Iraq's 2–0 win inSingapore.[2] Iraq was qualified for the second time in the row to the Summer Olympics where Saeed scored Iraq's only goal in the opening match, againstCanada, in the 83rd minute of a 1–1 draw.[62] He also scored a goal in Iraq's defeat againstYugoslavia 4–2.[63] Iraq were knocked out of the competition after drawing a game and losing the other two.
Saeed captained Iraq through the1986 FIFA World Cup qualifiers in 1985, playing 8 matches and scoring 8 goals including four againstLebanon in two 6–0 wins for Iraq, a winning goal againstJordan in Iraq's 3–2 win,[64] which was Saeed's 100th appearance with the senior national team.[2] Iraq finished in the top of the Group 1B table at 6 points in thefirst round, getting qualified to the1986 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC second round. Saeed scored two goals in Iraq's 3–2 away win over the UAE.[65] They lost 2–1 in their home match which qualified them to the final round on away goals. Saeed also scored in Iraq's victorious match againstSyria inTaif in which Iraq won 3–1 getting qualified for the first time of their history to theFIFA World Cup after ending their away match in a 0–0 draw.[66] When the1986 FIFA World Cup was about to start, there were some speculations about Saeed not being in Iraq's squad, due to his injury, but he joined the team in the last moments.[67] On 4 June, Saeed played in Iraq's first match againstParaguay, where they were defeated by a single goal.[68] After the match, Iraq's head coach,Evaristo de Macedo, removed Saeed from the squad, due to his prior injury, and returned him to Baghdad. Iraq lost their two other matches againstBelgium andMexico, getting knocked out from the group stage of the cup.[69][70] Iraq has not qualified for the World Cup since.[23]
After their disappointing run in the World Cup, Saeed rejoined the team in the1986 Asian Games where he scored a goal against Oman in Iraq's opening match which ended 4–0 and another one against the UAE in the 2–1 defeat. He missed the Iraq's 5–1 win overPakistan and the quarterfinal with Saudi Arabia which ended in a 1–1 draw, leading the match to penalties where Iraq lost 9–8.[71] Saeed appeared in all of Iraq's matches in the1988 Summer Olympics qualifiers and scored four goals: three against Jordan and one against Qatar, getting qualified to the Summer Olympics for the third time in the row where they were knocked out again from thegroup stage after finishing 3rd in the Group B table.[72] 1988 was the first year where Saeed didn't score any goal since his debut year in 1976.[2]
After not appearing in either the1986 or the1988 Arabian Gulf Cups, Saeed played in the1988 President's Cup Football Tournament where he scored three goals; Iraq were knocked out in the quarterfinals. Saeed returned to the Gulf Cup in the10th Arabian Gulf Cup inKuwait in 1990. Iraq won their first game against Bahrain 1–0 and drew their second game with Kuwait 1–1. They drew again in their third match against the UAE 2–2 draw.[73] Iraq withdrew from the tournament after the game with the UAE, because of the refereeing,[74] which was Saeed's last match in his football career before he decided to retire at the age of 32 in the same year.[6]
After he left the office of vice president ofAl-Talaba in 1992, the club finished the1992–93 as winners of the league and the2nd Umm al-Ma'arik Championship and the runners-up of the 1992–93 Iraq FA Cup.[75] Before the start of the1993–94 season, the team's manager,Ayoub Odisho, resigned which made the board look for a new manager to settle quickly which ended in assigning Saeed as the interim manager of the club.[76] He coached the team through the first half of the league of 25 matches before re-signing Odisho. Saeed's last match as the manager ended in a 4–0 loss to the league leaders,Al-Zawra'a.[77] He also led Al-Talaba to achieve the3rd Umm al-Ma'arik Championship, which was held in September 1993, after defeatingAl-Quwa Al-Jawiya in the final 2–1, achieving his first and only trophy as a manager.[78][79]
| Took office | Office | Left office | Notes |
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| 1985 | Vice President ofAl-Talaba | 1992 | [n 1] |
| 1990 | Member of theIraq Football Association | 2003 | |
| – | Director of theIraqi Olympic Committee Office of Foreign Relations | – | |
| – | Vice President of theIraq Football Association | – | |
| – | Secretary of theIraq Football Association | – | |
| 1996 | Member of theAsian Football Confederation Executive Committee | 1998 | |
| 2000 | Member of theArab League Council of Youth and Sport Ministers Sports Committee | 2003 | |
| 2002 | Member of theAsian Football Confederation Executive Committee | 2009 | |
| 2002 | Member of theAsian Football Confederation Fair Play Committee | 2009 | |
| 2002 | Member of theFédération Internationale de Football Association Media Committee | 2011 | |
| 27 June 2004 | President of theIraq Football Association | 13 June 2011 | [n 2] |
| 2005 | Member of theUnion of Arab Football Associations Executive Committee | 2009 | |
| 29 April 2010 | Vice President of theUnion of Arab Football Associations | 16 July 2013 |
As Saeed was the vice president of theIraq Football Association, which was headed byUday Hussein, in the 1990s, there were many controversies about him being aBa'athist and aSaddamist. He was also accused of being of aPalestinian descent, torturing players, and giving positions toTikritis.[83][84] Accusations also went to say that Saeed was Uday's representative in robbing Kuwaitis in the1991 Gulf War.[85] Documents were put on the internet by some news agencies that suggest that Saeed,Najeh Humoud and Moayad Al-Badri worked for theIraqi Intelligence Service in 2002 by gathering information on their targets. The documents included Saeed gathering information about Al-Badri when he was staying in Saudi Arabia before joining them himself. They also show the approval of the Personal Secretary of Former PresidentSaddam Hussein,Abid Hamid Mahmud, of paying Saeed $50,000 after completing his mission and him signing on receiving $25,000.[86] One of the documents showed him and Al-Badri executing a mission to monitor an alleged Israeli spy in Syria and showed him arrestingYahya Alwan before travelling to Saudi Arabia.[87]
| Team | Year | Tournament | Friendly | Total | |||
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| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Iraq U-20 | 1976 | 4 | 6 | — | 4 | 6 | |
| 1977 | 8 | 12 | — | 8 | 12 | ||
| Total | 12 | 18 | — | 12 | 18 | ||
| Iraq Military | 1979 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 |
| Total | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 | |
| Iraq | 1976 | — | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| 1977 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | |
| 1978 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 20 | 10 | |
| 1979 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 13 | |
| 1980 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 4 | |
| 1981 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 3 | |
| 1982 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 16 | 12 | |
| 1983 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | |
| 1984 | 16 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 13 | |
| 1985 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 9 | |
| 1986 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 3 | |
| 1987 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | |
| 1988 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
| 1989 | 5 | 2 | — | 5 | 2 | ||
| 1990 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |
| Total | 100 | 62 | 37 | 16 | 137 | 78 | |
| Career total | 116 | 83 | 39 | 18 | 155 | 101 | |
Iraq U-20
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| 1 | 21 April 1976 | National Sports Complex,Bangkok, Thailand |  Sri Lanka | 5–0 | 1976 AFC Youth Championship |
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| 5 | 24 April 1976 | National Sports Complex,Bangkok, Thailand |  Hong Kong | 5–0 | 1976 AFC Youth Championship |
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| 7 | 17 April 1977 | Aryamehr Stadium,Tehran, Iran |  India | 4–0 | 1977 AFC Youth Championship |
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| 9 | 19 April 1977 | Aryamehr Stadium,Tehran, Iran |  Bangladesh | 3–0 | 1977 AFC Youth Championship |
| 10 | 22 April 1977 | Aryamehr Stadium,Tehran, Iran |  Afghanistan | 5–1 | 1977 AFC Youth Championship |
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| 13 | 25 April 1977 | Aryamehr Stadium,Tehran, Iran |  Bahrain | 3–0 | 1977 AFC Youth Championship |
| 14 | 28 April 1977 | Aryamehr Stadium,Tehran, Iran |  Iran | 4–3 | 1977 AFC Youth Championship |
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| 16 | 1 July 1977 | Sfax Stadium,Sfax, Tunisia |  Austria | 5–1 | 1977 FIFA World Youth Championship |
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Iraq Military
| # | Date | Venue | Opponent | Result | Competition |
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| 1 | 22 May 1979 | Al-Shaab Stadium,Baghdad |  Belgium | 4–1 | Friendly |
| 2 | 25 May 1979 | Al-Shaab Stadium,Baghdad | Belgium | 5–1 | Friendly |
| 3 | 4 June 1979 | Sabah Al Salem Stadium,Kuwait City | Austria | 4–0 | 1979 CISM World Military Championship |
| 4 | 6 June 1979 | Sabah Al Salem Stadium,Kuwait City | Bahrain | 5–0 | 1979 CISM World Military Championship |
| 5 | 11 June 1979 | Sabah Al Salem Stadium,Kuwait City |  Kuwait | 2–0 | 1979 CISM World Military Championship |
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