Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Mgbe 4th Arab Gulf Cup ndị ọrụ nchịkwa gbanwere na Iraqi Football Association kenyere onye nchịkwa Croatia, Lenko Grčić, dị ka onye nchịkwa ọhụrụ nke ndị otu egwuregwu bọọlụ mba Iraq, a kpọrọ Saeed na ndị otu mba, maka oge mbụ na ọrụ ya, mgbe ọ dị afọ 18. O mere egwuregwu mbụ ya na 5 Septemba 1976 na egwuregwu enyi na enyi megide Saudi Arabia ebe ha dọtara 0 <unk> 0. Ọ gara n'ihu na-egwu egwuregwu na ndị ntorobịa n'ihi na onye njikwa, Miodgard Stankovic, bụ onye Yugoslavia, na-eru Grčić. Iraq nwetara mmeri AFC nke ndị ntorobịa n'afọ 1977 ebe Saeed gbara goolu mmeri na njedebe, site na isi isi na nkeji 90, megide Iran na mmeri 4-3 na Tehran. Saeed bụkwa onye kacha gbaa goolu n'asọmpi a na goolu itoolu, mgbe o nyere goolu mbụ ya n'asọmpi mba ahụ megide Afghanistan na mmeri Iraq ji goolu ise na otu. Otu ndị otu ahụ nọchitere anya Iraq na nke mbụ nke FIFA World Youth Championship na
1977 ebe ha meriri 3-1 na Soviet Union, merie 5-1 na Austria na Saeed na-agba ọsọ atọ, ma tufuo 4-0 na Paraguay nke kpochapụrụ ha n'asọmpi ahụ.