Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I muri i te 4th Arabian Gulf Cup i hurihia te kaimahi whakahaere me te Iraqi Football Association i tohaina te kaiwhakahaere Croatia, Lenko Grčić, hei kaiwhakahaere hou o te kapa whutupaoro Iraqi, i karangahia a Saeed ki te kapa motu, mo te wa tuatahi i roto i tana mahi, i te tau 18. I timata ia i te 5 o Mahuru 1976 i roto i te tukinga hoa ki a Saudi Arabia i reira i tohatoha ai ratou 0 <unk> 0. I haere tonu ia ki te takaro i te roopu taiohi na te mea ko te kaiwhakahaere, ko Miodgard Stankovic, he tangata Yugoslavian, i tae atu ki te maarama ki a Grčić. I tutuki i a Iraq te 1977 AFC Youth Championship i reira i eke a Saeed ki te wikitoria i te whiringa toa, mai i te upoko ruku i te meneti 90, ki a Iran i te wikitoria 4-3 i Tehran. Ko Saeed hoki te kaitakaro whaainga nui o tenei putanga me nga whaainga 9, i eke i tana whaainga tuatahi mo te motu ki a Afghanistan i te wikitoria 5-1 a Iraq. Ko taua kapa ano i tohu i a Iraki i te putanga tuatahi o te FIFA World Youth Championship i
1977 i ngaro ai ratou 3<unk>1 ki te Soviet Union, i wikitoria 5<unk>1 ki Austria me Saeed e eke ana ki te hat-trick, ka ngaro 4<unk>0 ki Paraguay i peia ai ratou i te whakataetae.