Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Bayan gasar cin kofin Larabawa ta 4 an canza ma'aikatan gudanarwa kuma kungiyar kwallon kafa ta Iraqi ta sanya manajan Croatia, Lenko Grčić, a matsayin sabon manajan kungiyar kwallon kafa ta Iraqi, an kira Saeed zuwa kungiyar kwallon kafa ta kasa, a karon farko a cikin aikinsa, yana da shekaru 18. Ya fara bugawa a ranar 5 ga Satumba, 1976 a wasan sada zumunci da Saudiyya inda suka tashi 0-0. Ya ci gaba da wasa a cikin ƙungiyar matasa saboda manajan, Miodgard Stankovic, ɗan Yugoslavian ne, yana samun fahimta tare da Grčić. Iraki ta sami Gasar Zakarun Matasa ta AFC ta 1977 inda Saeed ya zira kwallaye na nasara a wasan karshe, daga bugun kai a cikin minti na 90, a kan Iran a nasarar 4-3 a Tehran. Saeed kuma shine babban mai zira kwallaye a wannan fitowar tare da kwallaye 9, inda ya zira kwallaye uku na farko a kan Afghanistan a nasarar Iraki 5-1. Haka kuma tawagar ta wakilci Iraki a gasar farko ta gasar zakarun duniya ta matasa ta FIFA a shekarar
1977 inda suka rasa 3<unk>1 ga Tarayyar Soviet, suka ci 5<unk>1 a kan Austria tare da Saeed ya zira kwallaye uku, kuma suka rasa 4<unk>0 ga Paraguay wanda ya fitar da su daga gasar.