High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Saad Attiya Hafidh (born February 26, 1987 in Iraq) is an Iraqi football (soccer) defender playing for the Al-Shorta football club in Iraq.Saad Attiya was the youngest member of Iraq s successful Olympic team. He was selected by Olympic coach Hamad for his defensive prowess after the end of the war. Hamad is said to have favored Saad s height and speed.At the age of 16, coach Hamad gave Saad a place in the first team, where he played in the heart of the Iraqi defense along with Bassim Abbas and Haidar Abdul-Razzaq. Saad, who had only just broken into the Al-Zawraa first team, played in all ten qualifying round matches.