Career
They were last-minute qualifiers for the Beijing Games, obtaining a place when North of Korea declined an invitation to send rowers, and the invitation was reallocated to Iraq. They are two of only four competitors on the 2008 Iraqi Olympic team Hussein and Nawzad train on the Tigris river in central Baghdad.
Hussein competed in the men"s four at the 2010 Asian Games.
Hussein and his rowing partner Nawzad are being tracked in the run up to London 2012 for the British Broadcasting Corporation"s "World Olympic Dreams".