Khodadad Azizi

Khodadad Azizi is, to me, a footballing national hero in the purest sense. The Iranian striker was named Asian Player of the Year in 1996 and had a hand in every Iran goal of the two-leg playoff against Australia that sent Iran to the 1998 World Cup, where he played in all three group games, including the politically charged win over the United States. That playoff turned him into a household name, the kind of moment a whole country replays for decades. He later moved into coaching. There's something both cruel and beautiful about football, where a single strike can ignite an entire nation and echo for a generation. He's a man people genuinely remember.

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Name (English)

Khodadad Azizi

Name (Japanese)

コダダド・アジジ

Reading

こだだど・あじじ

Born

June 22, 1971 (age 55)

Origin

Fariman, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran

Height

169 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Boar

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khodadad%20Azizi
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B3%E3%83%80%E3%83%80%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B8%E3%82%B8
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q472345

Tags

• Razavi Khorasan Province
• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.