Mehdi Mahdavikia

Mehdi Mahdavikia is an Iranian football hero, plain and simple. A relentless right-sided dynamo who tore up that flank for years at Hamburg in Germany, you can't really tell the story of Iranian football without him. Since hanging up his boots he's moved into coaching, including youth development and his own academy, and that instinct to pass on what he carried to the next generation is what really gets me. The sense of responsibility in a man who ran himself into the ground for his country is genuinely admirable. He's someone I root for not just for his playing, but for how he's lived after it.

Name (English)

Mehdi Mahdavikia

Name (Japanese)

メフディ・マハダヴィキア

Reading

めふでぃ・まはだゔぃきあ

Born

July 24, 1977 (age 49)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Snake

Origin

Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran

Height

172 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://www.mahdavikia.de/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A1%E3%83%95%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%8F%E3%83%80%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%82%AD%E3%82%A2

Tags

• Tehran Province
• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.