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.

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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)

Origin

Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran

Height

172 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Snake

• Official sitehttp://www.mahdavikia.de/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi%20Mahdavikia
• 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
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313780

Tags

• Tehran 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.