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My Take
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.
Overview
Mehdi Mahdavikia (Persian: ; born 24 July 1977) is an Iranian professional football coach and former player usually played as a right winger or right back. He was at Hamburger SV as a youth coach, and also managed his own youth academy, FC KIA. He is currently head coach of Al Jazeera Al Hamra F.C. in UAE League 2.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- 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 48)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Leo / Snake
- Origin
- Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 172 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- association football player / association football coach
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.