Mohammad Reza Adelkhani

Reza Adelkhani

Personal information
Full name	Mohammad Reza Adelkhani
Date of birth	February 13, 1947 (1947-02-13) (age 64)
Place of birth	Tehran, Iran
Playing position	Forward
Youth career
1960-1962	Shahin
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1962-1965	Bayern Munich II
1965-1966	Bayern Munich
1966-1967	Rot-Weiß Oberhausen	32	(4)
1968-1969	Wuppertaler SV
1969-1971	SG Wattenscheid 09
1971-1972	VfL Klafeld-Geisweid	41	(6)
1972-1975	Esteghlal
1975-1979	Shahbaz
National team
1973-1978	Iran	16	(0)
Honours Competitor for  Iran Asian Games Gold 1974 Tehran Team Competition
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Mohammad Reza Adelkhani (Persian: محمدرضا عادلخانی) (born February 13, 1947 in Tehran, Iran) is a retired Iranian footballer and former Iran national football team player.

Adelkhani has Fifa prolicens at this field; his is the first Iranian to make this challenge.

Early life

He was born on 13 February 1947 in Tehran, Iran. He began playing in football in 1960 with playing in the Shahin.

Club career

Adelkhani played for SG Wattenscheid 09, Wuppertaler SV, Rot-Weiß Oberhausen, Bayern Munich's amateur team and VfL Klafeld-Geisweid before moving back to Iran.^[1] Adelkhani is the first player in Iran move to Europe to play football.

Adelkhani's first club in Iran was Taj F.C.; there he could reach the second place in the Iranian league in 1974.

After then he joined Shahbaz F.C., where he played many successful years reaching the third place in the Iranian league in 1976/77.

International career

Between 1973 and 1978, he played 17 times for the national team and scored 2 goals.

Iranian football fans will never forget the Asian football Olympic final 1974 in Aryamehr Stadium between Iran and Israel, in which Adelkhani forced Shum's own goal which led Iran to win this tournament.

He was also part of the Iran squad that qualified for the 1978 FIFA World Cup however an injury he sustained while saving his young daughter from falling down the stairs kept him out of the competition. He was a left-footed player.

References

1. ^ "Reza Adelkani" (in German). Fussball Daten. http://www.fussballdaten.de/spieler/adelkanireza/. Retrieved 2009-10-12. 

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Name	Adelkhani, Mohammad Reza
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Date of birth	February 13, 1947
Place of birth	Tehran, Iran
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