Nasser Hejazi
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Nasser Hejazi (Persian: ناصر حجازی, nāser hejāzi; 14 December 1949 – 23 May 2011), nicknamed "the legendary Iranian goalkeeper",[2][3][4][5] was an Iranian football player and coach who most notably played for Esteghlal (Taj).
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | (1949-12-14)14 December 1949 | ||
Place of birth | Piranshahr, Iran | ||
Date of death | 23 May 2011(2011-05-23) (aged 61) | ||
Place of death | Tehran, Iran | ||
Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1964–1969 | Nader | ||
1969–1976 | Taj | ||
1976–1980 | Shahbaz | ||
1980–1986 | Esteghlal | ||
1986–1987 | Dhaka Mohammedan | ||
International career | |||
1968–1980 | Iran | 62 | (0[1]) |
Managerial career | |||
1987–1991 | Dhaka Mohammedan | ||
1988–1989 | Shahrdari Kerman | ||
1989 | Bangladesh | ||
1990–1992 | Bank Tejarat | ||
1992–1993 | Shahrdari Kerman | ||
1994–1995 | Sepahan | ||
1995–1996 | Mashin Sazi | ||
1996–1999 | Esteghlal | ||
1999–2001 | Zob Ahan | ||
2001–2002 | Esteghlal Rasht | ||
2003 | Mashin Sazi | ||
2003–2004 | Esteghlal Ahvaz | ||
2006–2007 | Nassaji Mazandaran | ||
2007 | Esteghlal | ||
Medal record | |||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Considered as the best goalkeeper in the history of Iranian football and Asia, he was capped 62 times for the Iran national football team. In 2000, the Asian Football Confederation ranked him the second best Asian goalkeeper of the 20th century.[6]
He was goalkeeper of Iran national team in the 1960s and 1970s and won the AFC Asian Cup on two occasions in 1972 and 1976, and Asian Games title once, and competed in the 1972 Munich Olympics and 1976 Montreal Olympics and 1978 FIFA World Cup.
As a manager, he won an Azadegan League in 1998 and a Bangladesh League in 1988, as well as a runner-up place in 1998–99 AFC Champions League.