Hossein Sadaghiani

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Hossein Sadaghiani
Personal information
Full name Amir Hossein Sadaghiani
Date of birth 1903
Place of birth    Tehran, Flag of Iran Iran
Date of death    December 1, 1982
Playing position Striker
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1921-1924
1924-1929
1929-1930
1930-1933
1933-1934
1934-1935
1937-?
Flag of Turkey Fenerbahce SK
Flag of Iran Ferdowsi Club Mashhad
Flag of Belgium CS Marchienne-Monceau
Flag of Belgium R. Charleroi S.C.
Flag of Turkey Fenerbahce SK
Flag of Austria Rapid Vienna
Flag of Iran Toofan F.C.



54 (34)
   
National team
1926 Tehran XI 3 (0)
Teams managed
1941-1950
1945-1964
Flag of IranIran
Flag of IranUniversity of Tehran

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Dr. Amir Hossein Sadaghiani (b. 1903 in Tehran, Iran - d. 1 December 1982) was an Iranian football player and manager. He was a striker during his playing career and afterwards was Iran national football team's head coach from 1941 till 1950.

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[edit] Club career

Dr. Sadaghiani is the first ever Iranian soccer player to play abroad in a European league. He played for Fenerbahce for 3 seasons then returned to Iran and back to Europe. In his return to europe, he played three successful seasons in Belgium, one in Turkey and one in Austria in the first half of the 1930s.

At 26, he moved Europe to study in Belgium. He arrived at the Université du travail de Charleroi in 1929. He joined CS Marchienne-Monceau, a provincial second division team. He proved to be a very gifted player so he made his mark in Belgium's First Division playing for R. Charleroi S.C. for three successful seasons.

In the 1930s, his premature baldness earned him the nickname of “Panne de verre”, a wallon folkore expression used for bald people.

[edit] National career

Although Sadaghiani never played for Iranian national team as it didn't get created until 1941, he has 3 caps to his name when in 1926 he played for a Tehran XI team that traveled to Baku, USSR. Tehran XI lost two games and drew one.

[edit] Managerial career

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