Haghighi against Sepahan in 2010–11 Hazfi Cup quarter-final |
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| Full name | Alireza Haghighi | |||||||||||
| Date of birth | 2 May 1988 [1] | |||||||||||
| Place of birth | Tehran, Iran[1] | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | |||||||||||
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| Current club | Persepolis | |||||||||||
| Number | 1 | |||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||
| 2005–2006 | Persepolis | |||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† | |||||||||
| 2006– | Persepolis | 73 | (0) | |||||||||
| National team‡ | ||||||||||||
| 2002 | Iran U-15 | 7 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2004–2005 | Iran U-17 | 5 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2005–2006 | Iran U-20 | 6 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2006–2010 | Iran U-23 | 4 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2010– | Iran | 1 | (0) | |||||||||
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 19 December 2011. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Alireza Haghighi (Persian: علیرضا حقیقی, born 2 May 1988) is an Iranian Footballer who plays for the Persepolis in Iran Pro League as a Goalkeeper.[1] He has been referred as a talent youth since his debut.[2]
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Having joined the senior squad of Persepolis at the age of 18, on 17 October 2006 in his debut match against Saipa Haghighi saved a penalty against the legendary Ali Daei.[1][3] Haghighi was playing for Persepolis Youth teams since 2005,[1] after being scouted by coaches of Persepolis Football School in past years. He started the IPL 2007/08 season with two other goalkeepers already ahead of him in the pecking order at Persepolis: Hassan Roudbarian, Team Melli's number one and Mehdi Vaezi, who has also been invited to the national team, but never capped. During this season Haghighi did not play at all but extended his contract at the end of the season.
During the 2008/09 season Haghighi was lucky to play in a lot of games because of injuries to two main goalkeepers Misagh Memarzadeh and Mehdi Vaezi which made Haghighi become the first choice keeper for many games and statistically he was the number one keeper during this season that he was trained under legendary Iranian keeper Ahmad Reza Abedzadeh.
In the 2010/11 season he captained Persepolis for the first time in the 2–1 victory against Saipa. He is the youngest captain of Persepolis's history. He is set to transfer to Russian Premier League side Rubin Kazan on 10 January 2012.[4]
| Club performance | League | Cup | Continental | Total | ||||||
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| Season | Club | League | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Iran | League | Hazfi Cup | Asia | Total | ||||||
| 2006–07 | Persepolis | Pro League | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 4 | 0 | |
| 2007–08 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | |||
| 2008–09 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 24 | 0 | ||
| 2009–10 | 15 | 0 | 4 | 0 | — | 19 | 0 | |||
| 2010–11 | 20 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 29 | 0 | ||
| 2011–12 | 14 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0 | ||
| Career total | 73 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 93 | 0 | ||
Haghighi became Runner-up of West Asian U-15 Tornoument held in Qatar in 2002, Alongside teammate Mohammad Parvin.[1] He was part of Iran U17 at 2004 AFC U-17 Championship,[5] also playing all 3 games for Iran U20 at 2006 AFC Youth Championship.[6][7][8] He made 3 appearances in 2005 Valentin A.Granatkin Memorial – International Youth Tournament for Iran U20.[9]
Haghighi was invited to Iran U23 in Asian Games 2006,[1] although he did not play any match.[10] He did not play in 2008 AFC Men's Pre-Olympic Tournament and Sosha Makani was the first choice. Under Gholam Peyrovani's management of Iran U23, He was Invited again;[11][12] but missed many of tranings and friendly matches of Iran U23, including Tehran 6-Team Tornument,[13][14] South Africa Camp,[15] friendly away match against Poland.[16] Peyrovani did not invite Haghighi for 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games stating "he is too old to play in 2012 London Olympics",[17] despite inviting 28 years old Mehdi Rahmati as a Wild Card player.[18][19] Peyrovani also rejected having problem with Haghighi.[20]
Haghighi was called up to Iran national football team in 2010 under management of Afshin Ghotbi.[21]
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