Hadi Tabatabaei

Hadi Tabatabaei
Personal information
Full nameSayed Hadi Tabatabaei
Date of birthJune 19, 1973
Place of birthRasht, Iran
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing positionGoalkeeper
Youth career
Esteghlal Rasht
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
Esteghlal Rasht
Keshavarz
1998-1999Pas
1999-2000Bahman
2000Fajr Sepasi (loan)
2000-2004Esteghlal
2004-2005Saba Battery15(0)
2005-2006Shahid Ghandi11(0)
National team
1997-2000 Iran14(0)
Teams managed
2008–2011Iran U23 (goalkeeper coach)
2014–Iran U23 (assistant)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Hadi Tabatabaei (Persian: هادى طباطبايی , born on April 13, 1973 in Rasht) is a retired Iranian football goalkeeper.

Following Tabatabaei's retirement in 2006 he became a fully qualified coach and holds an Asian Football Confederation 'A' level coaching licence.

International career

Tabatabaei debuted for Iran versus the Maldives on June 11, 1997

Tabatabaei was a member for Iran national football team between 1997 and 2000, but after the injury right before the Asian Cup 2000 he was never called up for national team again. His most memorable games for the national team was a friendly match versus Denmark on October 10, 1999 in Copenhagen. Following that performance Iranian newspapers dubbed him the Lion of Copenhagen.

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