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Karim Bagheri (کريم باقری in Persian , born February 24 , 1974 in Tabriz , Iran ) is a professional Football player. CLUB CAREER Karim Bagheri is among one of the best known Iranian football players around. He is often dubbed as "Iran´s Zidane". He began his football playing for his hometown club of Teraktor Sazi . He was very impressive and was transferred to Keshavarz FC and soon after to Persepolis FC . He became a fan favorite there and after his impressive displays he was soon transferred to Bundesliga 's Arminia Bielefeld along with his fellow Iranian international Ali Daei . His first season there was not a huge success and the club was relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga . In his second season, he established himself as a starter playing in the Libero position, helping the team make it back to the Bundesliga. He remained in Arminia for one more season, but returned to Perspolis again after problems with the coaching staff at Bielefeld, though Perspolis loaned him to Al-Nasr in the UAE . At that time English clubs were interested in Bagheri and Charlton Athletic of the Premiership quicky signed him. He had very little success there, only playing 15 minutes during the entire season. He then moved to Al Sadd in Qatar . In 2002 he decided to return to Persepolis once again and is still playing for them. INTERNATIONAL CAREER He was first invited to Iranian National Team during the 1994 World Cup Qualifers , making his debut versus Pakistan on June 6 , 1993 . He displayed great football and soon became a starter for Iran in the midfield. He became famous though for sparking Iran's comeback against in the second leg of their 1998 World Cup qualifier in 1997. He scored the first of two goals that brought new light on what seemed to be an already dark 2-0 defeat and sprung Iran back to tie the game 2-2 and eventually become the last team to qualify for the World Cup . Bagheri also had one of the strongest right-legged shots and scored many fantastic goals against opponents, such as his game-tying goal against in the quarter finals of the 2000 Asian Cup in Lebanon . He retired from the Iranian national team after it's failure to qualify for World Cup 2002 . He was named the world's second top goal scorer in official international matches by . EXTERNAL LINK(S) |
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