1977 - Today
Mehdi Mahdavikia (Persian: مهدی مهدویکیا ; born 24 July 1977) is an Iranian professional football coach and former player usually played as a right winger or right back. He is currently under contract by Hamburger SV as a youth coach, and also manages his own youth academy, FC KIA. Mahdavikia currently represents Asian Football Confederation (AFC) in the Football Advisory Panel of International Football Association Board (IFAB), joining the body in 2019. On 15 May 2013, Mahdavikia was appointed as AFC Grassroots Ambassador.During his playing career, Mahdavikia internationally represented Iranian national team, which he captained from 2006 to 2009, and currently is the fourth most capped player of all-time. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mehdi Mahdavikia has received more than 258,603 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Mehdi Mahdavikia is the 3,783rd most popular soccer player (down from 3,715th in 2019), the 331st most popular biography from Iran (down from 288th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Iranian Soccer Player.
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Among soccer players, Mehdi Mahdavikia ranks 3,783 out of 16,923. Before him are Marco Storari, Abdul Kader Keïta, Heinz Wewers, Timmy Simons, Yumi Watanabe, and Alex Morgan. After him are Wolfgang Seguin, Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, Toshiaki Imai, Iván Menczel, Mikhail Ogonkov, and James Gentle.
1977 - Present
HPI: 55.53
Rank: 3,777
1981 - Present
HPI: 55.53
Rank: 3,778
1927 - 2008
HPI: 55.53
Rank: 3,779
1976 - Present
HPI: 55.53
Rank: 3,780
1970 - Present
HPI: 55.53
Rank: 3,781
1989 - Present
HPI: 55.52
Rank: 3,782
1977 - Present
HPI: 55.52
Rank: 3,783
1945 - Present
HPI: 55.52
Rank: 3,784
1978 - Present
HPI: 55.50
Rank: 3,785
1954 - Present
HPI: 55.49
Rank: 3,786
1941 - 2011
HPI: 55.49
Rank: 3,787
1932 - 1979
HPI: 55.49
Rank: 3,788
1904 - 1986
HPI: 55.49
Rank: 3,789
Among people born in 1977, Mehdi Mahdavikia ranks 163. Before him are Jaime Pressly, Maitland Ward, Birgit Prinz, Leo Franco, Dominic Howard, and Marco Storari. After him are Ilse DeLange, Laila Ali, Emilíana Torrini, Johann Vogel, Antonio Mateu Lahoz, and Saša Ilić.
1977 - Present
HPI: 55.66
Rank: 157
1977 - Present
HPI: 55.64
Rank: 158
1977 - Present
HPI: 55.62
Rank: 159
1977 - Present
HPI: 55.62
Rank: 160
1977 - Present
HPI: 55.57
Rank: 161
1977 - Present
HPI: 55.53
Rank: 162
1977 - Present
HPI: 55.52
Rank: 163
1977 - Present
HPI: 55.49
Rank: 164
1977 - Present
HPI: 55.46
Rank: 165
1977 - Present
HPI: 55.41
Rank: 166
1977 - Present
HPI: 55.38
Rank: 167
1977 - Present
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 168
1977 - Present
HPI: 55.24
Rank: 169
Among people born in Iran, Mehdi Mahdavikia ranks 331 out of 463. Before him are Golshifteh Farahani (1983), Andy (1958), Nusrat Bhutto (1929), Bahman Ghobadi (1969), Shahrnush Parsipur (1946), and Afshin Ghotbi (1964). After him are Leila Hatami (1972), Ali Karimi (1978), Nazanin Boniadi (1979), Mohammad Reza Aref (1951), Sardar Azmoun (1995), and Guity Novin (1944).
1983 - Present
HPI: 56.76
Rank: 325
1958 - Present
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 326
1929 - 2011
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 327
1969 - Present
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 328
1946 - Present
HPI: 56.09
Rank: 329
1964 - Present
HPI: 55.82
Rank: 330
1977 - Present
HPI: 55.52
Rank: 331
1972 - Present
HPI: 55.12
Rank: 332
1978 - Present
HPI: 55.03
Rank: 333
1979 - Present
HPI: 55.01
Rank: 334
1951 - Present
HPI: 54.94
Rank: 335
1995 - Present
HPI: 54.91
Rank: 336
1944 - Present
HPI: 54.82
Rank: 337
Among soccer players born in Iran, Mehdi Mahdavikia ranks 6. Before him are Ali Daei (1969), Nasser Hejazi (1949), Andranik Eskandarian (1951), Ali Parvin (1946), and Afshin Ghotbi (1964). After him are Ali Karimi (1978), Sardar Azmoun (1995), Vahid Hashemian (1976), Javad Nekounam (1980), Khodadad Azizi (1971), and Iraj Danaeifard (1951).
1969 - Present
HPI: 65.49
Rank: 1
1949 - 2011
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 2
1951 - Present
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 3
1946 - Present
HPI: 56.97
Rank: 4
1964 - Present
HPI: 55.82
Rank: 5
1977 - Present
HPI: 55.52
Rank: 6
1978 - Present
HPI: 55.03
Rank: 7
1995 - Present
HPI: 54.91
Rank: 8
1976 - Present
HPI: 53.73
Rank: 9
1980 - Present
HPI: 53.41
Rank: 10
1971 - Present
HPI: 53.00
Rank: 11
1951 - 2018
HPI: 52.47
Rank: 12