Mehdi Mahdavikia

Mehdi Mahdavikia

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.