From left: Abedzadeh, Azizi, Bagheri, Daie
Sportsmen of the Year
1997
March 25, 1998
The Iranian
National soccer team strikers Khodadad Azizi and Ali Daie, team captain and goalkeeper Ahmaderza Abedzadeh, and midfielder Karim Bagheri respectively received the most votes among sportsmen as the Iranian of the Year, 1997. See voters' comments below. Also see comments on the team which received more votes than any individual, other than President Khatami.
Comments on the Azizi
Comment on the Daie
Comment on the Abedzadeh
Comment on the Bagheri
Iranian of the Year 1997 index
Comments on Azizi
Lead Iran
The best
The bestest!
Because...
Lead Iran
* Azizi: Sole player to lead Iran towards the World Cup successfully.
DELTA PJS
<deltashp@iran.com>
The best
* Azizi: He is the best soccer player.
The bestest!
* Azizi: He is the best!!!
Ali Amiripour
<ali@rdd.neca.nec.com.au>
Because...
* Azizi is the Iranian of the Year because... self-explanatory!
Parviz Yazdani-Najafabadi
<pay134@mail.usask.ca>
Making us look good
* Daie: He is the best football player of the year in Iran and Europe. He makes our country look good in the international community.
Made us proud
* Abedzadeh: He made all Iranians around the world proud. Never have I seen the Iranian community come together so powerfully as they did during the soccer games.
Monica Mahsa Moussighi
<mmoussig@Jetson.UH.EDU>
Top scorer
* Bagheri: He scored 17 goals in 1997 for the Iranian national team, making him the second leading scorer of that year. (Only Brazilian sensation Ronaldo scored more than Bagheri did).
Mehran Azhar
<mazhar@students.uwf.edu>
Related links
* For
the record -- A report on the Iran-Australia match. By Hamid Taghavi
* Video
of people's celebration in Tehran after the Iran-Autralia match
(Real Audio). From the Iran
World Cup 98 site
* Merci
Hamshahri -- Mahdiyeh Javid describes her brief meeting with football
sensation, Khodadad Azizi (Persian)
* We
were here -- As we sat in a cafe in Berkeley, listening to The
Match on the radio, we rose from the depths of despair to the heights of
ecstasy. By J. Javid
* Sports section
* Cover stories
* Who's
who
* Bookstore
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