Ali Daei
Ali Daei (Persian علی دایی ʿ Ali Dayi; born March 21, 1969 in Ardabil ) is an Iranian football coach and former football player.
- 2.1 national team
- 2.2 associations
Career as a player
Clubs
From the youth of Esteghlal Ardabil, the resident in his native club, emerged, Ali Daei was 19 years old at the pros a first team contract and was thus for the Hevdah -e Shahrivar League, the top division in Iran eligible to play. After his first pro season, he moved to league rivals FC Taxirani in the renamed Qods League, for which he also played for one season. F. C. After four seasons with Tejarat Bank he moved to first division and record champions Persepolis in the renamed Azadegan League where he won the championship title at the end of his second season.
1996/97 he played for Al- Sadd Sports Club in Doha ( Qatar) and was end of the season - not least because of its spectacular performances during the Asia Cup in 1996 in the United Arab Emirates - from Bundesliga side Arminia Bielefeld, the attention was drawn to him, be obliged. His Bundesliga debut Daei (1st Round ) on August 2, 1997 at the 0-1 defeat in the away game against VfL Bochum; He scored his first goal three days later, on Matchday 2, in a 2-1 victory at home to VfB Stuttgart, the deficit to 1-1 with 70 minutes between time in the. His achievements in the dress of Arminia aroused the interest of well-known clubs, with the first FC Kaiserslautern and FC Bayern Munich officially courted him, Daei decided to Munich. When he arrived on the international club level to use for the first time. As a substitute, he played five Champions League games, in addition, he came to Bayern four times in the DFB Cup competition used and won with them the League Cup and the German Cup, before he moved after just one season to league rivals Hertha BSC.
For the Berlin he completed in three seasons, 59 League ( 6 goals), seven DFB Cup, three League Cup games and 13 games in the Champions League ( 4 goals) and six games ( 2 goals) in the UEFA Cup competition. After the sporty little successful season 2001/ 02 he left the Bundesliga and sought his fortune in the United Arab Emirates, Al- Shabab, the football club based in Dubai.
After just one season he went back to Iran and played a season - once again - for Persepolis, two seasons of league rivals Saba Battery Tehran, with whom he won two titles in 2005, and the end of his playing career a season for Saipa Tehran.
National
For the national team of his country he played between 1993 and 2006 149 times and scored 109 international goals. He made his debut on 6 June 1993, Tehran 's 5-0 victory over the national team of Pakistan; his first goal in the national jersey he scored on 25 June 1993, also in Tehran, in a 6-0 victory over the selection of Taiwan. Daei took part in both the Asia Cup in 1996 in the United Arab Emirates, as well as at the World Cup in 1998 and 2006. His last international game he played on 21 June 2006 in the last World Cup group match that ended against the team of Angola in a 1-1 draw.
See also: List of football players with at least 100 caps
Successes as a player
National
- Third in the Asia Cup in 1996 in the United Arab Emirates
- Gold at the Asian Games in Thailand in 1998
- West Asia Champion 2004 in Iran
- Third in the AFC Asian Cup in China in 2004
- Participants in the 1998 World Cup in France - Made in the preliminary round
- Asia Cup 2000 in Lebanon - From the quarter-finals
- World Cup 2006 in Germany - Made in the preliminary round
Clubs
- Iranian champion in 1996 with Persepolis
- German Champion 1999 with FC Bayern Munich
- Champions League finalists in 1999 with FC Bayern Munich
- DFL - League Cup winners in 1999 with FC Bayern Munich
- Iranian Cup Winners' Cup in 2005 with Saba Battery Tehran
- Iranian Super Cup winner in 2005 with Saba Battery Tehran
Awards
- Best player and record scorer ( 4 goals) at qualifying for the 1994 World Cup in the United States
- Record scorer (8 goals) at the Asia Cup 1996
- World Top Scorers 1996 ( 22 goals ), 2004 (17 goals)
- Record scorer (9 goals ) at the Asian Games in Thailand in 1998
- Asian Footballer of the Year 1999
- Record scorer (10 goals) in qualifying for the 2002 World Cup in Korea / Japan
- Record scorer Iranian Pro League 2004 ( 16 goals for Persepolis )
- Record scorer ( 3 goals ) in West Asia Championship 2004
- 2007 Association of Football Statisticians Top 100 Greatest Ever Footballers ( German The 100 best soccer players of all time ) - rank 26 and only Asian Footballer in the TOP 100
Career as a coach
His coaching career began in the 2006 /07 Saipa Tehran. When Werner Lorant gave up his coaching job, Daei was working on 8 October 2006 as player-manager of Saipa and won the 2007 Iranian championship. On March 2, 2008, Ali Daei was officially confirmed as the coach of Iran. After the 1-2 defeat of the national team against Saudi Arabia on 28 March 2009 he was released a few hours later. As of 28 December 2009 Daei was training the Iranian first division club Persepolis Tehran, 2011 the league rivals Rah Ahan.
Others
With 109 hits in 149 A- international matches for Iran 's Ali Daei - before Ferenc Puskás and Pele - the player with the most international goals. He is the only male player to reach the more than 100 international goals. He scored four goals in four games each and another five, on 12 June 1996 in Tehran 7-0 win against the selection of Sri Lanka.
Ali Daei can prove also off the field achievements: With his graduation in 1990, he is an engineer and moreover successful businessman. With his company Daei Sport's Wears & Equipments installed them in some clubs and also the Iranian national football team.
On March 17, 2012, he was severely injured on the return trip to an away game in Isfahan in the province in a car accident with his private car.