Ghafour Jahani
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 19 June 1951 | ||
Place of birth | Bandar Anzali, Iran | ||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Youth career | |||
Malavan | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1972–1979 | Malavan | ||
National team | |||
1974–1978 | Iran | 30 | (7) |
Teams managed | |||
1992–1997 | Chooka Talesh | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Ghafour Jahani (born 19 June 1951 in Bandar Anzali, Iran) is an Iranian football coach and former player.
He mostly played for Malavan. He was one of the key players of Malavan reaching the third place in the Iranian Takht Jamshid in 1978. 1974 and 1977 he was the second best scorer of the Iranian league. He also won the Iranian Cup – Hazfi Cup – in 1976.
Jahani, who was capped 30 times for the national team between 1974 and 1978, was a member of the Iranian team winning the football tournament of the Asian Games in Tehran in 1974 as well as participating in 1976 Olympics in Montreal, when Iran reached the quarterfinalsthe Asian Cup 1976 in Tehran. He also played two games for Iran in the 1978 World Cup.
Jahani scored 4 goals during the 1978 world cup qualifications' campaign, one of them was the winning goal against Australia in Tehran which qualified Iran for the 1978 World Cup in Argentina.
References[]
- Ghafour Jahani at National-Football-Teams.com
- 1951 births
- Living people
- 1978 FIFA World Cup players
- Iran international footballers
- Iranian football managers
- Iranian footballers
- Malavan players
- Olympic footballers of Iran
- Footballers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Asian Games gold medalists for Iran
- People from Gilan Province
- Association football forwards
- Asian Games medalists in football
- Footballers at the 1974 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 1974 Asian Games
- Iranian football biography stubs