SOCCER PLAYER

Alireza Jahanbakhsh

1993 - Today

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Alireza Jahanbakhsh (Persian: علیرضا جهانبخش, romanized: Jahânbaxš Jirende, pronounced [æliːɾezɑː dʒæhɑːnˈbæxʃ]; born 11 August 1993) is an Iranian professional footballer who plays for FCV Dender EH and captains the Iran national team. In 2014, Jahanbakhsh was voted the second greatest young talent of the 2013–14 Eredivisie season. In the 2017–18 Eredivisie season, Jahanbakhsh scored 21 league goals, making him the first Asian player to become top scorer in a major European league. Internationally, Jahanbakhsh represented Iran at the FIFA World Cup in 2014, 2018 and 2022, and the AFC Asian Cup in 2015, 2019 and 2023. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2024). Alireza Jahanbakhsh is the 7,231st most popular soccer player (down from 5,509th in 2024), the 467th most popular biography from Iran (down from 441st in 2019) and the 16th most popular Iranian Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Alireza Jahanbakhsh ranks 7,227 out of 21,273. Before him are Stuart Williams, and Paulo Santos. After him are Kenji Wakai, Stephan Andersen, Eddie Hapgood, Tomoe Kato, Giancarlo Marocchi, Thomas von Heesen, Takehiro Tomiyasu, Andreas Beck, Ewerthon, and Lee Min-sung.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1993, Alireza Jahanbakhsh ranks 139. Before him are Patrick Schwarzenegger, Victoria Monét, Ruslan Malinovskyi, Tix, Sofiane Boufal, and Yoo Seung-ho. After him are Haruki Fukushima, Olivia Cooke, Norman Powell, Matija Nastasić, Park Ji-yeon, and Huang Zitao.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Alireza Jahanbakhsh ranks 467 out of 631. Before him are Mahmoud Namjoo (1918), DJ Aligator (1975), Jasmin Tabatabai (1967), Shohreh (1959), Maryam Namazie (1966), and Khodadad Azizi (1971). After him are Man Haron Monis (1964), Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani (1963), Hossein Sheikholeslam (1952), Zar Amir Ebrahimi (1981), Zahra Eshraghi (1964), and Yahya Golmohammadi (1971).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Iran

Among soccer players born in Iran, Alireza Jahanbakhsh ranks 16. Before him are Gholam Hossein Mazloumi (1950), Ali Karimi (1978), Javad Nekounam (1980), Karim Bagheri (1974), Hassan Rowshan (1955), and Khodadad Azizi (1971). After him are Yahya Golmohammadi (1971), Vahid Hashemian (1976), Ahmad Reza Abedzadeh (1966), Ashkan Dejagah (1986), Ehsan Hajsafi (1990), and Karim Ansarifard (1990).

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