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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 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 different languages on Wikipedia. Alireza Jahanbakhsh is the 7,202nd most popular soccer player (down from 5,509th in 2019), the 461st most popular biography from Iran (down from 442nd in 2019) and the 16th most popular Iranian Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Alireza Jahanbakhsh ranks 7,202 out of 21,273. Before him are Alain Casanova, Lars Eriksson, Bakari Koné, Ricki Herbert, Stuart Williams, and Paulo Santos. After him are Kenji Wakai, Stephan Andersen, Eddie Hapgood, Tomoe Kato, Giancarlo Marocchi, and Thomas von Heesen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1993, Alireza Jahanbakhsh ranks 135. 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 461 out of 631. Before him are Hassan Rowshan (1955), Mahmoud Namjoo (1918), Jasmin Tabatabai (1967), Shohreh (1959), Maryam Namazie (1966), and Khodadad Azizi (1971). After him are Man Haron Monis (1964), Hossein Sheikholeslam (1952), Zar Amir Ebrahimi (1981), Zahra Eshraghi (1964), Yahya Golmohammadi (1971), and Vahid Hashemian (1976).

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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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