Personal information | |||
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Full name | Seyyed Hadi Aghily Anvar | ||
Date of birth | 15 January 1981 | ||
Place of birth | Tehran, Iran | ||
Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
Playing position | Central Defender | ||
Youth career | |||
Rah Ahan | |||
1999–2001 | Persepolis | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2000–2001 | Persepolis | 7 | (0) |
2001–2004 | Saipa | 63 | (2) |
2004–2011 | Sepahan | 178 | (15) |
2011–2012 | Al-Arabi | 20 | (0) |
2012–2013 | Qatar SC | 16 | (4) |
2013–2016 | Sepahan | 76 | (8) |
Total | 316 | (25) | |
National team‡ | |||
2006–2012 | Iran | 67 | (3) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 13 February 2016. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 11 September 2012 |
Hadi Aghily (Persian: هادی عقیلی, born 15 January 1981 in Tehran, Iran) is a retired Iranian footballer.
Aghily was born in Tehran. He was part of the Persepolis youth academy, but he left the club for Saipa in 2001.
After three years at Saipa, he moved to Sepahan where he won the Hazfi Cup and also played in the AFC Champions League final in 2007. He also played in the 2007 FIFA Club World Cup. After his good games he was linked with a move to Japanese teams and also with a return to Persepolis, but he decided to extend his contract with Sepahan. He had so many injuries during the 2008–09 season that he did not play many matches for Sepahan and missed some of the matches of the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification for Team Melli.
On 28 July 2009, Aghili traveled to Freiburg in order to negotiate a future move to the Bundesliga side. However, negotiations were cut short after a few days and the club released a statement saying that "Hadi was not the player that they were looking for." He won the league with Sepahan twice in a row before joining Al-Arabi in 2011. He left Sepahan in summer 2011 after seven seasons.
In July 2011, Aghili signed a new contract with Al-Arabi. He wears the number 55 and was the club's captain. He won the Sheikh Jassem Cup while with the club. There were rumors that he would join Persepolis after the Iran Pro League season had finished, but he signed with Qatar SC on 22 June 2012, remaining in Qatar Stars League for another season. He played many matches for the team.