Navidkia with Sepahan in 2014
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Personal information | ||||||||||||
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Full name | Moharram Navidkia | |||||||||||
Date of birth | 1 November 1982 | |||||||||||
Place of birth | Isfahan, Iran | |||||||||||
Height | 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||
Playing position | Midfielder | |||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||
1996–1998 | Sepahan | |||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||
1998–2004 | Sepahan | 106 | (18) | |||||||||
2004–2006 | VfL Bochum | 10 | (0) | |||||||||
2006–2016 | Sepahan | 174 | (24) | |||||||||
Total | 290 | (42) | ||||||||||
National team‡ | ||||||||||||
2001–2003 | Iran U23 | 14 | (2) | |||||||||
2002–2009 | Iran | 25 | (1) | |||||||||
Teams managed | ||||||||||||
2015 | Sepahan (interim player-manager) | |||||||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 30 May 2016. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of ^1 Apps and Caps only includes 2002–03 onwards |
Moharram Navidkia (Persian: محرم نویدکیا, born 1 November 1982 in Isfahan, Iran) is a retired Iranian footballer who plays as the captain of Sepahan in Iran's Premier League. He plays as a midfielder. His original last name was Ghara Gozlu which he changed later to Navidkia. He is an ethnic Azeri originally from Marand, East Azerbaijan.
During his career, he has dealt with consecutive injuries making him unable to regain his top form.
As an international player, he is the former captain of the Iran under-23 team and has collected 25 caps for the senior team of Iran, before bidding his farewell on December 2009. His brother, Rasoul Navidkia is also a professional footballer who plays in Sepahan.
He began his career at Sepahan football club in 1998. From 1998 to 2002 he played as the Defensive Midfielder, while from 2002 and by the suggestion of Farhad Kazemi his playing post has been changed to Attacking Midfielder. He managed to attract attention during the 2002–03 Iran Premier League season while playing for a team many at first thought to be average, but they won the championship title at the end.