Mohammad Alavi (footballer)

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Personal information
Sayed Mohammad Alavi
Full name	Seyed Mohammad Alavi
Date of birth	January 29, 1982 (1982-01-29) (age 26)
Place of birth	Kashan, Iran
Playing position	Defensive midfielder
Club information
Current club	Pas Hamedan
Youth clubs
?-2003	Foolad FC
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2003-2007 2007-	Foolad FC Pas Hamedan
National team²
2003 2004-2006	Iran U-23 Iran	22 (2)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 15 August 2007. ² National team caps and goals correct as of 3 September 2006. * Appearances (Goals)

Seyed Mohammad Alavi (Persian: محمد علوی, born January 29, 1982 in Kashan, Iran) is an Iranian footballer. He plays for Pas Hamedan in Iran's Premier Football League. He usually plays in the defensive midfield position.

1 Club career
2 International career
- 2.1 Under-23 national team
- 2.2 Senior national team

[edit] Club career

A product of the football rich province of Khuzestan and the young team of Foolad, he was a pivotal player within this young team and his consistency and solid defending was one of the factors for the success of his club in becoming the champions of the IPL 2004/05. He played for the club in Iran's Premier League till its sad relegation to the lower division, Azadegan League, in 2007.

[edit] International career

[edit] Under-23 national team

Alavi stormed on the national scene after his header goal against China in Azadi Stadium which assured Iran Under-23 team 3 points in the anticipated revival of the teams chances in the 2004 Olympic qualifying matches. Although Alavi was selected by then coach Mohammad Mayeli Kohan in the roster of the U23 team, he was not given much playing time. After Hossein Faraki was appointed as the new coach, Alavi was given more playing time in all the remaining matches. Apart from his goal against China , Alavi played well in all the remaining matches under Faraki although it was a step too late as Iran did not manage to dislodge the Koreans from clinching the qualification to Athens.

[edit] Senior national team

In the 2004 Asian Cup, Alavi scored a goal in Iran's controversial loss to China in the semifinals of the tournament held in China 2004. The goal kept Iran's hopes alive, as they were forced to play one man down due to a red card, but China progressed to the final match at the end by penalty shoot-outs.

Alavi was usually a substitute player within the national team and was not part of the World Cup squad.

Pas Hamedan F.C. – current squad

1 Safa • 2 Nazari • 3 Ahmadzadeh • 5 Omranzadeh • 6 Khouraj • 7 Heydari • 8 Chatrabgoon • 9 Gholami • 10 Akbari • 11 Hamidi • 13 Shirzad • 14 Amiri • 15 Alavi • 16 Khayri • 17 Obuća • 18 Ihtijarević • 19 Khodabakhshi • 20 Mirabi • 22 Ale-Abbasi • 23 Momeni • 24 Kordjahan • 25 Jafarpour • 29 Daghighi • 30 Mićović • 33 Tomić • Manager: Begović