Saipa Tehran VC
Saipa Tehran Volleyball Club (, ''Bâshgâh-e Vâlibâl-e Sâipâ-ye Tehrân'') (formerly known as Saipa Alborz) is an Iranian professional volleyball team based in Tehran, Iran. They compete in the Iranian Volleyball Super League. The team is owned by SAIPA, an Iranian automobile manufacturer. Saipa VC is the volleyball club of the multisport club, multisport Saipa Cultural and Athletic Corporation. Names *Saipa Tehran (1989–2009) *Saipa Karaj (2009–2010) *Saipa Alborz (2010–2015) *Saipa Tehran (2015–) Current squad * 1. Konstantin Mitev * 2. Moein Moeinifar * 3. Hamid Amini * 4. Rashid Yousefi * 5. Mohammad Fallah * 6. Asghar Najafi * 8. Alireza Safaei * 9. Mohammad Razipour * 10. Mohammad Daliri * 11. Rasoul Najafi * 12. Saeid Javaheri * 13. Hamed Tariverdi * 14. Jaber Esmaeilpour * 16. Mostafa Heydari * 17. Armin Ranjbar * 18. Amir Ali Fathali * 19. Aleksandar Gorbatkov *Heach coach: Farhad Nafarzadeh *Assistant coach: Farshad Saeidi Notable former ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tehran
Tehran (; , ''Tehrân'') is the capital and largest city of Iran. It is the capital of Tehran province, and the administrative center for Tehran County and its Central District (Tehran County), Central District. With a population of around 9.8 million in the city as of 2025, and 16.8 million in the metropolitan area, Tehran is the List of largest cities of Iran, most populous city in Iran and Western Asia, the Largest metropolitan areas of the Middle East, second-largest metropolitan area in the Middle East after Cairo, and the 24th most populous metropolitan area in the world. Greater Tehran includes several municipalities, including, Karaj, Eslamshahr, Shahriar, Tehran province, Shahriar, Qods, Iran, Qods, Malard, Golestan, Tehran, Golestan, Pakdasht, Qarchak, Nasimshahr, Parand, Pardis, Andisheh and Fardis. In the classical antiquity, part of the territory of present-day Tehran was occupied by Rhages (now Ray, Iran, Ray), a prominent Medes, Median city almost entirely des ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Farhad Nazari Afshar
Farhad Nazari Afshar (, born 22 May 1984 in Tehran) is an Iranian volleyball player, who former plays as an outside hitter for the Men's National Team of the year 2009–2017. Nazari Afshar announced his retirement on Sunday in Osaka after 2017 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Grand Champions Cup. Honours National team * World Grand Champions Cup **Bronze medal (1): 2017 *Asian Championship **Gold medal (1): 2011 **Silver medal (1): 2009 *Asian Games **Silver medal (1): 2010 * AVC Cup **Gold medal (2): 2008, 2010 Club * Iranian Super League **Champions (3): 2012 (Kalleh), 2014 (Matin), 2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ... (Sarmayeh) Individual *Best scorer: 2009 Asian Club Championship *Most valuable player: 2010 AVC Cup References External linksFIVB Profile ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Saeid Marouf
Mir Saeid Marouf Lakerani (; born 20 October 1985) is an Iranian volleyball setter. He was the captain of the Iranian national team. He was named best setter at the 2014 World League and 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympic qualifying tournaments, as well as most valuable player at the 2013 Asian Championship. He participated in the Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Olympics. He was voted Iranian Sportsmen of the year for (2015–16) of the Iranian calendar by an Iranian Career National team Marouf's first national game was for Iran boys national volleyball team in 2001 and 4 years later, he joined the Iran men's national volleyball team. In 2007, Marouf became a constant member of men's national team but due to conflicts and disagreements, Marouf decided not to continue playing for men's national team in 2011 but he ultimately returned to team in 2012 and since former captain Alireza Nadi was not invited to the team by then-head coach Julio Velasco, Marouf became the team captain ever si ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mehdi Mahdavi
Mehdi Mahdavi (, born 13 February 1984) is an Iranian volleyball player, who former played as a setter for the Iran national team of the year 2007–2016. worldofvolley.com After competing at the he announced his retirement from the national team aiming to give more chances to younger players. Mahdavi is married and has a daughter and a son. Honours National team * Asian C ...[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ángel Dennis
Ángel Dennis (born 13 June 1977) is a Cuban-born Italian volleyball player. Dennis played with the Cuba men's national volleyball team, Cuban men's national volleyball team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he finished in seventh place. He was widely regarded as the most talented player on the Cuban men's team. He helped the Cuban team win the bronze medal at the 1998 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship, 1998 FIVB World Championship in Japan. Club volleyball Dennis played for IVECO Palermo from 1998 to 2000. After a period of inactivity, Dennis returned to play in 2003-2004 for Latina Volley, before moving to Lube Banca Marche Macerata the following year, after a short stint in Qatar. With Lube he won a top national division and an Italian Supercup in 2006, and two CEV Cups (2005–2006). In 2017, Dennis signed a contract with Sporting CP (volleyball), Sporting CP. 2001 Defection In 2001, Dennis was one of six players on the Cuban men's national volleyball tea ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Aleksandar Simeonov (volleyball)
Aleksandar Simeonov (born January 6, 1986) is a Bulgarian volleyball player, a member of the club CSKA Sofia. Biography Sporting achievements Clubs Bulgarian Championship: * 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009 * 2007, 2019 * 2010, 2014, 2017 Bulgarian Cup: * 2004, 2006, 2019 Iranian Championship: * 2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ... Belarusian Championship: * 2013 MEVZA: * 2015 Austrian Championship: * 2015 References External linksLega Volley profile MaximusSport profile Volleybox profile [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Evgeni Ivanov (volleyball)
Evgeni Ivanov () (born 3 June 1974 in Sofia, Bulgaria) is a former Bulgarian volleyball player, a former member of Bulgaria men's national volleyball team, a participant of the Olympic Games (Atlanta 1996, Beijing 2008), a bronze medalist of the World Cup 2007. Personal life Ivanov was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. He has wife and two children - Sarah and Simona. Creator and owner of the first private organization dealing with sports management, marketing and public health in Bulgaria ASEM GROUP Ltd. ("ASEM Group" Ltd.). Ivanov develop original projects related to the prevention and care of children's health, supports national campaigns promoting junior sport and promotes physical activity for the whole family as a healthy lifestyle. Career Clubs He is alumnus of the Bulgarian club VC CSKA Sofia. His first coach was Nikolai Adamov, who worked with this team. In season 2006/2007 was a player of the BOT Skra Bełchatów. He won with club from Bełchatów title of Polish Champion and P ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Farshad Saeidi
Farshad is a given name of Iranian origins. Farshad may refer to: * Farshad Ahmadzadeh, Iranian football midfielder * Farshad Alizadeh, Iranian wrestler *Farshad Bahadorani (born 1982), Iranian football midfielder * Farshad Bashir (born 1988), Dutch politician of Afghan descent *Amir Farshad Ebrahimi,(born 1975), former member of Ansar-e Hezbollah * Farshad Falahatzadeh (born 1967), retired Iranian football player and now manager * Farshad Faraji, Iranian football winger * Farshad Mobasher Fard, Iranian citizen expelled from France for alleged link to Iran's nuclear program * Aryana Farshad, Iranian writer, director, and film producer * Farshad Fotouhi, the dean of Wayne State University's college of engineering * Farshad Ghadiri (born 1979), Iranian football goalkeeper * Farshad Ghasemi, Iranian football player * Farshad Janfaza, Iranian football forward * Farshad Khazei (born 1965), Iranian born entrepreneur living in Hungary *Farshad Mohammadi, Iranian footballer and midfielder *F ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Farhad Nafarzadeh
Farhad ( ''farhād''), also spelt Ferhaad, Ferhod or Ferhat, is a common Persian name for men used since the Parthians, first recorded for Arsacid kings circa 170 BC. Variants of the name are also commonly found in other countries with historical Iranian influences such as Bangladesh, Iraq, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and the Xinjiang autonomous region of China. Etymology Modern Persian name ''Farhād'' () is derived from Middle Persian ''Frahād'' (in prht ''Frahāt''; in ''Phraatēs''), ultimately from Old Iranian *''fra-hāta''- "merited, obtained".Hübschmann, Armenische Grammatik. D. N. MacKenzie, “Some Names from Nisa,” in Peredneaziatskiĭ sbornik IV: Drevnyaya isrednevekovaya istoriya i filologiya stran perednego i srednego vostoka, Moscow, 1986, pp. 105–15 (reprinted iIdem, Iranica diversa, ed. C. G. Cereti and L. Paul, Rome, 1999, pp. 209–15. Places *Farhad, Nishapur – a village in Nishapur County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran *Farhād Tarāsh – a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Aleksandar Gorbatkov
Alexander () is a male name of Greek origin. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Aleksander, Oleksandr, Oleksander, Aleksandr, and Alekzandr. Related names and diminutives include Iskandar, Alec, Alek, Alex, Alexsander, Alexandre, Aleks, Aleksa, Aleksandre, Alejandro, Alessandro, Alasdair, Sasha, Sandy, Sandro, Sikandar, Skander, Sander and Xander; feminine forms include Alexandra, Alexandria, and Sasha. Etymology The name ''Alexander'' originates from the (; 'defending men' or 'protector of men'). It is a compound of the verb (; 'to ward off, avert, defend') and the noun (, genitive: , ; meaning 'man'). The earliest attested form of the name, is the Mycenaean Greek feminine anthroponym , , (/Alexandra/), written in the Linear B syllabic script. Alaksandu, alternatively called ''Alakasandu'' or ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Amir Ali Fathali
Emir (; ' (), also transliterated as amir, is a word of Arabic origin that can refer to a male monarch, aristocrat, holder of high-ranking military or political office, or other person possessing actual or ceremonial authority. The title has a history of use in West Asia, East Africa, West Africa, Central Asia, and South Asia. In the modern era, when used as a formal monarchical title, it is roughly synonymous with "prince", applicable both to a son of a hereditary monarch, and to a reigning monarch of a sovereign principality, namely an emirate. The feminine form is emira ( '), with the same meaning as "princess". Prior to its use as a monarchical title, the term "emir" was historically used to denote a "commander", "general", or "leader" (for example, Amir al-Mu'min). In contemporary usage, "emir" is also sometimes used as either an honorary or formal title for the head of an Islamic, or Arab (regardless of religion) organisation or movement. Qatar and Kuwait are the only i ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |