Mir Saeid Marouf Lakerani (; born 20 October 1985) is an Iranian

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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

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by an Iranian Saeid Marouf in Iran training

Career

National team

Marouf's first national game was for

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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

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, Marouf became the team captain ever since. Marouf In the

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was selected as the Most valuable player. He was introduced as the Best setter in at 2014 FIVB World League above Bruno Rezende and Dragan Travica.

Clubs in Iran

He started his career in his hometown volleyball club Urmia Moqavemat he has also played for Sanam Tehran, Shahrdari Urmia, Matin Varamin, Esteghlal Gonbad, Saipa Tehran, Damash Gilan, Kalleh Mazandaran. Marouf's first championship experience in Iranian Volleyball Super League was with Sanam Tehran and in 2011-2012 season he plays for Kalleh Mazandaran and he celebrates the Iranian Volleyball Super League championship with his team for the second time. He in 2014 Asian Men's Club Volleyball Championship tournament won the championship with Matin Varamin. in 2014 he signes a two-year contract with Shahrdari Urmia but halfway through the season he terminates the contract and subsequently joins the Zenit Kazan. Marouf in 2016 year join to Iran's most successful team Paykan Tehran.

Zenit Kazan

After years of speculation regarding his presence at a European club, on 27 December 2014 Marouf signed a one-year contract with Russian Super League champions Zenit Kazan with an option for a one-year extension. The contract was worth over 1 million dollars which made Marouf one of the world's highest-paid volleyball players in 2014 . On 25 January 2015, Marouf made his debut in the Russian Super League for Zenit Kazan in a 3–0 straight-sets win over Dynamo Krasnodar.

Beijing BAIC Motor

Marouf after 2019 VNL transferred to Chinese Volleyball Super League for played in Beijing BAIC Motor.

Personal life

Marouf was born in

Urmia Urmia (; ) is the largest city in West Azerbaijan Province of Iran. In the Central District of Urmia County, it is capital of the province, the county, and the district. The city is situated near the borders of Iran with Turkey and Iraq. ...

West Azerbaijan West Azerbaijan province () is one of the 31 provinces of Iran, provinces of Iran, whose capital and largest city is Urmia. It is in the Azerbaijan (Iran), northwest of the country, bordered by Turkey (Ağrı Province, Ağrı, Hakkâri Pr ...

in a family with a history of involvement in volleyball including his uncles Jahangir Seyyed Abbasi, Nobakht Seyyed Abbasi, Khoshbakht Seyyed Abbasi, and his former teammate Vahid Seyyed Abbasi. In school, he participated in other sports, including

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and

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Social activity

Marouf, along with popular athletes such as

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, Hamid Sourian and Behdad Salimi, acted as a helper in the fight to eradicate poverty and hunger in the

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Honours

National team

* World Grand Champions Cup **Bronze medal (1):

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

* Asian Championship **Gold medal (2):

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

**Silver medal (1):

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

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**Gold medal (2):

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

**Silver medal (1):

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

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**Gold medal (2):

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

* Asian U20 Championship **Silver medal (1):

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

* U19 World Championship **Bronze medal (1):

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

* Asian U18 Championship **Silver medal (1):

Club

* European Champions League **Gold medal (1):

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

(Zenit Kazan) * Asian Championship **Gold medal (3):

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

(Paykan Tehran),

(Matin Varamin) * Russian Super League **Champions (1):

(Zenit Kazan) * Iranian Super League **Champions (3):

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

(Sanam Tehran),

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 ...

(Kalleh Mazandaran),

(Matin Varamin) *

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**Champions (1):

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

(Beijing BAIC Motor)

Individual

*Best setter: 2008 3rd World Olympic Qualification Tournament *Most popular player: 2009 Asian Championship *Best setter: 2010 Asian Cup *Best setter: 2012 1st World Olympic Qualification TournamentMir Saeid Marouflakrani
nbcolympics.com *Best setter: 2013 Asian Championship *Most valuable player: 2013 Asian Championship *Best setter: 2014 World League *Iranian Sportsmen of the Year: 2014 (Media - ISNA) *Iranian Sportsmen of the Year: 2015 (

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)وبسایت رسمی برنامه ۹۰ - سعید معروف، برترین ورزشکار سال 94
90tv.ir. Retrieved on 2016-09-05. *Iran's Best Volleyball Player of the Year: 2014-15, 2016–17 (VLI) *Best setter: 2016 1st World Olympic Qualification Tournament *Best Asian Athlete of the Year: 2016 (

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) *Best Foreign Player: 2020–21 Chinese Super League

References

External links

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Mir Saeid Marouflakrani
at FIVB.org World League 2014 *
Biography at Zenit Kazan
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Marouf, Saeid 1985 births Living people Iranian men's volleyball players Sportspeople from Urmia Setters (volleyball) Asian Games gold medalists for Iran Asian Games silver medalists for Iran Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch alumni Asian Games medalists in volleyball Volleyball players at the 2010 Asian Games Volleyball players at the 2014 Asian Games Volleyball players at the 2018 Asian Games Olympic volleyball players for Iran Volleyball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games Iranian expatriate sportspeople in Russia Iranian expatriate sportspeople in Italy Iranian expatriate sportspeople in China Volleyball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics VC Zenit Kazan players Fenerbahçe S.K. (men's volleyball) players 21st-century Iranian sportsmen