Sardar Azmoun

Sardar Azmoun is an Iranian professional footballer who plays for the Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen and the Iran national team.

Included in the final World Cup squad despite the pressure from the government not to include him

Iran national team manager Carlos Queiroz included Azmoun in the final World Cup squad despite the pressure from the government not to pick him. 

The Iranian government had pressurized not to include him after he put his word forward supporting the protests over Masha Amini’s death.

As per the Iranian FA instructions, players were forbidden to speak out over the death of 22-year-old woman Masha Amini, but Azmoun didn’t comply with the rules. 

22-year-old Masha Amini was arrested for not wearing a hijab in September. She later died in police custody. 

As per the sources and eyewitnesses, she was brutally beaten by the police. However, the police claimed that Amini suffered a heart attack, after which she fell into a coma. 

After the death of Amini, mass protests followed, where 304 protestors lost their lives to violent crackdowns from the police force.

Azmoun took his Instagram to speak out in support of the woman. He wrote that, at worst, he would be dismissed from the national team, but it doesn’t matter if they did so. 

He would sacrifice that for one hair on the heads of Iranian women. However, Queiroz went against the government’s will and selected Azmoun.

He announced his retirement after the harsh criticism of him affected his mother’s health

Azmoun announced his retirement after he faced heavy criticism following Iran’s 2018 World Cup exit. 

The criticisms over his performance caused his mother’s health to worsen, and he chose his mom over his career. 

In his social media post, he announced his decision to say goodbye to the national team though it’s one of the most painful and significant life decisions for him, the youth of 23 who faced great hardship to get in there. 

He further stated that his mother had overcome an illness but unfortunately, due to the unkindness of some people and the insults he and his teammates in no way deserved, her illness became severe, which unfortunately put him in a position where he was bound to pick one or the other. 

He picked his mother. 

He returned to the national team in October of that year and was called up by Carlos Queiroz in the 2019 AFC Asian Cup.

He is nicknamed Iranian Messi

Azmoun is nicknamed Iranian Messi. 

Because of his spectacular performance during the 2012-2013 season at Sepahan’s youth rank, he caught the eye of the Russian side Rubin Kazan. 

He moved to Russia after accepting the offer from the Russian side. 

He became Iran’s youngest Legionnaire in Iran’s football history, moving to Russia at 17 and becoming the first Iranian footballer to appear in the Russian Premier League. 

His remarkable rise and pace in Iran and his clubs in the Russian League helped him earn the Iranian Messi nickname.

Azmoun once said that his football doesn’t look like Messi at all, and he doesn’t know how people chose the name of a great Argentinian for his nickname. 

Besides that, he is also called Iranian Zlatan, and he chose to be called Iranian Zlatan because, as per him, he loves his style on the pitch.

Who is his wife?

Azmoun is not married yet, so he does not have a wife. He is probably single. 

But according to the sources, the Russian court has issued a ruling against him, and he has been dealing with the case after a girl in Russia claimed Azmoun to be the father of her child and filed a complaint asking for child support. 

The girl’s lawyer later confirmed that the court had ruled in favor of his client and was convinced he was the father. 

The court has urged the footballer to pay child support, he added.

Net Worth

Azmoun is the second-most expensive player of all time after Alireza Jahanbakhsh. His net worth, as of now, is estimated to be around $10 million.

Age

1. He was born on the 1st of January 1995 in Gonbad-e Kavus. He is currently 27 years old.

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