Behrang Safari

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Behrang Safari
Behrang Safari.jpg
Behrang Safari in 2011
Personnel
birthday February 9, 1985
place of birth Tehran ,  Iran
size 184 cm
position Defender
Juniors
Years station
1992-2000 Lunds SK
2001-2005 Malmö FF
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2004-2008 Malmö FF 59 (2)
2008-2011 FC Basel 94 (1)
2011-2013 RSC Anderlecht 34 (0)
2013-2016 FC Basel 63 (0)
2016– Malmö FF
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2008– Sweden 31 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of May 25, 2016

2 As of March 27, 2013

Behrang Safari (born February 9, 1985 in Tehran ) is a Swedish football player of Iranian descent. The defensive player, who made his debut in the Swedish national team in 2008 , won the Swiss football championship twice and the Swiss Cup once with FC Basel , including the so-called double .

Career

Career start in Sweden

Safari came to Sweden with his family from Iran when he was two. Initially living in Höganäs , the family later moved to Lund . Safari started playing football there in 1992 when he joined the Lunds SK youth team . He went through the individual age groups and was already used as a teenager in the adult team competing in the lower-class amateur area. At his own request, however, he played with the youth team of Lunds SK against the youth team of Malmö FF and was invited to the youth camp of the higher-class Malmö FF after the game.

Safari received a youth contract with Malmö FF and was used in the A-Juniors and in the second team. Before the start of the first division season in 2004 , he signed a training contract with which he was eligible to play for the first team. Under coach Tom Prahl , he contributed to winning the Swedish championship with three appearances this season. Also in the following season he was a supplementary player. From the 2006 season he was able to establish himself as a regular player alongside players such as Ulrich Vinzents , Jonas Sandqvist , Marcus Pode and Anders Andersson .

Safari national coach Lars Lagerbäck , who nominated him for an American tour of the Swedish national team at the beginning of 2008, impressed with his performance . On January 13, 2008 Safari made his debut in the national team when he was in the starting line-up in the 1-0 win over the Costa Rican national team. For a short time still in the circle of the national team and also in the 2008 season until the summer break in all eleven season games for Malmö FF on the field, he still missed the nomination for the squad for the European Championship 2008 in the summer .

Basel

On June 16, 2008 Safari signed a three-year contract with FC Basel . He made his debut for Basel on July 23, 2008 in a 1-0 home win against Grasshopper Club Zurich . From then on, the left-back established himself as a regular player in the team trained by Christian Gross and played 34 of the 36 league games played in his first season. In parallel, he also developed into a constant in the Swedish national team, which, however, missed the qualification for the 2010 World Cup . From summer 2009 he formed the club's defensive line with Beg Ferati , David Abraham , Samuel Inkoom and Çağdaş Atan under the new Basel coach Thorsten Fink . Safari scored his first competitive goal for FC Basel on February 7, 2010 in a 4-0 home win over BSC Young Boys . He won the Swiss championship that year with FC Basel. Safari also played the cup final against FC Lausanne-Sport , which was won 6-0.

In summer 2010 Safari qualified with FC Basel for the third time in the club's history for the group stage of the UEFA Champions League . There he was used in all six games.

Anderlecht

Safari did not extend his contract with FC Basel, which expired in the summer of 2011 and was also Swiss champion this year. Shortly after the end of the season he announced his move to the Belgian Pro League for RSC Anderlecht , where he received a three-year contract. After two years in Belgium, in which he won two championships with Anderlecht, Safari returned to the Swiss series champions FC Basel in June 2013.

Basel

He signed a three-year contract with Basel until the end of the 2016/17 season. The 2013/14 season was very successful for Basel. The team finished the football championship 2013/14 as champions and was in the final of the Swiss Cup , which was lost after extra time. Basel's Champions League season ended after the group stage, but in the Europa League it advanced to the quarter-finals. FCB played 68 games (36 championship, 6 cups, 10 Champions League and 6 Europa League, as well as 10 test games). Safari had a total of 39 appearances under coach Murat Yakin , including 21 in the Super League, 3 in the Cup, 7 in the Champions and 3 in the Europa League, as well as 5 in test matches.

The 2014/15 season was also very successful for Safari and FCB. The team finished the soccer championship 2014/15 for the 18th time as champions (for the 6th time in a row) with 12 points ahead of the 2nd placed BSC Young Boys and 25 points ahead of 3rd placed FC Zurich . Safari became the 4th Swiss champion. Basel was repeatedly in the final of the Swiss Cup , which was lost to FC Sion 0: 3. In the 2014/15 Champions League season , Basel advanced to the round of 16. During the 2014/15 season, FC Basel played a total of 65 games (36 championship, 6 cups, 8 Champions League and 15 test games). Under the new coach Paulo Sousa , Safari had a total of 41 appearances, of which 24 in the Super League, 2 in the Cup, 7 in the Champions League and 13 in test matches.

On January 18, 2016, FC Basel announced that Safari would return to their youth club Malmö FF after the second half of the 2015/16 season. Under coach Urs Fischer , he won the championship title for the fifth time with FCB at the end of the 2015/16 season . For the club it was the seventh title in a row and the 19th title in the club's history.

titles and achievements

FC Basel

RSC Anderlecht

Malmö FF

  • Swedish champion: 2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b iransportspress.com: "Interview with Behrang Safari" (accessed on August 27, 2010)
  2. ↑ FCB signed two new players with Gelabert and Safari ( Memento from December 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on the FC Basel homepage from June 16, 2008
  3. ↑ Behrang Safari moves to Anderlecht in Belgium . fussball.ch. May 30, 2011. Retrieved May 31, 2011.
  4. ↑ Defender Behrang Safari returns to FC Basel 1893 ( memento from December 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on the home page of FC Basel from June 24, 2013
  5. ↑ Rudi Wanner: Season Review: Switzerland . Eufa. 2014. Retrieved June 9, 2014.
  6. ↑ Josef Zindel: red blue: Yearbook 2014/2015 season . FC Basel Marketing AG, 2014, ISBN 978-3-7245-2027-6 .
  7. ↑ SFV: Swiss Cup - Würth Swiss Cup / Final - 07.06.2015 . SFV. 2015. Accessed June 7, 2015.
  8. ↑ For all results see here: en: 2014–15 FC Basel season .
  9. ↑ Josef Zindel: red blue: Yearbook 2015/2016 season . FC Basel Marketing AG, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7245-2050-4 .
  10. ↑ Safari leaves FCB. In: FC Basel 1893. Retrieved on January 19, 2016 (German).
  11. ↑ Casper Marti: It is done! FCB are champions for the 19th time . FC Basel 1893. 2016. Accessed April 30, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Safari, Behrang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish-Iranian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran , Iran