Karim Ansarifard

Karim Ansarifard
Ansarifard for Iran before a game against Montenegro in 2014
Personnel
birthday	April 3, 1990
place of birth	Ardabil ,  Iran
size	186 cm
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
	Zob Ahan Ardabil
	Saipa Tehran
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2007–2012	Saipa Tehran	123 (55)
2012-2014	Persepolis Tehran	31 0(8)
2013-2014	→  Tractor Sazi  (loan)	28 (14)
2014-2015	CA Osasuna	16 0(0)
2015-2017	Panionios Athens	41 (13)
2017-2018	Olympiacos Piraeus	34 (18)
2018-2019	Nottingham Forest	12 0(2)
2019–	al-Sailiya	0 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2005-2006	Iran U-17	3 0(0)
2007-2008	Iran U-21	7 0(5)
2009-2011	Iran U-23	13 0(5)
2009–	Iran	74 (18)
1 Only league games are given. As of July 25, 2019 2 As of July 25, 2019

Karim Ansarifard ( listen ^{? / I} ; Persian کریم انصاری‌فرد; * April 3, 1990 in Ardabil , Iran ) is an Iranian soccer player who is under contract with al-Sailiya .

origin

Ansarifard was born in the northern Iranian city of Ardabil . He has three brothers and one sister and studied sports to be a teacher at the Azad Islamic University of Tehran.

Career

societies

Ansarifard began his career in his hometown Ardabil with the local club Zob Ahan Ardabil. During a training camp for the Iranian first division club Saipa Tehran , he was discovered by the then coach Ali Daei and engaged after a trial training session. After consistently strong performances, Ansarifard was considered a promising talent and played himself in the focus of European clubs such as Borussia Dortmund and Steaua Bucharest . Nevertheless, he remained loyal to the club and was the top scorer in the Iranian first division in the 2011/2012 season with 21 goals.

In the following season, Ansarifard moved to local rivals Persepolis Tehran . There he was able to score in several league and cup games, including two hat tricks. However, he fell out with the trainer, his discoverer Ali Daei, which is why he was loaned to Tractor Sazi Tabriz for the 2013/14 season. There he developed into an integral part of the team and won the Hazfi Cup 2013/14 with his team . However, the club could not firmly commit him, as his contract contained a clause that allowed him to leave the club in the event of an offer by a European club. This happened and so Ansarifard moved to CA Osasuna in the Spanish Segunda División in summer 2014 . There he made his debut in the 2-0 defeat by Racing Santander on October 4, 2014. The following year he moved to Greece to Panionios Athens without scoring a goal for Osasuna . There he scored his first goal for the new employer in the 5-1 away win against Panetolikos on October 3, 2015 in the 83rd minute of the game. In January 2017 Ansarifard moved to the Greek champions Olympiacos Piraeus . The transfer fee is said to have been 400,000 euros. Despite 18 goals in 34 league games and four more goals in the Cup and Europa League, Ansarifard left Piraeus in the summer of 2018 and was without a club until November 2018, having become Greek champions with Piraeus in 2017. Then he joined the English second division Nottingham Forest . However, he could not prevail there and came in twelve, mostly short missions only two hits. In the summer of 2019, he switched to al-Sailiya in Qatar .

National team

Ansarifard was first invited to the Iranian U-17 national team in 2005 . At the U-17 Asian Cup in 2006, in which Iran failed in the quarter-finals against eventual title winners Japan , he was in his country's squad. After playing for the U-21 and U-23 of Iran Ansarifard made his debut on October 10, 2009 in the game against Iceland , when he came on in the 40th minute for Farhad Majidi . In the same game, Ansarifard also scored his first international goal in the 59th minute to make it 1-0. With his goal against North Korea in the 2011 Asian Cup , he became the youngest scorer of an Iranian selection at the Asian Cup.

Ansarifard part in the 2014 FIFA World Cup to the squad of Iran . He played his first and only game against Bosnia-Herzegovina when he came on for Ashkan Dejagah in the 68th minute , but was eliminated with Iran as the last in Group F. At the 2015 Asian Cup , in which Iran failed in the quarter-finals against Iraq , Ansarifard was in the squad without any effort.

In 2018 he was again part of the Iranian squad at the 2018 World Cup . After being in the starting line-up in the first two group matches against Morocco and Spain , he was substituted on in the 76th minute of the last group match, the 1-1 draw against European champions Portugal , and converted a hand penalty into an equalizer in stoppage time. Despite this point and the victory against Morocco, the team failed as third in the group just under the last sixteen.

Achievements and titles

Olympiacos Piraeus

• Greek champion 2017

Web links

• Karim Ansarifard in the database of weltfussball.de
• Karim Ansarifard in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Karim Ansarifard in the database of transfermarkt.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Interview with Ansarifard ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on May 18, 2016 (Persian). 
2. ↑ Karim Ansarifard Is Best Young Talent in World Football You've Never Heard of on bleacherreport.com, accessed on May 18, 2016 (English).
3. ↑ Steaua şi-a luat 2 atacanţi, un iranian şi un brazilian! on prosport.ro, accessed on May 18, 2016 (Romanian).
4. ↑ Match report , accessed on May 18, 2016 (Spanish).
5. ↑ Olympiacos signs Karim Ansarifard on the Olympiacos Piraeus club website, accessed on January 14, 2017.
6. ↑ Olympiakos gets Iranian Ansarifard on transfermarkt.de, accessed on January 14, 2017.
7. ↑ Ansarifard without a club signed in Nottingham on transfermarkt.de, accessed on November 4, 2018.
8. ↑ Match report on transfermarkt.de , accessed on May 18, 2016.