Amir Abedzadeh

Amir Abedzadeh (Persian: امیر عابدزاده‎, born 26 April 1993) is an Iranian footballer who plays for Ponferradina in the Spanish Segunda Division and the Iran national team as a goalkeeper.

Club Career

Youth teams

Abedzadeh was a member of the Persepolis Youth Academy from 2006 to 2007, having previously trained under his father since he was 7. He moved to the United Kingdom at the age of 15, and after spending two months with the third-tier outfit of Brentford and taking part in a trial with Arsenal, he joined Tottenham Hotspur's academy team in 2009. Abezadeh left Tottenham in the same year, following their signing of Italian goalkeeper Mirko Ranieri.

During his time in the UK, Abedzadeh also played for amateur youth teams Dinamo Dorigo,London Tigers, and Persian FC, the latter of the G.E. Roberts Enfield Football Alliance League.

United States

Abedzadeh was unable to obtain a work permit in UK and after briefly returning to Iran and training with Iran Pro League side Steel Azin, where his father was a coach, to keep himself on form, he moved to the United States in 2011, and signed for the Los Angeles Blues in the USL Pro, where his father was an assistant coach.

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