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Place of Birth: Tabriz, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
About Büyük Vatankhah
- Buyuk Vatankhah (Persian: ???? ????????) or Ezzatollah Vatankhah (Persian: ??? ???? ????????) (born February 1, 1943 in Tabriz, Iran) is a retired Iranian football player and currently a scouter.
- He has played in Rah Ahan, Taj, Shahin and Persepolis.
- After he retired in 1972, he became manager of Persepolis U20 team and then selected as first-team manager in 1975.
- He is the first Iranian manager that could win Iranian top division league.
- His younger brother, Reza, was a team mate at Persepolis for many years.Buyuk Vatankhah is part of the first generation of contemporary Iranian football players.
- According to interviews he has given to Iranian press, football was his passion from an early age, a sentiment which angered his traditional father who wanted his son to pursue more "mainstream" activities.
- In the early 1950s in Iran, playing football beyond a certain age was very much stigmatised.
- He was only 17 when he first played for the Iranian national team, and it was only then he told his family about his great passion.
- His career took off after he began to play for Shahin and then played for Paykan only to later return to Shahin and soon thereafter join the start-up Persepolis.
- He is one of the original Persepolisis.
- He continues to live in his beloved Tehran, although he has made many visits to Europe and the Persian Gulf States. Buyuk has a son, Alex Vatankha, currently a Senior Fellow at Middle East Institute and Jamestown Foundation.
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