Personal information | |||
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Full name | Kiyan Nassiri Giri | ||
Date of birth | 17 November 2000 | ||
Place of birth | Kolkata, West Bengal, India | ||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
Position(s) | Attacking midfielder / Winger | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Mohun Bagan SG | ||
Number | 25 | ||
Youth career | |||
CC&FC [1] | |||
Mohammedan | |||
Mohun Bagan SG | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2019– | Mohun Bagan SG | 41 | (3) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 13 March 2024 |
Kiyan Nassiri Giri (born 17 November 2000) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger for Indian Super League club Mohun Bagan SG.
Kiyan is the son of former Iran national youth team player and East Bengal legend Jamshid Nassiri. [2] Grew up in Queens Mansion on Park Street, Kiyan's mother Suzanne was born and brought up in Shillong. [3] He was also a student of St. James' School, where he led the school team to victory in the Debanjan Cup Interschool Tournament in 2015. [4]
Kiyan is the son of East Bengal legend Jamshid Nassiri. [5] [6] He was always passionate about football and during his school days he was called up for the Bengal U14 camp in Kalyani in 2014. During the U14 camp in Kalyani, in which he made 5 appearances and scored 6 goals. He went on to play for the Mohammedan Sporting U16 I-league squad. During the 2017–18 season, he joined Calcutta Football Club, [7] and was the highest scorer in the league helping the team to promotion that season.
In 2019, he joined Mohun Bagan to play for their U-19 side in the Zee Bangla Football League and was sent on trial for the senior team. Kibu Vicuna was impressed by his performance at 2019–20 pre-season trial in Goa and promoted him to the senior team. [8] He made his professional debut on 1 March 2020, by coming as a seventy ninth minute substitute against TRAU FC in a 3–1 win. [9]
Following the merger of ATK and Mohun Bagan in 2020 to become Mohun Bagan SG, he signed a long term contract with the club and was included in senior squad for the 2021–22 Indian Super League season. Ahead of the team's inter-zonal semifinal match against Uzbek side FC Nasaf in the 2021 AFC Cup, Kiyan was called up in twenty-two member squad. [10] He debuted for the side against Nasaf. [11]
He scored a hat-trick for Mohun Bagan SG in their 3–1 derby win against East Bengal on 29 January 2022, [12] and became the youngest ever player in the Indian Super League to do so. As 2022–23 season began, Nassiri appeared with the club on 20 August against Rajasthan United at the 131st edition of Durand Cup, in which he scored the opener but lost the match by 3–2. [13]
Club | Season | League | Cup | AFC | Total | |||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Mohun Bagan | 2019–20 | I-League | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | 0 | |
Mohun Bagan SG | 2020–21 | Indian Super League | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | |
2021–22 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 [lower-alpha 1] | 0 | 19 | 3 | ||
2022–23 | 10 | 0 | 4 [lower-alpha 2] | 2 | — | 14 | 2 | |||
MBSG total | 23 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 33 | 5 | ||
Career total | 24 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 34 | 5 |
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