Mehdi Bayat

Mehdi Bayat
Born	Mehdigholi Bayat (1979-01-06) 6 January 1979 (age 46) Malayer, Iran
Nationality	Iranian
Citizenship	French
Father	Abbas Bayat
Relatives	Mogi Bayat (brother)

Mehdigholi Bayat (born 6 January 1979 in Tehran) is an Iranian sports administrator who served as president of the Royal Belgian Football Association and managing director of Royal Charleroi Sporting Club.

Biography

Mehdi Bayat spent his childhood and teenage years in the Cannes area. While his parents regularly traveled to Iran, he decided to settle in the south of France. As a young teenager, he was under the thumb of his older brother Mogi Bayat, who was five years his senior. ^[1]

Mehdi Bayat attended school there, graduating from the EDHEC Business School. In the early 2000s, at the age of 21, he returned to Iran for a year.

Upon his return to France, Mehdi Bayat first worked with his brother in Paris at their uncle Abbas's company, before going on to manage a communications company in the south of France.

Career

Born in Tehran and raised in Cannes, Mehdi Bayat has been the managing director of Charleroi since September 2012. ^{[2] [3] [4]} He became President of the Royal Belgian Football Association in 2019. ^[5]

References

1. "Mehdi et le petit Robert". L'Avenir.
2. "Mehdi Bayat (Sporting de Charleroi): "Peut-être qu'un jour, on ouvrira le capital"". L'Echo (in French). 31 March 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
3. "Mehdi Bayat: "Et si on gagnait encore une place ?"". www.dhnet.be (in French). 13 March 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
4. "Sporting Charleroi kit up with Kappa – SportsPro Media". www.sportspromedia.com. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
5. "یک ایرانی رییس فدراسیون فوتبال بلژیک شد" (in Persian).