Peshraw Azizi

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Peshraw Azizi
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Azizi in Dalkurd FF jersey, 2016
Personal information
Full name Peshraw Azizi
Date of birth (1988-01-19) 19 January 1988 (age 36)
Place of birth Sulaymaniyah, Iraq [1]
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Centre back
Team information
Current team
 Vasalunds
Number 21
Youth career
Rönninge/Salem
Syrianska
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2007–2011 Syrianska 43 (1)
2009 → Arameiska-Syrianska (Loan) 9 (1)
2010 → Valsta Syrianska (Loan) 5 (0)
2011–2019 Dalkurd 163 (12)
2020– Vasalunds 40 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18:14, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Peshraw Azizi, born 19 January 1988 in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, [2] is a Kurdish professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Vasalunds IF. [3] [4]

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Early years

Peshraw's family comes from the city of Baneh in the Kurdistan Province, Iran. After the Iranian revolution, his father Ali hoped for a better future but soon realized that his only path to freedom was to join the Kurdish guerrillas and become Peshmerga. Peshraw's father became politically active, the family settled 60 km away across the "border" in the city of Sulaymaniyah (Iraqi Kurdistan) and where Peshraw was born on Thursday, January 19, 1988. [5]

When Pasha was 11 years old, the Azizi family decided it was time to leave Kurdistan, and in 2000, the family landed at Arlanda and settled in Rönninge outside Stockholm. His football career took off immediately and quite immediately after Pasha came to Sweden, he visited the local club Rönninge/Salem Fotboll. [5]

Career

Dalkurd FF

Azizi joined Dalkurd FF in February 2011. In December 2016, Azizi's contract was extended to the end of the 2019 season. [6] On 2 November 2019 Dalkurd confirmed, that Azizi would leave the club at the end of the year. [7]

Vasalunds IF

In 2020, Azizi moved to Vasalunds IF on a free transfer. He signed a contract extension with the club at the end of February 2021. [8]

Personal life

Azizi has acquired Swedish nationality, but in 2014 began returning to Kurdistan each year during the Swedish association football off-season. [9] [10] During one such visit, he signed a three-month contract to play for Zeravani SC in the Kurdish League. [11] [2] However, his main reasons for visiting Iraqi Kurdistan are humanitarian. [12] During the summer of 2015, he and a few friends gathered kr  200,000 (US$23711) in Sweden, and then traveled to Kurdistan to apply the funds to charitable projects, such as distributing basic necessities and planting food crops. [2] He is also involved with Dalkurd FF in social projects in their own city of Borlänge, Sweden. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ Östman, Petter (7 September 2014). ""Skulle inte tveka en sekund att åka ner"" (in Swedish).
  2. 1 2 3 4 Darab, Adam (17 October 2015). "Dalkurd – det nya folkets lag". DN.se (in Swedish). Dagens Nyheter (Daily News). Retrieved 29 March 2017.
  3. ↑ "Peshraw Azizi". Eurosport Football. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  4. ↑ "Peshraw Azizi - Dalkurd FF - Allsvenskan - Sweden". Elite Football. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
  5. 1 2 Spelarporträtt: 21.Peshraw "Pasha" Azizi, svenskafans.com
  6. ↑ "Official: Peshraw Azizi extends with Dalkurd". fotbolltransfers.com (in Swedish). 16 December 2016. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  7. ↑ PESHRAW AZIZI LÄMNAR DALKURD EFTER SÄSONGEN, dalkurd.se, 2 November 2019
  8. ↑ Azizi förlänger med Herrlaget, vasalundsifsektion.myclub.se, 27 February 2021
  9. ↑ Östman, Petter (7 September 2014). ""Skulle inte tveka en sekund att åka ner"". Expressen (in Swedish). Retrieved 29 March 2017.
  10. ↑ Östman, Petter (16 November 2014). "Dalkurds kapten åker till södra Kurdistan". Expressen (in Swedish). Retrieved 29 March 2017.
  11. ↑ Johnson, Bjorn (15 January 2015). "Intervju med Peshraw Azizi: "Vad säger man till en femåring som förlorat sin pappa?"". SvenskaFans.com (in Swedish). Retrieved 29 March 2017.
  12. ↑ Tivemo, Joel (9 October 2017). "The remarkable rise of Dalkurd: a Kurdish club on verge of the Swedish top flight". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 October 2018.


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