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Behrang Safari
Personal information
Full name Behrang Safari
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Left back
Left winger
Team information
Current team
 Anderlecht
Number 20
Youth career
1992–2001 Lunds SK
2001–2004 Malmö FF
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2004–2008 Malmö FF 59 (2)
2008–2011 Basel 94 (1)
2011– Anderlecht 18 (0)
International career‡
2008– Sweden 23 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 27 December 2011
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 10 June 2011

Behrang Safari (Persian: بهرنگ صفری [behræŋɡ sæfæriː]; born 9 February 1985) is an Iranian-born Swedish international footballer who plays as a defender for Anderlecht in the Belgian Pro League.

Career

Early life

He came to Sweden as a two-year-old from Tehran, Iran with his family. They settled in the small town Höganäs, and later moved to Lund when he was five.

Club

Safari came through the ranks at Malmö FF and played his first game in Allsvenskan in July 2004 when he came on as a substitute. He won the Allsvenskan in his first season and the following season he became a first-team regular.

On 15 June 2008, Malmö announced that Safari has been sold to FC Basel in Switzerland.[1] This was confirmed one day later by FCB Online.[2] He made his Basel debut on 23 July 2008 in a 1–0 win over Grasshopper-Club Zürich at St. Jakob-Park. He played his first European game in a Basel shirt on 30 July 2008 in a 1–1 Champions League Qualifying match draw against IFK Göteborg at Ullevi. He scored his first goal for Basel in the 4–0 home win against BSC Young Boys on 7 February 2010. This was to remain his sole league goal for the club. Safari won the Double with Basel in 2010 and the Swiss national championship again in 2011. He played 94 league games for Basel during his three year contract.

On 30 May 2011 he signed a contract for the Belgian club Anderlecht. He played team debut for Anderlecht on 29 July 2011 in the 2-1 away defeat against Oud-Heverlee Leuven. He played his first European game for the team in the Europa League qualifying away win against Bursaspor in the Bursa Atatürk Stadium on 18 August 2011.[3]

International

Safari was called up to the Swedish national team for their friendly match tour in January 2008.[4] He played in all of the matches, which were a 1–0 win over Costa Rica, a 2–0 defeat to the United States, and a 0–0 draw with Turkey. During his debut game against Costa Rica, Safari set up the only goal of the game with a cross to Samuel Holmén, who volleyed the ball into the back of the net.

Sweden played the Netherlands away in Amsterdam on 12 October 2010 in a Euro 2012 qualifying match at the Amsterdam Arena. With Sweden trailing 1–0, Safari made a horrible mistake with a failed throw-in; he threw the ball backwards into the middle of the field, where it was picked up by Dutch player Wesley Sneijder, who advanced towards the Swedish goal and put Ibrahim Afellay free with the goalkeeper Andreas Isaksson. Afellay scored easily, making the score 2–0 in favour of the Dutch. Sweden didn't recover from this and the final score was a 4–1 defeat. Safari was substituted for Oscar Wendt during half-time due to his mistake.

Honours

Basel

R.S.C. Anderlecht

References

  1. ^ "Behrang Safari lämnar Malmö FF". Retrieved 2008-06-15. [dead link]
  2. ^ "FCB verpflichtet mit Gelabert und Safari zwei neue Spieler". FC Basel 1893. 2008. Retrieved 2010-11-16. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help) Template:De icon
  3. ^ "Bursaspor Anderlecht lineups". uefa.com. 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-18. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  4. ^ "Behrang Safari om landslagsplatsen och ryktena". Retrieved 2007-12-28. {{cite web}}: Text "svenskafans.com" ignored (help)

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