Peshraw Azizi
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Peshraw Azizi | ||
Date of birth | 19 January 1988 | ||
Place of birth | Sulaymaniyah, Iraq[1] | ||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder, defender | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Dalkurd FF | ||
Number | 21 | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2007–2011 | Syrianska FC | 43 | (1) |
2009 | → Arameiska-Syrianska (Loan) | 9 | (1) |
2010 | → Valsta Syrianska IK (Loan) | 5 | (0) |
2011– | Dalkurd FF | 151 | (12) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22:19, 4 November 2017 |
Peshraw Azizi, born 19 January 1988 in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan,[2] plays as a defender and is team captain for Dalkurd FF in Sweden, competing in the Allsvenskan.[3][4] In December 2016, Azizi's contract was extended to the end of the 2019 season.[5]
Azizi has acquired Swedish nationality, but in 2014 began returning to Kurdistan each year during the Swedish association football off-season.[6][7] During one such visit, he signed a three-month contract to play for Zeravani SC in the Kurdish League.[8][2] However, his main reasons for visiting Iraqi Kurdistan are humanitarian.[9] 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]
References
- ^ Östman, Petter (7 September 2014). ""Skulle inte tveka en sekund att åka ner"" (in Swedish).
- ^ a b c d Darab, Adam (17 October 2015). "Dalkurd – det nya folkets lag". DN.se (in Swedish). Dagens Nyheter (Daily News). Retrieved 29 March 2017.
- ^ "Peshraw Azizi". Eurosport Football. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
- ^ "Peshraw Azizi - Dalkurd FF - Allsvenskan - Sweden". Elite Football. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
- ^ "Official: Peshraw Azizi extends with Dalkurd". fotbolltransfers.com (in Swedish). 16 December 2016. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
- ^ Östman, Petter (7 September 2014). ""Skulle inte tveka en sekund att åka ner"". Expressen (in Swedish). Retrieved 29 March 2017.
- ^ Östman, Petter (16 November 2014). "Dalkurds kapten åker till södra Kurdistan". Expressen (in Swedish). Retrieved 29 March 2017.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.