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Alireza Beiranvand
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Club season 2025/26 Persian Gulf Pro League
16
Apps
16
Starts
0
Goals
10
Clean sheets
7
Conceded
International
86
Caps
0
Goals
Club career totals
0
Career goals
Form
Veteran first-choice goalkeeper
Date of birth1992-09-21 (age 33) NationalityIR Iran ClubTractor · Iran LeaguePersian Gulf Pro League PositionGK · Goalkeeper · #– Height195 cm Preferred foot— Market value—
One of football's great rags-to-riches stories, Alireza Beiranvand grew up in a nomadic shepherding family near Khorramabad and left home as a boy for Tehran, where he slept rough by Azadi Square and worked as a street sweeper, car washer and pizza-shop hand while chasing the game. He broke through at Naft Tehran before becoming Persepolis's No. 1 and Iran's first-choice keeper, with a brief European spell at Antwerp and Boavista. Back at Tractor as a veteran, the towering goalkeeper anchors Iran's goal at a third straight World Cup.
- Saved a Cristiano Ronaldo penalty as Iran drew 1-1 with Portugal at the 2018 World Cup
- Holds the Guinness World Record for the longest throw in a football match (over 61 metres)
- Worked as a street sweeper and car washer in Tehran before turning professional
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