The 25-year-old Team Melli holding midfielder left the ninth club team of his football career. Saeed Ezatollahi, the Al Gharafa midfielder, is gradually setting an interesting record in terms of changing teams. This Iranian player, a product of Malavan Bandar Anzali Academy, has played in 9 teams so far and is now looking to join his tenth club team.

Saeed Ezatollahi has quite often played for several clubs as a loan player, and if this trend continues, he may be able to set a world record by the end of his football career. Ezatollahi started his football career with the Bandar Anzali Malavan and was able to be quickly recognized as a phenomenon in Iranian football at an early age. He soon joined the Atletico Madrid C team but never managed to attract the attention of the senior team. Rostov, Anzhi Makhachkala, Amkar, Reading, Eupen, Vejle Boldklub, and Al Gharafa Qatar then. s in which the 25-year-old Iranian midfielder has played so far.

He is likely to be one of the players selected for the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar and could experience his second World Cup appearance at the age of 26 and reach the peak of his maturity. The Iranian midfielder has not yet been able to establish himself in European football even in the lower-tier leagues. Being in the top teams in this continent has not helped Ezzatollahi much, and this talented player still has many years ahead of him but he mostly failed to choose the right team while his chronic injuries and inconsistency due to absence from the team have marred his career.

While being one of the best in Asia at younger age levels, he has managed to score only one goal in 44 national games for Team Melli. Many of the club teams he has selected are indicative of p[oor advice and career management. The Marco Polo of Iranian football performances has suffered frequently due to this unstable career.

It remains to be seen what Ezzatullahi will decide and where the winds will take him next.

In the Iranian football system and hierarchy, there is no specialist department for younger players with the potential to seek learned and professional advice to steer the players in the right direction in their professional careers. All such decisions are left to agents and brokers whose only interest is financial returns. The chaotic Football Federation has suffered chronic mismanagement and corruption making it unsuitable to be a platform for the development of younger players with potential. Other sports organizations in Iran are on par with FFIRI and are useless for guidance and career development.