Personal information | |||
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Full name | Hossain Faraki | ||
Date of birth | March 22, 1957 | ||
Place of birth | Tehran, Iran | ||
Playing position | Striker | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Saipa (manager) | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1976–1979 | Pas Tehran | ||
1979 | Perspolis Tehran | ||
1979–1981 | Al-Shaab | ||
1981–1992 | Pas Tehran | ||
Teams managed | |||
2000 | Pas Tehran | ||
2009–2010 | Kaveh Tehran | ||
2010–2012 | Naft Tehran | ||
2012–2014 | Foolad | ||
2014–2015 | Sepahan | ||
2016– | Saipa | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
Hossein Faraki (Persian: حسین فرکی, born 22 March 1957) is a retired Iranian football player and a coach.
He was born on 22 March 1957 in Tehran, Iran. He began playing football with PAS Tehran in 1976.
He spent most of his career playing for Pas Tehran. Faraki won with Pas the Iranian Takht Jamshid in 1977 and 1978; he was also the top goal scorer of the Iranian league in 1978/79, when the league was left incomplete due to political unrest in Iran at the time.
Faraki also played for Al-Shaab of the UAE at the time when Heshmat Mohajerani became head coach of the club.
He played for the Iran national football team and participated at the 1978 FIFA World Cup, where he played all three matches. He also reached the third place in the 1980 Asian Cup in Kuwait.
Faraki began his coaching career as an assistant coach at Pas Tehran, the club that he played for in 1976 to 1992. He worked with many coaches like Ebrahim Ghasempour, Firouz Karimi and Bijan Zolfagharnasab. After six years as assistant coach, he was named as caretaker manager of the team after the resignation of Ghasempour in 2002. He led the team until the end of the 1999–00 season which the club ended in 7th place. He left the team after Farhad Kazemi becomes the team's head coach.