Babak Masoumi

Babak Masoumi
Personal information
Full name Babak Masoumi Daraki
Date of birth (1972-07-13)13 July 1972
Place of birth Tehran, Iran
Date of death 10 August 2011(2011-08-10) (aged 39)
Place of death Tehran, Iran
Playing position Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1995–1999 Fath Tehran
Pas Tehran
Esteghlal
–2006 Shahid Mansouri
2006–2007 Tam Iran Khodro
National team
1999–2007 Iran
Teams managed
2009–2010 Persepolis
2010–2011 Dabiri
2011 Steel Azin
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Babak Masoumi Daraki (13 July 1972 – 10 August 2011) was an Iranian futsal player and coach who was former captain of the Iranian national team.[1]

Career

Masoumi began his career playing football for Fath Tehran. He then changed codes and began to play futsal, where he played for Fath Tehran, PAS Tehran[2] and Tam Iran Khodro.

Despite suffering from cancer, Masoumi was head coach of Persepolis futsal team in the 2008–09 season and a few weeks afterwards was appointed as technical manager of Steel Azin futsal team.[3] He was head coach of Dabiri Tabriz FSC at the time of his death.

Death

On August 10, 2011 Masoumi died from blood cancer from which he had been suffering since 2008.[4] Despite this, Masoumi believed beforehand that he was cured of the disease.[5]

Masoumi had struggled to pay for his medical care and in November 2008, an exhibition game was played between Esteghlal and a Selection of Karaj team in order to raise money for the medical treatment of Masoumi and Mohammad Parsa.[6] In addition to this Iranian football star Ali Karimi paid for Masoumi's medical bills.[7] His body was buried on August 12, 2011 in Karaj.[8]

Honours

Country

Individual

  • Best Asian Futsal Player of the Year, 2003

References

  1. ↑ https://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/statisticsandrecords/players/player=180392/index.html
  2. ↑ Babak Masoumi
  3. ↑ بابک معصومی درگذشت
  4. ↑ http://www.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9005196282
  5. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-10-18. Retrieved 2011-08-10.
  6. ↑ http://www.persianfootball.com/live/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1244%3Aesteghlal-wins-benefit-match&Itemid=241
  7. ↑ http://forum.iran-egold.com/showthread.php?t=3536%5Bpermanent+dead+link%5D
  8. ↑ Funeral of Masoumi: Tomorrow, 12 August 2011 in Karaj
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