Misagh Bahadoran

Biography

Misagh Medina Bahadoran (Persian: میثاق بهادران, romanized: Mithāq Bahāderan; born January 10, 1987) is a Filipino professional footballer who most recently played as a winger or forward for One Taguig of the Philippines Football League and previously the Philippines national team. He has also played for the Philippines national futsal team.

== Early life and education == Bahadoran's father, Mostafa, is Iranian and his mother is Kapampangan Filipino. He is the third of seven children. He was raised in Tehran, Iran. At age 7, Bahadoran started to play football and dreamed to be a professional footballer. However, he was discouraged from playing football by his father after his eldest brother, a professional footballer, had a career-ending injury. However Bahadoran continued playing football in secret. Bahadoran was sent to Philippines by his father in 2004 to finish his high school studies in Pampanga. The relative lack of awareness on football in the Philippines limited Bahadoran's options in getting involved in the sport. When Bahadoran entered Centro Escolar University in Manila, he and his foreign classmate successfully petitioned the school administration to convert a basketball court into a futsal court. At the end of the 2010–11 school year, Bahadoran graduated from Centro Escolar University in Manila, with a degree in Dentistry; he is currently a qualified dentist with his own practice.

== Club career ==

=== Pasargad === Bahadoran first participated at the United Football League in 2009 as a player for Pasargad.

=== Kaya === In 2010, he then later moved to Kaya.

=== Global Cebu === In 2011, he was asked to try out for the Tokyo Verdy, after failing his try out for the Japanese club, he joined United Football League (UFL) club Global. Bahadoran helped Global win three UFL league titles, a UFL Cup title, and a UFL FA Cup title. He remained with Global, when the club renamed itself as Global Cebu and moved to the Philippines Football League (PFL).

=== Perak FA === Bahadoran was set to transfer to Kelantan FA but later decided to sign up with Perak TBG F.C. instead on December 28, 2017. Bahadoran's contract was terminated with the Malaysia Super League club in May 2018 after a short stint under Perak head coach Mehmet Durakovic.

=== Brief return to Global and joining Maharlika === In February 2020, Bahadoran returned to Global ahead of the 2020 PFL season. Bahadoran signed the lowest deal in his career to help a club he had played for before, but he and other players had to deal with issues relating to unpaid wages and uncertainties over club's management. In August 2020, Bahadoran had hinted possibilities of playing for Maharlika, a club aspiring to enter the PFL in the 2020 season, which had been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, at the earliest. By the end of the month, Bahadoran had formalized his move to the club, which was granted a provisional license to play in the PFL on September 1.