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Input (English): Context: The National football team of Iran, also known as Team Melli, represents Iran in international football competitions and is governed by the Iran Football Federation. The national football team of Iran, known as "Team Melli", ranks 1st in Asia and 29th in the world according to the FIFA World Rankings ., Ali Daei (; born 21 March 1969) is an Iranian former footballer and current coach and businessman. Daei currently manages Persian Gulf Pro League club Naft Tehran. He is the former captain of the Iran national football team, having played for clubs such as Bayern Munich and Hertha BSC, and is the world's all-time leading goalscorer in men's international matches. From June 2007 until 2013, Daei was a member of the FIFA Football Committee. He graduated from Sharif University of Technology in the field of Metallurgical Engineering. Daei also holds Daei Sport Company as its CEO., Hertha, Berliner Sport-Club e.V., commonly known as Hertha BSC, or simply Hertha, is a German association football club based in the Charlottenburg locality of Berlin. Hertha BSC play in the Bundesliga, the top-tier division of German football, after finishing at the top of the 2. Bundesliga table at the end of the 201213 season., Mehdi Mahdavikia ( Persian :     , born 24 July 1977 in Tehran ) is a retired Iranian football player who played for Persepolis , Hamburg SV , Eintracht Frankfurt , Steel Azin , Damash Gilan and also Iran national football team . He has won Asian Young Footballer of the Year award in 1997 , as well as Asian Footballer of the Year in 2003 . He was the captain of the Iran national football team from 2006 to 2009 , and currently is the fourth most capped Iranian International after Ali Daei , Javad Nekounam and Ali Karimi . As a product of Bank Melli , he joined Persepolis and after his performance in FIFA World Cup 1998 , he was transferred to Hamburger SV in the Bundesliga , where he played for eight seasons . He usually played as a right winger or full - back . He was known for his crossing , speed and dribbling . He announced his retirement on 14 March 2013 from football world . His last match as a football player was against Sepahan in Hazfi Cup final on 5 May 2013 . On 15 May 2013 , Mahdavikia was appointed as AFC Grassroots Ambassador . He was also the manager of the Iranian youth teams . In 2015 he founded the KIA Football Academy with Ali Doustimehr ., The Bundesliga (lit. , sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga or 1. Bundesliga ), is a professional association football league in Germany and the football league with the highest average stadium attendance worldwide. At the top of the German football league system, the Bundesliga is Germany's primary football competition. The Bundesliga is contested by 18 teams and operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the 2. Bundesliga. Seasons run from August to May. Most games are played on Saturdays and Sundays, with a few games played on weekdays. All of the Bundesliga clubs qualify for the DFB-Pokal. The winner of the Bundesliga qualifies for the DFL-Supercup., Eintracht Frankfurt e.V. is a German sports club based in Frankfurt, Hesse, that is best known for its association football club, currently playing in the Bundesliga, the top tier of the German football league system., Frankfurt am Main is a metropolis and the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2015 population of 731,095 within its administrative boundaries, and 2.3 million in its urban area. The city is at the centre of the larger Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region, which has a population of 5.8 million and is Germany's second-largest metropolitan region after Rhine-Ruhr. Since the enlargement of the European Union in 2013, the geographic centre of the EU is about to the east of Frankfurt's CBD, the Bankenviertel. Frankfurt is culturally and ethnically diverse, with around half of the population, and a majority of young people, having a migration background. A quarter of the population are foreign nationals, including many expatriates., Hamburger Sport-Verein e.V. , commonly known as Hamburger SV, Hamburg or HSV , is a German sport club based in Hamburg, its largest branch being its football department. Although the current HSV was founded in June 1919 from a merger of three earlier clubs, it officially traces its origin to 29 September 1887 when the first of the predecessors, SC Germania, was founded. HSV's football team has the unique distinction of having played continuously in the top tier of the German football league system since the end of World War I. It is the only team that has played in every season of the Bundesliga since its foundation in 1963, at which time the team was led by German national captain Uwe Seeler., Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball. It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies, making it the world's most popular sport. The game is played on a rectangular field with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to score by getting the ball into the opposing goal., Mohammad Ali Karimi Pashaki ((born 8 November 1978) is a retired Iranian footballer. He has played for Fath Tehran, Persepolis, Al-Ahli Dubai, Bayern Munich, Qatar SC, Steel Azin, Schalke 04, Tractor Sazi, and the Iran national team for which he scored 38 goals in 127 appearances. In 2004 he became the fourth Iranian player to win the Asian Footballer of the Year. He announced his retirement at the end of the 201314 season and, on 11 April 2014, played the final game of his 18-year career., Javad Nekounam (born 7 September 1980) is an Iranian retired footballer who played as a central midfielder, and the current assistant coach of Iran., The German football league system, or league pyramid, refers to the hierarchically interconnected league system for the association football in Germany that in the 201617 season consists of 2,235 divisions having 31,645 teams, in which all divisions are bound together by the principle of promotion and relegation. The top three professional levels contain one division each. Below this, the semi-professional and amateur levels have progressively more parallel divisions, which each cover progressively smaller geographic areas. Teams that finish at the top of their division at the end of each season can rise higher in the pyramid, whilst those that finish at the bottom find themselves sinking further down. In theory it is possible for even the lowest local amateur club to rise to the top of the system and become German football champions one day. The number of teams promoted and relegated between the divisions varies, and promotion to the upper levels of the pyramid is usually contingent on meeting additional criteria, especially concerning appropriate facilities and finances., Iran (, also , ; ' ), also known as Persia, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (' ), is a sovereign state in Western Asia. It is bordered to the northwest by Armenia, the "de facto" Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, and Azerbaijan; to the north by the Caspian Sea; to the northeast by Turkmenistan; to the east by Afghanistan and Pakistan; to the south by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman; and to the west by Turkey and Iraq. Comprising a land area of , it is the second-largest country in the Middle East and the 18th-largest in the world. With 82.8 million inhabitants, Iran is the world's 17th-most-populous country. It is the only country with both a Caspian Sea and an Indian Ocean coastline. The country's central location in Eurasia and Western Asia, and its proximity to the Strait of Hormuz, make it of great geostrategic importance. Tehran is the country's capital and largest city, as well as its leading economic center., Subject: mehdi mahdavikia, Relation: position_played_on_team_/_speciality, Options: (A) captain (B) center (C) centre (D) end (E) midfielder
Output (English): midfielder