Abbas Bouazar

Abbas Bouazar

Personal information
Full name	Abbas Bouazar
Date of birth	(1992-07-08) 8 July 1992
Place of birth	Ahvaz, Iran
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Attacking midfielder
Team information
Current team	Naft Masjed Soleyman
Number	7
Youth career
2008-2012	Shahin Ahvaz
2012	Esteghlal Ahvaz
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2012–2015	Esteghlal Ahvaz	38	(3)
2015–2017	Naft Tehran	33	(4)
2017–2019	Fajr Sepasi	33	(5)
2019–2020	Foolad	11	(0)
2020–2021	Naft Masjed Soleyman	25	(0)
2021-	Sanat Naft Abadan F.C.	14	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18 July 2021

Abbas Bouazar (Persian: عباس بوعذار; born 8 July 1992) is an Iranian professional footballer who currently plays as a midfielder for Iranian football club Naft Masjed Soleyman in the Persian Gulf Pro League.

Club career

Goal In Esteghlal Ahvaz

Bouazar started his senior career with Esteghlal Ahvaz in 2012. He scored his first goal on 9 December 2012 in a 2–1 victory against Tarbiat Yazd. He scored three times in 38 appearances before leaving the club.

Naft Tehran

In December 2014 Bouazar signed with league leaders Naft Tehran. He scored his first goal in his first appearance with the club on 4 February 2015.

Trend on Social Media

In spring of 2021, in the semifinals of Iran's main cup competition, the Hazfi Cup, two competing teams (Saipa FC and Naft Tehran F.C.) had a very physical match, resulting in many red-cards being handed out to players. During the post-match interview, Iranian football legend, Ali Daei, who at the time was the manager of Naft, criticised refereeing decisions, particularly the red card given to Bouazar. The reason for this was that during the interview, a reporter had asked him about his opinion on the red card given to an alleged player called "Mohammadi", who did not exist. The player who was actually red-carded was Bouazar, and Daei was shocked about the referee not even getting the name of the players correct. His response to the interview question was a letter by letter comparison of the words Bouazar and Mohammadi, where he counted the number of letters that exist in Bouazar and not in Mohammadi. The emotional interview quickly became a meme and is frequently shared on social media.