Sara Ghomi Marzdashti ( fa, سارا قمی مرزدشتی, born 20 August 1987), is an Iranian

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who plays as a

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for Heyat Football Alborz team and the Iranian national team. She started her football career in 2005 with Malavan Bandar Anzali club. She played for the Malavan team until late 2015, when the women's team of Malavan got disbanded. Through her years in Malavan, she has been chosen as the top goalscorer of Iran's premier league five times. She is the most prolific Iranian female footballer of all time, having scored 238 goals.

Early life

Ghomi was interested in football from a very young age, but since women's football wasn't activated in Iran, she started playing

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.http://daagh.ir/سارا-قمی-نگاه-مردم-به-فوتبال-بانوان-تغی/ In 1999–2000 after discovering there was a women's futsal team in her region of

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, Gilan Province, she focused on futsal and dropped volleyball. In early 2005, Malavan's women's team was founded, and Ghomi joined the club after passing the entrance test. She played for Malavan for about 11 years until the team was disbanded. Ghomi stated in an interview that the resolution of the Malavan women's team broke her heart.

International career

Due to her goal-scoring skills, she was first invited to the national team in 2012. Even though her main position is

, for the national team, she plays as a

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International goals

Career statistics

Club

Honours

Club

;Malavan Bandar Anzali *

Kowsar Women Football League The Kowsar Women Football League ( fa, لیگ کوثر بانوان فوتبال ایران, ''Lig-e Kâuser-e Banuan-e Futbal-e Iran'') is a women's football league, run by the Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran. At the top of the Irani ...

: runner-up 2012–13, runner-up 2013–14, runner-up 2014–15, runner-up 2015–16 ;Shahrdari Bam *

: runner-up 2016–17

Individual

Top Goalscorer: 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16

Personal life

Ghomi is a fan of

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and

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is her favourite footballer in Iran. In an interview, she said when she was a kid she wanted to be a sport teacher, but now she prefers not to be since she is a professional footballer now.

References

External links

Iran player profile
* 1987 births Living people Iranian women's footballers Iranian women's futsal players Iran women's international footballers Women's association football forwards Footballers from Rasht 21st-century Iranian women {{Iran-women-footy-bio-stub