Pouya Tajik
No. 4 – Hamyari Shahrdari | |
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Position | Power forward |
League | Iranian League |
Personal information | |
Born | Tehran, Iran | September 21, 1980
Nationality | Iranian |
Listed height | 6 ft 6+3⁄4 in (2.00 m) |
Listed weight | 215 lb (98 kg) |
Career information | |
Playing career | 2000–present |
Career history | |
? | Peykan |
? | BEEM |
? | Azad University |
? | Hamyari Shahrdari |
Shahrdari Gorgan BC | |
Shahrdari Kashan BC | |
Medal record | ||
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Men's basketball | ||
Representing ![]() | ||
Asian Games | ||
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2006 Doha | Team |
Asian Championship | ||
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2009 Tianjin | Team |
Pouya Tajik, (born October 28, 1980, in Tehran)[1] is a professional Iranian basketball player who currently plays for BEEM Mazandaran BC of the Iranian Super League and also for the Iranian national basketball team. He is a 6-foot-nine-inch power forward
Tajik spent the first several years of his professional career with Paykan Tehran, also of the Iranian Super League.[2] Following the 2006 season, he joined BEEM Mazandaran BC.
Tajik is also a long-time member of the Iran national basketball team. He first played for the team at the ABC Championship 2003 as a 20-year-old and later participated at the FIBA Asia Championship 2005.[3] Although he was not part of the Iranian side that won the 2007 Championship, he rejoined the team for their second consecutive gold medal run at the FIBA Asia Championship 2009. He saw action in eight of nine games off the bench for the Iranians.He retired in year 2016 after almost 20 years of playing basketball. In the spring of 2016 he opened up a Basketball academy and started to teach under 18 young players. In summer of 2017 he was chosen for the Iranian youth national basketball team as assistant coach. Meanwhile, he attended a Basketball coaching school in university of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary. As a head coach, he started his career in Shahrdari Qazvin early in 2020. [4]
References
[edit]- ^ FIBA Profile
- ^ Pouya Tajik at basketpedya.com
- ^ Pouya Tajik at basketpedya.com
- ^ FIBA Archive
- Living people
- Iranian men's basketball players
- Asian Games bronze medalists for Iran
- Asian Games medalists in basketball
- Basketball players at the 2006 Asian Games
- Power forwards
- Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games
- Islamic Solidarity Games competitors for Iran
- 1980 births
- Sportspeople from Tehran
- Iranian Basketball Super League players
- Asian basketball biography stubs
- Iranian sportspeople stubs