Mehdi Mahdavikia

Mehdi Mahdavikia (مهدی مهدوی‌کیا in Persian) (born July 24, 1977) is a soccer player and part of the Iran national football team.

He currently plays for SV Hamburg in Germany, having been signed for that club in 2000. He previously played for the Pirouzi club in his native Iran and Vfl Bochum in Germany. His current position is as a striker, and he has been described as "the greatest winger" in the German Bundesliga. In 2003, he was awarded Asian Player of the Year by the Asian Football Confederation. He was awarded Hamburg Player of the Year in 2003 and 2004. He was considered Iran's best player in the 1998 World Cup and was named in the squad from which the dream team was chosen.