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Mehdi Bayat | |
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| Born | Mehdigholi Bayat 6 January 1979 Malayer, Iran |
| Citizenship | French |
| Father | Abbas Bayat |
| Relatives | Mogi Bayat (brother) |
Mehdigholi Bayat (born 6 January 1979 in Tehran) is an Iranian sports administrator who served as president of the Royal Belgian Football Association and managing director of Royal Charleroi Sporting Club.
Biography
[edit]Mehdi Bayat spent his childhood and teenage years in the Cannes area. While his parents regularly traveled to Iran, he decided to settle in the south of France. As a young teenager, he was under the thumb of his older brother Mogi Bayat, who was five years his senior.[1]
Mehdi Bayat attended school there, graduating from the EDHEC Business School. In the early 2000s, at the age of 21, he returned to Iran for a year.
Upon his return to France, Mehdi Bayat first worked with his brother in Paris at their uncle Abbas's company, before going on to manage a communications company in the south of France.
Career
[edit]Born in Tehran and raised in Cannes, Mehdi Bayat has been the managing director of Charleroi since September 2012.[2][3][4] He became President of the Royal Belgian Football Association in 2019.[5]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Mehdi et le petit Robert". L'Avenir.
- ↑ "Mehdi Bayat (Sporting de Charleroi): "Peut-être qu'un jour, on ouvrira le capital"". L'Echo (in French). 31 March 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
- ↑ "Mehdi Bayat: "Et si on gagnait encore une place ?"". www.dhnet.be (in French). 13 March 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
- ↑ "Sporting Charleroi kit up with Kappa – SportsPro Media". www.sportspromedia.com. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
- ↑ "یک ایرانی رییس فدراسیون فوتبال بلژیک شد" (in Persian).
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