Naser Mohammadkhani was an Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

ian football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

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Awards and honours

Country

• Top Goal Scorer 1984 AFC Asian Cup
  1984 AFC Asian Cup
  The 1984 AFC Asian Cup was the eighth edition of the Asian Nations Cup, the football championship of Asia . It was hosted by Singapore between December 1 and December 16. The field of ten teams was split into two groups of five...
  
  
• Fourth Place 1984 AFC Asian Cup
  1984 AFC Asian Cup
  The 1984 AFC Asian Cup was the eighth edition of the Asian Nations Cup, the football championship of Asia . It was hosted by Singapore between December 1 and December 16. The field of ten teams was split into two groups of five...
  
   with Iran national football team
  Iran national football team
  The national football team of Iran represents Iran in international football competitions and is controlled by the Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran...
  
  
• Gold Medalist 1990 Asian Games
  1990 Asian Games
  The 11th Asian Games also known as XI Asiad were held from September 22, 1990 to October 7, 1990 in Beijing, China. It was the first large-scale international sports event to be held in the People's Republic of China. A total number of 6,122 athletes, coming from 37 countries, competed in 29 sports...
  
   with Iran national football team
  Iran national football team
  The national football team of Iran represents Iran in international football competitions and is controlled by the Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran...
  
  

Club

• Winner of Tehran Football League with Persepolis FC
  Persepolis FC
  Persepolis Football Club is an Iranian football club based in Tehran. Persepolis F.C. is the football club of the multisport Persepolis Athletic and Cultural Club....
  
   on numerous seasons.
• Winner of Asian Cup Winners Cup 1990 with Persepolis FC
  Persepolis FC
  Persepolis Football Club is an Iranian football club based in Tehran. Persepolis F.C. is the football club of the multisport Persepolis Athletic and Cultural Club....
  
  

Personal life

Mohammadkhani was involved in a very public court case in Iran, after his wife was found murdered in her apartment on October 9, 2002. His mistress, Shahla Jahed

Shahla Jahed

Shahla Jahed was an Iranian woman who was sentenced to death in June 2004 for murdering Laleh Saharkhizan, the wife of her boyfriend on October 9, 2002. Jahed had been living with Iranian footballer Nasser Mohammadkhani becoming his mistress in a temporary marriage which is allowed under Iranian...

, was convicted of the murder, and was executed in 2010, following the completion of the appeals procedure after Supreme Court judges ruled that her initial conviction (based as it was on a confession she made under duress) was unacceptable.