Vahid Shamsaei Explained

Vahid Shamsaei
Fullname:	Vahid Shamsaei
Birth Date:	21 September 1975
Birth Place:	Tehran, Iran
Position:	Pivot
Currentclub:	Iran (manager)
Years1:	1999–2002
Clubs1:	Peyman
Years2:	2002–2003
Clubs2:	Esteghlal
Years3:	2003–2004
Clubs3:	Lazio
Caps3:	11
Goals3:	19
Years4:	2004–2005
Clubs4:	Eram Kish
Goals4:	38
Years5:	2005–2008
Clubs5:	Tam Iran Khodro
Years6:	2008–2011
Clubs6:	Foolad Mahan
Years7:	2011–2012
Clubs7:	Giti Pasand
Goals7:	17
Years8:	2012–2013
Clubs8:	Shenzhen Nanling
Years9:	2013–2014
Clubs9:	Dabiri
Goals9:	15
Years10:	2014–2018
Clubs10:	Tasisat Daryaei
Goals10:	55
Years11:	2021
Clubs11:	Giti Pasand
Caps11:	4
Goals11:	1
Nationalyears1:	1999–2017
Nationalteam1:	Iran
Nationalcaps1:	189
Nationalgoals1:	392
Manageryears1:	2014–2018
Managerclubs1:	Tasisat Daryaei (Player-coach)
Manageryears2:	2020–2021
Managerclubs2:	Giti Pasand (Player-coach)
Manageryears3:	2022–
Managerclubs3:	Iran
Pcupdate:	17 January 2022
Ntupdate:	20 May 2015

Vahid Shamsaei (Persian: وحید شمسايی ; born 21 September 1975) is an Iranian professional futsal coach and former player. He was a Pivot and he scored 392 goals in international matches. He is currently head coach of Iran national futsal team. Shamsaei has been named AFC Futsal Player of the Year on three occasions (2007, 2008 and 2015). He has also won eight AFC Futsal Championships with Iran. Shamsaei is regarded as the Ali Daei of futsal by the Asian Football Confederation.^{[1] [2]}

International career

He is the leading goalscorer for the national team, the seven time Top Goalscorer of the Asian Futsal Championship.^[3]

On 19 May 2007 after scoring one goal against Japan in Iran's 4–1 victory in the final of the 2007 AFC Futsal Championship, he scored his 316th national goal. He is officially the world's Top Futsal Goalscorer with 82 goals ahead of Manoel Tobias of Brazil national futsal team, the previous holder of the title with 302 goals.

Honours

Player

Country

• AFC Futsal Championship
  • Champion (8): 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008
  • Third place (2): 2006, 2012
• Asian Indoor Games
  • Champion (1): 2005
• Confederations Futsal Cup
  • Champion (1): 2009
• WAFF Futsal Championship
  • Champion (1): 2012

Club

• AFC Futsal Club Championship
  • Champion (2): 2010 (Foolad Mahan) - 2015 (Tasisat Daryaei)
• Iranian Futsal Super League
  • Champions (6): 2007–08 (Tam Iran Khodro) - 2008–09 (Foolad Mahan) - 2009–10 (Foolad Mahan) - 2013–14 (Dabiri) - 2014–15 (Tasisat Daryaei) - 2015–16 (Tasisat Daryaei)
  • Runner-Up (5): 2004–05 (Eram Kish) - 2005–06 (Tam Iran Khodro) - 2011–12 (Giti Pasand) - 2017–18 (Tasisat Daryaei) - 2020–21 (Giti Pasand)

Manager

• Iranian Futsal Super League
  • Champions (3): 2013-2014 (Dabiri) - 2014–15 (Tasisat Daryaei) - 2015–16 (Tasisat Daryaei)
  • Runner-Up (2): 2017–18 (Tasisat Daryaei) - 2020–21 (Giti Pasand)
• Iran
  • AFC Futsal Championship: 2022 (Runner-Up)
  • AFC Futsal Championship: 2024 (Champion)

Individual

• Best player:
  • AFC Futsal Player of the Year: 2007 ^[4] - 2008 - 2015^[5]
  • MVP AFC Futsal Championship: - 2000 - 2003 - 2007 - 2008
  • MVP AFC Futsal Club Championship: 2010^[6] - 2015^[7]
  • MVP Futsal Confederations Cup : 2009
  • International special award (2007–08) shared with Ali Daei (Iran Football Federation Award)
  • Best futsal player of Iran (2007–08)
• Top Goalscorer
  • World's Top Futsal Goalscorer of All Time (392 goals)
  • AFC Futsal Championship: 2001 (31) - 2002 (26) - 2003 (24) - 2004 (32) - 2005 (23) - 2006 (16) - 2008 (13) - 2012 (7)
  • AFC Futsal Championship Top Goalscorer of All Time (194 goals) = 2000 (11) - 2001 (31) - 2002 (26) - 2003 (24) - 2004 (32) - 2005 (23) - 2006 (16) - 2007 (11) - 2008 (13) - 2012 (7)
  • Asian Indoor Games: 2005 (31)^[8]
  • AFC Futsal Club Championship, 2010 (17)^[6] - 2015 (10)^[7]
  • WAFF Futsal Championship: 2012 (8 goals)^[9]
  • Iranian Futsal Super League: 2000–01 (Peyman) (34 goals) - 2004–05 (Eram Kish) (38 goals) - 2005–06 (Tam Iran Khodro) (55 goals) - 2008–09 (Foolad Mahan) (32 goals) - 2009–10 (Foolad Mahan) (34 goals)
• Best Manager
  • Iranian Futsal Super League: 2013–14 ^[10] (Dabiri)
  • Iranian Futsal Super League: 2014–15 ^[11] (Tasisat Daryaei)

International goals

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	10 January 2000			1–?	2–3	Friendly
2.	21 May 2006			2–0	14–0	2006 AFC Futsal Championship
2.				5–0
3.				8–0
4.				10–0
5.				11–0
6.	22 May 2006			3–0	20–1
7.				5–0
8.				9–0
9.				12–0
10.				16–0
11.				17–0
12.				19–0
13.	23 May 2006			1–1	6–3
14.				2–2
15.				5–2
16.	26 May 2006			1–1	1–5
17.	13 May 2007			4–2	8–4	2007 AFC Futsal Championship
18.	14 May 2007			5–0	15–1
19.				6–0
20.				10–1
21.				11–1
22.				13–1
23.				15–1
24.	17 May 2007			4–0	8–0
25.				5–0
26.	18 May 2007	Osaka, Japan		7–3	7–3
27.	19 May 2007			3–0	4–1
28.	11 May 2008			4–0	12–0	2008 AFC Futsal Championship
29.				12–0
30.	12 May 2008			2–0	8–1
31.				5–0
32.	13 May 2008			3–0	14–0
33.				?–0
34.				8–0
35.				13–0
36.				14–0
37.	15 May 2008			4–0	9–1
38.	16 May 2008			1–0	1–0
39.	18 May 2008			2–0	4–0
40.				3–0
41.	27 April 2008	Urmia, Iran		1–0	9–2	2012 WAFF Futsal Championship
42.				9––2
43.	29 April 2012			3–0	19–1
44.				11–0
45.				15–0
46.				16–1
47.				18–1
48.	1 May 2012			1–0	7–3
49.	26 May 2012			3–0	8–0	2012 AFC Futsal Championship
50.				8–0
51.	27 May 2012			2–0	9–0
52.				9–0
53.	30 May 2012			1–0	4–5
54.				4–4
55.	1 June 2012			4–0	4–0

Managerial career

Statistics

Team	From	To	Record
			G	W	D	L	GF	GA	+/-	Win %
Tasisat Daryaei	2014	2018
Giti Pasand	2020	2021
Iran	2022	Present

Notes and References

1. Web site: فوتبالی‌ترین | شمسایی، علی دایی فوتسال است/ رکوردهای او دست‌نیافتنی است.
2. Web site: فوتبالی‌ترین | Afc شمسایی را علی دایی فوتسال معرفی کرد.
3. Web site: New AFC futsal award will popularise game: Shamsaei . the-AFC.com . 15 November 2006 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070623134749/http://www.the-afc.com/english/media/default.asp?mnsection=media . June 23, 2007 .
4. Web site: Vahid Shamsaei Wins AFC Futsal Player of the Year 2007. IranSportsPress.com. 5 December 2007.
5. http://www.the-afc.com/2015-awards/afc-futsal-player-of-the-year-2015-vahid-shamsaee AFC Futsal Player of the Year 2015: Vahid Shamsaee
6. https://archive.today/20130213122318/http://www.the-afc.com/en/component/content/article/27656-shamsaee Top honours for evergreen Shamsaee
7. http://www.the-afc.com/afc-futsal-club-championship-2015/hat-trick-for-tasisat-as-shamsaee-scoops-mvp-top-scorer-awards Hat-trick for Tasisat as Shamsaee scoops MVP, Top Scorer awards
8. Web site: 1st Asian Indoor Games - Bangkok 2005 . 2012-11-03 . 2017-12-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171210015711/http://www.futsalplanet.com/news/news-01.asp?id=5192 . dead .
9. Web site: Iran wins the Men's Futsal title . 2012-05-02 . https://archive.today/20130105002139/http://www.the-waff.com/more.asp?newsid=524&catid=1&lang=eng . 2013-01-05 . dead .
10. http://futsaliran.ir/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1366:bestcoach&catid=140&Itemid=435 وحید شمسایی بهترین مربی فصل ۹۲ فوتسال ایران شد
11. http://fut5al.ir/fa/?p=30410 وحید شمسایی بهترین مربی سال ۹۳ شد