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Ex-Iran setter Mahdavi named new Shadab coach
Mehdi Mahdavi, a former setter of the Iranian national volleyball team, was appointed as the head coach of top-flight club Shahdab Yazd on Saturday.
New Shahdab coach replaces Rahman Mohammadi-Rad, to whom Mahdavi worked as a number two before he was sacked following a five-set defeat against Tabi’at Eslamshahr in the Iranian Super League on Wednesday.
Mahdavi’s first game in charge will come away to Chadormalou on Wednesday.
Mohammadi-Rad led Shahdab to a runner-up finish in the AVC Asian Club Championship on home soil last year, and fifth place at the FIVB Men’s Club World Championship in Brazil last December.
Shahdab is second in the Iranian league table, trailing Shahrdari Orumiyeh by five points.