Sardar Azmoun is not playing because he tore a muscle in his right calf while warming up for Bayer Leverkusen’s Champions League clash with Porto on Oct.4 and has not featured since, with his Bundesliga club saying he was expected to be sidelined for six to eight weeks.
A few years ago, Azmoun retired from international football at the age of 23 just after Iran’s 2018 World Cup exit due to insults he received from fans, which, he said, had caused his mother’s illness to worsen. Azmoun chose to retire to be by his mother.
Where Was Sardar Azmoun Born?
Sardar Azmoun was born at Gonbad-e Kavus.