Pierre Karlow a Polish in TM and Taj.

[Shamim]

Has anyone here ever heard of him, He was a polish immigrant in Iran who play as goalkeeper from 1945 to 1956 for Dorcharkheh Savaran who later become Taj and Estheglal and was in the Iran national Football team in 1948, he is the first foreign player to ever play in the iranian league here some infos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Karl%C3%B3w
http://www.national-football-teams.c...re_Karlow.html

[Ali.Karimi79]

Dorcharkheh Savaran ....

Never heard of him but i've been to a catholic/polish cemetry in Tehran and there wereover 2500 graves of them. Some got neutralized of course. Poor souls. Look at the distance they had to take.

[dida]

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[Shamim]

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Thanks for the picture, i presume he is hey guy in the middle dressed in black.

[dida]

Yessir...He's the one in black, the goalie

[Shamim]

Yessir...He's the one in black, the goalie

Man where did you find that picture?? How did you know about him??

[dida]

Man where did you find that picture?? How did you know about him??

I didn't, just googled his name ...surprising what you can find...Sometimes you read people arguing about this and that when you can use the search engine

[persian-eagle-13]

any information on him, where he lived, where he died, any family members etc....

Many polish people moved to iran to escape the WWII. this would be a great "thesis" for a sport historian to figure out what happen and if there were any other athletes