:Mohammad Saber Rohparwar
{{short description|Afghan footballer}}
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Mohammad Saber Rohparwar ({{langx|fa|محمد صابر روح پرور}}) is an Afghan former footballer who played as a striker. He was the captain of the Afghanistan national team until 1980. He has been Afghanistan's most successful football player, scoring 25 goals as a footballer in his national team.{{Cite web |title=Afghan Footballers Return From Abroad Ahead of Pakistan Match |url=https://tolonews.com/sports/afghan-footballers-return-abroad-ahead-pakistan-match |access-date=2025-03-03 |website=TOLOnews |language=en}}
Club career
Rohparwar represented Hindukush Kabul F.C. at domestic level, scoring almost 200 goals for his club.
International career
Rohparwar represented Afghanistan for 10 years, scoring 25 goals during his stint with the national team. He was the captain of the national team until 1980 when the Soviet Union invaded the country.{{Cite web |title=Afghans await football’s return |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2013/8/19/afghans-await-footballs-return |access-date=2025-03-03 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en}} He also scored the lone goal against rivals Pakistan during the Afghanistan Republic Day Festival Cup in 1976, scoring the winning goal on a corner kick minutes before game's end.{{Cite news |last=Hodge |first=Nathan |date=2013-08-20 |title=A Pitch Battle Unites Afghans, Pakistanis |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-pitch-battle-unites-afghans-pakistanis-1377027769 |access-date=2025-03-03 |work=Wall Street Journal |language=en-US |issn=0099-9660}}{{Cite web |title=Afghanistan and Pakistan Braced to Face-Off in Kabul for First Time in 37 Years |url=https://tolonews.com/sports/afghanistan-and-pakistan-braced-face-kabul-first-time-37-years |access-date=2025-04-05 |website=TOLOnews |language=en}}
Coaching career
He was the coach of the Kaur club. During his time as a coach he trained players such as Najib Kohyar.
Personal life
Rohparwar graduated with a degree in Agricultural economics from the Kabul University.
In 1980, during the Soviet invasion and two years after the communist war, he fled to Hamburg in Germany and founded a taxi business. He then created a local Afghan football club called Ariana SV which he is currently a chairman.{{cite news|url=http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/global-city-hamburg-kabul-an-der-elbe-a-501397.html|title=Global City Hamburg: Kabul an der Elbe |date=24 August 2007|work=Der Spiegel|accessdate=19 January 2017|last1=Latsch |first1=Gunther }}{{cite web|url=http://www.ergebnisdienst-fussball.de/SPORTNORD/vereine/index.php?VID=42054&PHPSESSID=001666d4c37971371e7b9eaf47565e93|title=SportNord - Amateurfussball|first=ErFuba |last=GmbH|date=|work=ergebnisdienst-fussball.de|accessdate=19 January 2017}}
His son Rohollah Rohparwar is also a footballer.
References
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Category:Afghan men's footballers
Category:Men's association football forwards
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:Afghanistan men's international footballers
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