For £12.95 you can have ‘any name and number’ printed on your Charlton replica shirt, but Ghoochannejhad has opted to wear ‘Reza’ on his back. He has been nicknamed ‘Gucci’ in his native Iran, yet seems slightly embarrassed with the connection to the luxury designer brand. Charlton fans have already come up with a possible solution: ‘We’re calling him Dave,’ is the striker’s mooted new song at The Valley. He also enjoys playing Iranian songs on the violin, piano and guitar — ‘Not perfectly, though. I’d like to say people saw me as the next Mozart, but it’s not true!’ Ghoochannejhad was born, but his football education began in Holland when his parents moved the family to Leeuwarden when the striker was eight and his elder brother Mehdi, now a physiotherapist, was 13.
