[custom_adv] Minavand died Wednesday night after a battle with COVID-19. He had been hospitalized at the Laleh Hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU) in Tehran last week. Minavand started his career at Tehran based football club Pas in 1994 but joined Persepolis a year later. [custom_adv] The left winger also played for Austrian club Sturm Graz and Charleroi from Belgium before returning to Persepolis once again in 2002. Minavand was a member of national football team in the 1998 FIFA World Cup. [custom_adv] He also won a bronze medal with the Persians in the 1996 AFC Asian Cup. Tehran Times extends deepest sympathy to his family, loved ones, and friends over his demise. [custom_adv] He was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Laleh Hospital in Tehran on January, 21, 2021. Some 91 deaths were caused by COVID-19 in Iran over the past 24 hours, spokeswoman for Ministry of Health and Medical Education Sima Sadat Lari said on Wednesday. [custom_adv] Mehrdad Minavand is a former professional footballer. He played mostly as a left midfielder but was also deployed as a left winger or left-back. The provisional counts for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) deaths are based on a current flow of mortality data in the National Vital Statistics System. [custom_adv] National provisional counts include deaths occurring within the 50 states and the District of Columbia that have been received and coded as of the date specified. It is important to note that it can take several weeks for death records to be submitted to National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), processed, coded, and tabulated. [custom_adv] Therefore, the data shown on this page may be incomplete, and will likely not include all deaths that occurred during a given time period, especially for the more recent time periods. [custom_adv] Death counts for earlier weeks are continually revised and may increase or decrease as new and updated death certificate data are received from the states by NCHS. COVID-19 death counts shown here may differ from other published sources, as data currently are lagged by an average of 1–2 weeks. [custom_adv] Minavand died Wednesday night after a battle with COVID-19. He had been hospitalized at the Laleh Hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU) in Tehran last week. Minavand started his career at Tehran based football club Pas in 1994 but joined Persepolis a year later. [custom_adv] The left winger also played for Austrian club Sturm Graz and Charleroi from Belgium before returning to Persepolis once again in 2002. Minavand was a member of national football team in the 1998 FIFA World Cup.
