According to the reporter, Nasaji and Al Hilal football teams met in the sixth week of the Asian Champions League 2023 on Monday evening, December 13, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and this game ended with the result two on one It ended in favor of Al-Hilal team. At the end of this game, Sadegh Droodgar resigned from his position in this club by publishing a letter.
In this regard, the members of the board of directors of the textile club agreed with the resignation of Darudgar, and Hamidreza Baindrian was appointed as the vice chairman of the board of directors while retaining his position as the acting CEO of this club. In the following, we have taken a look at Sadegh Droodgar’s career in the Mazandaran Textile Club, which you will read below.
Darudgar’s return to textile after 6 years
On June 10, 1402, after holding a meeting in the textile club’s board of directors, by the decision of the members, Sadegh Daroodgar was elected as the new CEO of this club and replaced Izad Saifullahpour. This was not the first time that Droodger was introduced as the CEO of this club, and he was previously elected as the CEO of this club in 2013-2014, and he remained in this position for one year.
Droodgar is one of the Marco Poloi managers of the country’s sports. He has the experience of being the chairman of the Futsal Committee of the Football Federation, the vice president of development and research of the Iran Football Clubs Union, the marketing manager of the Football League Organization, the management of Tractor and Sailor Clubs, the supervisor and advisor to the owner of Steel Azin Club in his career.
In the total of his activities in different clubs, he could not leave acceptable statistics and did not last long in his posts. During the years 1391 to 1392, he served as the CEO of Melvan Club, and this team ranked 13th in the table at the end of the 1391-92 season. At the beginning of the 1390-1991 season, Darudgar was also in the management chair of this team, and Melvan was ranked 15th in the table that year. Darudgar ended his work in this team in January 2013 and separated from Melan.
Introducing Skocic to Iranian football
Drudger played a prominent role in the entry of Dragan Skocic into Iranian football and by selecting him as the head coach of Anzali White Strong, this Croatian coach was introduced to Iranian clubs. Of course, some time later due to Skocic’s complaint, the sailor club, which was struggling with financial problems at that time, was sentenced to pay 60 thousand dollars.
After Droodgar’s separation from Melvan, accusations were raised about his activities, and this news manager answered all the accusations against his position in a letter in May 2014 and defended his performance.
Poor performance of tailor in textile
On August 11, 2014, Darudgar was elected as the CEO of Mazandaran textile team. At that time, the first division league matches are held in two groups, A and B, and at the end of the season, Nasaji team was in third place after Foladnovin and Mes Kerman with 34 points and could not enter the premier league. At the beginning of 2014, Nasaji started his career with the management of Droodgar, but the results of this team were not to the liking of the fans, and after Paulo Alves, the Portuguese head coach, fired Nasaji from his position, his management life in this club did not last long. He resigned from his position on 28 September 1394.
After leaving Nasaji, Droodgar was elected as a member of the board of directors of the league organization and then as the marketing manager of this institution. After some time, on August 8, 1397, by the decree of Mohammad Reza Zenozi, the owner of Tractor Club, Droodgar was introduced as the CEO of this club. During the management of Droodgar in his tractor, John Tushak brought the famous Welsh coach to Tabriz to lead the tractor and signed a contract with Masoud Shojaei and Ashkan Dezhage.
At that time, the discussion of the presence of Mehdi Torabi, a Persepolis player, as a player-soldier in the Tractor team was so hot that Darudgar could not bring Torabi to Tractor. The end of Droodgar’s work at Tractor was much earlier than expected and he resigned from his position on August 22, 1397.
Going back and forth to the Football Federation
After the Droodgar tractor, he returned to the Football Federation and was appointed as the head of the economic organization of the Football Federation on July 13, 2018. During Droodgar’s presidency of this body, problems with the balls of the Premier League matches were raised and most of the players and coaches were dissatisfied with its bags. On June 23, 2013, during a controversial statement, Droodgar raised the possibility of collusion in one of Tractor’s matches, which was accompanied by a sharp reaction from the managers of the club at the time, and they complained about this football manager to the authorities of the Football Federation.
On July 21, 1401, when he was responsible for the marketing committee of the Football League organization, Droodgar had many challenges with the managers of Esteghlal and Persepolis clubs regarding environmental advertising and broadcast rights. After the re-election of Mehdi Taj as the president of the Football Federation, Darudgar resigned from his position in the board of the league organization. Darudgar’s name was seen as the second vice president of one of the candidates of the Football Federation, and he also left his position when Mehdi Taj was voted in.
Completing inefficiencies by removing textiles from Asia
On May 16, 1402, he registered as a candidate for the post of the head of the football board of Tehran province, and shortly after, he was elected as the CEO of Mazandaran textile. During the 6 months of Droodgar’s second term as president of this club, the textile team did not have a good time. The team, which was participating in the Asian competitions for the first time, ended its work by gaining 6 points and being eliminated in the group stage, and in 11 weeks from In the league matches, Nasaji is in the 15th place with 6 points from 9 games and it has to be seen whether this team can return to its good days under Hamidreza Bayandrian’s management of Nasaji.