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Mehdi Bayat

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Mehdi Bayat
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Mehdigholi Bayat (born 6 January 1979 in Tehran) is an Iranian sports administrator who served as president of the Royal Belgian Football Association and managing director of Royal Charleroi Sporting Club.

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Biography

Mehdi Bayat spent his childhood and teenage years in the Cannes area. While his parents regularly traveled to Iran, he decided to settle in the south of France. As a young teenager, he was under the thumb of his older brother Mogi Bayat, who was five years his senior.[1]

Mehdi Bayat attended school there, graduating from the EDHEC Business School. In the early 2000s, at the age of 21, he returned to Iran for a year.

Upon his return to France, Mehdi Bayat first worked with his brother in Paris at their uncle Abbas's company, before going on to manage a communications company in the south of France.

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Career

Born in Tehran and raised in Cannes, Mehdi Bayat has been the managing director of Charleroi since September 2012.[2][3][4] He became President of the Royal Belgian Football Association in 2019.[5]

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