IRNA- Isfahan's Sepahan and German club VfL
Bochum have reached an agreement to transfer national midfielder Moharram
Navidkia to the Bundesliga-bound team, said directorate head of Iranian club
Monday.
Mehdi Taj added that Navidkia will surely play for Bochum next season.
According to the official, the midfielder who has sustained a left knee
injury will most likely travel to Germany to undergo treatment whose
expenses will be borne by Sepahan and Football Federation.
Navidkia has been scheduled to return home after two weeks, train for a
month, and then join the German team.
On June 3, a Bochum spokesman announced that Navidkia has signed a
three-year contract with the club.
"The contract will become effective on July 1, provided Navidkia can pass a
medical test on his injured left knee," VfL Bochum spokesman Christian
Gruber told IRNA.
"We don't know the exact severity of his knee injury but if Navidkia's
recuperation goes according to plan, the contract will go into effect," he
added.
Navidkia picked a torn ligament on his left knee during Iran's Olympic
qualifier against South Korea.
The midfielder, who is the third Iranian footballer to join Bochum after
Mehdi Mahdavikia and Vahid Hashemian, was voted Iran's player of the year in
2003.
The 21-year-old player is considered as one of Asia's greatest football
talents.
