Steven Beitashour @ Los Angeles FC | 2018/19

[Galactika]

I am really jealous of Beitashour who is coached by Bob Bradley, I think he has a better manager than most of our current TM players

so what, he's 32 years old with only 6 TM caps
A good coach will mean nothing now unless he wants to become a successful coach one day

[ideannakhjavani]

I am really jealous of Beitashour who is coached by Bob Bradley, I think he has a better manager than most of our current TM players

[Galactika]

Just saw an interview of him on the net and also a video of him playing FIFA.

[Team Melli Fan]

Season opener

[Leicester City]

Iranian rapper, Erfan Payadar attended the game.

[Farhad21]

Went to the game today,
They only had xl size farsi jersy left,
Good atmosphere,

[The Farbod]

Where are u ?

Ya stadium is nice and u can walk up to the gate and see crowd. The restaurant and bar areas are always open. so even if its not game day u can go visit that and the store. They have really nice gear as well

The Farsi shirt is $30

I live in Downtown, so really close by.

[EKBATAN]

I really need to make it to more games, especially since I'm only a few miles away from the Stadium

Where are u ?

Ya stadium is nice and u can walk up to the gate and see crowd. The restaurant and bar areas are always open. so even if its not game day u can go visit that and the store. They have really nice gear as well

The Farsi shirt is $30

[The Farbod]

Thats a great video. I was there. He had a really nice turnout and when they interviewed him, they talked a lot about the world cup. Max Bretos, the interviewer mentioned how he loved Iran games and most of the people buying the shirts were non-Iranian. LAFC is really doing things right. They have a nice stadium too.

I really need to make it to more games, especially since I'm only a few miles away from the Stadium

[EKBATAN]

Thats a great video. I was there. He had a really nice turnout and when they interviewed him, they talked a lot about the world cup. Max Bretos, the interviewer mentioned how he loved Iran games and most of the people buying the shirts were non-Iranian. LAFC is really doing things right. They have a nice stadium too.

[ideannakhjavani]

https://twitter.com/Sbeita33/status/1053054429476188160

I think we underestimate the amount of love Beitashour has for his Persian pride, his heritage and the glory he still keeps from playing with Team Melli, even for a couple of years. Myself living in California and being surrounded with so much commotion over MLS and the abundance of international players it now has, NO other club has done something like this for their players, let alone the only Iranian in the country's professional league. Say what you want about the "Arabic-esque" font, but look at the guy's intentions, he most definitely didn't know any better. The shirt was his idea.

[aenima_8]

"LAFC Co-Owner Will Ferrell Announces Former Aztec Soccer Player Expecting Baby With Wife"

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/LAFC-Co-Owner-Will-Ferrell-Announces-Player-and-Former-Aztec-Expecting-Baby-With-Wife-494327111.html

"LAFC benefiting from the 'Beitashour Effect'

Steven Beitashour’s MLS resume includes stops in four cities in two countries, meaning he’s played for as many teams as he’s scored goals during a nine-year career.

But the defender, now with the Los Angeles Football Club, left his mark on all four teams in another way: by turning them into winners.

As an MLS rookie he joined a San Jose Earthquakes team coming off two straight losing seasons. Three years later, the Quakes set franchise records for wins and points while reaching the playoff quarterfinals.

He next moved to Vancouver, which had made the playoffs just once. In Beitashour’s two seasons there, the Whitecaps reached 50 points in successive seasons, advanced to the conference semifinals and won a Canadian championship. Then he signed with Toronto, a team that had gone nine seasons without a winning record. In his two years there, Beitashour helped Toronto to two MLS Cup finals, a league-record 69-point season in 2017 and the only treble — an MLS title, a domestic cup win and a Supporters’ Shield — in league history.

None of those teams finished with a winning record the year after Beitashour left.

“One guy called it ‘the Beitashour Effect,’” he said with a chuckle.

That might be the best way to describe Beitashour’s Midas touch, which is now turning LAFC’s first season to gold. Heading into Saturday’s road match with the lowly Chicago Fire, his fourth team is on pace to finish with the best record of any MLS expansion club.

Beitashour has been a big reason why, anchoring the defense at right back by playing more minutes and making as many starts as any field player other than midfielder Benny Feilhaber.

“He’s an intelligent player. He reads situations well,” coach Bob Bradley said. “Steve came here knowing that he had played an important role in Toronto and maybe not everyone around the league recognized that.

“He came here to show everybody that he’s a very good player.”

It’s that last element — the desire to prove himself — that has been driving Beitashour for most of his career. While he has universally been seen as one of the best fullbacks in the league, he’s also changed teams three times in the last five years.

“I had great excuses to take the chip off my shoulder after last year. But then, sure enough, I find plenty of reasons,” said Beitashour, who has been forced to change teams every time his contract expires. “Toronto doesn’t want to pay me to keep me. That’s more chips to put on the shoulder.”

Beitashour’s base salary has grown from $49,612 in 2013, his final season in San Jose, to $275,000 this year, according to the MLS players union. But he doesn’t believe that increase in salary matches his experience and contributions over the last five years, especially since LAFC had nine contracts larger than Beitashour’s this season.

“A team is paying you to do a job. And if you do it well and they want to keep you, they give you an increase. If they don’t, they’ll bring someone else in,” he said with a shrug.

This is the time of year where Beitashour, 31, really proves his worth. With a postseason berth all but guaranteed, Bradley’s challenge will be to keep a young LAFC team with little MLS playoff experience focused over the final five weeks of the regular season. Beitashour, whose 15 postseason games lead the team, will be instrumental in that.

“Experience always helps. Experience of being on a good team and knowing how little things at the end of the season count for more,” Bradley said. “Those are areas where Steve is very important for us.”"

http://www.latimes.com/sports/soccer/la-sp-lafc-20180928-story.html

[mistermo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spOc_9ZhshU Will Ferrel & Stevie B on the late show with James Corden

[ideannakhjavani]

Beitashour reposted Maz Jobrani's photo: Persian pride is activated in this guy finally
@Anyone of us in LA: You can buy the Farsi shirts at the Banc of California Stadium

I really wanna see this guy play for TM again, at least in friendlies or to be included in the roster at Asian Cup 2019

[EKBATAN]

Apparently LAFC making some farsi shirts for beitashour idk if they will actually be wearing them in match
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn6r9c_F...-by=mazjobrani

I hope they sell these. They look nice