Peshraw Azizi

Peshraw Azizi, born 19 January 1988 in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan, plays as a defender and is team captain for Dalkurd FF in Sweden, competing in the Superettan.

Azizi has acquired Swedish nationality, but in 2014 began returning to Kurdistan each year during the Swedish association football off-season. During one such visit, he signed a three-month contract to play for Zeravani SC in the Kurdish League. However, his main reasons for visiting Iraqi Kurdistan are humanitarian. During the summer of 2015, he and a few friends gathered kr 200,000 (US$23711) in Sweden, and then traveled to Kurdistan to apply the funds to charitable projects, such as distributing basic necessities and planting food crops. He is also involved with Dalkurd FF in social projects in their own city of Borlänge, Sweden.