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Pedram Ardalany

Glasgow footballer

Telegraph: It is the things that Pedram Ardalany is too wary of discussing in detail which are, in many ways, the most revealing. Ask him why, as a 15-year-old, he and his father risked all by fleeing Iran and embarking upon a tortuous escape route through Turkey, Greece, Italy and Holland before seeking asylum in Britain in 2004. His reply is brief, but studiously courteous. "I am sorry, but I would rather not go into the reasons. Please understand, it is very difficult for me to talk about politics."... Ask him how he felt when, after abandoning the Ardalany family's tyre business and their comfortable home in Teheran, he and his father would spend three bleak months locked away in a refugee camp before being sent to the notorious Sighthill area of Glasgow with its 10 tombstone-grey, high-rise apartment blocks, and he shrugs matter-of-factly. "Sighthill is not as bad as some people say.">>>FULL TEXT

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30-Dec-2007
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Good Luck!

by Irooni (not verified) on Mon Dec 31, 2007 08:28 PM PST

Feel sorry for his mother & sister :( Hopefully he will be nice enough to help them come to UK too...
Wish him all the best in his career!


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Best of Luck

by parisa t (not verified) on Mon Dec 31, 2007 04:18 PM PST

I wish Pedram and his family (wherever they are) the Best of Luck and Happiness from now on.
He sounds like a wonderful, humble, optiistic young man with a great future ahead of him.
You go Pedram!


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Where's his MOM?

by protecting mothers of Iran (not verified) on Mon Dec 31, 2007 11:57 AM PST

I hope this truly is a case of political asylum and not parental alienation/kidnapping.


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political asylum thing....

by mexican (not verified) on Mon Dec 31, 2007 08:16 AM PST

that's your business, dude. but, i would seek political asylum in any country no matter how fucked up the akhoonds get. which by the way, i am not an opposition.
political asylum is simply digrading.
enjoy the rangers, dude. i did when gaza "paul" was playing for the rangers.


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