The brother of former Team Melli captain, Serjik Teymourian (46) passed away this morning in Tehran after suffering fatal injuries in a motorcycle crash.

Serjik who was born in Tehran on 29th May 1974, started his football career like most Iranian-Armenian players with Ararat. He was soon discovered by Esteghlal and joined the famous club in 1993. He played from p Esteghlal until the season 1998 where he joined the Bundesliga team Mainz 05. He was in Germany for two seasons.

Serjik played several international selection games for Tehran and Iran XI teams.

God bless his soul.