Midfielder Mehdi Mahdavikia has been released by Eintracht Frankfurt and is to return to Iran to play for Tehran side Asin Steel, the Bundesliga club said on Monday.
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Mahdavikia, whose contract was due to expire at the end of the season, has been allowed to leave with immediate effect, the club said.
The 32-year-old joined Frankfurt in the summer of 2007 from SV Hamburg and was previously at VfL Bochum. He has played 255 Bundesliga games scoring 29 goals.