Hashemian To Rejoin VfL Bochum

GOAL - Iranian striker Vahid Hashemian has agreed to return to former club VfL Bochum at the end of the season, it has been confirmed.

The news that current club Hannover 96 had agreed to sign Bayern Munich outcast Jan Schlaudraff confirmed once-and-for-all that Hashemian's days at the AWD-Arena were over.

The Iranian had a solid spell at the club upon first signing back in the 2005/05 season, continuing his trend of finding the net under then-coach Peter Neururer, under whom he had played at three separate German clubs.

But with Neururer's sacking and the eventual appointment of Dieter Hecking came a barren run of games where Hashemian was at best a substitute, and he has now been permitted to leave on a free transfer at the end of this campaign.

His destination is former club VfL Bochum, for whom he enjoyed one of his most successful career spells, netting 34 times in 87 league games between 2001 and 2004, enough to secure him a high-profile move to Bayern Munich. Hashemian will sign a two-year deal with the North-Rhine Westphalia outfit with the option to extend the agreement at a later date.