Asghar Shadin "Cha Cha" Namdar is a retired Iranian-American soccer player who spent time in the Major Indoor Soccer League, North American Soccer League and Continental Indoor Soccer League. Namdar grew up in Tehran, where he played for the Iranian youth soccer team. He attended college and played soccer at Texas Tech University. During his college years, he tended bar in Chicago where a waitress named him "Cha Cha". In 1980, Namdar walked into an open Phoenix Inferno tryout and received a contract from the Major Indoor Soccer League club. He played for the Inferno for two seasons before being released in 1982. He then attended an open tryout with the San Diego Sockers as it prepared for the 1982–1983 MISL season. He again received a contract and would spend two years with the Sockers. At