Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe Persian Prince has already seen a well-travelled career and found himself living in Darlington somewhat by accident in 2021. Vafaei relocated to County Durham where he practiced at the Q House Academy with players including Zhou Yuelong, Thepchaiya Un-nooh and compatriot Soheil Vahedi.<\/p>\n
After travelling to the United Kingdom for the World Championship, lockdown struck and he remained. “At the moment I\u2019m living in Darlington, for the last World Championship I came with one small suitcase and after that I couldn\u2019t go back,” Vafaei said at the time.<\/p>\n
“I just came by myself, I couldn\u2019t even go back to change my clothes or anything, and now everything\u2019s closed I couldn\u2019t buy anything. Oh my God, what I\u2019ve done, trying to lose some weight! I ordered stuff but it was too big, so I had to wait till lockdown finished to go to the shop.”<\/p>\n
More recently, Vafaei took up residence in Sheffield. A decision he was very pleased about when it came to competing at this year’s World Championship at the Crucible.<\/p>\n
\u201cI live in Sheffield,” he said. I wake up from my own bed, I come to the match. Perfect.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s why I came to live in Sheffield and be beside the Crucible, and to imagine one day lifting the trophy, and then it should happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vafaei was the only qualifier to make it past the first round last month before ultimately falling to eventual champion Wu Yize in the quarter-finals. Wu also resides in Sheffield, training at Ding Junhui\u2019s academy.<\/p>\n
“Sheffield is a snooker city. They love snooker. Lots of snooker academies here, lots of good international restaurants,” Vafaei has also said on living in the Steel City.<\/p>\n
“Whenever you want to play someone, there\u2019s always someone for you to play and not easy opponents, they always give you a good game. Sheffield is a good city.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Snooker star Hossein Vafaei looks primed to set up a new home in Hong Kong after being granted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1772,15532,15531,15530,15529,15533,5,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-33276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"tag-hong-kong","9":"tag-hong-kong-residency","10":"tag-hossein-vafaei","11":"tag-ronnie-osullivan","12":"tag-snooker","13":"tag-snooker-relocation","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116553984384403025","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}