Ali Kazemaini (born in Tehran, Iran) is a retired Iranian-American soccer forward and former men's head coach at Cleveland State.
He graduated from Orange High School in 1980 and entered Cleveland State University that fall.
In June 1983, the U.S. government discovered that he had allowed his student visa to lapse in January 1979, thus placing him in the country illegally.
[7] Both MISL and the Blast folded at the end of the season, and Kazemaini moved to the Canton Invaders of the National Professional Soccer League for the 1992–1993 season,[8][better source needed] after having appeared for the North York Rockets in the outdoor Canadian Soccer League.
[9][better source needed] In 1992, John Carroll University hired Kazemaini as head coach.