Carlos Luque

Left Midfielder - Naft Tehran
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54 Edition

The Naft Tehran Sentinel

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad9 Aug 2027

Akbar Safarzadeh damages knee ligaments — 133 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 133 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match7 Aug 2027

The wait goes on for Naft Tehran

6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Match7 Aug 2027

4 matches without a goal for Naft Tehran

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Player ratings9 Aug 2027

Welinton Júnior runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad9 Aug 2027

Tempers go at Naft Tehran

Welinton Júnior was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad9 Aug 2027

Kaveh Cheshmi is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Match7 Aug 2027

A bad afternoon for Naft Tehran against Saba

0‑1 to Saba, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad9 Aug 2027

Carlos Luque signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Carlos Luque commits to Naft Tehran for another 2 years.

Player ratings9 Aug 2027

The game went through Amir Ghoddos — 6.64

Marked 6.64 on 10 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.

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The Naft Tehran Sentinel

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad12 Jul 2027

Federico Flores breaks a bone — 44 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 44 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match12 Jul 2027

Naft Tehran sink to position 14

18 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Squad12 Jul 2027

Words at Naft Tehran training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Akbar Safarzadeh is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

In brief

31 Edition

The Naft Tehran Sentinel

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces1 Mar 2027

The mood at Naft Tehran has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Squad1 Mar 2027

Behnam Teymourian damages knee ligaments — 32 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 32 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Boardroom1 Mar 2027

The scrutiny sharpens at Naft Tehran

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Naft Tehran is running low.

In brief

6 Edition

The Naft Tehran Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match2 Sep 2026

Naft Tehran out of the cup

Padideh ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Match5 Sep 2026

7 matches without a win for Naft Tehran

The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Naft Tehran are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Welinton Júnior, 33, rolls back the years — 7.92

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.92 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

The Naft Tehran board want somebody sold

The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Welinton Júnior in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Naft Tehran this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad7 Sep 2026

No hiding place for Ofir Marciano

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ofir Marciano, and the manager let it.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Carlos Luque runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Ofir Marciano dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Match5 Sep 2026

Welinton Júnior rescues a point for Naft Tehran

It needed Welinton Júnior to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Saipa, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief

2 Edition

The Naft Tehran Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad10 Aug 2026

A move Welinton Júnior would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Welinton Júnior is living that version at Naft Tehran, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Welinton Júnior stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Welinton Júnior and Naft Tehran agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Naft Tehran

Welinton Júnior was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Market10 Aug 2026

Naft Tehran and Ofir Marciano are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Alireza Haghighi dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Market10 Aug 2026

Luciano Cariaga brings the grey hairs Naft Tehran lacked

At 34, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.

In brief