The Foolad Courier
Match12 Sep 2026
Sepahan take the points off Foolad
Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Foolad training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Saeid Sadeghi 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Vahid Amiri runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Foolad
Darío Pereira 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Sina Asadbeigi
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sina Asadbeigi, and the manager let it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
The one thing Sasan Ansari could not do
Shots: 11, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
Ali Kolahkaj wants to come home
“I did not go to Al-Hilal to sit and watch. I want to come back to Foolad and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Amir Masoud Sarabadani is still paying for one afternoon at Foolad
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
One moment undoes Amir Masoud Sarabadani
There was one mistake and it ended in the net. Defenders are judged on the worst thing they did rather than on the eighty-nine minutes either side of it, which is unfair and is also the job.
In brief
- Player ratings Alireza Amirkhani never got going
- Market The window shut and Alireza Nazi is still in the building