Dionis Pera

Striker - Esteghlal Ahvaz
8 Oct 2027
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60 Edition

The Esteghlal Ahvaz Courier

20 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market20 Sep 2027

Carlos Cruz has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Esteghlal Ahvaz they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Match18 Sep 2027

The wait goes on for Esteghlal Ahvaz

4 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.

Boardroom20 Sep 2027

Esteghlal Ahvaz to lose Carlos Cruz for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Carlos Cruz has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Player ratings20 Sep 2027

Luna Iwamoto 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.

Squad20 Sep 2027

Mojtaba Moghtadaei 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 Esteghlal Ahvaz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad20 Sep 2027

Real improvement from Dionis Pera at Esteghlal Ahvaz

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Dionis Pera is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad20 Sep 2027

Words at Esteghlal Ahvaz training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Younes Shakeri 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.

Squad20 Sep 2027

Breiner Paz gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match18 Sep 2027

Esteghlal Ahvaz come up short against Esteghlal Khuzestan

Esteghlal Khuzestan left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

In brief

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58 Edition

The Esteghlal Ahvaz Courier

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match1 Sep 2027

Esteghlal Ahvaz out of the cup

Tractor ended it 0‑3. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

The terraces6 Sep 2027

A cup hiding at Tractor leaves Esteghlal Ahvaz explaining themselves

0-3, and long before the end the away end had switched from encouragement to something considerably more pointed. Nobody rings a phone-in about losing narrowly.

Player ratings6 Sep 2027

Nobody could get near Carlos Cruz

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Mojtaba Moghtadaei 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 Esteghlal Ahvaz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Real improvement from Nikitas Synolakis at Esteghlal Ahvaz

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Nikitas Synolakis is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Dionis Pera gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Dionis Pera has just signed for Esteghlal Ahvaz, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Words at Esteghlal Ahvaz training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Younes Shakeri 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.

Match4 Sep 2027

Zob Ahan take the points off Esteghlal Ahvaz

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Boardroom6 Sep 2027

Doors closed at Esteghlal Ahvaz

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

In brief