Saman Vafaei

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Saba
3 Jan 2027
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Marked for Saman Vafaei

7 Edition

The Saba Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match12 Sep 2026

No end in sight to Saba's wait for a win

7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Saba has to find a result from somewhere.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Omid Shojaei

Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market14 Sep 2026

Alireza Moharrami wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Saba hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Karim Vafaei falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Pejman Hajsafi did the work nobody counts — 6.72

9 combined actions and 6.72. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.

Match12 Sep 2026

Saba share the spoils with Siah Jamegan

A 1‑1 draw with Siah Jamegan leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Squad14 Sep 2026

The manager makes an example of Mani Sharifnejad

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad14 Sep 2026

A Saba teenager takes the young player award

Saman Vafaei is 19, and for one weekend he was the best of everybody his age in the division. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Saeid Vafaei 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.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Saba Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad7 Sep 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Reza Beiranvand

20 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Saba lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match2 Sep 2026

The cup run ends for Saba

0‑1 against Tractor, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Match5 Sep 2026

6 matches without a win for Saba

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Saba are no longer polite ones.

Market7 Sep 2026

Mohammad Karimi puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Saba, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Alireza Moharrami 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 Saba this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Omid Shojaei

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad7 Sep 2026

The manager makes an example of Milad Cheshmi

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

A masterclass from Hossein Azmoun

Marked 8.20 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad7 Sep 2026

A month that belonged to Alireza Jahanbakhsh

The young player of the month award goes to a 20-year-old at Saba who has looked like the finished article for four weekends running. The next four are the ones that decide whether he is.

In brief