The Rah Ahan Herald
Squad27 Sep 2027
Danijel Zagorac keeps Rah Ahan in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Kaveh Cheshmi, 33, rolls back the years — 8.31
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.31 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market27 Sep 2027
Sardar Mohammadi asks to leave Rah Ahan
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Kei Uchiyama 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 Rah Ahan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Nobody could get near Alireza Koushki
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Rah Ahan lose Ehsan Ebrahimi
20 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Mohammad Shojaei 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.
Match25 Sep 2027
Rah Ahan and Esteghlal Khuzestan take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
A day to forget for Mohammad Shojaei
Marked 5.76, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
In brief
- Market Mohammad Shojaei placed on the list
- Player ratings The referee tires of Farjad Fayaz
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Kaveh Cheshmi