Mohammad Dejagah

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Rah Ahan
28 Feb 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Mohammad Dejagah

12 Edition

The Rah Ahan Herald

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Amir Jahanbakhsh damages knee ligaments — 17 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 17 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.

The dugout

Ahmad Ebrahimi: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Rah Ahan have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Tempers go at Rah Ahan

Majid Pouraliganji 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.

Squad

Words at Rah Ahan training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hossein Yazdani 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.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Majid Pouraliganji

9 goals and a season average of 7.26 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Match

Rah Ahan refuse to lose to Esteghlal Ahvaz

A point taken on 85 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.

Match

Majid Shojaei rescues a point for Rah Ahan

It needed Majid Shojaei to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Esteghlal Ahvaz, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout

No hiding place for Mohammad Dejagah

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

The dugout

Milad Noorafkan: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 2‑2 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

In brief

Back issues
11 Edition

The Rah Ahan Herald

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Amir Jahanbakhsh

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

Match

Rah Ahan taken apart

0‑3 to Tractor, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Squad

7 saves: Ahmad Hajsafi was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Player ratings

Ramin Noorafkan runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Majid Pouraliganji 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Rah Ahan

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ali Yazdani was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No hiding place for Amin Pourali

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

Boardroom

Doors closed at Rah Ahan

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

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑3 defeat, delivered by Milad Noorafkan to a room that had heard them before.

In brief