Ehsan Karimi

Left Midfielder - Gostaresh Foulad
5 Nov 2026
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Marked for Ehsan Karimi

11 Edition

The Gostaresh Foulad Sentinel

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings12 Oct 2026

Nobody could get near Ehsan Karimi

Successful dribbles: 53. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Tempers go at Gostaresh Foulad

Kaveh 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.

The terraces12 Oct 2026

The crowd has taken to Ahmad Shojaei

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match10 Oct 2026

Gostaresh Foulad find a way past Esteghlal Khuzestan

Esteghlal Khuzestan made Gostaresh Foulad work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings12 Oct 2026

Ahmad Shojaei was the difference for Gostaresh Foulad

Marked 7.91. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Ehsan Pouraliganji 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.

In brief

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5 Edition

The Gostaresh Foulad Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market31 Aug 2026

Sardar Ghoddos asks to leave Gostaresh Foulad

“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.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Ehsan Karimi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market31 Aug 2026

Ehsan Beiranvand’s move to Siah Jamegan falls through

The deal that would have taken Ehsan Beiranvand to Siah Jamegan has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Gostaresh Foulad with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Gostaresh Foulad

Kaveh 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.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

The afternoon belonged to Kaveh Noorafkan

7.56, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Gostaresh Foulad had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Match29 Aug 2026

Honours even between Gostaresh Foulad and Foolad

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief

3 Edition

The Gostaresh Foulad Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Ahmad Shojaei scored one and made one — 7.90

Two of the goals had his name somewhere on them, which is the afternoon a manager wants from anybody asked to both create and finish. 7.90, and 2 involvements.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Gostaresh Foulad

Kaveh 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.

Match15 Aug 2026

Gostaresh Foulad see off Siah Jamegan

Three points for Gostaresh Foulad, 3‑1 the final word against Siah Jamegan in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Masoud Beiranvand 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 ratings17 Aug 2026

Ashkan Noorafkan runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The terraces17 Aug 2026

The crowd has taken to Ahmad Shojaei

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Ali Nekounam 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.

Market17 Aug 2026

Still no ink between Gostaresh Foulad and Sardar Vafaei

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Gostaresh Foulad, another week without a signature from Sardar Vafaei.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Ali Hajsafi is off the mark for Gostaresh Foulad

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

In brief

2 Edition

The Gostaresh Foulad Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Ehsan Karimi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Gostaresh Foulad

Kaveh 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.

Match8 Aug 2026

Gostaresh Foulad come up short against Persepolis

Persepolis left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Amir Hossein Neshatjoo 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.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Kaveh Pouraliganji 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

Talks stall between Gostaresh Foulad and Kaveh Pouraliganji

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Ramin Dejagah signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ramin Dejagah commits to Gostaresh Foulad for another 3 years.

Market10 Aug 2026

No place for Mehdi Noorafkan in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Mehdi Noorafkan has his answer from Gostaresh Foulad; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Market10 Aug 2026

Experience through the door at Gostaresh Foulad

Yousef Vakia arrives at 33 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.

In brief

1 Edition

The Gostaresh Foulad Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad3 Aug 2026

Kaveh 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 Gostaresh Foulad this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom3 Aug 2026

Graduation day at Gostaresh Foulad

1 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Words at Gostaresh Foulad training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Masoud Beiranvand 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Kaveh Khodadad steps up from the Gostaresh Foulad academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Kaveh Khodadad has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Ehsan Karimi stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.37 on the card, and the Gostaresh Foulad support went home talking about one name.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Kaveh Pouraliganji knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Gostaresh Foulad, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Amir Hosseini 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.

Boardroom3 Aug 2026

Gostaresh Foulad turn down the training-ground plan

It is the quietest way a club tells you what its ambitions are. The money was asked for, the money was refused, and the people who work there every day now know exactly where they stand.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Ahmad Shojaei runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief