Mehdi Noorafkan

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Marked for Mehdi Noorafkan

106 Edition

The Gostaresh Foulad Sentinel

7 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad7 Aug 2028

Karim Ebrahimi breaks a bone — 47 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 47 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad7 Aug 2028

Vahid Azmoun 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.

Squad7 Aug 2028

Real improvement from Mehdi Noorafkan at Gostaresh Foulad

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Mehdi Noorafkan is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad7 Aug 2028

A late step up for Karim Azmoun

At 32 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Boardroom7 Aug 2028

Graduation day at Gostaresh Foulad

5 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.

Market7 Aug 2028

JS Kabylie join the queue for Umberto Melis

Add another name to the list: JS Kabylie have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Umberto Melis. The answer from Gostaresh Foulad has not changed — yet.

Match5 Aug 2028

A bad afternoon for Gostaresh Foulad against Rah Ahan

1‑2 to Rah Ahan, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Market7 Aug 2028

Vahid Noorafkan steps up from the Gostaresh Foulad academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Vahid Noorafkan 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.

Market7 Aug 2028

Gostaresh Foulad promote Shahriar Moharrami from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Shahriar Moharrami has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief

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97 Edition

The Gostaresh Foulad Sentinel

5 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad5 Jun 2028

A fracture rules Karim Ebrahimi out for 111 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Gostaresh Foulad will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Boardroom5 Jun 2028

Gostaresh Foulad put Kaveh Torabi on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Boardroom5 Jun 2028

Crisis meeting at Gostaresh Foulad

The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.

Market5 Jun 2028

As if he never left: Mehdi Noorafkan returns

Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Mehdi Noorafkan is a Gostaresh Foulad player again, and the town has its story of the summer.

Squad5 Jun 2028

Ahmad Abdollahzadeh 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.

Squad5 Jun 2028

Words at Gostaresh Foulad training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kaveh Shojaei 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.

Market5 Jun 2028

No place for Ahmad Abdollahzadeh in the plan

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

Squad5 Jun 2028

Khaled Al-Asbahi 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.

Market5 Jun 2028

Rah Ahan expected to open talks for Morteza Moharrami

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Gostaresh Foulad will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

In brief

59 Edition

The Gostaresh Foulad Sentinel

13 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad13 Sep 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Vouria Shojaei

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

Player ratings13 Sep 2027

Nobody could get near Majid Karimi

Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match11 Sep 2027

The wait goes on for Gostaresh Foulad

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.

Squad13 Sep 2027

Home is on José Luis Gamonal's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Gostaresh Foulad are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Match11 Sep 2027

The goals have deserted Gostaresh Foulad

4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Gostaresh Foulad can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad13 Sep 2027

Vahid Azmoun 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.

Squad13 Sep 2027

Milad Ebrahimi is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Match11 Sep 2027

A bad afternoon for Gostaresh Foulad against Sepahan

0‑1 to Sepahan, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Market13 Sep 2027

The market said no: Haza Shehab stays put

Gostaresh Foulad opened the door and nobody walked through it. So Haza Shehab stays — listed, trained, and available — while both sides mark the days to January on the same calendar.

In brief