Mohammad Karimi

Central Midfielder - Gostaresh Foulad
14 Oct 2026
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Process

Marked for Mohammad Karimi

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The Gostaresh Foulad Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

The cup run ends for Gostaresh Foulad

1‑3 against Persepolis, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Market

Reza Hajsafi hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Gostaresh Foulad can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tempers go at Gostaresh Foulad

Diego Aravena 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.

Match

Gostaresh Foulad find a way past Sepahan

Sepahan made Gostaresh Foulad work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Amir Cheshmi stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.32 on the card, and the Gostaresh Foulad support went home talking about one name.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Mohammad Karimi

“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.

In brief

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The Gostaresh Foulad Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Mehdi Karimi

47 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.

Match

Gostaresh Foulad let it slip despite Shahriar Azmoun

Shahriar Azmoun had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Rah Ahan were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.

Squad

Mehdi Shojaei 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.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Gostaresh Foulad

3 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.

Squad

Mohammad Karimi signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mohammad Karimi and Gostaresh Foulad agree another 2 years.

Squad

Mehdi Karimi 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.

Market

Gostaresh Foulad promote Reza Gholizadeh from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Reza Gholizadeh 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.

Market

Kaveh Gholizadeh steps up from the Gostaresh Foulad academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Kaveh Gholizadeh 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.

Market

One of our own: Hossein Mohammadi joins the Gostaresh Foulad first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Hossein Mohammadi is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief