Reza Rezaeian

Right Forward - Rah Ahan
31 Aug 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Reza Rezaeian

3 Edition

The Rah Ahan Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

The ground has had enough

“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 10 of the 27 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.

Market

Hajduk Split join the queue for Mehdi Rezaeian

Add another name to the list: Hajduk Split have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Mehdi Rezaeian. The answer from Rah Ahan has not changed — yet.

Squad

Saman Gholizadeh 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.

Match

Sepahan take the points off Rah Ahan

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Saeid Mohammadi

“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.

Squad

Costly mistake from Alireza Shojaei

An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Alireza Shojaei knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.

Squad

Alireza Shojaei is still paying for one afternoon at Rah Ahan

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

Player ratings

Reza Rezaeian leaves them behind him

Shots: 6. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.

Player ratings

Mohammad Azmoun 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

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The Rah Ahan Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Alireza Dejagah

Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Rah Ahan turn down Al-Faisaly for Reza Rezaeian

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Vahid Noorafkan 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

Words at Rah Ahan training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mehdi Rezaeian 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

The manager makes an example of Saman Gholizadeh

“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.

Player ratings

The one thing Reza Rezaeian could not do

Shots: 5, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.

Match

Mehdi Rezaeian rescues a point for Rah Ahan

It needed Mehdi Rezaeian to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Foolad, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Squad

Mehdi Rezaeian asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Player ratings

Ali Moharrami leaves them behind him

Shots: 4. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.

In brief

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The Rah Ahan Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Alireza Shojaei

There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Player ratings

A brace, and Reza Rezaeian takes the afternoon — 8.78

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Reza Rezaeian provided it, and the 8.78 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

Tempers go at Rah Ahan

Vahid Noorafkan 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.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Rah Ahan

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.

Match

Rah Ahan find a way past Gostaresh Foulad

Gostaresh Foulad made Rah Ahan work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Mehdi Rezaeian 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Mehdi Rezaeian

“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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Reza Rezaeian

At 21 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.

Market

Reza Rezaeian attracts admirers

The name of Reza Rezaeian has come up in conversations Rah Ahan were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

In brief