The Foolad Courier
Squad5 Aug 2030
A fracture rules Milad Sarlak out for 74 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Foolad will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match3 Aug 2030
Foolad make it 5 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Foolad have 5 straight wins of it.
Player ratings5 Aug 2030
Age has not caught Saeid Sadeghi yet — 8.13
At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.13 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Boardroom5 Aug 2030
Foolad tie Kaveh Dejagah down
A new deal for the man in the dugout, and the clearest thing a board can say without calling a press conference about it. Stability is cheap to promise and expensive to deliver.
Squad5 Aug 2030
Real improvement from Mehdi Rezaeian at Foolad
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Mehdi Rezaeian is 17, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Boardroom5 Aug 2030
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Foolad
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad5 Aug 2030
Words at Foolad training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Saeid Sadeghi 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.
Squad5 Aug 2030
Oscar Acuña signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Oscar Acuña commits to Foolad for another 4 years.
The terraces5 Aug 2030
Foolad supporters have found a favourite in Abolfazl Zadehattar
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Abolfazl Zadehattar has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
In brief
- Match Abolfazl Zadehattar the difference as Foolad beat Esteghlal Ahvaz
- Match Foolad are at home on the road
- Market One of our own: Pejman Gholizadeh joins the Foolad first team