Shahriar Karimi

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Damac
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The Damac Gazette

17 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad17 Apr 2028

Jonathan Okita damages knee ligaments — 37 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 37 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match17 Apr 2028

Damac refuse to drop out of the race

Position 3, 67 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Boardroom17 Apr 2028

Damac counting the cost

The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Damac now.

In brief

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80 Edition

The Damac Gazette

7 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad7 Feb 2028

Fahad Al-Shammari breaks a bone — 51 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 51 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match5 Feb 2028

Damac win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 92th minute. Al-Mojzel will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Player ratings7 Feb 2028

David Kaiki scores twice — 8.65

Two goals and a mark of 8.65 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market7 Feb 2028

Damac turn down Al-Ra'ed for Abdulrahman Al-Obaid

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

Market7 Feb 2028

Faisal Al-Bakr has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Damac they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Boardroom7 Feb 2028

Faisal Al-Bakr signs for Al-Hazem while still at Damac

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Faisal Al-Bakr has agreed terms with Al-Hazem for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad7 Feb 2028

Tempers go at Damac

Jonathan Okita 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.

Squad7 Feb 2028

Shahriar Karimi gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Shahriar Karimi has just signed for Damac, and for once the answer mattered.

Match5 Feb 2028

David Kaiki the difference as Damac beat Al-Mojzel

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: David Kaiki. 3‑2 against Al-Mojzel, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

In brief

55 Edition

The Esteghlal Ahvaz Courier

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match14 Aug 2027

The wait goes on for Esteghlal Ahvaz

17 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.

Squad16 Aug 2027

Hossein Mehraban breaks a bone — 32 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 32 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad16 Aug 2027

Tempers go at Esteghlal Ahvaz

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.

Match14 Aug 2027

The goals have deserted Esteghlal Ahvaz

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

Squad16 Aug 2027

Masaki Okino 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 ratings16 Aug 2027

Iliya Imani runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief