Mohammad Ebrahimi

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Esteghlal Khuzestan U20
3 May 2029
Thursday
Process

Marked for Mohammad Ebrahimi

64 Edition

The Esteghlal Khuzestan Herald

18 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Mohammad Ebrahimi out for 34 days

34 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Esteghlal Khuzestan lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

The dugout

Ehsan Kheradpishe says Esteghlal Khuzestan went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market

Ahmad Savari is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Esteghlal Khuzestan is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Match

No end in sight to Esteghlal Khuzestan's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Esteghlal Khuzestan has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

A falling-out at Esteghlal Khuzestan

Mohammad Sharifi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Player ratings

Gabriel Carvalho ran the middle of the pitch — 6.85

He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 14 combined actions and a mark of 6.85, and not one of them will make a highlights package.

Squad

Words at Esteghlal Khuzestan training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mohammad Reza Mehdizadeh 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Esteghlal Khuzestan against Persepolis

0‑2 to Persepolis, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

No hiding place for Mohammad Javad Kia

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mohammad Javad Kia, and the manager let it.

In brief

Back issues
63 Edition

The Esteghlal Khuzestan Herald

11 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Mohammad Ebrahimi

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

Market

Abolfazl Koohi 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 Esteghlal Khuzestan can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Mehdi Mousavi is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Esteghlal Khuzestan is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Words exchanged at Esteghlal Khuzestan

Mohammad Hossein Zavari and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Mohammad Sharifi 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

Amir Hossein Jalalivand stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Amir Hossein Jalalivand and Esteghlal Khuzestan agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout

No hiding place for Amir Hossein Jalalivand

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Amir Hossein Jalalivand, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Mohammad Reza Mehdizadeh knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Mohammad Reza Mehdizadeh trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

A promise honoured at Esteghlal Khuzestan

Something was said to Sepehr Simanpour and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

In brief