Mohammad Nekounam

Defensive Midfielder - Foolad
18 Sep 2038
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631 Edition

The Foolad Courier

30 Aug 2038
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces30 Aug 2038

Anger at Foolad spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Squad30 Aug 2038

Kaveh Ebrahimi breaks a bone — 52 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 52 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad30 Aug 2038

Adham Seha keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Foolad may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Match28 Aug 2038

Foolad find a way past Siah Jamegan

Siah Jamegan made Foolad work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings30 Aug 2038

Ali Kolahkaj in the eights

A performance of 9.01 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings30 Aug 2038

Ninety minutes of Pejman Vafaei at his very best

Marked 9.02. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Foolad.

Market30 Aug 2038

Eyes on Kaveh Hajsafi again

The phone has started ringing about Kaveh Hajsafi again, and this time the name on the line is Saipa. Foolad are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad30 Aug 2038

Majid Nekounam 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.

Squad30 Aug 2038

Mohammad Nekounam out for 39 days

The medical room confirms 39 days on the sidelines for Mohammad Nekounam, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

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615 Edition

The Foolad Courier

10 May 2038
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad10 May 2038

A knee injury of the worst kind for Vouria Azmoun

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

The terraces10 May 2038

The mood at Foolad has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Squad10 May 2038

Karim Moharrami breaks a bone — 19 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 19 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

In brief

601 Edition

The Foolad Courier

1 Feb 2038
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad1 Feb 2038

A knee injury of the worst kind for Saman Hosseini

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

Player ratings1 Feb 2038

No sign of nerves from Milad Karimi at 21 — 9.33

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Milad Karimi did not need any: 9.33, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad1 Feb 2038

A fracture rules Hossein Mohammadi out for 67 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.

Squad1 Feb 2038

Saeid Karimi keeps Foolad in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad1 Feb 2038

Mohammad Nekounam says Foolad 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.

Player ratings1 Feb 2038

A defender's afternoon for Morteza Noorafkan

Defensive actions: 24. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Market1 Feb 2038

Esteghlal Khuzestan expected to open talks for Milad Karimi

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Foolad will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Player ratings1 Feb 2038

Nobody could get near Pejman Vafaei

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match30 Jan 2038

Foolad see off Esteghlal Khuzestan

Three points for Foolad, 1‑0 the final word against Esteghlal Khuzestan in a contest settled by the finer margins.

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