The Rah Ahan Herald
Squad16 Jan 2040
A knee injury of the worst kind for Reza Rezaeian
95 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Rah Ahan lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match14 Jan 2040
The run at home goes on for Rah Ahan
16 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Player ratings16 Jan 2040
A defender's goal wins it for Rah Ahan — 7.98
1 for Karim Nekounam, marked 7.98, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Squad16 Jan 2040
Ehsan Gholizadeh keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Rah Ahan may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad16 Jan 2040
Tempers go at Rah Ahan
Reza Mirzaeian 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.
Squad16 Jan 2040
Words at Rah Ahan training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Majid Mohammadi 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.
In brief
- Match Rah Ahan find a way past Naft Tehran
- Player ratings Maya Tomiyasu runs at them all day
- Market Karim Nekounam linked with a move away