Mohammad Karimi

Defensive Midfielder - Sepahan
26 Nov 2026
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The Sepahan Sentinel

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Arash Rezavand breaks a bone — 82 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 82 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Words at Sepahan training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Iván Sánchez 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 Sepahan against Zob Ahan

0‑1 to Zob Ahan, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

Mohammed Reza Azadi gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Words exchanged at Sepahan

Saman Beiranvand 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

7 new faces, and Sepahan are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout

Reza Karimi: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Market

Hadi Mohammadi told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Hadi Mohammadi has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Sepahan.

The dugout

No place in the plan for Mohammed Reza Azadi

The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

In brief

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The Sepahan Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Mohammad Reza Akhbari keeps Sepahan in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Mohammad Karimi delivers — 7.30

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Mohammad Karimi scored, was marked 7.30, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Market

Sepahan say no — this time

The offer from Saipa for Mohammad Reza Bordbar was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Ricardo Alves signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ricardo Alves and Sepahan agree another 2 years.

Squad

Iván Sánchez wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Sepahan can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Squad

Ehsan Hajsafi calls time on his country

“146 caps was 146 more than the boy who started ever expected.” At 36 he has stepped away from the national side and has not stepped away from Sepahan.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Sepahan

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.

Market

Majid Taremi steps up from the Sepahan academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Majid Taremi has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Sepahan promote Ramin Karimi from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ramin Karimi has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief