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Rouzbeh Cheshmi

Iran · the desk

Defence, Iran

Sourced facts, dated and on the record. Squad membership, and his club when a source names one. Nothing invented; we don’t make players up.

At a glance

  • age

    32

    sourced with the squad

  • position

    Defence

    Iran

  • our board

    #1180

    of 1424 rated players

  • folded so far

    121′

    2 appearances

Sourced

squad
Iran · Defencefootball-data.org · 2026-06-29

Sourced context, nothing more. It never touches a call.

Our rating · the working

the board →

1570 ±71

his quality rating: club, age and measured output. The board orders by this plus his World Cup form, less a discount for how much we can measure him.

How the number is builtopenclose

1563 full roster Elo (−7 from national-team results)

the ± is how settled the number is, more minutes, tighter band

Tier 2, lineups + results, how rich the evidence is, not just how much

at or near his peak, no projected upside from age

Where he starts (his team’s strength, we refuse to invent what we haven’t measured) plus two fixed nudges make the quality rating above; the last line is what national-team results have added since, taking it to his full roster Elo.

starts at Iran's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point
1597
age curve at 32 (defences' curve)measured from the open archive by our own study (defenders: the published literature's shape), never fitted to our calls
-27
individual skill termour club xG models haven't seen enough of him for a confident read, so nothing is added, never guessed
+0
quality rating · club, age + measured output
1570
form: national-team results, 2 appearances121 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI
-7
full roster Elo · with results
1563

A forward-only shadow signal, as of 2024-02-03. The skill term comes from our own xG models over the open archive; the rest is earned, recorded per appearance, auditable, never back-filled. It never moves a live call.

The notebook

The lines a beat writer keeps, except every one of ours is read off the ledger above, auditable to the night. Nothing invented.

  • standing

    #1180 of 1424 rated players on our board.

What he’d cost · our estimate

We don’t price him yet. Our fee model leans on the level he plays at, and no trusted source has given us his club’s strength. We’d rather show nothing than a number we don’t trust.

The fee record · sourced

  • 2021-10-10UMM Salal → Esteghlal FCfree
  • 2020-10-09Esteghlal FC → UMM Salalundisclosed
  • 2015-07-01Saba Qom → Esteghlal FCundisclosed

Reported moves, dated and attributed (api-football.com), news facts, not a valuation site’s estimates. It never touches a call.

In our coverage · Iran’s record

  • at Egypt1–2Called it
  • at Belgium0–0Missed it
  • v New Zealand2–2Missed it

The newsroom’s calls on Iran. Team-level, never dressed up as a player stat.

Squad · sourced