The Saba Sentinel
Squad3 Aug 2026
Ravid Olezki takes the match ball home
5 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Match1 Aug 2026
Ravid Olezki leads the rout of Naft Tehran
8‑0, and Ravid Olezki took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Saba tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Ofek Peretz takes the match ball home
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Ravid Olezki, 18, plays like he has been here for years — 8.46
A mark of 8.46 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 18-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Vahid Asgarpour arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Vahid Asgarpour has, at Saba, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Alireza Naghizadeh in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Saba this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match1 Aug 2026
8 goals as Saba and Naft Tehran go for it
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 8 goals between Saba and Naft Tehran, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Boardroom3 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Saba
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.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
Saba supporters have found a favourite in Ofek Peretz
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Ofek Peretz has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
In brief
- Market Ashkan Cheshmi steps up from the Saba academy
- Market One of our own: Amir Torabi joins the Saba first team
- Market Ahmad Mohammadi steps up from the Saba academy