Mohammad Gholizadeh

Left Midfielder - Saba
21 Aug 2030
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169 Edition

The Saba Sentinel

22 Oct 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad22 Oct 2029

14 saves: Erfan Najjari was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 14 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Match20 Oct 2029

The wait goes on for Saba

12 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Match20 Oct 2029

Chastening afternoon for Saba

A 0‑3 beating by Esteghlal was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Market22 Oct 2029

Reza Galedar puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Saba, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match20 Oct 2029

Saba are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 7 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

Squad22 Oct 2029

Amir Shahim 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.

Squad22 Oct 2029

A row about effort at Saba

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mohammad Reza Bordbar was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Boardroom22 Oct 2029

Nobody left the Saba dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

The dugout22 Oct 2029

Vahid Ebrahimi answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

In brief

Back issues
161 Edition

The Saba Sentinel

27 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings27 Aug 2029

Omid Cheshmi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings27 Aug 2029

Mohammad Reza Bordbar pops up at the right end — 7.86

7.86, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Transfer targets27 Aug 2029

Tai Žnuderl due for a Saba medical

Everything agreed with HNK Rijeka, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Transfer targets27 Aug 2029

Lassina Traoré turns down Saba

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Shakhtar keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad27 Aug 2029

Tempers go at Saba

Saeid Vasei 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.

Squad27 Aug 2029

A row about effort at Saba

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mohammad Reza Bordbar was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets27 Aug 2029

Dinamo Zagreb tell Saba: Tornike Morchiladze is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The dugout27 Aug 2029

The manager makes an example of Alireza Cheshmi

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match25 Aug 2029

Late, late show earns Saba a point

Minute 94, against Esteghlal Ahvaz, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.

In brief