Ehsan Ghoddos

Central Defender - Gostaresh Foulad
20 Jan 2027
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Ehsan Ghoddos

21 Edition

The Gostaresh Foulad Sentinel

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Ali Shojaei asks to leave Gostaresh Foulad

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Match

Cruel end for Sepahan as Gostaresh Foulad pounce

There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Gostaresh Foulad scored in the 90th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.

Match

Gostaresh Foulad make home a hard place to visit

11 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Squad

Masoud Karimi 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 Gostaresh Foulad this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Majid Moharrami falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match

Gostaresh Foulad find a way past Sepahan

Sepahan made Gostaresh Foulad work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Pejman Taremi did the work nobody counts — 6.43

9 combined actions and 6.43. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.

Squad

No hiding place for Ehsan Ghoddos

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ehsan Ghoddos, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Milad Torabi

7.61, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Gostaresh Foulad had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

In brief

Back issues
16 Edition

The Gostaresh Foulad Sentinel

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Milad Mohammadi out for 51 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Gostaresh Foulad will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Gostaresh Foulad count the cost of losing Reza Ghoddos

18 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

Tempers go at Gostaresh Foulad

Alireza Torabi 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.

Match

Nobody wins at Gostaresh Foulad

9 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Ali Noorafkan

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Gostaresh Foulad get the job done against Rah Ahan

A 1‑0 win over Rah Ahan, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Loan watch

Sardar Beiranvand wants to come home

“I did not go to Naft Tehran to sit and watch. I want to come back to Gostaresh Foulad and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.

Player ratings

Pejman Taremi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Ehsan Ghoddos

7.47, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Gostaresh Foulad had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

In brief

12 Edition

The Gostaresh Foulad Sentinel

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Milad Mohammadi breaks a bone — 80 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 80 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

A hand in 2 of them from Reza Ghoddos — 7.92

Marked 7.92. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.

Squad

Tempers go at Gostaresh Foulad

Alireza Torabi 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.

Match

Gostaresh Foulad find a way past Naft Tehran

Naft Tehran made Gostaresh Foulad work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Words at Gostaresh Foulad training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Majid Moharrami 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Ali Noorafkan

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Milad Torabi at his very best

Marked 8.25. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Gostaresh Foulad.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Ehsan Ghoddos

“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.

Loan watch

Sardar Beiranvand counts the days

“I watch every Gostaresh Foulad game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Naft Tehran runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

In brief

4 Edition

The Gostaresh Foulad Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Ahmad Yazdani 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 Gostaresh Foulad, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

A defender's goal wins it for Gostaresh Foulad — 7.92

1 for Ehsan Ghoddos, marked 7.92, 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Gostaresh Foulad

Alireza Torabi 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.

Squad

Reza Ghoddos 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.

Player ratings

Masoud Karimi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Gostaresh Foulad and Esteghlal take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief