Marked for Alireza Taremi
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad14 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Padideh this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at Padideh training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kaveh Shojaei 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.
Match12 Dec 2026
A bad afternoon for Padideh against Tractor
0‑2 to Tractor, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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Uneasy
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Padideh training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kaveh Shojaei 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Lucio Falasco 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.
The terraces2 Nov 2026
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.
Match31 Oct 2026
It finished 2‑0, and it was Kaveh Shojaei’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Padideh.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Marked 7.94. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Pejman Dejagah named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Pejman Dejagah is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Ehsan Moharrami
“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.
Market2 Nov 2026
Padideh have made Amir Hajsafi available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
A one-man rearguard from Milad Karimi
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Padideh this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Majid Ebrahimi 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Persepolis left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“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 ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Alireza Taremi for 16 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Padideh will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Majid Ebrahimi 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Padideh training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Reza Beiranvand 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Alireza Taremi
“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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 8.19 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Market17 Aug 2026
Tiago Esidín is 20, and Padideh have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
The cruellest goal, and it is Alireza Torabi's
A touch he did not want, a bounce he could not have read, and his name in the wrong column. There is no consoling a man after one of these, and Padideh will not try tonight.
Match15 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.