Marked for Ehsan Moharrami
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market1 Feb 2027
“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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Ali Mohammadi 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alireza Taremi, and the manager let it.
Match30 Jan 2027
Sepahan left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Loan watch1 Feb 2027
“I watch every Padideh game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Esteghlal Khuzestan runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Tiago Esidín is the weekend's best young player
At 21 he is being measured against the rest of the division's kids and coming out in front. The senior version of this award is where the club would like this to lead.
Loan watch1 Feb 2027
16 appearances at Saba and the goals keep coming. Padideh are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Back issues
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Crisis
Match16 Jan 2027
0‑3 to Gostaresh Foulad, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Market18 Jan 2027
Mohammad Noorafkan has left for Rah Ahan in a $220.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad18 Jan 2027
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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
“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.
Boardroom18 Jan 2027
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Squad18 Jan 2027
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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Masoud Cheshmi will call it something else in private.
Market18 Jan 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Ehsan Moharrami has his answer from Padideh; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
From our football correspondent
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
Match2 Sep 2026
The small margins put Padideh out
Out, 1‑5 to Naft Tehran, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
A cup hiding at Naft Tehran leaves Padideh explaining themselves
1-5, and long before the end the away end had switched from encouragement to something considerably more pointed. Nobody rings a phone-in about losing narrowly.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Tiago Esidín, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.89
A mark of 7.89 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A move Lucio Falasco would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Lucio Falasco is living that version at Padideh, and it tends to show in the first month.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 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.
Match2 Sep 2026
6 goals in one match, Mohammad Noorafkan on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Padideh and Naft Tehran.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Reza Beiranvand 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.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Lucio Falasco 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.
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Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
“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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Kaveh Shojaei 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.
Squad31 Aug 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Tractor leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad31 Aug 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
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Upbeat
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market24 Aug 2026
“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 Padideh, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Reza Beiranvand 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.
Squad24 Aug 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Three points for Padideh, 1‑0 the final word against Saipa in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
7.60, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Padideh had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
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Crisis
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
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.
Squad3 Aug 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.
Boardroom3 Aug 2026
Graduation day at Padideh
3 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Reza Beiranvand 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ehsan Moharrami and Padideh agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market3 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Reza Ebrahimi has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market3 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Mehdi Jahanbakhsh has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market3 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Amir Beiranvand has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Padideh have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.