The Gostaresh Foulad Sentinel
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Ehsan Hajsafi runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 41. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Alireza Ghoddos, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.95
A mark of 7.95 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Gostaresh Foulad
Reza Hajsafi 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Al-Ra'ed join the queue for Vouria Shojaei
Add another name to the list: Al-Ra'ed have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Vouria Shojaei. The answer from Gostaresh Foulad has not changed — yet.
Boardroom3 Aug 2026
Graduation day at Gostaresh Foulad
5 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
Milad Ebrahimi stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Milad Ebrahimi and Gostaresh Foulad agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Mehdi Taremi 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Majid Gholizadeh sends Gostaresh Foulad past Rah Ahan
It finished 2‑1, and it was Majid Gholizadeh’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Gostaresh Foulad.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Alireza Ghoddos
At 21 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.
In brief
- Squad The manager makes an example of Mehdi Taremi
- Market Shahriar Hajsafi steps up from the Gostaresh Foulad academy
- Market One of our own: Majid Moharrami joins the Gostaresh Foulad first team