Reza Khodadad

Striker - Siah Jamegan
26 Nov 2026
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The Siah Jamegan Herald

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Nobody wants to play Siah Jamegan right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad

Words exchanged at Siah Jamegan

Saman Fallah and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Match

Kaveh Dejagah the difference as Siah Jamegan beat Saipa

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Kaveh Dejagah. 1‑0 against Saipa, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

Kaveh Dejagah in the eights

A performance of 8.18 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

The dugout

A satisfied Alireza Noorafkan

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Alireza Noorafkan could afford to be generous.

Squad

Karim Jahanbakhsh 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 dugout

When it matters, Mohammad Gholizadeh plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Vouria Jahanbakhsh

Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

No hiding place for Andrea Tedesco

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

In brief

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11 Edition

The Siah Jamegan Herald

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ahmad Khodadad

19 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Siah Jamegan lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Ehsan Shojaei leads the rout of Naft Tehran

3‑0, and Ehsan Shojaei took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Siah Jamegan tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings

A brace, and Ehsan Shojaei takes the afternoon — 8.47

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Ehsan Shojaei provided it, and the 8.47 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings

Kaveh Dejagah runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout

Andrea Tedesco: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Siah Jamegan have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Mohammad Gholizadeh 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 Siah Jamegan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Reza Khodadad in the eights

A performance of 8.49 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

The dugout

Alireza Noorafkan has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Alireza Noorafkan on a 3‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

The dugout

Vouria Jahanbakhsh has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Siah Jamegan will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief