Marked for Saman Beiranvand
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad13 Dec 2027
A fracture rules Saman Beiranvand out for 16 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Padideh will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad13 Dec 2027
A row about effort at Padideh
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Reza Ghoddos was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad13 Dec 2027
Words exchanged at Padideh
Vahid Shojaei 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.
Squad13 Dec 2027
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 34 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
The dugout13 Dec 2027
Reza Ghoddos gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Reza Ghoddos is on it.
The dugout13 Dec 2027
The manager makes an example of Mohammad Amini
“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.
The dugout13 Dec 2027
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
The dugout13 Dec 2027
Somebody else is better right now than Mehdi Karimi
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
Player ratings13 Dec 2027
Successful dribbles: 13. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
In brief
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Match
Point won or two lost for Padideh?
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Market
The Kaveh Taremi talk will not go away
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Match
Continental football is in reach for Padideh
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad6 Dec 2027
2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Match1 Dec 2027
Padideh march on in the cup
Tractor are out and Padideh go through, 0‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Squad6 Dec 2027
A fracture rules Saman Beiranvand out for 23 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Padideh will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The dugout6 Dec 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Player ratings6 Dec 2027
At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.09, and nobody on the pitch better.
Squad6 Dec 2027
Words exchanged at Padideh
Mohammad Reza Akhbari 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.
Squad6 Dec 2027
Time is catching up with Kaveh Taremi
Everybody at Padideh saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 34 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
Match4 Dec 2027
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout6 Dec 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mohammad Reza Akhbari, and the manager let it.
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Upbeat
Squad29 Nov 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Amir Reza Jeddi
18 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Padideh lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 30 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings29 Nov 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.85, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad29 Nov 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mehdi Jahanbakhsh commits to Padideh for another 4 years.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Reza Ghoddos 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.
Match27 Nov 2027
Saba made Padideh work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The dugout29 Nov 2027
“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.
The dugout29 Nov 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Morteza Beiranvand kept it short after the 2‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Player ratings29 Nov 2027
15 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
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Upbeat
Squad22 Nov 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Amir Reza Jeddi
26 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Padideh lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad22 Nov 2027
37 days out for Saman Beiranvand after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Padideh will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad22 Nov 2027
Saleh Barnawi is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad22 Nov 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.
Match20 Nov 2027
A bad afternoon for Padideh against Malavan
0‑1 to Malavan, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Morteza Beiranvand left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
“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.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
Mehdi Karimi dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Looking ahead22 Nov 2027
Saba next, and one man in the Padideh dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.