The Padideh Gazette
Match2 Sep 2026
Padideh through in the cup
A 5‑0 win over Naft Tehran, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Match5 Sep 2026
Padideh make it 6 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Padideh have 6 straight wins of it.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Vouria Shojaei scores twice — 7.94
Two goals and a mark of 7.94 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market7 Sep 2026
Ehsan Hosseini hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Padideh can pretend not to have heard.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Ahmad Mohammadi 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 Padideh this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Padideh training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Amir Taremi 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Padideh keep winning on the road
3 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Morteza Azmoun gets it from the manager
“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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Padideh find a way past Esteghlal Ahvaz
Esteghlal Ahvaz made Padideh work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
In brief
- Player ratings Ehsan Shojaei was on a different afternoon to everybody else
- Squad A place in the month's best eleven for Sardar Cheshmi
- Player ratings The pass was always on for Morteza Azmoun