Ali Ebrahimi

Right Wingback - Padideh
16 Oct 2027
Saturday
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The Padideh Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

Padideh sell their best player to Arsenal

$21.8M is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.

The terraces

Padideh sell a favourite for $21.8M

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Reza Azmoun was one of the reasons people came, and $21.8M does not replace that by itself.

Market

Majid Ebrahimi asks to leave Padideh

“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.

Match

Padideh make it 4 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Padideh have 4 straight wins of it.

Market

Padideh sign Mehdi Khoshbakht for $320.0K

The paperwork is done: Mehdi Khoshbakht joins from Esteghlal Khuzestan in a deal worth $320.0K. Now comes the harder part.

Squad

Tempers go at Padideh

Ahmad 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.

The terraces

$320.0K for Mehdi Khoshbakht, and Padideh supporters approve

Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Mehdi Khoshbakht from Esteghlal Khuzestan for $320.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.

Match

Padideh get the job done against Tractor

A 2‑0 win over Tractor, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Reza Shojaei

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

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The Padideh Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ehsan Shojaei

Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Zamalek watching Amir Taremi

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Padideh have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Tempers go at Padideh

Reza Azmoun 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.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Padideh

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.

Market

Padideh promote Sardar Ebrahimi from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Sardar 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.

Market

One of our own: Ali Hosseini joins the Padideh first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ali Hosseini is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Omid Noorafkan steps up from the Padideh academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Omid Noorafkan 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Padideh against Esteghlal

0‑1 to Esteghlal, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Words at Padideh training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vahid Torabi 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.

In brief