The Gostaresh Foulad Sentinel
Market14 Sep 2026
Amir Shojaei 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 Gostaresh Foulad can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Shahriar Mohammadi runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Mohammad Reza Bordbar goes up and wins it — 7.44
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.44 for the rest of it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Gostaresh Foulad
Leandro Cañete 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Milad Moharrami 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 terraces14 Sep 2026
Gostaresh Foulad supporters have found a favourite in Mohammad Reza Bordbar
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Mohammad Reza Bordbar has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad14 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Milad Moharrami
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Milad Moharrami, and the manager let it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Kevin Chacón 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Mohammad Reza Bordbar rescues a point for Gostaresh Foulad
It needed Mohammad Reza Bordbar to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Malavan, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
In brief
- Player ratings Amir Gholizadeh changes it off the bench
- Market The window shut and Reza Jahanbakhsh is still in the building
- Market Karim Yazdani placed on the list