The Gostaresh Foulad Sentinel
Squad3 Aug 2026
11 saves: Masoud Khodadad was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 11 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Ehsan Yazdani could not have asked for more on his first appearance — 7.64
Debuts are survived rather than enjoyed. This one was enjoyed: 7.64, 1 goals, and a manager already being asked whether he starts again next week.
Market3 Aug 2026
Morteza Cheshmi 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Masoud Khodadad 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 Gostaresh Foulad this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom3 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Gostaresh Foulad
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Gostaresh Foulad training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Reza Moharrami 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.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Reza Shojaei
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match1 Aug 2026
Gostaresh Foulad find a way past Rah Ahan
Rah Ahan made Gostaresh Foulad work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Masoud Khodadad
“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.
In brief
- Market Vahid Shojaei steps up from the Gostaresh Foulad academy
- Market One of our own: Amir Shojaei joins the Gostaresh Foulad first team
- Market One of our own: Ali Hajsafi joins the Gostaresh Foulad first team