The Gostaresh Foulad Sentinel
Squad3 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Mehdi Karimi
47 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Gostaresh Foulad lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match1 Aug 2026
Gostaresh Foulad let it slip despite Shahriar Azmoun
Shahriar Azmoun had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Rah Ahan were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Mehdi Shojaei 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
Graduation day at Gostaresh Foulad
3 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Mohammad Karimi signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mohammad Karimi and Gostaresh Foulad agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Mehdi Karimi 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Gostaresh Foulad promote Reza Gholizadeh from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Reza Gholizadeh 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Kaveh Gholizadeh steps up from the Gostaresh Foulad academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Kaveh Gholizadeh 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
One of our own: Hossein Mohammadi joins the Gostaresh Foulad first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Hossein Mohammadi is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Player ratings A masterclass from Shahriar Azmoun
- Match Honours even between Gostaresh Foulad and Rah Ahan
- Boardroom Gostaresh Foulad turn down the training-ground plan