Ashkan Gholizadeh

Right Wingback - Padideh
1 Nov 2026
Sunday
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Marked for Ashkan Gholizadeh

6 Edition

The Padideh Gazette

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

The knee: Sardar Yazdani out for 150 days

150 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Padideh lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

Padideh march on in the cup

Naft Tehran are out and Padideh go through, 6‑2 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Match

Padideh tear Esteghlal Ahvaz apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑1 against Esteghlal Ahvaz, and it could have been more.

Player ratings

Ashkan Hajsafi scores twice — 9.47

Two goals and a mark of 9.47 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Match

Padideh make it 7 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Padideh have 7 straight wins of it.

Squad

A day Ramin Ebrahimi will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Player ratings

Mehdi Khezri, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.31

A mark of 8.31 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Player ratings

Ashkan Gholizadeh, 35, rolls back the years — 8.10

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.10 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 5 in, 1 out at Padideh

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 5 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The Padideh Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Ashkan Hajsafi drives the Padideh comeback

2 behind and going nowhere, until Ashkan Hajsafi decided otherwise. Tractor had done the hard part and then watched it come apart, and the noise at the final whistle was the sort a ground keeps.

Player ratings

Ashkan Hajsafi scores twice — 9.27

Two goals and a mark of 9.27 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Match

Nobody wants to play Padideh right now

5 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Market

Sardar Yazdani 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.

Player ratings

Kaveh Moharrami, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.85

A mark of 7.85 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market

Rah Ahan come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Padideh did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets

Óscar will not be coming to Padideh

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Al-Diriyah is saying, and nobody at Padideh is enjoying the guessing.

Squad

Kaveh Moharrami 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.

Match

Padideh find a way past Tractor

Tractor made Padideh work for it, but the scoreboard read 4‑3 at the end and the table does not ask how.

In brief