Marked for Mohammad Karimi
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Upbeat
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match17 Oct 2026
Nobody wants to play Padideh right now
3 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Alireza Hosseini’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Padideh.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Majid Shojaei 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Alireza Beiranvand 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.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Marked 7.54 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Padideh had the best player on the pitch.
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Uneasy
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 41. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.14, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad5 Oct 2026
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Morteza Rezaeian is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Loan watch5 Oct 2026
“I did not go to Tractor to sit and watch. I want to come back to Padideh and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
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Uneasy
Match26 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Padideh
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Saman Yazdani 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Reza Hosseini is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 8.14 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
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Uneasy
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match19 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win for Padideh
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Padideh are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 Sep 2026
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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Alireza Hosseini 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match19 Sep 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
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Steady
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 40. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Kaveh Gholizadeh: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match2 Sep 2026
Padideh march on in the cup
Naft Tehran are out and Padideh go through, 2‑2 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Match5 Sep 2026
Padideh throw away a 2-goal lead
2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Esteghlal Ahvaz the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Padideh will enjoy reviewing.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.18, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market7 Sep 2026
Sardar Torabi 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 ratings7 Sep 2026
Saman Yazdani goes up and wins it — 7.57
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 7.57 for the rest of it.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A hand in 2 of them from Mohammad Taremi — 7.58
Marked 7.58. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.
Match5 Sep 2026
Esteghlal Ahvaz left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Triumph
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.17, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match15 Aug 2026
Padideh cannot stop winning
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Saman Yazdani 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Ahmad Dejagah. 3‑2 against Naft Tehran, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Abolfazl Zadehattar 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Padideh training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alireza Beiranvand 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Padideh will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.