The Gostaresh Foulad Sentinel
Match12 Sep 2026
Gostaresh Foulad run riot against Malavan
5‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Vahid Pouraliganji keeps Gostaresh Foulad in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Both of them Milad Moharrami's — 8.48
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.48, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Mehdi Hajsafi, 33, rolls back the years — 8.63
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.63 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market14 Sep 2026
Majid Ebrahimi 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Still nobody has beaten Gostaresh Foulad
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Saeid Irankhah was immovable
22 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A masterclass from Ruggero De Santis
Marked 9.14 — 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Rahim Alboughobaish
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rahim Alboughobaish, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Squad Words at Gostaresh Foulad training over how hard people work
- Squad Saeid Vafaei is still paying for one afternoon at Gostaresh Foulad
- Market Talks stall between Gostaresh Foulad and Mohammad Dejagah