Pejman Azmoun

Striker - Tractor
25 Oct 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Pejman Azmoun

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The Padideh Gazette

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Padideh are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 21 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Vahid Azmoun at 19 — 7.71

The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Vahid Azmoun did not need any: 7.71, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad

Abolfazl Zadehattar says Padideh went back on their word

“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.

Player ratings

Alireza Hosseini runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Tempers go at Padideh

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.

The terraces

Padideh supporters have found a favourite in Vahid Azmoun

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Vahid Azmoun 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.

Match

Vahid Azmoun sends Padideh past Foolad

It finished 2‑0, and it was Vahid Azmoun’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Padideh.

Squad

No hiding place for Saman Yazdani

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Saman Yazdani, and the manager let it.

Squad

Ehsan Vafaei signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ehsan Vafaei commits to Padideh for another 3 years.

In brief

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The Tractor Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Alireza Beiranvand out for 125 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Tractor will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Amir Hossein Hosseinzadeh 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.

Match

3 matches without a goal for Tractor

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad

Tempers go at Tractor

Ramón Ortigoza 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.

Squad

Tomislav Štrkalj gets it from the manager

“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.

Player ratings

Domagoj Drožđek runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Mehdi Hashemnejad

A mark of 7.01, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Match

No goals between Tractor and Padideh

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Padideh will be the happier side with the point.

Market

Tomislav Štrkalj placed on the list

Tractor have made Tomislav Štrkalj available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

In brief