The Padideh Gazette
Market3 Aug 2026
Pejman Rezaeian raises the bar for Padideh
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Padideh heard it as anything else.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Pejman Rezaeian 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.
Boardroom3 Aug 2026
Graduation day at Padideh
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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Padideh promote Saman Gholizadeh from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Saman 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
Reza Ebrahimi steps up from the Padideh academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Reza Ebrahimi 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: Reza Vafaei joins the Padideh first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Reza Vafaei is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Saman Nekounam 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 ratings3 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Karim Gholizadeh
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match1 Aug 2026
Milad Cheshmi rescues a point for Padideh
It needed Milad Cheshmi to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Esteghlal, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
In brief
- Squad Pejman Rezaeian knocks on the manager’s door
- Boardroom Padideh turn down the training-ground plan
- Squad Milad Cheshmi finally opens his account