Morteza Gholizadeh

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Padideh U18
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Marked for Morteza Gholizadeh

138 Edition

The Padideh Gazette

19 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match19 Mar 2029

Padideh refuse to drop out of the race

Position 3, 68 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Market19 Mar 2029

Alireza Naghizadeh has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Padideh they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad19 Mar 2029

Words exchanged at Padideh

Ashkan Pouraliganji and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad19 Mar 2029

Padideh count the cost of losing Morteza Gholizadeh

29 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad19 Mar 2029

Words at Padideh training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jakub Jokl 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.

Squad19 Mar 2029

Padideh count the cost of losing Aghil Anafjeh

17 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

The dugout19 Mar 2029

The manager makes an example of Alireza Naghizadeh

“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.

The dugout19 Mar 2029

Mohammad Shojaei gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Mohammad Shojaei is on it.

The dugout19 Mar 2029

A door opens for Ehsan Noorafkan

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief

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106 Edition

The Padideh Gazette

7 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match5 Aug 2028

Still nobody has beaten Padideh

The unbeaten run reaches 12. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad7 Aug 2028

Real improvement from Ashkan Rashedi at Padideh

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ashkan Rashedi is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Boardroom7 Aug 2028

A new deal for Sardar Mohammadi

The board have signed the man in the dugout to a longer contract, which says more than any statement of support. Stability is easy to promise and costly to keep.

Squad7 Aug 2028

Tempers go at Padideh

Ashkan Pouraliganji 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.

Squad7 Aug 2028

A late step up for Mohammad Daneshgar

At 34 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Boardroom7 Aug 2028

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Padideh

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Transfer targets7 Aug 2028

Padideh rebuffed over Koshaim Al-Qahtani

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Al-Taawoun have kept their man, and Padideh go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad7 Aug 2028

Ehsan Noorafkan 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.

Market7 Aug 2028

Ehsan Rezaeian steps up from the Padideh academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ehsan Rezaeian 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.

In brief