Mohammad Karimi

Defensive Midfielder - Padideh
13 Oct 2026
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Mohammad Karimi

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The Padideh Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No end in sight to Padideh's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Padideh has to find a result from somewhere.

Market

Karim Pouraliganji 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.

Match

8 unbeaten for Padideh

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Padideh did not have in the autumn.

Market

Saeid Shojaei wants more than Padideh are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad

Tempers go at Padideh

Saeid 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Ashkan Mohammadi

“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.

Market

Talks stall between Padideh and Mohammad Karimi

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Loan watch

Vahid Pouraliganji wants to come home

“I did not go to Al-Hilal to sit and watch. I want to come back to Padideh and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Kaveh Cheshmi

7.69, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Padideh had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

In brief

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The Padideh Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Mohammad Mohammadi leads the rout of Esteghlal Khuzestan

3‑0, and Mohammad Mohammadi took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Padideh tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings

Alireza Rezaeian, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.55

A mark of 8.55 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Milad Cheshmi

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market

Karim Pouraliganji 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.

Market

Vouria Vafaei 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Padideh

Saeid 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Mohammad Mohammadi

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Market

Padideh and Mohammad Karimi are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Mohammad Mohammadi

“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.

In brief