BANGKOK

The draw for the 2012 Fifa Futsal World Cup in Thailand will be held on Friday.

The tournament will be held from Nov 1-18 in Bangkok and Nakhon Ratchasima.

The four venues are Bangkok Futsal Arena, Indoor Stadium and Nimibut Stadium in Bangkok and Korat Chatchai Hall in Nakhon Ratchasima.

There will be 24 teams in the tournament and they will be divided into six four-team groups. Iran’s Team Melli was ranked third in this year’s championship held in the UAE.

The top two teams in each group plus four best third placed sides will reach the next round.

The Thai national team will play Spain in two warm-up games at Nimibut Stadium on Friday at 6pm and at Korat Chatchai Hall at 5pm on Sunday.

Tickets starting from 100 baht are available at Thai Ticket Major (www.thaiticketmajor.com).

The 24 participants are:

Europe: Spain, Portugal, Italy, Russia, the Czech Republic, Serbia and Ukraine.

Africa: Morocco, Libya and Egypt.

North and Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Panama and Costa Rica.

South America: Brazil (champions), Argentina, Paraguay and Colombia

Oceania: Solomon Islands.

Asia: Iran, Japan, Kuwait, Australia and Thailand (hosts).

HO CHI MINH CITY

Iran’s youth team will be taking part in a 4 side AFF U19 TOURNAMENT 2012 which will be played in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam from 2 – 8 September 2012.

Under 19-year squad will line up against Australia, Uzbekistan and host Vietnam in the competition as part of their preparations for the AFC U-19 Championship which will be held in the United Arab Emirates in November, which will also serve as the qualifiers for the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup to be held in Turkey next June/July.
Iran have been announced as the a replacement for Thailand who announced their withdrawal for the Asean Football Federation Tournament early in August.

Alongside Iran will be hosts Vietnam, Uzbekistan and Australia which will make the tournament this year nothing short of being ultra-competitive.
Akbar Mohammady , the Team Melli U19 Youth Coach, announced the name of 26 players for the tournament. The squad will be training in the National Training Camp in Azadi until their departure to Vietnam for the tournament.

Iran U 19 SQUAD
Roozbeh Chashmi , Ali Mohsenzadeh, Alireza Ramezani  (Moghavamat Tehran)

Vahid Heydarieh (Peykan)

Mohammad Hossein Canaani Zadegan (Perspolis)

Behnam Barzay, Mohammad Borhani (Sanat Naft Abadan )

Yusuf Vakya , Walid Mashaaei zadeh, Reza Ahmadi , Ahmed Abdullah Zadeh, Amin Jehan-Kohan,  Ali Akbar Ahaki,(Foolad Khuzestan)

Sardar Azmoon, Ali Choobani, Mohammad Nasseri ,   Hossein Moradmand, Hossein Fazeli,  (Sepahan Esfahan)

Alireza Jahanbakhsh (Damash Gilan)

Farshid Esmaeili, Mohammad Daneshgar (Fajr Sepasi )

Ehsan Pahlavan (Gostarish Foolad Tabriz)

Ehsan Kiani,  Ahmad Eskandari, , Mohammad Ali Faramarzi, Davoud Bahaduri, Mohammad Hossein Heydari, Hojat Sedghi, Omid Ghorbani

AFF UNDER-19 CHAMPIONSHIP FIXTURES

Date Match No.   Teams                       Time  Venue
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2 Sept 2012  1  Australia vs Uzbekistan      1600  Thong Nhat Stadium
             2  IR Iran vs Vietnam           1830
4 Sept 2012  3  Uzbekistan vs IR Iran        1600  Thong Nhat Stadium
             4  Vietnam vs Australia         1830
6 Sept 2012  5  Australia vs IR Iran         1600  Thong Nhat Stadium
             6  Uzbekistan vs Vietnam        1830
8 Sept 2012  7  3rd Position match           1600  Thong Nhat Stadium
             8  Final match                  1830