Iran’s beach Soccer National Football Team opened its campaign in the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Seychelles 2025 with a narrow win against the debutante side Mauritania

Mauritania were four goals down after little more than 15 minutes, beauties from Ali Mirshekari, Movahed Mohammadpour, Mahdi Shir and Mokhtari putting Iran into cruise control. Then Cheikh started to sizzle. He finished the game with a hat-trick as the African underdogs gave the Asian titans an almighty scare.
while Iran scored 4 goals in the first period, in the final period , The Asian Champions were completely shut out.

The match ended 5-4 for Iran to win its first 3 points.

Iran goals: Mohammadali Mokhtari (2), Ali Mirshekari, Movahed Mohammadpour, Mahdi Shir

Mauritania goals: Cheikh Belkheir (3), Ahmedou Bilal.

Player of the Match: Cheikh Belkheir

Mauritania’s hat-trick hero and the MVP of the match said:“We believed we could win until the last second. We gave it everything. It was our debut, nerves play a part. But we showed we could produce a big performance against one of the best teams in the world. We’re still confident we’ll get through this group.”

Meanwhile, Iran’s Mohammadpour Movahed, said “The first match of each tournament is so hard. We have to adapt to things because we are not familiar with the sand, so we tried to improve our teamwork. Mauritania started to pressure our defence and pressed us man to man, which took up a lot of energy and made it difficult for us.”
The humid conditions of Seychelles and the rain made the job much more difficult for the Iranians who were struggling towards the end of the third period in which they failed to score..

A much tougher encounter awaits the Persians against Portugal, which edged Paraguay in a 20-goal classic, with the match ending 11-9 . Iran will meet Paraguay on Saturday.

Mohammadali Mokhtari’s double left him on 14 goals in his last 12 appearances in the competition. With 19 overall, he has Mohammad Ahmadzadeh’s 26-goal Iranian record in sight.