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IRAN to meet Brazil in the 2015 Futsal Grand Prix

Iran Futsal team continued its brilliant performance in Brazil with a hard win to maintain its perfect record in the the tournament.

In the semifinal of Grand Prix du Futsal 2015 , Iran defeated Paraguay 2-0, from goals by Mahdi Javid and Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh, to book a berth in the final.  This will be the third final of Grand Prix in the history of Iran’s national futsal team, which was runner-up in 2007 and 2009, losing both times to the host Brazil. The Iranians achieved this feat with a 100% success rate at the Grand Prix in 2015, with four wins in four games.

Iran Paraguay semifinal grand prix futsal (Photo: Ricardo Artifon / CBFS)
Iran and Paraguay made the first semifinal of the Grand Prix 2015 (Photo: Ricardo Artifon / CBFS)

Iran was the better team throughout the match, but only managed to open the scoring at the end of the first half. The goal scorer was Mahdi Javid who shot from the right deceived the Paraguay keeper. Outnumbered, Paraguay went to all out attack in the second half, getting to work with the ward Tutu as goalkeeper-line in the final minutes. Two minutes from the end, Juan Salas had a chance to tie, but the keeper Kalamalabadi  saved Iran . To put the final nails in the Paraguayan coffin, Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh took his chance in a swift counter attack sequence and made it  2-0 for Iran confirming its place in the final.

Iran Futsal team arrives in Brazil for Grand Prix 2014

Iran Futsal team arrived on Saturday 8th November to compete in the International Futsal Grand Prix to be held in Brazil from Nov. 11 to 16.

The tournament will gather five other teams, including hosts and defending champions Brazil, Colombia, Vietnam, Guatemala and Costa Rica, who are divided into two groups.

Group A consists of Brazil, Colombia and Vietnam.

Group B is Iran , Guatemala and Costa Rica.

The tournament will kick off on Nov. 12, with Vietnam facing Brazil. In their last match in HCM City last November, Vietnam won, 3-2.

The six teams will compete for the championship of the ninth edition, with the top two in each group advancing to the semi-finals.

The Brazilian Futsal Confederation has organized the FIFA-recognized Grand Prix, one of the world’s major tournaments for the sport, every year since 2005. Brazil won seven of the eight editions held so far, losing only once to Spain in 2010.

The Futsal Team is actively training under the supervision of Team Melli Futsal head coach Jesus Candelas. The Spaniard warned against taking the two Latin American teams lightly and dismissed any notion of the group being an easy passage. “Guatemala and Costa Rica are coming with full strength team and trying to prove a point. Both teams have strong line ups and it is not going to be a smooth sailing for us”

Team Melli arrived in Brazil on Saturday without several names including the recently injured Vahid Shafei

The names of the players sent to Brazil as follows:

Alireza Samimi, Sepehr Mohammadi, Alireza Vafaei, Hossein Tayebi, Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh, Farhad Tavakoli, Hamid Ahmadi, Ahmad Esmaeilpour, Mehdi Javid, Abolghasim Arooji, Behrouz Jafari, Mohammad Shajarian, Mohammad Reza Sang-Safidi  and Meysam  Khayyam.

Iran’s first match will be on Wednesday 12th Nov. against Guatemala while on on Friday 14th they will play Costa Rica.

Futsal Team Melli fails to make it to the final.

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Iran’s Futsal Team Melli failed to make it to the final after losing the semi final match against Russia.

In the second semifinal of the Brazil Futsal Grand Prix 2013 , Russia beat Iran by 4-2 and qualified to the final match against host Brazil . The Russians went ahead in the 13th minute of the first half goal from Milovanov after pass from Brazilian-born Russian Cyril . Six minutes later , Shayakhmetov extended Russia’s lead , closing the halftime score at 2-0 .

In the second period , Hassanzadeh played for Iran as line goalkeeper to pressure the Russians and look for a goal to recover the two goals deficit. An  oversight by advancing Iranian goalkeeper allowed  Gustavo kick to find the Iranian empty net at 12th minute to score Russia’s third – the ball has touched the crossbar before entering . At 15th minute , Iran came back into the game when Tayebi  scored to make it 3-1 and the match was on again, however a minute later , Fakhrutdinov scored again for Russia , throwing a bucket of cold water in the reaction of the Iranian players who were looking good. In the final minute , Bahadori scored for Iran to make it 4-2 but it was too late .

Russians celebrating a goals against Iran in the semi-fnal mach of 2013 Futsal Grand Prix.
Russians celebrating a goals against Iran in the semi-fnal mach of 2013 Futsal Grand Prix.

Iran will play Paraguay for the third place against on Sunday at 7pm . On Friday , Argentina and Guatemala competed for  fifth. est The Argentines , won 2-1 . In the match for the seventh place , Serbia beat Japan by 7-4 .

Lineups :
Russia: Gustavo , Romulus , Milovanov , Cyril and Antoshkin . Entered : Pereverzev , Fakhrutdinov , Shayakhmetov , Shisterov , Eder Lima .

Coach: Sergey Skorovich .

Iran : Nasirniae , Vafaie , Hassanzadeh , Tavakoli and Tayebi .

Entered : Bahadori , Hasannejed , Asghari Moghadam , Shafiee , Fakhim , Daneshvar and Kiaei .

Coach: Jesus Candelas .