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Iran Futsal to the final after a bone crushing defeat of Vietnam.

Futsal Team Melli reached the final of the AFC Futsal Championship 2016 with a commanding win against surprise semi-finalist Vietnam. Iran’s 13-1 win was one of the biggest semi final margins in the history of the competition. The first half ended 7-1 for Team Melli.

Vietnam paid the price of naivety of their coach. Their quarter-final win against defending champion Japan, led to unrealistic , though legitimate belief in the team that they can conquer Iran.

However, It was clear from the first few minutes of the match that Vietnam cannot match Team Melli for skills and technique.

In the pre-match press conference , the ambitious Spanish coach Bruno Formoso said his team was looking beyond Iran and into the final. However, he failed to analyse the opposition properly and his plans went tragically wrong as his team was 3-0 down in less than 9 minutes in the 1st half. The major mistake was playing offensively against Iran and trying to match them for ball possession and attack.

Mahdi Javid opened the scoring for Iran before Farhad Tavakoli scored two quick goals to put Team Melli comfortably 3-0 ahead.

After the 3rd goal, Vietnam coach asked for a time out where he decided to play with all players in the filed ( 5 -0)  to score at least one goal against the mighty Iranians. Again , Vietnam players simply could not match the Iranians.

Despite the fact that Iran’s coach was revolving and playing all his squad, Nazim AlSharia  mainly used the reserve restig the likes of Taheri, Tayebi, Hassanzadeh and Keshavarz.

Vietnam brave resistance fell apart in the second half as Ahmadi , Hossein Tayebi , Mahdi Javid and Tavakoli  (scoring  his 4 goals) , Keshavarz  added another 6 goals in the second half for Team Melli.  Vietnam could not add to that solitary goal scored in the first half.

Iran’s injured Captain Mohammed Keshavarz , returned to the team and played the last 10 minutes helping himself to two goals in the process.

Iran will be meeting Uzbekistan in the Finals for a repeat of the for 2010 championship edition when the mighty Iranians defeated the host 8-3 in front of the passionate Uzbek fans.

Easy win for Iran Futsal team against Jordan.

Tashkent: Futsal Team Melli started the campaign to regain its lost Asian title with an easy 6-0 win against Jordan in Tashkent this evening.

AliAsghar HassanZadeh (2) , Mahdi Javid (2) , Hossein Tayyebi , and Ghodrat Bahdori scored Iran’s goals against Jordan in the match that was played in the University Arena in the Uzbek Capital city. The first half ended 2-0 , goals scored by Hassanzadeh and Tayyebi.

It was plain sailing for Iran , although the bus parking technique that the Jordanian coach deployed to minimize the damage, gave Iran a few challenges in scoring. It did not yield much result for Jordan, though. Team Melli was comfortably controlling the majority of the possession and on the rare occasions they lost the ball, the Jordanians failed to capitalize. Jordan players hardly had more than a few seconds of ball possession each time creating no threat whatsoever for Sepehr Mohammadi in Iran’s goal.

Khalid , the Jordanian keeper was the hero of the first half for Jordan with his countless saves from all angles.

In the second half, it was much the same as the first with Jordan content on defending and Iran playing a slow passing game resembling a practise session. All players were used in the match by Iran Coach Nazim Ul Shariea.

When Iran increased the pace, the Jordanians did not have the solution and their defenses simply fell apart and in the process receiving 4 further goals in the second half.  Despite the 6-0 drubbing , Khalid was again the savior for Jordan as he single handedly managed to keep the score relatively respectable for Jordan . It could have easily been double figures score line.

Iran will play China , who were beaten 6-1 by Iraq in the earlier match , before finishing with what would be top of the table match against Iraq on Sunday.

Teams
P
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
PTS
IRAN 1 1 0 0 6 0 6 3
IRAQ 1 1 0 0 6 1 5 3
CHINA P.R. 1 0 0 1 1 6 -5 0
JORDAN 1 0 0 1 0 6 -6 0
 
Group B Results
IRAQ  6 – 1 PR CHINA
IRAN 6 – 0  JORDAN

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.