Courtesy: Mehr News Agency


Croatia, Uzbekistan to play futsal friendly with Iran

TEHRAN, Jan. 17 - The head of technical committee of futsal recounted that Iran’s Federation of Football has agreed with the requests for friendly matches submitted by Croatia and Uzbekistan.
“The Iranian national futsal team will have friendly competitions with the national squads of Crotia and Uzbekistan,” said Abbas Torabian, Head of Technical Committee of futsal in Iran’s Federation of Football, according to the official website of Iran’s Federation of Football.

The official recounted that the Iranian futsallers will have two friendly games with Croatians on April 2 and 3 in Croatia.

The kings of Asian futsal will then have a camping trip to Uzbek capital city of Tashkent in the last week of April to have friendly competitions with the Uzbek national squad. The -20 team of Iran national futsal team will accompany the main team to Uzbekistan and the young will also line up against Uzbeks.

The strongest Asian team of futsal, Iran national futsal team is one of best teams in the world according to the Futsal World Ranking. The Iranian side garnered the third place in the 2016 edition of FIFA Futsal World Cup in Colombia where they eliminated giants like Brazil and lost 3-4 to Russians. They defeated Portugal in penalty shootouts at the third place match.



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