6 JUNE 14, 2015 Iran Stands Third at Beach Wrestling World Championship TEHRAN (MNA) – Two Iranian representatives of beach wrestling team won gold and a silver medal to stand on the third place at Beach Wrestling World Championship. Launched on June 12th, Beach Wrestling World Championship is underway in three age groups of adolescents, youth and adults till June 16 in Romania. Accordingly, Iranian junior team ranked third at the competition, with Reza Razipour gaining gold in 60Kg and Mehrab Karimi winning silver medal in +70Kg. Beach Wrestling Iran Strikes Victories Against Rivals TEHRAN (MNA) – Velayat International Kickboxing Cup wrapped up in Tehran on Friday with Iranian athletes taking the lead against foreign opponents. Velayat International Kickboxing Cup that wrapped up on Friday brought the Iranian athletes 5 victo- ries against foreign rivals. Hojjat Darvish in -65km beat the Spanish athlete in three consecutive rounds. Mohammad Bana in -65km also managed to secure victory over Uzbekistan. In -85km, Touraj Karimi won a knockout victory against Georgia and Meysam Agharezaei beat his Portuguese opponent Miguel Oscar in -70km. In the match against Afghanistan, however, Iranian athlete Hossein Hayati lost to Seyed Ali Asghar in -70km. Velayat International Kickboxing Iran Expected to Bag Over 20 Medals in Italian Labor Sports Games ROME( IRNA) – Deputy minister of sports and youth for promoting public sports said that Iranian athletes is slated to win more than 20 medals in Italian Labor Sports Games. Gholamreza Sha’bani-Bahar told IRNA Friday that Iranian participants performed well in the competitions, although the country took part in the event for the first time. As to permanent presence of Iran in Labor Sports World Confederation, he said that the country’s well performance in this round of competitions pave the way for Iran’s permanent membership in the confederation. The 4th of CSIT World Labor Sports Games opened in Lignano Sabbiadoro on June 8 and will continue until June 14. Iran is participating in the competitions with 47 male and 16 female athletes in eight sports categories. World Labor Sports Games, international event is held biannually, is considered as type of cultural exchanges among the countries. On the second day of the competitions, Iranian wrestlers won two gold medals and one bronze medal. Saipa Extends Majid Jalali Contract TEHRAN (Persian League) Majid Jalali renews his contract with Saipa football club to continue as the head coach of the team in main goal in the next season is to finish in top four in order to book a place in the AFC Champions League. Cup took place in Tehran with prominent athletes from Georgia, Uzbekistan, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Russia and Afghanistan in participation. The women competitions will take place today at Shahid Afrasiabi Hall of Shiroudi Sports Complex, Tehran. We Need International Friendly Before Iran Match: Stephen Constantine NEW DALHI (Persian League)- India football head coach Stephen Constantine has pressed for an international friendly before playing against Iran in September in the 2018 football World Cup Qualification Preliminary Round Two here. “I need more time for preparations. I need friendly games. I need my team to play a friendly before we take on Iran,” he said. India play Guam on June 16 and then take on Iran on September 8 here in Group D of the Preliminary Round Two of the qualifiers. Constantine said his wards need games to get experience to play at the international level. Stephen Constantine “These boys need games. Last year they played twice in 12 months, so we have a lot of boys who do not have international experience. They will learn on the job and hopefully learn it quickly so that we can go to the next stage,” he said after India lost to Oman. Constantine said India’s performance against Oman was much better than the performance put up against Nepal in Round One. “We showed not only to Oman, but a lot of other teams that we are going to get better every game. This was a better performance than the game we won against Nepal ... So I think we are moving in the right direction,” he said. Cuba Presents Baseball Team for Pan Am Games HAVANA (Xinhua) -- Cuba’s Baseball Federation unveiled here on Friday the 24-men team to take part in the Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada on July 10-26. According to the federation, the team will travel to North Carolina, United States, for warm-up and preparations before going to Toronto. At the Pan Am games, Cuba will play Colombia in its first match on July 11. Cuban baseball team to the Pan American Games Toronto 2015: Catchers: Yulexis La Rosa, Yosvani Alarcon and Frank Camilo Morejon Infielders: Alexander Malleta, Raul Gonzalez, Luis Yander La O, Yordan Manduley, Yorbis Borroto and Rudy Reyes Outfielders: Alfredo Despaigne, Yadiel Hernandez, Frederich Cepeda, Roel Santos and Jose Adonis Garcia Pitchers: Ismel Jimenez, Yosvany Torres, Erlis Casanova, Yander Guevara, Freddy Asiel Alvarez, Yoanni Yera, Livan Moinelo Hector Manuel Mendoza, Lazaro Blanco and Yunier Cano Technical Director: Roger Machado As War Wracks Home, Syria Beat Afghanistan 6-0 TERHAN (Hurriyet Daily News) - To outsiders this was a 2018 World Cup of Afghanistan watched it live, much more than qualifier. To fans and Syria who however, it was a football match. With both countries wracked by war FIFA has barred them from hosting home games, making native supporters hard to come by in a slew of neutral venues and consequently dulled atmospheres. But the choice of the eastern Iranian city of Mashhad -- home to thousands of Afghan refugees and just three hours drive from the border as Thursday night’s venue -- ensured there would be an audience fit for at least one team. And so it was that hours before the game, thousands of local Afghans filed into Samen Stadium full of hope, leaving motorcycles -- cheap and ubiquitous transport among the estimated three million of their countrymen exiled in Iran -- stacked up outside. Some had travelled further. “I just wanted to see my team play,” Nadershah Noorzih, a 48-year-old driver from Herat, Afghanistan’s third-largest and a mainly Persian- Majid Jalali renews his contract with Saipa football club to continue as the head coach of the team in next season’s Iran Pro League. next season’s Iran Pro League. Jalali who resigned at the end of last season amid reports of Ali Daei return to Saipa, extended his contract for one more year after a meeting with the club’s new president Beitollah Rezaei. Saipa’s Jalali who is one of the highly rated coaches in Iranian football led Saipa to the 7th place last season. The 58-year old coach has a 40% win record at Saipa since he took charge of the team in May 2014. Curry, Iguodala Lift Warriors Over Cavs, Even NBA Finals at 2-2 WASHINGTON (Xinhua) -- Stephen Curry and Andre Iguodala scored 22 points apiece to pace the Golden Warriors for a 103-82 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers Thursday night and to even the NBA Finals at 2-2. LeBron James, who got cut on his head by a camera in the first half, scored 20 points with 12 rebounds and eight assists. Timofey Mozgov led Cavaliers with a game-high 28 points and Matthew Dellavedova was just 3-14 with 10 after going for 20 points in Game 3. JR Smith was 0-8 from 3-point range with 4 points. Iguodala came up huge with 22 points and 8 rebounds. “He’s been our best player through four games,” said the Warriors’ head coach Steve Kerr. Curry, the MVP, had 22 points and 6 assists. Draymond Green added 17 points and Harrison Barnes had 14 for the Warriors, which become the only team that didn’t lose three straight games all season. Top Tennis Players to Compete in Istanbul Open ISTANBUL (Anadolu Agency) Some of the world’s top tennis professional will compete in Turkey next month in the TEB BNP Paribas Istanbul Cup. Afghan fans hold their national flags before their 2018 World Cup qualifying group E football match against Syria at Samen stadium in Iran’s northeastern city of Mashhad. speaking city, told AFP, this time rather than taking the wheel himself taking a taxi from the Iranian border as normal. According to organizers, 13 players ranked in the first 50 places by the Women’s Tennis Association will compete in Istanbul between July 20 and 26. Former world number ones, such as American Venus Williams and Serbian Jelena Jankovic, will be among those to compete. 2014’s TEB BNP Paribas Istanbul Cup finalist, Italian Roberta Vinci, and 2010 Roland Garros winner Italy’s Francesca Schiavone are also registered for the tournament. Organizers say the contest will be held for the eighth time in Turkey at the 8,000-capacity Garanti Koza Arena.
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