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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.