Iran’s Mes Sinks Sipar at AFC Futsal Club Championship
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Debutant Mes Sungun Varzaghan from Iran opened its AFC Futsal Club Championship Indonesia 2018 Group D campaign with an emphatic 9-2 win over Tajikistan’s FC Sipar on Thursday.
Hossein Tayyebi made a hat trick in this match held in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Saied Taghizadeh, Ali Asghar Hassanzadeh, Farhad Fakhim, Touhid Lotfi, Morteza Ezzati and Dilshod Salomov (own goal) scored for Mes Sungun.
"Usually, in the first game you would have difficulties because nobody knows what will happen but at the same time, we tried our best to use all of our players. We also tried to recognize the opponent's plays. Altogether, I'm satisfied and the next game will be much better,” Mes Sungun coach Hamid Tabrizi said in the post-match news conference.
The Iranian team will face Uzbekistan’s AGMK and Lebanese Bank of Beirut on August 4 and 6 respectively.
The 2018 AFC Futsal Club Championship is the 9th edition of the AFC Futsal Club Championship, an annual international futsal club tournament in Asia organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).
Iranian futsal clubs Foolad Mahan, Giti Pasand Isfahan and Tasisat Daryaei have won once the AFC Futsal Club Championship.
