Iran Beach Soccer Runner-Up at 2nd CIS Games
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s beach soccer team lost to Belarus 5-4 in the II Games of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) final on Wednesday.
Hamid Reza Dehghani, Abbas Rezaei, Mohammad Javad Khosravi and Mehdi Shirmohammadi scored Iran’s goals.
Team Melli had earlier defeated Azerbaijan and the UAE and lost to Belarus in Group B.
Iran had defeated Russia in penalty shootout in the semifinals.
The 2nd CIS Games are being held in Belarus from August 4 to 14.
The CIS Games are a regular complex event in the field of physical culture and sports, covering national sports, the most popular within the CIS member states, Olympic and non-Olympic sports.
