AFC Beach Soccer Championship: Doha 2015

[O-ZoNe]

beauty strike by Naderi! 4-3 now for Japan!

[O-ZoNe]

3rd and final period coming up...Iran needs 1 goal to tie.

[O-ZoNe]

PK for Iran! This could tie the game for Iran...

[O-ZoNe]

Missed! Still 4-3 Nippon.

[O-ZoNe]

Great free kick missed by Ahmadzadeh. 5 min left.

[O-ZoNe]

Oh god! Hosseini asleep and a goal from other end!

[O-ZoNe]

Goal for Iran! 5-4 now...just over a min left to tie!

[Bi-honar]

Come on guys, we can do it

[O-ZoNe]

Clear handball missed for Iran...now red card for Iran as well...10 seconds left

[O-ZoNe]

No time free kick for Iran!

[O-ZoNe]

Iran will now face Lebanon in 3rd place match...winner makes it to Portugal. Too bad, but also too many wasted opportunities. From what I understand this squad had many injuries and wasn't our best.

[AranTZ]

What happened to Mesigar? Is he in the tournament?

[Bi-honar]

Screwed by TERRIBLE officiating again!

We played terrible in the 2nd period, very slow on defense and little movement on offense and we missed a penalty and a really good free kick in the 3rd period, but that Japan goal didn't look like it went over the line and instead of getting a penalty call at the end of the game, we got a red card!

At any rate, thanks for the boys for the hard work. I just hope we can defeat Lebanon and make it to the WC to at least salvage something from the tournament. Back to back championships would have been SWEET.

[aenima_8]

What happened to Mesigar? Is he in the tournament?

He got injured right before the tournament began.

Its a shame we threw away our early lead. We still have one more chance to make the WC if we can defeat Lebanon in the 3rd place match.

[aenima_8]

For those interested, the 3rd place match between Iran and Lebanon will start in 30mins @ 10:30AM EST.

Winner of this game will secure the last spot in the next FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.

You can watch the game here: http://www.beachsoccer.com/schedule