2018 Men's Indoor Hockey World Cup (7–11 February)

[Ata]

First game
7 February 2018
14:50
Iran v Switzerland

7 February 2018
22:05
Belgium v Iran
second game

[Ata]

Win against Switzerland 5-1. Good start

[irani8perspolis]

Second game against Belgium tied 3:3

[Ata]

Todays games for Iran

8 February 2018
14:50
Iran v Austria
Report


8 February 2018
19:45
South Africa v Iran

[Ata]

Iran v Austria 3-3

not good for Iran, they are 4th in the grop of 6 teams now. They need to win next

[versusdamon]

3-3 against Austria is pretty good, they became second in the last edition and are the current European champions.
Actually the 3-3 against Belgium was the bad result, but the game was the second game on that day and played at 10pm.

We are playing South Africa in 20mins, that should be an easy win. If we also win against Russia we will be 1st or 2nd; depends a bit on the other results.

[irani8perspolis]

yea it was actually a good result, South Africa is very weak

[irani8perspolis]

Also why don't we field a outdoor hockey team? we are very good at this level and we could possibly make the olympics in the outdoor version

[versusdamon]

I guess we do not have the facilities (same for Rugby, American Football, Baseball, Icehockey to some extent). Even in my town in Germany (which is pretty big) we only have 2 Hockey fields.
Another option could be Floorball (a Indoor Hockey variant from Scandinavia); I have seen that we have a team but they did not participate in the Qualifiers this year.

[Ata]

Iran is struggling against South Africa. They where behind 1-2 first half and now leading 4-3. Hope they win

[versusdamon]

If Austria draws or wins, they will be first. If Russia wins they will become first (or Switzerland if they win, too); in these cases after this day we will be second. If both Switzerland and Russia win, we will be third, but it is very close.

[irani8perspolis]

Fulltim: Iran 6:3 South Africa

Good job to the boys, we qualified for the quarter finals with one game left!

[versusdamon]

Tomorrow:
We lose, Switzerland wins: 4th
We lose, Switzerland draws: 3rd
We lose, Switzerland loses: 3rd

We win, Switzerland wins: 1st
We win, Switzerland draws: 1st or 2nd, depends on goal difference
We win, Switzerland loses: 2nd

We draw, Switzerland wins: 2nd or 3rd, depends on goal difference
We draw, Switzerland draws: 2nd
We draw, Switzerland loses: 2nd

[Irannn]

Also why don't we field a outdoor hockey team? we are very good at this level and we could possibly make the olympics in the outdoor version

not a chance. at least in near future, we have India, Pakistan, Korea and Malaysia in Asia, they have a long history in field hockey but we don't. because of lack of facilities we only played Indoor hockey in Iran. yeah they started to do something about outdoor field hockey but still we have a long way to go to be competitive against the top 6 Asian teams.

indoor and outdoor hockey look similar but they are very different, it's like if we compare football and futsal, same basics but still different

as far as I remember, the last time we participated in a serious outdoor hockey tournamnt was 3.5 years ago back in the World League, we sent the same team as our current indoor hockey team. they lost narrowly to Oman (which is 7th team in Asia)

[persiangodfather]

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