{"id":22303,"date":"2015-08-05T14:27:21","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T21:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=22303"},"modified":"2015-08-06T11:22:47","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T18:22:47","slug":"tasisat-coach-salutes-superstar-shamsaee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/08\/05\/tasisat-coach-salutes-superstar-shamsaee\/","title":{"rendered":"Tasisat coach salutes superstar Shamsaee"},"content":{"rendered":"

AFC – ISFAHAN, Coach Amir Shamsaei compared Iranian superstar Vahid Shamsaee to football greats Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Zinedine Zidane after the veteran steered Tasisat Daryaei into the semi-finals of the AFC Futsal Club Championship.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shamsaee scored twice and set up a third in Tasisat\u2019s 4-3 win over defending champions Nagoya Oceans on Tuesday evening in front of a boisterous crowd at Nagshe Jahan Stadium as the club aims to become the first Iranian club to win the title since 2012.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think big games need big players,\u201d said Shamsaei. \u201cToday was a very important game for us, a big game, and like Messi can change the result for Barcelona and Ronaldo can do it for Real or Zidane used to do it for France, in the big games Vahid can do this for us. He changed the result of this game and he\u2019s one of the great players.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shamsaee’s influence on the game was remarkable: he scored his first goal in the seventh minute to cancel out Rafael Sakai\u2019s second-minute opener for Nagoya before the 39-year-old set up Reza Sangsefidi to give Tasisat the lead from a quickly taken corner.<\/p>\n

The former AFC Futsal Player of the Year restored Tasisat\u2019s lead with a fine goal on the turn in the 38th minute after Kaoru Morioka had levelled the scores and Mohammad Zarei\u2019s strike a minute from time meant Morioka\u2019s second in the 40th minute was academic.<\/p>\n

In total, the Tasisat captain played 38 of the 40 minutes and coach Shamsaei feels Shamsaee can also have a positive impact in the semi-final against NAFT Al Wasat on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cPhysically Vahid is different to any other player in the world,\u201d he said. \u201cHe\u2019s a special player and when I feel the need to change him, we change him.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe felt that Vahid should play this game and I\u2019m sure tomorrow he will play as well as he can. I thought this would be the last year Vahid would play, but maybe in two or three years he will still be playing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The result meant the two-time champions Nagoya exited the competition earlier than expected, but coach Victor Acosta felt that, despite the loss, his players will have learned from the meeting with Tasisat.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u2019s game was very tough, but it was a good game,\u201d said the Spanish coach. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe did our best and their players are very high quality.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my mind we could control the game but they took their chances at a good time in the game. We did our best, we tried everything to win this match and we had a lot of chances to win. But this is the game. This kind of game is good for us too, because we can improve a lot.<\/p>\n

\u201cShamsaee is a great player. He was the man of the match because he scored the key goal for Tasisat. We had the chance to score and if we had scored maybe the Most Valuable Player would have been one of our players, maybe Tomoki Yoshikawa because he had a chance to score just before Shamsaee scored. But we couldn’t score.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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