{"id":24379,"date":"2016-02-17T15:27:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T23:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=24379"},"modified":"2016-02-17T17:37:36","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T01:37:36","slug":"nazelmalsharie-insists-irans-real-work-starts-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/nazelmalsharie-insists-irans-real-work-starts-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Nazelmalsharie insists Iran’s real work starts now"},"content":{"rendered":"

AFC – TASHKENT, Coach Mohammad Nazelmalsharie insists the real work starts now after Iran secured a convincing 7-0 victory over Kyrgyzstan in the quarter-finals of the AFC Futsal Championship on Wednesday to seal their place at the FIFA Futsal World Cup in Colombia this September.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hossein Toyebi\u2019s brace and a strike from captain Mohammad Taheri put Iran in a comfortable position at the break at Uzbekistan Stadium.<\/p>\n

And with Ghodrat Bahadori, Asghar Hassanzadeh and Mehran Alighadr also scoring before Toyebi completed his hat-trick, Iran will face Vietnam in Friday\u2019s semi-final following their penalty shootout win over defending champions Japan following a thrilling 4-4 draw after extra-time.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur main target from the start was to win this championship so as I have kept saying, we must keep going step-by-step,\u201d said Nazelmalsharie.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the first half we said we must share our energy and not keep our main players on the pitch for such long periods. The only thing we were doing was taking advantage of the mistakes the opposition made. We now have to focus on the next game because the real work begins from this moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

High-scoring wins over Jordan, China and Iraq saw Iran qualify for the quarter-finals with maximum points before Wednesday\u2019s win over Kyrgyzstan.<\/p>\n

And the 10-time champions have never failed to reach the semi-finals of the AFC Futsal Championship, but Iran are chasing a first title since 2010 after falling short in the two previous editions.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a very technical game, but I am very happy we have the strength to share the goals around between the players,\u201d added Nazelmalsharie.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe it is our right to be champions and that is the reason we came here.”<\/p>\n

Kyrgyzstan were playing in their first quarter-final since 2007, but despite the defeat, will now have to re-group ahead of Thursday\u2019s fifth place play-off with Japan as they aim to qualify for a first-ever FIFA Futsal World Cup.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have very little to say about this game as we were a different team; my players followed my instructions only 5%,\u201d said coach Andrey Polkhovskiy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had lots of problems against them and we didn\u2019t cope well. But now we will have to do everything we can to take fifth place.<\/p>\n

\u201cI tried to give everyone in the team a chance to play in the second half, especially those who haven\u2019t played so much. When the score is increasing so quickly, it\u2019s hard to do much.\u201d<\/p>\n

Photo: AFC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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