{"id":48441,"date":"2023-03-11T06:31:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T14:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=48441"},"modified":"2023-03-11T06:31:10","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T14:31:10","slug":"iran-futsal-moving-in-the-right-direction-vahid-shamsaei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2023\/03\/11\/iran-futsal-moving-in-the-right-direction-vahid-shamsaei\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran futsal moving in the right direction: Vahid Shamsaei"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran futsal head coach Vahid Shamsaei says that his side&#8217;s recent success in the Thailand tournament means that they are in the right way.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iran won the 2023 NSDF Futsal Championship by defeating Japan 4-1 in the final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSince March 2022 when I took over the national team to March 2023, I tried to follow my pre-planned programs,\u201d said Shamsaei in his exclusive interview with the Tehran Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur plans focused on changing the generation and using more and more young players in the national futsal team. I never stopped to implement my ideas and strategies during the last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn every tournament that the Iran took part in, I fielded new young players and let them experience big matches. It was my plan from the first day as the head coach because I wanted to have a collection of 40 to 50 young top players to make the future of the national team based on their potential and qualities,\u201d added Shamsaei, who scored 392 goals in international matches as the former Iran futsal player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under his leadership as the head coach, Team Melli defeated Saudi Arabia (11-0), Egypt (3-1), and Thailand (5-1) before the final match in the 2023 NSDF Futsal Championship, held in Thailand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking about the NSDF tournament, Shamsaei said: \u201cOur traditional opponents in Asian futsal, Japan and Thailand, were in the tournament. Egypt, as the runners-up of Africa, also were among our rivals in this tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIran played well during the tournament and the performance of our young players was impressive. I gave the opportunity to some young players whose number of international matches has just reached five, six or seven,\u201d said the three-times winner of the AFC Futsal Player of the Year award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shamsaei also explained his plans: \u201cI divided my plans into two periods of one and a half years; the first one was related to selecting new young players which I call the short-term plan. The second phase is the preparation for the 2024 FIFA Futsal World Cup, which I call the goal-setting stage,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran futsal head coach Vahid Shamsaei says that his side&#8217;s recent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":48442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,88,92,185,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c15-futsal","category-c21-international-football-news","category-interview","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1393,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48443,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48441\/revisions\/48443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}