{"id":54352,"date":"2026-01-04T18:47:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T02:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=54352"},"modified":"2026-01-05T09:54:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T17:54:24","slug":"four-iranians-nominated-for-world-futsal-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2026\/01\/04\/four-iranians-nominated-for-world-futsal-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Iranians nominated for World Futsal Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Four Iranian futsal figures have been nominated for the 26th edition of the annual World Futsal Awards, released by Futsalplanet.com.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran men\u2019s national futsal team goalkeeper Bagher Mohammadi has been shortlisted for the Best Men\u2019s Goalkeeper in the World award. He will compete against Dennis Vasconcelos Cavalcanti (Brazil), Juan Cruz Freijo Riveras (Argentina), Leonardo \u201cL\u00e9o\u201d Gugiel (Brazil), Matheus Marcos de Lima Assun\u00e7\u00e3o (Brazil), and Math\u00edas Gabriel Fern\u00e1ndez Krigeris (Uruguay).<\/p>\n<p>In the women\u2019s category, Maral Torkaman has been nominated for Best Women\u2019s Young Player in the World 2025. The other contenders are Jasmine Demraoui (Morocco), Emylly Sofia de Figueredo Cabrera (Brazil), Greta Ghilardi (Italy), Merlin Yovhana Salcedo Ramos (Colombia), and Rikako Yamakawa (Japan).<\/p>\n<p>Iranian star Hossein Tayebi has also been shortlisted for the Best Men\u2019s Player in the World 2025. He faces competition from Bruno de Seixas Martins \u201cBruninho\u201d (Brazil), Soufiane El Mesrar (Morocco), Marcel de Mendon\u00e7a Marques (Brazil), Pablo Ram\u00edrez Gonz\u00e1lez (Spain), and Jean Pierre Guisel Costa \u201cPito\u201d (Brazil).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Iran men\u2019s national team head coach Vahid Shamsaei has been nominated for Best Men\u2019s National Team Coach in the World. His rivals include Hicham Dguig (Morocco), Blazej Korczynski (Poland), Oleksandr Kosenko (Ukraine), Marcos \u201cMarquinhos\u201d Xavier Andrade (Brazil), Mat\u00edas Ra\u00fal Lucuix (Argentina), and H\u00e9ctor Souto (Spain), the head coach of Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>The winners of the awards will be announced on January 7, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Four Iranian futsal figures have been nominated for the 26th edition&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":54354,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,88,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c15-futsal","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":647,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54352","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=54352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54369,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54352\/revisions\/54369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}