Alright! In these low days of our football, we at least have our Futsal team to make us proud.
Iran Futsal team, the reigning Asian Champions, defeated Libya 1-0 in their final match to win of Futsal’s Confederation Cup. Along the way they defeated CONMEBOL, CONCACAF and OFC Champions Uruguay (4-2), Guatemala (4-2), and [...]

Iranian football officials are a bunch of hypocrites! I am not suggesting that it may be any different elsewhere, but it is really bad in Iran, trust me!

As early as a couple of months ago, the Iranian Football Federation had all but abandoned the national futsal, U16, and U23 teams. Then the futsal and U16 [...]

 
The fairytale is over! Our futsal team’s amazing journey in the 2008 Futsal World Cup came to an end this morning. They put a valiant fight against an experienced Italian team, but with 50 seconds left it all came to a crushing end!
Italians tied the game at 5 a piece with less than a minute [...]

Our futsal boys did it again; this time they had to come back from a two goal deficit against an attack minded Ukrainian team that had come to make up for their loss to Brazil.
We won, that is the good news. The bad news is that our best player Vahid Shamsaei got a yellow card [...]

OK! As predicted the Brazilians remain invincible; no surprise there. But what surprised even most of us Iranian fans was how well our team fought against the indomitable Selecao. Our boys lost a well fought game 1-0 to a team that had steamrolled over all opposition having scored 49 goals and allowed only one.
 
Brazilians [...]

Something special just happened in the small world of Iranian Futsal. For the first time since the 1992 FIFA Futsal World Cup Iran’s team made it through to the second round.
 
Iran tied two times champions Spain in the first game, defeated Libya and Uruguay 4-2, and needing at least a tie to go through, [...]

How fast can you say “The Kings of Asia”?! Well that is exactly what Iran’s national Futsal team deservedly feels like they are. Iran defeated Thailand in the final game of the Asian Futsal Championship to win their ninth title in ten attempts. If the Kings had to pick a King amongst them to be [...]

Iran defeated Japan in the semi-finals of the Asian Futsal Championship to earn the opportunity to win an unprecedented 9th Asian Fustal crown.
Iran won the Championship seven times in a row since its inception in 1999, but then was dethroned by an inspired Japanese team in 2006. However, the following year, they got their revenge [...]

Hey boys and girls, we won the Asian Futsal Championship in the Asian Indoor Games in Macau.
Whoohoo! That’s great! Now tell me, who Team Melli’s coach is and who is the head of the football federation?
Ah, who am I kidding?! We still don’t have a national team coach or a federation boss to hire one! [...]

At least we did not come away with nothing! Iran defeated Kyrgyzstan to win third place. Japan for their part defeated Uzbekistan 5:1 to win the championship.