Iran’s Beach soccer team reached the Semi Finals of AFC Asian Beach Soccer Championship 2015 after defeating the UAE 6-1 in the quarter final match played at Katara beach , in Doha.

The rough playing UAE were no match for the defending champions Iran , who played with confidence. Playing with caution at the start, an Iranian player opened the scoring in the 1st period but at the wrong end when Hassan Abdollahi deflected a ball into his own net wrong footing the excellent Goalkeeper Peyman Hosseini.

The response was quick and decisive as Mehran Morshedizadeh  made it 1-1 and that how the first period ended.

In the second period a long-range goal by Goalkeeper Peyman Hosseini made the difference as he scored his team’s 2nd goal to make it 2-1 without any response from the UAE.

In the third quarter the UAE players seeing the match getting out of their reach , started some rough tackling.
Frustrated and un-sportsmanship behavior by UAE players nearly threatened to disrupt the match. All this happened after Iran opened the floodgates in the last quarter. Iran scored 4 goals in the 3rd quarter to annihilate the ambitious UAE and deprive them from a berth in 2015  FIFA beach Soccer World Cup.
Amir Hossein Akbari  from penalty spot 3-1 ,  Mohammad Ahmadzadeh  4-1, Ali Naderi 5-1 and finally Farid Boloukbashi  from penalty spot 6-1, scored Iran goals.

Waleed Mohammad of the UAE  was sent off for violent conduct when he plunged with two feet into  Amir Akbari. The Iranian player was stretched off the field. Akbari himself will miss the semi final after he was booked in the match. This is his second booking of the tournament.

Iran will be meeting the winner of Japan vs. Bahrain in the semi finals on Friday for a place in the 2015 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.