Tehran

Iran’s Football Federation FFIRI has announced the schedule of matches in preparation for the upcoming AFC Asian Futsal championship in Vietnam.

Layla Yar Mohammadi , the spokesperson for the Futsal committee of the federation , announced that Futsal Team Melli will be taking part in Kuwait’s Intercontinental Cup , which will be held in 14th July – 23 July  along with Argentina, Egypt , Guatemala, Costa Rica and host country Kuwait.  ” Team Melli  activities will be continued by arranging several friendly matches ” she said in a statement on the FFIRI website. ” The comprehensive training program will start from 27th March. We have been in discussion with the Croatian football federation and verbally agreed to play two friendly matches. The dates will be finalized soon”

Yar Mohammadi also mentioned the possibility of playing  in 4 side tournament in Tashkent , Uzbekistan.  “The Uzbek federation has sent the invitation , but the final decision to take part in the tournament will be taken after we get all the details including other participating teams and the dates.”

The spokesperson for the Futsal committee also mentioned that UAE federation has sent an invitation for the Futsal U23 team to take part in a tournament “The final approval will be given by the coaching staff since many of the U23 team are also full team members.”

The Asian Futsal Championship 2014 will be held in Vietnam from 30th April to  10th May.

16 teams will be taking part in the  13th edition of the championship. Vietnam , Japan, Thailand and Iran are seeded and will be heading the 4 groups. Iran has won a record 10 titles while the current defending  champions Japan,  has won 2.