Iran Futsal Coach Shahrzad Mozafar Lauds Her Girls

Iran advanced to the competition’s quarter-final with two wins over Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

Uzbekistan’s task was made considerably more difficult by the absence of its two specialist goalkeepers, who were both shown red cards in their previous match against Turkmenistan.

“I am satisfied with the way our players showed against Uzbekistan,” Mozafar said in the post-match news conference.

“We did expect Uzbekistan would make the power play due to the situation with their two goalkeepers, so in our last training session we really worked on that, both in attack and defense,” she added.

“We were ready for that. I think it was a good strategy for Uzbekistan to reduce the score. If they had their goalkeepers maybe it would have been a totally different game," Mozafar concluded.