Iran Beach Soccer Defeats Azerbaijan at 2nd CIS Games


TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran's national beach soccer team defeated Azerbaijan 3-1 at the II Games of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) on Saturday.

Mehdi Shirmohammadi, Abbas Rezaei and Hadi Farahmand were on target for Iran.

Iran has been drawn in Group B with Belarus, the UAE and Azerbaijan.

Russia, Uzbekistan, Oman and Egypt are in Group A.

The 2nd CIS Games are being held in Belarus from August 4 to 14.

The CIS Games are a regular complex event in the field of physical culture and sports, covering national sports, the most popular within the CIS member states, Olympic and non-Olympic sports.