6 June 26, 2016

Iran Captain ’s Tasisat Daryaei Fails to Edge Past Babasafari Joins Barcelona in Futsal Intercontinental Cup Goztepe Handball Team trick, while 30-year-old Spanish fut- tar Inter of Spain. sal player Ángel Velasco Marugán The club with the highest number added a fourth. of intercontinental titles is Movistar In another match of the day, Rus- Inter, which claimed the champion- sia’s MFK Dinamo Moskva man- ship consecutively from 2005 to aged to prevail with a score of 3-2 2011. over Brazilian futsal club Associa- The Intercontinental Futsal Cup in- ção Carlos Barbosa de Futsal, which augurated in 1997 and Brazilian club is usually known as Carlos Barbosa Sport Club Internacional, which is or by the acronym ACBF. based in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande Tasisat Daryaei futsal players are do Sul, won the first title after beat- scheduled to meet counterparts from ing FC Barcelona 4-2 in the final. Carlos Barbosa club in their second The tournament was not recog- encounter on Sunday morning. nized by FIFA, which serves as the The 17th edition of Futsal Intercon- world’s soccer governing body. tinental Cup started in on June The first edition of the tournament Iranian futsal team Tasisat Daryaei 24 and will conclude on June 29. recognized by FIFA took place in (Press TV) - Iranian fut- in Doha to the Spanish club. Iran’s Tasisat Daryaei futsal club is 2004, when Brazil’s Carlos Barbosa Mohsen Babasafri sal club Tasisat Daryaei has lost to the Tasisat Daryaei’s forwards Saeed drawn in Group A of the competition pummeled Playas de Castellón FS of TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian Hungarian handball club last year. Spain-based FC Barcelona Lassa in its Abbasi and Shamsaei smashed alongside Russia’s MFK Dinamo Spain 6-3 in the final showdown. national handball team’s goalkeeper Bosnian player Nemanja Skrobic opening match of the 17th edition of shots into the back of FC Barcelona Moskva, Carlos Barbosa of Brazil The southern Brazilian city of Mohsen Babasafri joined Turkish also penned a one-year contract Futsal Intercontinental Cup in Qatar. Lassa’s net to pocket two goals for and Spanish giant FC Barcelona Erechim hosted the last edition of Super League team Goztepe. with Turkish team. On Saturday morning, Vahid their side. Lassa. the FIFA Intercontinental Futsal Cup Iran captain, 29, has joined Goztepe became runner-up in the Shamsaei’s men lost with a score of Wilde Gomes da Silva, who is com- Group B consists of Qatar’s Al in 2015, when Atlântico of Brazil Goztepe on a one-year contract. Turkish Handball Super League last 4-2 their Group A fixture at the in- monly known as Wilde and plays for Rayyan, Portuguese club Benfica, beat Kazakh futsal club AFC Kairat Babasafari was a member of season. door Ali Bin Hamad Al Attiya Arena Barcelona as a Pivot, scored a hat Brazil’s Magnus Futsal and Movis- 4-3. National Athletics Team After Olympic Road to Russia Mapped Out Berths at Kazakh Tourney for African Hopefuls TEHRAN (MNA) – Iranian Iranian athletics team had departed and Sajad Moradi (800m), Keyvan Athletics practitioners of Iran have CAIRO (FIFA) - The last remaining steps for Africa’s FIFA World Cup™ representatives will compete at the for Almighty on Firday. Ghanbarzadeh and Mohammadreza so far secured seven places at the contenders have been laid out after the draw for the continent’s third round XXVI Kosanov Memorial Tournament Iran’s squad present at the two-day Vazifehdoost (high jump), 2016 Rio Summer of Russia 2018 qualifiers took place in Egypt. in Almaty in an attempt to increase the event comprises Reza Moghadam Mohammad Arzandeh and Sobhan while more berths can be added The event, held at CAF’s Cairo headquarters, threw up some mouth-wa- country’s Rio Olympic quotas. (hammer throw), Maryam Tousi and Taherkhani (long jump), Mohammad after meeting the qualification mark tering heavyweight clashes, with Cameroon, Algeria and Nigeria drawn The major International Tournament Ali Khadivar (200m sprint), Reza and Mahmoud Samimi (discus at XXVI International Meeting G. together in Group B, and Group C pairing Côte d’Ivoire and Morocco. (Kosanov Memorial) kicked off in Ghasemi (100m & 200m), Sajjad throw) as well as Leila Rajabi (shot Kosanov Memorial in Almaty of Outsiders Libya and Burkina Faso, meanwhile, will be hoping to upset the Kazakh capital while the national Hashemi (400m), Mostafa Ebrahimi put). Kazakhstan on June 25 and 26, 2016. the odds against the likes of Tunisia and Senegal respectively. This is the decisive stage of an African Zone preliminary competition that began last October, with the 20 teams still in contention having been Two Chinese Players Drafted by NBA, drawn into five four-team groups. They will now play each other home and away on a round-robin basis, with all five group winners qualifying automatically for Russia 2018. Matches will take place between October Zhou Picked by Rockets 2016 and November 2017.

WASHINGTON ( Daily) - player in the NBA draft in nine years Draw results The selected China’s following his predecessors rising star with the and ’s 2007 draft, and Yao Group A Côte d’Ivoire 43rd overall pick in the NBA draft on Ming’s 2002 draft. Meanwhile, Zhou Tunisia Morocco Thursday night. is expected to be the 6th Chinese Libya Group D The 20-year-old Zhou led the player to stage on the US professional Congo DR Senegal Chinese Basketball Association basketball court. NBA has been Guinea South Africa (CBA) in blocked shots for the second without a Chinese player since 2014 Group B Burkina Faso straight season, averaging 3.2 in 2015- when Yi returned following a mediocre Zambia Cape Verde Islands 16 for Xinjiang. NBA spell. Cameroon Group E The 7-foot-1 forward also averaged Zhou’s participation in the 2016 Algeria Ghana 15.8 points and 9.8 rebounds while NBA draft has been warmly welcomed Nigeria Egypt showing an improved offensive game, by Chinese fans. They also compared Group C Congo making nine of his 15 3-point attempts Zhou with , the most Gabon Uganda after going just 1 for 10 the previous successful Chinese player in the NBA Mali season. history. As a Chinese basketball icon, Another Chinese player Yao served in the Houston Rockets has also been selected in the 57th place from 2002 to 2011. Chinese basketball player Zhou Qi has been selected by The Houston by the on Thursday. Previous media reports suggested Rockets with the 43rd pick in NBA draft Kenya Seeks to Promote The 22-year-old currently plays his club team Xinjiang, unlike most for him to go to the NBA. However, been in talks with Xinjiang, and Zhou for the Sturgeons in the CBA. Chinese fans, seemed reluctant to let Daryl Morey, the general manager of is likely to debut in the upcoming Junior Sporting Zhou becomes the first Chinese Zhou Qi go, saying the time is not right the Houston Rockets, said Rockets has 2016-2017 season. NAIROBI (Xinhua) -- Kenya’s Min- randum of understanding (MOU) by the EuroLeague Women and EuroCup Women Draw Seedings Announced istry of Education has partnered with two institutions to work together in the Athletics Kenya (AK) to launch the Kid’s organization and development of Kids MUNICH (FIBA) - Europe announced (HUN) Mersin Buyuksehir (TUR) Cekk Cegled (HUN) Qualifiers return leg at home. Athletics, officials said in Nairobi on Fri- Athletics in Kenya. on Saturday the seedings for the CMB Cargo Uni Gyor (HUN) Enisey Krasnoyarsk Region (RUS) Draw seedings for Conference 2 day. The program aims at making children EuroLeague Women and EuroCup CB Avenida (ESP) BLMA (FRA) YDUBGD (TUR) Qualifiers: Principal Secretary for Education Dr enjoy playing and sporting at an early Women draws, which are set to take CCC Polkowice (POL) Hatay Draw seedings for Conference 1 Regular Seed 1 Seed 2 place on Monday, 27 June 2016 at 11:30 Buyuksehir (TUR) Season: Nantes Reze (FRA) Amsterdam Angels Belio Kipsang said the move is aimed at age. It will be integrated into school ac- CET in Freising, Germany. For EuroCup Women, a total of 40 clubs Seed 1 Seed 2 Seed 3 Seed 4 (NED) boosting co-curricular activities among tivity - put in the co-curricular calendar Both draws can be followed live on the have registered and have been divided Galatasaray (TUR) Aluinvent DVTK Flammes Carolo Basket (FRA) children aged between seven and 14 of events next year. The program has respective social media channels, with the into two conferences, taking into account Miskolc (HUN) Dynamo Novosibirsk Basket 90 Gdynia (POL) years. potential to be pathway for skill devel- EuroLeague Women draw to be streamed geographical proximity and the number of Region (RUS) Winner Qualifier 1 Valosun KP Brno (CZE) “The main objective of the Kids Ath- opment in sport for children in future. live on Facebook and Twitter, and the clubs registered per country. Sparta&K Moscow Region Vidnoje RUTRONIK Stars Keltern (GER) letics is to nurture talents in children, Kids Athletics will also enable a EuroCup Women draw to be streamed live In Conference 1, 12 spots will be directly (RUS) Maccabi Bnot Ashdod (ISR) BCF Elfic Fribourg (SUI) Eisvogel make children enjoy sport, fight obesity smooth transition from children-junior- on Twitter. allocated, with the remaining four places PBC MBA Moscow (RUS) Winner USC Freiburg (GER) Following the withdrawal of Spanish for the Regular Season to be determined Qualifier 2 Draw seedings for Conference 2 Regular and other diseases brought about by be- youth and senior athletics. Some of the club CB Conquero, 16 EuroLeague Women through Qualifiers. The Qualifiers will be AGU Spor (TUR) PINKK Pecsi 424 Season: ing inactive among others,” Kipsang features of the kid’s athletics will in- teams will be drawn directly into two played in a home-and-away format, with (HUN) Hoptrans Sirenos (LTU) Seed 1 Seed 2 Seed 3 Seed 4 said in a statement. clude sprinting or running, jumping and Regular Season groups of eight teams each. the higher ranked team (Seed 1) to play the Winner Qualifier 3 Mithra Castors Braine (BEL) DSK This follows the signing of a memo- throwing events. The clubs have been seeded based on the return leg at home. Good Angels Kosice (SVK) TTT Riga Basketball Nymburk (CZE) Lulea ranking of their performance in European The seedings are based on the ranking of (LAT) Olympiacos SFP (GRE) Basket (SWE) Winner Qualifier 5 club competitions in the last three seasons: the clubs’ performance in European club Winner Qualifier 4 Basket Landes (FRA) Umana Seed 1 Seed 2 Seed 3 Seed 4 competitions in the last three seasons. For Conference 2, the same criteria apply Reyer Venezia (ITA) Clube Uniao Sportiva Kayhan International UMMC Ekaterinburg (RUS) ZVVZ Draw seedings for Conference 1 as for Conference 1, with 12 clubs being (POR) Winner Qualifier 6 USK Prague (CZE) Dynamo Kursk Qualifiers: allocated a place in the Regular Season Belfius Namur Capitale (BEL) (RUS) ESBVA-LM (FRA) Seed 1 Seed 2 and the remaining eight teams participating Udominate Basket (SWE) Cavigal Advertising Dept. Fenerbahce (TUR) Nadezhda Orenburg Universitesi (TUR) Piestanske in home-and-away Qualifiers. The Nice Basket 06 (FRA) Winner (RUS) Tango Bourges Basket (FRA) Cajky (SVK) teams from Seed 1 are the higher ranked Qualifier 7 33110251-9 Wisla Can-Pack (POL) PEAC Pecs (HUN) Samsun Canik teams based on the ranking of clubs and TSV 1880 Wasserburg (GER) Spar Seed 5 Seed 6 Seed 7 Seed 8 Belediye (TUR) national federations in FIBA Europe club Citylift Girona (ESP) ASD Pol. Virtus Famila Schio (ITA) Uniqa Sopron Chevakata Vologda (RUS) VBW competitions, and therefore will play the Eirene Ragusa (ITA) Winner Qualifier 8 Ext. 2336