6 May 11, 2016 Iran Football 5 Draws With Brazil at Rio 2016 TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Iran foot- has been contested at every Game Iran Open the Door to Youth ball 5-a-side team has been drawn since. and again last year at the FIBA Asia with host Brazil, Turkey and Mo- Brazil is the only team to win Championship. Despite an injection of youth, there rocco at the Rio 2016 Paralympics Paralympics gold and is hunting its will be some experienced players in Games. fourth successive title at Rio 2016. the Iran squad. In addition to Hadda- Group B consists of Argentina, World Championships take place di, there will be Oshin Sahakian. An- China, Mexico and Russia. every four years in between the other is Arsalan Kazemi, who made The top two teams in each group Paralympics. his senior team bow at the 2010 will qualify for the semi-final. Football 5-a-side teams are made FIBA Basketball World Cup. It featured at the Paralympics for up of four outfield players and one Haddadi, though, is going to be the the first time at Athens 2004, and goalkeeper, Paralympic.org wrote. focal point. Bauermann will require his scoring and rebounding. He will need the 2.18m center to protect the rim on defense and call on the Ah- vaz-born pivot, who turns 31 on 19 Beşiktaş Fans Celebrate Title May, to be a leader. He has been vital for Iran since Early After Rival Fener’s Slump the 2007 FIBA Asia Championship. Haddadi had a prominent role the last couple of summers, including at Spain 2014. “Hamed Haddadi is going to be Behnam Yakhchali (IRI) - Palestine v Iran, 2015 FIBA Asia Championship, Changsha - CSWC Dayun really important, even more than in (People’s Republic of China), Second Round, recent years, in terms of leadership TEHRAN (FIBA) - Hamed Had- “There’s a ton of good, talented lahverdi and Salar Monji. All four and being more of a focal point of- dadi will lead the charge for Iran at young players who I think deserve were in the Iran team that played at fensively,” Bauermann said. “But the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tour- a chance to compete at the highest the 2015 U19 World Championship otherwise, it will be a young group so nament (OQT) in Turin this summer level,” Bauermann said on the Ira- in Greece. Some would argue that a it should be an interesting summer.” but other famous faces in the country’s nian Basketball Federation’s official youth movement began a couple of At the FIBA Olympic Qualifying basketball program will be missing. website. years ago for Iran. Behnam Yakhch- Tournament, which is being staged There will be no Samad Nikkhah, The German coach has not made ali was in the national side that com- 4-9 July, Iran will play in Group no Mahdi Kamrani, no Hamed Afagh clear which youngsters will go, but peted at the 2013 FIBA U19 World A against Greece and Mexico. In and no Javad Davari. The absences, he did name plenty in his 23-man Championship. He is a 20-year-old Group B will be Croatia, Italy and head coach Dirk Bauermann says, provisional squad. Among the young shooting guard who played for the Tunisia. Only the side that wins the must not be viewed as a sign of doom candidates are Mohammad You- senior team the following year at the OQT will clinch a spot in the Rio de and gloom. Instead, it’s a positive. sof Vand, Navid Rezaeifar, Ali Al- FIBA Basketball World Cup in Spain Janeiro Games. ISTANBUL (Hurriyet Daily Visca scored twice for the host News) - Beşiktaş fans hit the Başakşehir in the 60th and 65th Warriors G Stephen Curry Wins 2nd Straight MVP streets in Istanbul and many other minute. Turkish cities late on May 9, as Netherlands striker Robin van OAKLAND (China Daily) - Ste- “The way that I play has a lot of phen Curry is adding a second skill but is stuff that if you go to the team is now on course to take Persie, a big money summer straight MVP award to his record- the YMCA or rec leagues or church their first Turkish Super League signing from Manchester United, setting season. leagues around the country, every- title since 2009 after sole challeng- missed a penalty in the 76th min- A person with knowledge of body wants to shoot, everybody er and rival Fenerbahçe slumped ute to bring Fenerbahçe back into the award says Curry will be an- wants to handle the ball, make cre- nounced as the winner perhaps as ative passes and stuff like that,” to a shock 2-1 defeat to Medipol the game and a goal in the 80th soon as Tuesday. The person spoke Curry said after winning AP Male Başakşehir. minute from Mehmet Topal only on condition of anonymity because Athlete of the Year earlier this sea- “That year is this year,” title- proved to be a consolation. the NBA has not revealed the win- son. “You can work on that stuff. thirsty fans were chanting in the On May 8 Beşiktaş had piled ner. Not everybody has the vertical, or heart of Istanbul’s Beşiktaş dis- the pressure on Fenerbahçe with With his unmatched long-range the physical gifts to be able to go shooting and slick ball-handling, out and do a windmill dunk and trict, home for the Black Eagles. a critical derby win against Istan- Curry led the Warriors to an NBA- stuff like that. I can’t even do it.” With just two season games bul rivals Galatasaray, with a sec- record 73 wins in the regular season Curry has become one of the remaining in the next week, ond half strike by Mario Gomez as both he and his team somehow world’s most intriguing and popu- Beşiktaş leads Fenerbahçe by six of Germany proving decisive. improved after he won the MVP Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (30) smiles while going through lar athletes, playing golf and doing and led Golden State to its first his warm-up routine before game four of the second round of the NBA Playoffs public service announcements with points, with the latter holding a Gomez, taken up on a loan championship in 40 years the previ- against the Portland Trail Blazers at Moda Center at the Rose Quarter. President Barack Obama. head-to-head advantage. deal from Fiorentina for at least ous season. with 30.1 points per game and shat- cord of 72 set by Chicago in 1995- He was the first Warriors player Beşiktaş now just need to win this season, has proved the most The honor comes as no surprise tered his own record for 3-pointers 96. to lead the league in scoring since one point in their next match at outstanding player in a glorious as Curry has been the front-runner Rick Barry’s 35.6 scoring clip in by making 402, becoming the first With range that extended to half home to Osmanlıspor on May 8 season for Beşiktaş, which last since early in the season. The only player in league history to top 300 court - and sometimes even beyond 1966-67, joining Barry and Wilt drama remaining is whether he will and 400 in a season. - and the ability to create space for Chamberlain as the only players in to win a long sought-after title, month also moved back to their become the first player ever to win But Curry is more than just a scor- his own shots with his ball-handling franchise history to average 30 or while their goal difference ad- historic home on the shores of the award unanimously. er. He averaged 6.7 assists and 5.4 and opportunities for his teammates more points in a season. vantage also makes it almost cer- the Bosphorus in a brand new “I kind of felt bad today because rebounds per game, led the NBA by the way he stretched the floor, “He’s incredible. He’s different. tain they will be champions. stadium. I didn’t tell him congratulations with 2.1 steals per game, while Curry made the Warriors offense He’s something that we’ve never Desperately seeking a win Gomez has scored 25 league because I felt like I knew since shooting 50.4 percent from the field, click. seen before,” said Allen Iverson, the December,” teammate Draymond 45.4 percent from 3-point range and Perhaps no player has ever had 2001 MVP. “We’ve never seen this. away to fellow Istanbul side goals so far. Green told reporters at a shoot 90.8 percent from the foul line. that combination of traits in NBA It’s crazy to me. Just me being the Başakşehir, Fenerbahçe came The championship would mark around before Game 4 of Golden More than the numbers, Curry put history. Curry has done it with a biggest Michael Jordan fan, to see up short, increasing expectations the 14th time Beşiktaş have won State’s second-round series at Port- on a show almost every night dur- baby-faced look and a 6-foot-3, somebody come around like this, I their embattled Portuguese man- Turkish football’s top prize and land. ing Golden State’s record-setting 190-pound frame that led Coach have my idea of being incredible, ager Vitor Pereira will not be here give the club Turkey’s sole au- “It didn’t feel like this momentous season that started with 24 straight Steve Kerr to say that he is able to you know what I mean.