Tasisat Daryaei futsallers lose to Brazil's Carlos Barbosa
Iranian futsal club Tasisat Daryaei suffered its second loss in a row Sunday at the 17th edition of the Futsal Intercontinental Cup in Qatar.
The team lost to the Associação Carlos Barbosa de Futsal, usually known as Carlos Barbosa, of Brazil’s southern state of Rio Grande do Sul.
The Iranian outfit sustained a narrow 3-4 defeat at the end of its second Group A fixture at the indoor Ali Bin Hamad Al Attiya Arena in Doha.
Alireza Vafaei, Mohammad Reza Sangsefidi and Vahid Shamsaei netted Tasisat Daryaei’s goals of the match.
In another match of the day, Spain-based FC Barcelona Lassa defeated Russia’s MFK Dinamo Moskva 3-2.
Tasisat Daryaei’s players are scheduled to take on Russia’s MFK Dinamo Moskva in their third Group A match late on Sunday.
The Futsal Intercontinental Cup started on June 24 and will conclude on June 29.
Tasisat Daryaei is drawn in Group A of the competition alongside MFK Dinamo Moskva, Carlos Barbosa and FC Barcelona Lassa.
Group B consists of Qatar’s Al Rayyan, Portuguese club Benfica, Brazil’s Magnus Futsal and Movistar Inter of Spain.
The club with the highest number of intercontinental titles is Movistar Inter, which claimed the championship consecutively from 2005 to 2011.
The Intercontinental Futsal Cup inaugurated in 1997 and Brazilian club Sport Club Internacional, which is based in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, won the first title after beating FC Barcelona 4-2 in the final. The tournament was not recognized by FIFA.
The first edition of the tournament recognized by FIFA took place in 2004, when Carlos Barbosa pummeled Playas de Castellón FS of Spain 6-3 in the final showdown.
The southern Brazilian city of Erechim hosted the last edition of the cup in 2015, when Atlântico of Brazil beat Kazakhstan’s AFC Kairat 4-3.
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