Iranian female shooter claims gold in 2015 Universiade

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Brazil’s Padovani joins
Sepahan
Brazilian defender Leandro
Padovani Celin joined Sepahan of Isfahan football team
on Wednesday.
The 31-year-old defender
spent the majority of his career in Brazil.
In 2012, he transferred to
Foolad in the Iranian Premier
League where he won the title in 2013–14 season.
In July 2014 Padovani signed with Naft Tehran and helped the team
qualify for AFC Champions League quarter-final.
He has joined Sepahan on a one-year contract for an undisclosed fee.
Padovani will be reunited with Hossein Faraki, his former coach at
Foolad team.
Mahdavikia appointed as
Hamburg U-14 Coach
Former Iranian national
football team’s midfielder
Mehdi Mahdavikia has been
appointed as Hamburg U-14
coach.
Mahdavikia, who played for
HSV from 1999 to 2007, was
selected as the Hamburger SV
Team of the Century in October 2012.
“I accepted Hamburg’s offer since I wanted to continue my coaching
courses in Europe. I will begin my work from next two weeks,” Mahdavikia said.
Mahdavikia, founder of KIA Football Academy, inspired the U-11 team
to second place in Cordial Cup in late May.
Iran wins in FIBA World
Championship
Iran’s U-19 basketball
team beat China to earn its
first victory in the FIBA
U-19 World Championship.
On Saturday, the Iranian
team defeated its Asian
counterpart 64-59 at the
Heraklion
University
Sports Hall in Heraklion,
Greece.
Iran’s Ali Allahverdi scored 20 points and had seven rebounds.
Iran had previously lost to USA, Egypt, Croatia, Turkey and Serbia in the competition.
Iran will play Dominican Republic on Sunday in the Classification 13-14.
Iranian female shooter claims Chile wins Copa América
gold in 2015 Universiade
Host Chile has beaten Argentina 4-1 on penalties to win Copa América for
the first time in a dramatic shoot-out in Santiago.
After 120 minutes of a goalless but heated final between two of the best
teams of the tourney at Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos, Arsenal
forward Alexis Sánchez chipped the winning penalty for the hosts to win
their first major trophy on Saturday.
Gonzalo Higuaín and his teammate Éver Banega missed penalties in the
shoot-out, which was followed by La Roja’s winning penalty and celebration with thousands of fans present at the stadium in the Chilean capital
Santiago.
In spite of Argentinian captain Lionel Messi’s only score from the spot,
Gerardo Martino’s squad emerged second at the tournament and ended La
Albiceleste’s 22-year quench for a trophy drought.
The Copa América is an international football competition contested between men’s national football teams of the South American Football Confederation, determining the continental champion of South America. It is
the oldest international continental football competition.
Iranian female sports shooter Najmeh Khedmati has snatched a
gold medal after putting on an awe-inspiring display of skills at the
28th edition of Universiade currently being held in South Korea.
On Sunday, the 19-year-old 2014 Asian Games gold medalist
scored 206.6 in the P2 (women’s 10m Air Pistol) and topped the
podium at the Jeollanamdo Shooting Range in the city of Naju,
situated 285 kilometers south of the capital, Seoul.
Gabriela Vognarova from the Czech Republic finished in second place with 205.7 points and claimed a silver medal. Serbian
athlete Ivana Maksimovic amassed 184.3 points to pick up the
bronze.
The 2015 Summer Universiade, which marks the 28th edition of
the tournament, opened in the South Korean city of Gwangju on
July 3, and will run until July 14.
Student athletes from over 170 countries are competing in the
championships.
Iranians sportsmen and women are vying for medals in artistic gymnastics, soccer, volleyball, taekwondo, shooting, archery,
athletics and rowing.
The Universiade is an international sporting and cultural festival, which is staged every two years. It is only second to the
Olympic Games.
The previous edition of the Universiade was held in the Russian
city of Kazan. Over 10,400 university athletes from 162 countries
participated in 13 mandatory and 14 optional sports, making the
2013 Universiade the biggest ever in the history of the event.
Egyptian footballer fired for anti-Sisi comments
A prominent Egyptian football player has lost his job after criticizing President Abdel Fattah elSisi on Facebook over Cairo’s handling of rising militant attacks in the restive Sinai Peninsula.
The Wadi Degla football club in Egypt’s premier league terminated Ahmad el-Merghany’s
contract two days after the influential midfielder posted the anti-Sisi comments on his personal
Facebook account.
“Everyone is dying, civilians, soldiers and policemen. Where are you from all of this? All we
ever get from you is talk with no actions,” Merghany wrote on his Facebook page.
The 27-year-old player called Sisi “a failure,” holding the army chief-turned-president responsible for “every spill of blood” in the North African state.
The comments come after 70 people, mostly soldiers, were killed by Takfiri militants south of
the Sinai town of Sheikh Zuweid, northeast of the capital, Cairo, earlier this week.
Gunmen have intensified terrorist attacks in Sinai ever since Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically-elected president, was toppled in a military
coup led by Sisi, the then army chief, in July 2013.
Merghany’s termination from his career is the latest in a series of measures taken against popular football stars in Egypt because of their stance on the
current policies of the military-backed government in Cairo.
Iranian judoka shines
early in Mongolia
Iran’s judoka Saeed Malaee
demonstrated a great performance in his first combat at the
IJF Judo Grand Prix in Mongolia.
The tournament was inaugurated on Friday and the Iranian
fighters stepped on tatami on Saturday at the International Judo
Federation (IJF) Judo Grand Prix
in Mongolia.
Defeating European Junior
champion Serbian Nemanja Majdov, Iranian judo practitioner
Saeed Malaee won his first encounter at Buyant Ukhaa Sport
Complex in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar to get to the
next round of the tournament in
the men’s under 81 kilogram division.
Saeed Malaee had a first-round
bye and wining the Serb fighter
moved into the third round where
he has to face the Canadian judoka Antoine Valois-Fortier who
has won the bronze medal in the
Men’s -81 kg category at the Judo
at the 2012 Summer Olympics
and the Canadian National Judo
Championship In 2010.
The other Judoka of Iran’s squad
is Javad Mahjoub in the minus
100 class.
More than 200 judokas from
35 countries are vying for world
ranking points ahead of the World
Championships in Chelyabinsk,
Russia, in August.
Hosts Mongolia showed their
immense depth in all weight categories on the opening day of
the event as a hat-trick of gold
medals came the country’s way
across the five weight categories,
with two-time World Judo Masters winner Sumiya Dorjsuren
claiming the women’s under 48
kilogram crown and Amartuvshin
Dashdavaa and Tumurkhuleg
Davaadorj taking the men’s under 60kg and under 66kg titles
respectively.
The International Judo Federation (IJF) Judo Grand Prix opened
in Ulaanbaatar on July 3 and will
wrap up on July 5.