Afghanistan\u2019s national futsal team secured a valuable draw against Iran in their second match of the Islamic Solidarity Games in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n
This afternoon, the Lions of Khorasan<\/em> faced the Asian champions in one of the most intense and thrilling matches of the tournament, ending the game with a 2\u20132 draw.<\/p>\n Afghanistan\u2019s goals were scored by Sayed Mojtaba Hossaini<\/strong> and Captain Mahdi Nawruzi<\/strong>. Iran opened the scoring in the first half, but coach Majid Mortazai\u2019s<\/strong> players equalized through a goal by Sayed Mojtaba Hossaini, bringing the half to a 1\u20131 finish. In the second half, Iran once again took the lead, but the Afghan players fought back and leveled the score once more.<\/p>\n The Afghanistan national futsal team delivered an impressive performance, and with a bit more precision in finishing, they could have converted several great opportunities and even won the match by a margin.<\/p>\n With this result, Afghanistan now has four points<\/strong>, and following Tajikistan\u2019s 7\u20131 loss to Morocco<\/strong>, Afghanistan stands in second place<\/strong> in Group B due to goal difference.<\/p>\n In their opening match, Afghanistan had defeated Tajikistan 9\u20135 to secure three valuable points. The Lions of Khorasan<\/em> will play their final group stage match against Morocco<\/strong> on Saturday, November 8, 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Afghanistan\u2019s national futsal team secured a valuable draw against Iran in their second match of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/sattagydia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Afg-Futsal-Riyadh.jpg",520,327,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/sattagydia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Afg-Futsal-Riyadh-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/sattagydia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Afg-Futsal-Riyadh-300x189.jpg",300,189,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/sattagydia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Afg-Futsal-Riyadh.jpg",520,327,false],"large":["https:\/\/sattagydia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Afg-Futsal-Riyadh.jpg",520,327,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/sattagydia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Afg-Futsal-Riyadh.jpg",520,327,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/sattagydia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Afg-Futsal-Riyadh.jpg",520,327,false],"newsever-slider-full":["https:\/\/sattagydia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Afg-Futsal-Riyadh.jpg",520,327,false],"newsever-featured":["https:\/\/sattagydia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Afg-Futsal-Riyadh.jpg",520,327,false],"newsever-medium":["https:\/\/sattagydia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Afg-Futsal-Riyadh.jpg",520,327,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Sattagydia News","author_link":"https:\/\/sattagydia.com\/en\/author\/sattagydia\/"},"category_info":"Uncategorised<\/a>","tag_info":"Uncategorised","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sattagydia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sattagydia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sattagydia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sattagydia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sattagydia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sattagydia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2016,"href":"https:\/\/sattagydia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions\/2016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sattagydia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sattagydia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sattagydia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sattagydia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}