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So the losing presidential candidate disputed the results, after an attempted riot was unsuccessful, the case was brought to the constitutional court.
 
It has been 4 days (not including Saturday and Sunday) full of questioning and bickering. Almost all TV here showed this, up to 12 hours a day. The decision (hopefully) will be announced on Friday.
 
And this is the highlight from the court:
 
 

Turkmenistan did better in 2017 

Horrible news Miguel Angel Falasca, coach of Volley Monza has suffered a heart attack and died. He was only 46

That's in futsal
 
In football we have (Gian) Zola, (Fauzi) Toldo, Pagiluca (Rossy), (Sutan) Zico, Maldini (Pali).
Pretty formidable eh

we will have the last day of AFC Futsal U20 Championship in Tabriz, North West of Iran tomorrow. with Japan and Afghanistan in the final. so far this is no big deal just a great achievement for Afghanistan, they lost to Iran in preliminary round but they beat Thailand and Indonesia in knockout round. the host team Iran instead lost to Japan in extra time in other SF.
 
but this tournament made me (and so many other people) find out there is a very bad , unbelievably racist rule in Iran. there are so many Afghans living in Iran, legally or illegally. something like 1 or 2 millions. but now I found out they only can travel to certain provinces. and their presence is highly forbidden in some other provinces including the one hosting this event. it seems so many of them wanted to travel to Tabriz supporting their team but they can't do that legally. I didn't know about such a rule because fortunately this racist rule doesn't apply to where I live.
 
I really feel ashamed as Iranian about this. I really hope some of them at least can travel for tomorrow match and Afghanistan wins the title (which will be tough since Japan is a better team) ironically more than half of Afghan players here are living in Iran as refugee. and they needed "special permission" to travel to Tabriz for that !
 
PS: on the funny side. there is a player in Indonesian squad named "Filippo Inzaghi"   check #14 here
http://stats.the-afc.com/match_report/15506

we will have the last day of AFC Futsal U20 Championship in Tabriz, North West of Iran tomorrow. with Japan and Afghanistan in the final. so far this is no big deal just a great achievement for Afghanistan, they lost to Iran in preliminary round but they beat Thailand and Indonesia in knockout round. the host team Iran instead lost to Japan in extra time in other SF.
 
but this tournament made me (and so many other people) find out there is a very bad , unbelievably racist rule in Iran. there are so many Afghans living in Iran, legally or illegally. something like 1 or 2 millions. but now I found out they only can travel to certain provinces. and their presence is highly forbidden in some other provinces including the one hosting this event. it seems so many of them wanted to travel to Tabriz supporting their team but they can't do that legally. I didn't know about such a rule because fortunately this racist rule doesn't apply to where I live.
 
I really feel ashamed as Iranian about this. I really hope some of them at least can travel for tomorrow match and Afghanistan wins the title (which will be tough since Japan is a better team) ironically more than half of Afghan players here are living in Iran as refugee. and they needed "special permission" to travel to Tabriz for that !
 
PS: on the funny side. there is a player in Indonesian squad named "Filippo Inzaghi"   check #14 here
http://stats.the-afc.com/match_report/15506

If France and Romania draw they are both qualified for the Olympics. Who is the genius that thought that having three groups and only letting four teams make the knockout stage was a good idea?
 
At least you can’t accuse UEFA of sexism, their men’s Olympic qualification system is as terrible as their women’s.

yes , we have been a bad example for other middle eastern countries that want to make revolutions or to continue their ones  Mubarak at least got his right to stay most of the time in a military hospital and get the best possible cure during his imprisonment , but Morsi OFC didn't have the same rights as he's considered as a terrorist 

oh I didn't know that. it was just weird for me that Brazil is the one wasting time and not Italy ! because 1-0 was actually a better result for Italy and not Brazil. with one more goal Brazil could win the group. while even 1-1 had the same outcome for Brazil (or even a loss)

18-10
12-8
10-9
20-4

people here follow the politics in Egypt very closely. mostly for cultural similarity. but for most people that's confusing. why we had a revolution in first place when eventually Egypt ended up with someone similar to Mubarak on office.
 
btw Mubarak or Mursi this is really not good to put former presidents in a "cage" during the trials. anybody can have a heart attack in that situation.

Yeah I'm always a bit shocked when seeing anyone (no matter their crime) in a cage in court on the news. Makes the whole thing look like it's some sort of animal in a show trial instead of something at least a little serious..

it was always like this in past few years, they never mention it in documents and live results yet they also award another bronze medal to the 3rd place match loser.
 
that's their rule
http://www.asianfencing.com/fca2013/pdf/2018-conditions-for-hosting-afc.pdf
 
in first page in "awards" section . A match between two losing semifinalists will be held to determine the team which will be given the FIE ranking points as third and fourth places.

The website with info, calendar, results, streaming is:
http://championship.fencing-jpn.jp/asian/#en
rather than the one linked above.

what a drama Korea-Senegal QF. Korea equalized in 90+7 minute. then took the lead but Senegal did the same in 120th minute. and penalties were full of drama.
 
we have Korea, Ecuador and Italy in semifinal. those 3 names together comes one name to my mind. Byron Moreno !

what a drama Korea-Senegal QF. Korea equalized in 90+7 minute. then took the lead but Senegal did the same in 120th minute. and penalties were full of drama.
 
we have Korea, Ecuador and Italy in semifinal. those 3 names together comes one name to my mind. Byron Moreno !

actually, it's 4 out of 5...they missed out in the -50kg...
 
p.s. in a couple of their runs, the Chinese girls had to beat some Italian fighters...so, no, they didn't even need any outside help...they only took advantage of all the gifts our girls made them...

China in the final in every single women's Kumite class I wonder if they improved A LOT or they had outside help !
 
not a bad tournament for Iran, 4 in the final and so many for the bronze. but once again this is not really going to help our Olympic chance to win medals by different athletes. for example I never heard of this 67kg finalist Ali Karimi !

China in the final in every single women's Kumite class I wonder if they improved A LOT or they had outside help !
 
not a bad tournament for Iran, 4 in the final and so many for the bronze. but once again this is not really going to help our Olympic chance to win medals by different athletes. for example I never heard of this 67kg finalist Ali Karimi !

Here we can see a hobby of russian team members: they shouted insults at our girl; that's why she mockingly applauded them after the finish. Even the russian competitor used filthy language; watch at 8:22
 

it happens everywhere. just a common thing in wrestling, mostly in Greco-Roman because the criteria for passivity cautions isn't that clear so they think they can make the referee's mind by shouting Red/Blue passive for the entire 6 minutes. it's not like they really believe they deserve a caution or not. they start shouting "passive" after probably 20-30 seconds into the match.
 
in Asia, they usually use bigger stadiums, so you usually only hear two coaches around the mat shouting that, but from what I see in Europe, most of the time the other team members are right behind the judge and you hear something like 20-30 persons even make a song with that "Red pa-ssive, red pa-ssive, red pa-ssive " damn I would want to punch all of them
 
as you know each wrestler can have two coaches near the mat, one of the sitting right next to the mat and the other one 2-3 meters far from the mat. for Iranian coaches, usually one of them gives technical advice (again, non-stop for the entire 6 minutes) and the other one's responsibility is to just shout red/blue passive ! it's always fun for me to watch those matches in livestream where you can hear the coaches, most of them Iranian coaches say funny things but sometimes that "passive passive" chant make it impossible to hear what they are saying. another reason why I hate it

Iran's Youth Olympics Gold medalist Navid Mohammadi died today morning in a car accident at the age of 18
 

 
this week in general was tragic for our Karate, Fatemeh Chalaki , two times Asian Games bronze medalist and multiple times Premiere League medalists had another serious car accident and she will most probably lose one of her eyes we won't see her on Tatami anymore.

Iran's Youth Olympics Gold medalist Navid Mohammadi died today morning in a car accident at the age of 18
 

 
this week in general was tragic for our Karate, Fatemeh Chalaki , two times Asian Games bronze medalist and multiple times Premiere League medalists had another serious car accident and she will most probably lose one of her eyes we won't see her on Tatami anymore.