Pages
  • First Page
  • National & Int’l
  • Economy
  • Deep Dive
  • Sports
  • Iranica
  • Arts & Culture
Number Seven Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty Three - 17 May 2025
Iran Daily - Number Seven Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty Three - 17 May 2025 - Page 6

AVC Men’s Champions League:

Foolad rallies past Shanghai Bright to progress to last four

Iranian champion Foolad Sirjan came from behind to beat Shanghai Bright of China 3-1 (24-26, 25-21, 28-26, 25-23) and advance to the semifinals at the rebranded AVC Men’s Volleyball Champions League in Kyoto, Japan.
Iran international outside-hitter Amirhossein Esfandiar contributed with a game-high 25 points for Behrouz Ataei’s side, with opposite-spiker Ali Hajipour chipping in 20.
Cuban middle-blocker Javier Concepcion and Alireza Abdolhamidi also finished in double figures for Foolad, registering 10 points apiece, while French superstar Earvin Ngapeth had a quiet day with four points.
Chinese Pengzhi Wu was the top scorer for Shanghai Bright with 20 points, followed by Cong Tian (15) and Bohan Wang (12).
A bronze medalist in last December’s Club World Championship in Brazil, Foolad was caught off-guard in the first set, but Hajipour and Esfandiar scored a combined 13 points in the second set to tie the game at 1-1.
The pivotal point of the contest came in the closing stages of the third set, when Ataei’s men overcame a 24-20 deficit to win 28-26, before sealing the hard-fought victory in the fourth set.
Chasing a third Asian title four years, Foolad got off to a shaky start in the competition, laboring to a 3-2 win against Thailand’s Nakhon Ratchasima QminC in their Pool C opener, and then went on to beat Taichung Bank of the Chinese Taipei to progress to the quarterfinals as the group winner.

 

Search
Date archive
<
2025 July
>
Su
Mo
Tu
We
Th
Fr
Sa
29 30 1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31 1 2
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
today
تیر
<
2025 July
>
Su
Mo
Tu
We
Th
Fr
Sa
29 30 1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31 1 2
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
today
تیر
<
2025 July
>
Su
Mo
Tu
We
Th
Fr
Sa
29 30 1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31 1 2
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
today
تیر