Terengganu - Arab Today
United Arab Emirates recorded their second win in their 2017 AFC Beach Soccer Championship campaign with an 8-1 victory over Qatar in Group C in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia on Tuesday.The win is an encouraging victory for the UAE who the day before opened their campaign with an emphatic 6-0 win over Iraq.
Rapid goals by Waleed Salem and Ali Mohammad on three minutes put the Emiratis in front before Abbas Daryaei took it up to 3-0.An own goal by Rashid Al Jassim then helped further UAE's cause and Salem then scored his second and the Emirates’s fifth with a wonderful bicycle kick on the buzzer.
Haitham Mohamed opened the second period with a close-range strike before Fawaz Daoud fired into the unguarded post for Qatar’s first goal on 22 minutes. Ahmed Salem then opened the third period with his goal before skipper Walid Mohammad easily tapped in their eighth to hand the Qataris their second straight loss in the tournament.
The top three finishers at the AFC Beach Soccer Championship will represent Asia at the 2017 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, which is scheduled to be held in in Nassau, Bahamas from April 27 to May 7.
Source: QNA