TEHRAN - Iran's mens group beat the U.S 8-3 at the FIH Indoor Hockey World Cup South Africa 2023 Monday night.Reza Norouzzadeh scored 3 goals, Hamid Noorian and Navid Taheri scored 2 objectives each and Behdad Beiranvand scored an objective for the Iranian team.Team Melli will fulfill Australia in Pool B on Tuesday.Iran, who claimed bronze in 2018, will play South Africa and Czech Republic in the following days.Pool A consists of Austria, Netherlands, Namibia, Belgium, Kazakhstan and New Zealand.The competitors is being kept in Pretoria, South Africa from Feb.
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The leading 4 teams from each group will advance to the quarterfinals.Photo: WORLDSPORTSPIC/ Christaan Kotze