Iran wins Paralympics football bronze

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PTV - Iran beats Brazil with Abdolreza Karimzadeh’s hat trick to win the bronze medal in the 7-a-side football at the Beijing Paralympic Games.

Only five minutes into the first half, Karimzadeh opened the scoring for Iran. He benefited from his booming scoring opportunities at the 17th and 21st minutes of the game.

Moslem Akbari netted the fourth goal in stoppage time to seal an easy 4-0 victory for Iran.

In the final match, Ukraine beat Russia 2-1 to claim the gold medal.

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Iran now have 5 gold, 6 silver and 3 bronze medals