PTV - Iranian soccer team
Esteqlal has won the prestigious Hazfi Cup with a 3-0 victory over Pegah
Gilan in a breathtaking game in Tehran.
With the victory, the Blues will be one of the Iranian representatives in
the next Asian Champions League.
Despite a 1-0 defeat in Gilan, the popular Tehran team edged out Pegah at
home with Mahdi Amirabadi, Mojtaba Jabbari and Arash Borhani scores.
The game finished 1-0 in regular time and went into extra time. The
do-or-die face-off drew 85,000 spectators to Tehran's gigantic
100,000-seater Azadi Stadium.
The Hazfi Cup is a knockout cup competition in Iranian football run by the
Iranian Football Federation.
