The 14^th round of Kabul Futsal Premier League ended at Kabul on Wednesday night, with the playing of 2 last matches. The 2 matches were postponed due to some problems in the sports hall.

In these 2 matches, Isteqlal team defeated Sad-e-Milad team by 4-1 and in the second match the Sulah team was announced winner because the opposite team, Kabul Club did not participate in the match.

At the end of the 14^th round, Isteqlal team with 39 points was stand at 1^st place, Sitara-e-Azadi obtained 34 points and stand 2^nd while the team of Dunya Institute of higher education stand at 3^rd position.

While continuing the competition, the 15^th round of Kabul Futsal Premier League was started yesterday night.

At the beginning of 15^th round, Sulah team played versus Omaid-e-Afghanistan, Kabul Club met Maidan Media, Shaqayaq played against peace team and Tamadun played against Ansari.

According to another report, Afghan heavy weight champion Seyar Bahadurzada will play against his staunch opponent P. Thiago of Brazil on Saturday. The competition will held in Stockholm, Sweden.
Bahadurzada has already fought with an American opponent on 16^th October 2012 and defeated him. Now, he will face another opponent from the continent for the second time.

The Afghan national cricket team squad returned home on Saturday after participating in T-20 World Cup qualifying round in the UAE.

The Afghan player showed tremendous performance in T-20 World Cup Qualifiers and being qualified for the T-20 World Cup 2012. The Afghan team owned 2^nd place in the T-20 Qualifiers Cup.

The Afghan team played 9 matches in the tournament. They won all group matches but lost to Ireland in the final match.

Besides the T-20 Qualifiers, the Afghan team also played 2 ODI’s and a 4-day test match with Netherlands and won one ODI and the test match.

The Afghan team will play their first and second matches with England and India in the upcoming T-20 World Cup, which is going to be held in Sri Lanka in September 2012.

Meanwhile, the officials of Afghan Cricket board hopes that the team will show best performance during the T-20 World Cup.

On the other hand, the Afghan cricketers called the cricket board to provide the basic facilities for their training and preparation.

Afghanistan cricket team by beating Namibia for the second time made its way to the T20 cricket World Cup 2012.

In the final match against Namibia at Dubai cricket Stadium, the Afghan side bating first scored 146 runs with receiving huge appreciations by the supporters. Karim Sadiq with 28 and Javed Ahmadi with 24 runs were the top scorers of the Afghan side.

But the Namibians could only score 99 runs in 18 overs loosing all of their wickets. Afghan bowler Aftab Alam took four wickets and Zadran with taking 3 wickets played a vital role in the victory.

The Afghanistan cricket team winning 8 consecutive matches in the T20 qualifier tournament sealed its place in the world 2012 twenty-twenty champion.

Afghanistan cricket team on Tuesday defeated Bermuda by 17 runs in a T20 qualifier semi-final match and certainly made its place into the finals.

In the semi-final match against Bermuda, the Afghan cricket team captain Nuwroz Mangal won the toss and elected to be first which then came out a best decision. The fast scoring of Afghan batsman Mohammad Shahzad that scored 64 runs led to a 177 total score.

But Bermuda cricket team was smashed down by Afghan bowlers 17 runs ahead of reaching to the target. Afghan bowler Aftab Alam sent three opponent players back to the pavilion and was the best bowler of the side.  Muhammad Shahzad for his all-round performance was presented the man of the match award.

The Afghanistan and Namibia cricket teams since the beginning of the T20 qualifier tournament up to now have been the unbeaten teams of their groups and the tournament.

In the final, to be played on Wednesday, Afghanistan will take on the Group B leader. Namibia and Ireland are in contention for the slot.

The winner team will make its way to the T20 World Cup championship which will be played from September 18 to October 7 in Sri Lanka.

The Afghanistan under-16 cricket team won the Asian Challenge Cup by beating Qatar in the final match of the Asian Challenge Cup on Saturday.

The Afghan under-16 cricket team batted first and scored 200 runs in 37 overs. The opponent team could not chase the target and scored only 108 runs, losing all wickets in 31 overs.

In the tournament, Afghanistan’s under-16 cricket team defeated Bhutan, China, Maldives, Qatar and United Arab Emirates (UAE) teams.  They won the cup by earning 10 points in the tournament and finishing with more victories than any other under-16 cricket team.

The Football Federation of Afghanistan launched a football tournament among various Women’s Football teams in Kabul on Thursday to honor International Women’s Day.

Sixteen women’s football teams are participating in this football tournament and have been categorized into 4 groups. The tournament will continue for the next 5 days.

At the end of the tournament, Afghanistan Football Federation will distribute awards and prizes to the top team.

The Volleyball Federation of Afghanistan launched a volleyball tournament between five women’s volleyball teams in Kabul on Tuesday to honor International Women’s Day.

This tournament will continue for the next two days.

The Basketball Federation also launched a launched a competition between the four girls’ basketball teams in Kabul to celebrate International Women’s Day. These knockout championships will end in one day.

On Tuesday night four matches of Futsal League competition were played in Kabul. The match between Kabora and Media teams were drawn by 2, 2 while Isteqlal team beat Sanai by 7, 2 goals. In the other matches, Sheqaiq team beat Omeed Afghanistan by 5, 1 while Setara Azadi got the victory by beating Sad Sulah by 6, 0.

The Afghan Boxer Hamid Rahimi won the World Boxing Union (WBU) championship by defeating his German opponent in Hamburg City of Germany. After fighting eight rounds, the Afghan Boxer beat his opponent and won the World title.

The WBU officials presented the Golden belt to the Afghan boxer and introduced him as the world champion.

The contest was scheduled to be held in Stuttgart, Germany but because the boxing hall was not ready, the competition was held after a one week delay in the German city of Hamburg.

Hamid Rahimi is the first Afghan boxer to win the World Boxing Union Championship.

An Afghan “Free Fight” champion, Baz Muhammad Mobarez, says he is ready to participate in international competitions and can fight anyone.

Muhammad Mobarez, who has won medals and raised the Afghanistan flag in several international competitions in Turkey and Iran, while talking to Ariana Television Network (ATN) announced to fight for the 75kg weight.

“I am fully confident and ready to fight and can never even think of failure” the Afghan athlete said.

He added that due to the intervention of some government officials one of his scheduled matches was canceled with an Afghan British citizen.

“The match was scheduled on 27^th Oct 2011 but was cancelled by the order of some government figures, elders and relatives saying that you opponent is apparently an Afghan and you too” Muhammad Mobarez added.

He said the Afghan British citizen had insulted Afghan fighters thus he challenged him.

The Afghanistan Cricket Team lost their first ever international one-day cricket match against Pakistan by seven wickets yesterday in Sharjah, UAE.

The Afghan team captain Nawroz Mangal won the toss and elected to bat first but the whole team could only set 196 target in 48.3 overs losing their all wickets.

Following the 196 target, Pakistan team easily completed the given target in 37.1 overs by losing just three wickets and won the first historic Pak-Afghan international one-day match.

Half centuries by Younus Khan and Imran Farhat, and Misbah-ul-Haq’s 40 runs contributed well to the final score which led Pakistan team to the victory.

While the top scorer from Afghan side was the opener Karim Sadiq and the Afghan fast bowler Dawlat Zadran took two wickets of the opponent side.

Pakistani spinner Shahid Afridi was announced best player of the match for his five wicket haul in the match.

The Afghan Finance Minister Omar Zakhilwal, the Afghan Cricket Board Chairman Shehzada Massoud and many other officials were also present during the historic Pak-Afghan international one-day cricket match in Sharjah, UAE.

Third taekwondo club for women set into operation in Herat Province, local sports official said.

President of Herat Taekwondo Federation Abdul Saboor Raouf said currently 250 girls in Herat are involved in various fields of sports.

While the Herat athletes, have been repeatedly suffered from lack of sports clubs in the province. Only 35 taekwondo clubs for men and just three for women are active in the province.

Herat officials say if the government provides more attention towards Herat sports, the youngsters will be encouraged more towards sports.

Nangarhar cricket team defeated Afghan Wireless Communication Company (AWCC) cricket team in a friendly T20 cricket match on Friday.

The game was played in Ghazi Amanullah Khan town, Jalalabad City.

AWCC cricket team won the toss and elected to bat first. They could only set a target of 119 runs in 19 over losing all their wickets but Nangarhar Cricket Team easily completed the given target in 18 over with 8 wickets remaining.

Jawed and Zakir were the best players from Nangarhar side that scored high runs and also took the most wickets of the opponent team.

“Despite of many challenges, we played well, AWCC Captain Karim Karimi said.”

Karim Karimi said “we tried our best. Nangarhar team has good practice but we are working in the company. However, I am satisfied of my team. This is a game, one wins and the other loses.”

“Our players performed well in both formats bowling and batting; therefore we could easily send out AWCC players to the pavilion, Nangarhar Cricket Team Captain said.”

He said “AWCC won the toss and chose to bat then I told my players to work hard and try to have minimum target. So we got the victory and our bowlers played key role in the match.”

Both the teams expressed satisfaction with the event and said “this was the second match that played in international standards.

Nangarhar Cricket Team had also defeated AWCC Cricket Team two months ago on the same ground.

Many athletes and sports teams launched programs to celebrate recent victories of country athletes.

They gathered in Khost sports stadiums and by traditional dance, celebrated the victory of national athletes.

Afghan cricket and football teams’ victory in the Asian Games is the biggest success for Afghanistan, the Khost residents said.

Khost residents welcomed Arinana TV for live broadcasts of football matches and hoped the athletes for more victories in future.

Afghan cricket team defeated Hong Kong in the final match of Asian Cricket Council tournament and won the cup.

Afghan football team also reached to the final of SAFF tournament and became the runner up team in the final match against India.

Aziz Malang Khost Olympic head welcomed Afghan athlete’s victory and also condemned the wrong decision of referee for Afghan football team.

Since 1951 this was the first time for Afghan football team to reach in any final match of Asian tournament.

Afghanistan scored 125 runs in a T20 cricket match with Hong Kong.

Afghan batsman Gulbadin Nayeb individually could score 57 runs in the match.

Afghan fast bowler Hamid Hassan taking 3 wickets led the team towards victory.

Hong Kong cricket team could only score 117 runs and finally Afghanistan won by 8 runs.

Afghan football team also willing for victory in today’s football match with India. This is the first time for Afghanistan to reach any final competition.

Afghanistan national football team beat Nepal by 1-0 last Saturday and has reached to the final in South Asian Games by winning the match.

In yesterday match, none of the teams (Afghanistan and Nepal) succeeded to goal in both halves (90 min) but finally Afghan players succeeded to goal in extra time and won the game by 1-0.

In these games, Afghanistan’s football team draws their first match against India by 1-1, defeated Sri Lanka by 3-1 in their second match and defeated Bhutan by 8-1 in their third match and will play the final against India today.

Similarly, Afghanistan’s cricket team has defeated Nepal in semi final of Asian Cricket Council 20-twenty in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Afghanistan team has completed the target of 68 by loss of only one wicket with 40 balls remaining.

Afghanistan national cricket team will face Hong Kong in final today. Afghanistan national cricket team has defeated Maldives and Bhutan in this tournament.

Afghanistan national football team beat Bhutan by 8-1 in a competition in India yesterday.

This is Afghanistan best victory that never held before.

Afghanistan’s teams got 7 points and enter the final stage of the championship of South Asian countries.

Mr. Zahir Akhbar; the Chairman Afghanistan Olympics who had visited United States to met with the officials of that state Olympics committee has returned Kabul.

He visited Complex Sport School during this visit.

According to him, so far 85 countries have the membership of Complex Sport School and Afghanistan may be a member in near future.

Mr. Akhbar officially visited United States on the invitation of NATO Chief Commander Gen. John Alem and United States sports development center

Mr. Akhbar has satisfied from the outcome of his visit and its hope that the Chairman of U.S. Olympics committee may visit Afghanistan in near future.

U.S Sports Department officials promised that beside U.S assistance in providing sports facilities and equipment, the U.S will also support Afghan sportsmen in other fields

According to another news report, the national cricket team will be leave for Nepal on 19^th November 2011to participate the international one-day series.

Ten countries are going to participate in this World Cup qualification series.

Afghanistan will face their first match with Hong Kong on 3^rd December 2011.

It’s mentionable that Afghanistan had been qualified fro World Cup last time and will show better performance this time.

Currently, Afghanistan got 6^th position in 2^nd class countries of the world.

Afghan National Team was defeated by 3-1 by Pakistan in their fourth match of Asian Football Confederation U-16 championship.

Afghanistan will play its last game today against Maldives.

This Asian Football Confederation U-16 championship was held in Kuwait and 40 Asian countries took part in this championship

Afghanistan defeated Yemen by 2-1 in their third match of Asian Football Confederation U-16 championship.

This game was played at Ali-al-Sabah stadium in Kuwait. At the start, Afghan National team was back by one goal but Muhammad Reza scored the equalizer in 67^th minutes.

Sher Ahmad from Afghan side scored the second goal in 75^th minutes of the game and finally won by the final score of 2-1

Afghanistan, by winning this game, took the third position in Group B.

Azeem and Sher Ahmad were the best players of the match.

Afghanistan will take on Pakistan and Maldives in their remaining matches

Afghan National U16 team in their second match held hosts U.A.E to a draw in football match.

Afghan young players cancelled out the Emirate’s lead after the 65 minutes of the game.

In this match, Emirates players scored their first goal in 38min, but Muhammad Amin Afghan midfielder scored the first goal from their side and the match went to draw.

The draw takes the Afghan u16s to 3rd place after having two points. Kuwait with four points stays in 1st place and Pakistan with three points in 2^nd place.

Afghanistan will play his third game against Yemen.