Italy and Japan booked FIFA Futsal Women\u2019s World Cup quarter-finals against Portugal and Brazil, who both ran riot as the group stage came to a close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Iran\u2019s campaign in Manila came to an end after Italy produced a second half fightback to win their Group D tie 3-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Iran finished third, three points adrift of Italy, who will face Portugal in the quarter-finals on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Iran almost took the lead in the opening minute after a well-worked build-up from a corner saw Nasimeh Gholami set up Mahtab Banaei, whose shot beat Italy keeper Ana Sestari but went wide of the left post by a whisker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Italy responded seconds later with Sara Boutimah drilling a low shot from just above the arc, forcing keeper Farzaneh Tavasoli into a save with the European side then isolating Iran in their own half with a high-pressing game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Iran, however, managed to burst through the shackles with Sara Boutimah unleashing a powerful long-range effort from distance, forcing Sestari to tip the ball over the bar in the sixth minute before breaking the deadlock four minutes later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tavasoli launched the ball from her own half and Fereshteh Khosravi\u2019s dummy run inside the box blocked Sestari\u2019s line of sight, leading to the ball slipping through and rolling over the line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tavasoli went down in history as the first goalkeeper to score in the FIFA Futsal Women\u2019s World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Italy came charging forward, forcing Tavasoli to tip away Gaby Vanelli\u2019s effort in the 14th minute before the Iran captain survived a scare in the 18th minute when Renata Adamatti\u2019s shot took a deflection off Tavasoli’s fingertip and came off the right post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Adamatti then spotted Tavasoli off her line with a minute left to play but she failed to guide her lob from her own half into the unattended goalmouth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Italy almost drew level two minutes after the restart with Adamatti sidestepping Maral Torkaman at the top of the arc, only to see her shot miss the left post before Tavasoli\u2019s timely block denied Vanelli a shot on goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was end-to-end action with Iran coming close to doubling their lead in the 26th minute with Sara Shirbeigi seeing her shot blocked by a charging Sestari, while Italy\u2019s Adrieli Berte failed to put the ball over the line following Vanelli\u2019s cross which flashed across the goalmouth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The European side turned the tables on Iran just before the half-hour mark with Berte completing Adamatti\u2019s pass with a composed lob over Tavasoli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019ve known Adriane for a long time. When she got the ball, I knew she was going to do that. She reads goalkeepers coming out really well. It was a great goal, such an important goal. It changed the game,\u201d said Brenda Bettioli on Berte\u2019s dink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Italy didn\u2019t take their foot off the pedal and took the lead seconds later off another fast break with Bruna Borges tapping the ball home off Erika Ferrara\u2019s pass. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Iran tried to force their way back with power play but their plan backfired with Vanelli taking advantage in the 35th minute, sending a long-range effort which deflected off Boutimah and into the back of the net. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Japan cruised from the get-go. Two goals from the Player of the Match Ryo Egawa (1 & 34) coupled with strikes from Naomi Matsumoto (4), Mizuki Nakamura (18), Kaho Ito (24), Yuka Iwasaki (26 & 27), Kyoka Takahashi (27), Anna Amishiro (33) saw Japan humble Tanzania 9-0 in their match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think we played really well. We\u2019re really happy to have won and extremely excited to play Brazil. They beat us last year so now it\u2019s our time to take revenge and beat them,\u201d said Japanese winger Naomi Matsumoto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The result was Japan\u2019s second-biggest clean-sheet victory in history. The Nadeshiko Five had battered Bahrain 13-0 in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, Brazil thrill from everywhere and score from everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brazil extended their world-record run of successive victories to 40 with a 9-0 drubbing of Panama. During this period Wilson Saboia\u2019s Sele\u00e7\u00e3o<\/em> have scored 290 goals and conceded only 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another three players got their first World Cup goals as Wilson Saboia\u2019s side demonstrated their immense strength in depth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Lucileia, at the age of 42, bagged twice, while Tampa also netted a tremendous treble and Simone also celebrated ripping net. It\u2019s easy to see why the Brazilians are the team to beat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The immortal Ricardinho, who inspired Portugal to the men’s title in 2021, was in the crowd to cheer them towards global glory in the Philippines. He witnessed another two legends in blazing form as Portugal crushed New Zealand 10-0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fifo and Janice Silva both decorated doubles with wonder goals as Luis Conciecao\u2019s charges marched into the last eight on maximum points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There were just 20 seconds between Fifo\u2019s goals, making it the fastest brace of Philippines 2025. Yuka Iwasaki scored twice for Japan against Tanzania in 41 seconds, while Amandinha did the same for Brazil against Panama in 42 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Italy and Japan booked FIFA Futsal Women\u2019s World Cup quarter-finals against Portugal and Brazil, who both ran riot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-6586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsbeat","tag-futsal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/FIFA-Womens-Futsal-World-Cup-Philippines.jpg",800,450,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/FIFA-Womens-Futsal-World-Cup-Philippines-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/FIFA-Womens-Futsal-World-Cup-Philippines-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/FIFA-Womens-Futsal-World-Cup-Philippines-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/FIFA-Womens-Futsal-World-Cup-Philippines.jpg",640,360,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/FIFA-Womens-Futsal-World-Cup-Philippines.jpg",800,450,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/FIFA-Womens-Futsal-World-Cup-Philippines.jpg",800,450,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/FIFA-Womens-Futsal-World-Cup-Philippines.jpg",800,450,false],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/FIFA-Womens-Futsal-World-Cup-Philippines-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"Newsbeat<\/a>","tag_info":"Newsbeat","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/FIFA-Womens-Futsal-World-Cup-Philippines.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6587,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586\/revisions\/6587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}