TEHRAN – Six Iranian players as well as a coach have been nominated for the Beach Soccer Stars 2023 awards.

The clock is ticking for the 2023 best players and coach to be known. The final list of the 100 best male players, 50 best female players and 40 best coaches has been announced.

The categories to be voted are Best Coach, Best Women’s Goalkeeper, Best Women’s Player, Best Men’s Goalkeeper, Men’s Best 5 players and Best Men’s Player.

Votes will be submitted until 11 January by the coach and the captain of all the Football Associations and the coach and captain of the Beach Soccer Clubs that have participated in at least one of the following competitions: World Winners Cup Alghero 2023, Americas Winners Cup 2023 or the Euro Winners Cup 2023.

In case there is no women’s beach soccer national team active in the federation, then the men’s team captain and coach will vote for the best women’s player and best women’s goalkeeper.

Ali Mirshekari, Moslem Mesigar, Mohammadali Mokhtari, Amirhossein Akbari, Mohammadjavad Khosravi and Mohammad Moradi have been nominated for the Best Men’s Player.

Also, Iran coach Ali Naderi will have to vie with 39 other coaches to win the Best Coach accolade.