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Iran retains gold

Busan Oct. 13 . Defending champion Iran won the Asian Games football gold medal for the fourth time here on Sunday when it capitalised on two defensive blunders to beat Japan 2-1 in the final.

Javad Kazemeyan and Mohsen Bayatiniya were the goalscoring stars but they had to survive a nervous last few moments when Satoshi Nakayama grabbed a late reply.

Iran's Croatian coach Branco Ivancovic said that he and the players were dedicating victory to Daei, who flew back to Tehran last week following the death of his father.

It was Kazemeyan, with his second goal of the Games, who broke the deadlock just three minutes into the second half when Japan's Hikaru Mita and Takeshi Aoki, who had only just come on as a substitute, got in each other's way.

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