The inaugural Mundialito de Clubes (or Club World Cup) is a beach soccer tournament that will take place at the Praia do Sol stadium at Represa de Guarapiranga, a reservoir located in São Paulo, Brazil from 19 – 26 March 2011. The stadium will have a seating capacity of 3,500 spectators.Stadium
Participating teams It was determined that ten teams, divided into two groups of five, will take part in the tournament: GROUP A GROUP B Corinthians Milan Lokomotiv Moscow Barcelona Santos Boca Juniors Seattle Sounders Flamengo Sporting CP Vasco da Gama
It was originally speculated that the newly reformed New York Cosmos of the United States would take part in the tournament and had been later replaced by Shakhtar Donetsk of Ukraine.New York Cosmos and Shakhtar Donetsk It was also speculated that Marseille of France would take part as well, but the final spot was disputed between them and Milan.Marseille of Milan? It was also announced at the draw that an as-yet-undetermined fourth Brazilian team will round out the club roster at 10, which was later revealed as Santos.
Draft procedure
On 21 February 2011, at two simultaneous cities (Barcelona, Spain and São Paulo, Brazil), the Official Draft took place, with each team selecting nine players each.Post-Draft
According to the draft procedure, the team representative of every Club is to attend that meeting in one of the two aforementioned venues, and he will be the responsible of picking the players for his squad. All Beach Soccer players can be potentially selected, and, just as it happens in great events for leagues such as the NBA, NHL or Major League Baseball, in order to set a balanced, competitive tournament, the Draft for the players’ election will follow some guidelines.
Players
The 'Draft' followed the following criteria: three national players (chosen beforehand), three continental players (up two from the same country), a player UEFA / CONMEBOL (South America and Europe), a player from AFC / CAF / CONCACAF / OFC (Asia / Africa / North America and the Caribbean / Oceania) player and a 'national'.
Squads Barcelona Coach: Ramiro Amarelle Juanma Witold Ziober Javier Torres Fred Nico Tomoya Ginoza Andrei Bukhlitskiy (GK) Ramiro Amarelle Dmitry Shishin Rui Mota
Boca Juniors Coach: Casado Cesar Leguizamon Adielson Luciano Franceschini Victor Lopez Agustin Dallera Simone Del Mestre Nicolas Bella Javier Vivas Bruno Malías Sebastian Gomez Polatti
Corinthians Coach: Alexandre Soares Mão (GK) Cesar Mendoza Buru Dannilo Neumann Benjamin Yahya Al-Araimi Minichi Raphael Fabian Juninho Alagoano
Flamengo Coach: Andrey Valerio Souza Anderson Tavares Anderson Bernardo Tell André Miguel Estrada Diego Alberto Montserrat (GK) Duda Matías Isaias Cabrera
Lokomotiv Moscow Coach: Ilya Leonov Ilya Leonov Vitaliy Sydorenko (GK) Anton Shkarin Daniel Lima Egor Shaykov Humaid Jamal Maci Yuri Gorchinskiy Igor Borsuk Alexei Smertin
Milan Coach: Pannizza Roberto Pasquali Stephan Meier Michele Zanini (GK) Juninho Erivaldo Santos Ahmed Claudinho (Claudio Batista) Dejan Stankovic Marco Casarsa Stephane François Jose E. Portillo
Santos Coach: Gustavo Zloccowick Du Alves Capurro Wellington Kuman Dunga Tony Fabricio (GK) Ricardinho José Ignacio Mena Baudillo Guardado
Seattle Sounders Coach: Marcelo Mendes Michael McAndrews Frank (Francisco Velasquez) Gil Nico Jung (GK) Yuri Morales Ali Karim Francisco Cati Francis Farberhoff Morgan Plata Ozu Moreira
Sporting CP Coach: Bilro Madjer Boguslaw Saganowski Alan Fernando DDI Belchior Bruno Xavier Michele Leghissa Paulo Graça (GK) Francesco Corosiniti Leandro Fanta
Vasco da Gama Coach: Gilberto da Costa Betinho Gustavo Sebe Bruno Xavier Bernardo Botelho Jorginho Ricardo Villalobos Pampero Gabriel Marcelo Salgueiro (GK) Rafinha
Group stage The draw to divide the ten teams into the following two groups was conducted on 3 March 2011. The group stage commenced on 19 March 2011 and consisted of each team playing each other once in a single round-robin format.
All kickoff times are listed as local time in São Paulo, (UTC-3).
Group A TeamPldWW+LGFGAGDPts Lokomotiv Moscow42201815+310 Corinthians41212019+17 Seattle Sounders41031210+23 Sporting CP41031213−13 Santos40131621−52
Group B TeamPldWW+LGFGAGDPts Barcelona43011913+69 Flamengo42111911+88 Milan41121316−35 Vasco da Gama40221618−24 Boca Juniors40041120−90
Knockout stage A draw was held after the group stage matches were completed to determine the quarterfinal pairings.
Quarter finals
Semi finals
Third place playoff
Final
Winners
Awards Best Player (MVP) Pampero ( Vasco da Gama) Top Scorer André ( Flamengo)16 goals Best Goalkeeper Paulo Graça ( Sporting CP)
Final placement Team 1st Place Vasco da Gama 2nd Place Sporting CP 3rd Place Flamengo 4th Place Lokomotiv Moscow 5th Place Barcelona 6th Place Corinthians 7th Place Milan 8th Place Seattle Sounders 9th Place Santos 10th Place Boca Juniors
Goal scorers
16 goals André ( Flamengo) 10 goals Fernando DDI ( Sporting CP) 9 goals Dmitry Shishin ( Barcelona) Egor Shaykov ( Lokomotiv Moscow) 8 goals Anderson ( Flamengo) 7 goals Juninho Alagoano ( Corinthians) Bruno Xavier ( Vasco da Gama) Pampero ( Vasco da Gama) 6 goals Daniel Lima ( Lokomotiv Moscow) Maci ( Lokomotiv Moscow) 5 goals Buru ( Corinthians) Igor Borsuk ( Lokomotiv Moscow) Alan ( Sporting CP) Rafinha ( Vasco da Gama) Belchior ( Sporting CP) Betinho ( Vasco da Gama) 4 goals Dunga ( Santos) Kuman ( Santos) Bruno Malías ( Boca Juniors) Stephan Meier ( Milan) Jose Mena ( Santos) Luciano Franceschini ( Boca Juniors) Frank ( Seattle Sounders) Ilya Leonov ( Lokomotiv Moscow) 3 goals Minici ( Corinthians) Francisco Cati ( Seattle Sounders) Juanma ( Barcelona) Yuri Morales ( Seattle Sounders) Dejan Stankovic ( Milan) Javi Torres ( Barcelona) Fabian ( Corinthians)
2 goals Victor Lopez ( Boca Juniors) Stephane François ( Milan) Madjer ( Sporting CP) Yahya Al-Araimi ( Corinthians) Carlos Longa ( Flamengo) Osmar Moreira ( Seattle Sounders) Ahmed ( Milan) Claudinho ( Milan) Gabriel ( Vasco da Gama) Yuri Gorchinskiy ( Lokomotiv Moscow) Ali Karim ( Seattle Sounders) Boguslaw Saganowski ( Sporting CP) Ricardo Villalobos ( Vasco da Gama) Souza ( Flamengo) 1 goal Du Alves ( Santos) Nicolas Bella ( Boca Juniors) Benjamin ( Corinthians) Bernardo Botelho ( Vasco da Gama) Duda ( Flamengo) Anderson Tavares ( Flamengo) Fabricio ( Santos) Fred ( Barcelona) Jorginho ( Vasco da Gama) Michele Leghissa ( Sporting CP) Rui Mota ( Barcelona) Dannilo Neumann ( Corinthians) Nico ( Barcelona) Ricardinho ( Santos) Juninho Erivaldo Santos ( Milan) Bruno Xavier ( Sporting CP) Own goal Gabriel (for Barcelona )
See also Beach soccer Beach Soccer Worldwide
References
External links Beach Soccer Worldwide Beach Soccer Brasil (Portuguese) Mundialito de Clubes Beach Soccer (Portuguese)