The second Mundialito de Clubes (or Club World Cup) was a beach soccer tournament that took place at the Praia do Sol stadium at the Arena Guarapiranga sport complex, located near Represa de Guarapiranga, a reservoir located in São Paulo, Brazil from 12 – 19 May 2012. The stadium has a seating capacity of 3,500 spectators.Stadium
Participating teams Twelve teams confirmed their participation in this year's tournament, an increase of two teams who participated last year:
GROUP A GROUP B GROUP C Boca Juniors Barcelona Al-Ahli Milan Flamengo Corinthians Santos São Paulo Lokomotiv Moscow Vasco da Gama Seattle Sounders Sporting CP
Draft procedure
On 25 April 2012, at the Beach Soccer Worldwide headquarters in Barcelona, Spain, the Official Draft took place, with each team selecting ten players each.Draft completes the 12 squads for Mundialito Each team has until 2159 GMT on 27 April 2012 to complete any player transfers and also the confirmation of a possible former football star (to be approved by Beach Soccer Worldwide).
According to the draft procedure, the team representative of every Club is to attend that meeting in the two aforementioned venue, 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
Al-Ahli Coach: Tabib Hilal Abbas Hussain (GK) Al-Ahli Adil Ali Rami Al Mesaabi Datinha Qambar Sadeqi Benjamin Mosco Takeshi Shingo Terukina (GK) Philipp Borer Hani Al Dhabit Bakhit Mubarak
Barcelona Coach: Ramiro Amarelle Cristian Torres Barcelona Bruno Torres Javier Torres Al Seyni N'Diaye (GK) Nico Egor Eremeev Andrey Bukhlitskiy (GK) Ramiro Amarelle Dmitry Shishin Rui Mota Bakero
Boca Juniors Coach: Gustavo Casado Cesar Leguizamon Boca Juniors Fred Luciano Franceschini Victor Lopez Rodriguez Larreta Simone Del Mestre (GK) Nicolas Bella Javier Vivas Dino Tambaú Sebastian Gomez Polatti (GK)
Corinthians Coach: Alexandre Soares Mão (GK) Corinthians Cesar Mendoza (GK) Buru Edgar Quintero André Yahya Al-Araimi Minici Clebinho Yuri Krashenninikov Juninho Alagoano Marcelinho Carioca
Flamengo Coach: Rogério Vilela Souza Flamengo Casé Anderson Bernardo Tell Benjamin Miguel Estrada (GK) Pampero Robertinho (GK) Matías Isaias Cabrera Mena
Lokomotiv Moscow Coach: Ilya Leonov Ilya Leonov Lokomotiv Moscow Vitali Sydorenko (GK) Anton Shkarin Daniel Lima Egor Shaykov Humaid Jamal (GK) Nerijus Barasa Yuri Gorchinskiy Igor Borsuk Aleksey Makarov Aleksandr Filimonov (GK)
Milan Coach: Emiliano del Duca Roberto Pasquali Milan Stephan Meier Stefano Spada (GK) Juninho Erivaldo Santos Dario Ramaciotti Angelo D'Amico Dejan Stankovic Paolo Palmacci Stephane François Jose E. Portillo (GK) Dida (GK)
Santos Coach: Gilberto Costa Bruno Malias Santos Hector Robles (GK) Lekão Kuman Sidney Rafael Stocco Ricar Rafael Amorim Leandro (GK) Lucas Medero
São Paulo Coach: Vitor "Gaucho" Fonseca Adielson São Paulo Dannilo Neumann Rafinha Angel Rodriguez Alan Freitas Everton Matos Virley Conforme Luis Alberto Federico Hilaire Orlando Echeverria
Seattle Sounders Coach: Marcelo Mendes Michael McAndrews (GK) Seattle Sounders Agustin Ruiz Oscar Gil César Esteves (GK) Nicky Ali Karim Francisco Cati Francis Farberoff Morgan Plata Ozu Moreira
Sporting CP Coach: Alexandre Julião Madjer Sporting CP Moritz Jaeggy Alan Fernando DDI Belchior Rui Coimbra Michele Leghissa Paulo Graça (GK) Sandro Spaccarotella Ahmed Dad (GK) Carlos Xavier
Vasco da Gama Coach: Rodrigo "Chumbinho" Freitas Bueno Vasco da Gama Gustavo Sebe (GK) Bruno Xavier Bernardo Botelho Jorginho Ricardo Villalobos Jose Echeverria Mauricinho Marcelo Salgueiro (GK) Gil
Group stage The draw to divide the teams into three groups of four was conducted on 24 April 2012.
All kickoff times are of local time in São Paulo, (UTC-3).
Group A
Team Santos3201159+66 Boca Juniors3201111106 Vasco da Gama32011112−16 Milan3003914−50 Clinched quarterfinal berth
Group B
Team Barcelona3210159+67 Flamengo320185+36 Seattle Sounders310268−23 São Paulo3003816−80 Clinched quarterfinal berth
Group C
Team Corinthians3201159+66 Lokomotiv Moscow3201118+36 Sporting CP3201109+16 Al-Ahli3003616−100 Clinched quarterfinal berth
Knockout stage A draw was held after the group stage matches were completed to determine the quarterfinal pairings.
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Third place playoff
Final
Winners
Awards Best Player (MVP) Benjamin ( Flamengo) Top Scorer Madjer ( Sporting CP) 10 goals Best Goalkeeper Vitali Sydorenko ( Lokomotiv Moscow)
See also Beach soccer Beach Soccer Worldwide
References
External links Beach Soccer Worldwide Beach Soccer Brasil (Portuguese) I Mundialito de Clubes Beach Soccer Official Site (Portuguese) II Mundialito de Clubes Beach Soccer Official Site (Portuguese) Tournament page at Beachsoccer.ru (Russian)