Beach soccer world championship 2001

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Beach soccer world championship 2001
Number of nations 12
World Champion PortugalPortugal Portugal (1st title)
venue BrazilBrazil Brazil
Opening game February 11, 2001
Endgame February 18, 2001
Games 20th
Gates 144  (⌀: 7.2 per game)
Top scorer PortugalPortugal Alan (10 goals)
Best player PortugalPortugal Hernani

The Beach Soccer World Championship 2001 was the seventh edition of the World Championship tournament for men in beach soccer . The tournament took place from February 11th to 18th, 2001 in Costa do Sauípe , Bahia , Brazil . For the first time, the tournament was not held in Rio de Janeiro . All 20 games were played in one stadium.

To date, Portugal was only the second nation (besides Brazil) to win a World Cup.

Attendees

The following 12 national teams from the respective continental associations ultimately qualified for the final round:

6 from Europe FranceFrance France PortugalPortugal Portugal ItalyItaly Italy SpainSpain Spain
GermanyGermany Germany TurkeyTurkey Turkey
5 from South America ArgentinaArgentina Argentina BrazilBrazil Brazil (GG) UruguayUruguay Uruguay PeruPeru Peru
Venezuela 1954Venezuela Venezuela
1 from North, Central America and the Caribbean United StatesUnited States United States
0 from Asia
0 from Africa
0 from Oceania

Preliminary round

Group A

rank country Gates difference Points
1 BrazilBrazil Brazil 21: 3 + 18 6th
2 ItalyItaly Italy 4:13 - 9 3
3 GermanyGermany Germany 5:14 - 9 0
Brazil - Germany 10: 3
Brazil - Italy 11: 0
Italy - Germany 4: 2

Group B

rank country Gates difference Points
1 FranceFrance France 12: 6 + 6 6th
2 PeruPeru Peru 8:10 - 2nd 3
3 Venezuela 1954Venezuela Venezuela 7:11 - 4th 0
Peru - Venezuela 5: 4
France - Venezuela 6: 3
Peru - France 3: 6

Group C

rank country Gates difference Points
1 PortugalPortugal Portugal 9: 3 + 6 6th
2 United StatesUnited States United States 5: 4 + 1 3
3 UruguayUruguay Uruguay 1: 8 - 7th 0
United States - Uruguay 3-0
United States - Portugal 2: 4
Portugal - Uruguay 5: 1

Group D

rank country Gates difference Points
1 ArgentinaArgentina Argentina 6-0 + 6 6th
2 SpainSpain Spain 2: 4 - 2nd 3
3 TurkeyTurkey Turkey 1: 5 - 4th 0
Spain - Turkey 2: 1
Argentina - Turkey 3-0
Argentina - Spain 3-0

Final round

Quarter finals

FranceFrance France - ItalyItaly Italy 5: 4
ArgentinaArgentina Argentina - United StatesUnited States United States 5: 1
PortugalPortugal Portugal - SpainSpain Spain 1-0
BrazilBrazil Brazil - PeruPeru Peru 7: 1

Semifinals

PortugalPortugal Portugal - BrazilBrazil Brazil 6: 5
FranceFrance France - ArgentinaArgentina Argentina 6: 5

3rd place match.

ArgentinaArgentina Argentina - BrazilBrazil Brazil 6: 5

final

PortugalPortugal Portugal - FranceFrance France 9: 3

Awards