2003 Beach Soccer World Championship

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2003 Beach Soccer World Championship
IX Beach Soccer World Championships 2003
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Tournament details
Host country Brazil
Dates 16 – 23 February
Teams 8 (from 4 confederations)
Venue(s) 1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions  Brazil (8th title)
Runners-up  Spain
Third place  Portugal
Fourth place  France
Tournament statistics
Matches played 16
Goals scored 150 (9.38 per match)
Top scorer(s) Brazil Neném (15 goals)
Best player Spain Amarelle
Best goalkeeper Brazil Robertinho
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The 2003 Beach Soccer World Championship was the ninth edition of the Beach Soccer World Championships, the most prestigious competition in international beach soccer contested by men's national teams, organised by Beach Soccer Worldwide, which ultimately came under the control of FIFA in 2005 and then rebranded as the better known FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.

For the first time since 2000, the tournament returned to Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, seeing Brazil win their eighth title by beating first time finalists Spain.

Organisation

As like in the previous year, eight teams competed in two groups of four teams, with the top two teams in each group progressing to the semi-finals.

Teams

Qualification

European teams gained qualification by finishing in the top three spots of the 2002 Euro Beach Soccer League. North and South American qualification was based on performances over recent times in a series of events in the Americas.[1] The other entries received wild-cards.

Africa and Oceania were unrepresented.

Entrants

This remains the only year when no new nations made their debut at the World Cup.

Notes:

WC. Wild-card entries.

Group stage

Group A

Team Pld W W+ L GF GA GD Pts
 Brazil 3 3 0 0 26 6 20 9
 Spain 3 2 0 1 19 13 6 6
 Italy 3 1 0 2 11 19 -8 3
 United States 3 0 0 3 8 26 -18 0


February 16, 2003
Brazil  6–3  Spain
   

February 18, 2003
Spain  8–3  United States
   

February 18, 2003
Brazil  7–2  Italy
   

February 19, 2003
Italy  5–4  United States
   

February 20, 2003
Brazil  13–1  United States
   

February 20, 2003
Spain  8–4  Italy
   

Group B

Team Pld W W+ L GF GA GD Pts
 France 3 2 0 1 20 14 6 6
 Portugal 3 2 0 1 14 10 4 6
 Uruguay 3 2 0 1 9 9 0 6
 Japan 3 0 0 3 4 14 -10 0


February 18, 2003
Uruguay  2–1  Japan
   

February 18, 2003
France  8–6  Portugal
   

February 19, 2003
Portugal  5–1  Japan
   

February 19, 2003
Uruguay  6–5  France
   

February 20, 2003
Portugal  3–1  Uruguay
   

February 20, 2003
France  7–2  Japan
   

Knockout stage

Semi-finals

February 22, 2003
Spain  5–4  France
   

February 22, 2003
Brazil  7–2  Portugal
   

Third place play-off

February 23, 2003
Portugal  7–4  France
   

Final

February 23, 2003
Brazil  8–2  Spain
   

Winners

 2003 Beach Soccer World Championship 

Brazil
Eighth title

Awards

Top scorer
Brazil Neném
15 goals
Best player
Spain Amarelle
Best goalkeeper
Brazil Robertinho

Final standings

Position Team
1 Brazil Brazil
2 Spain Spain
3 Portugal Portugal
4 France France
5 Uruguay Uruguay
6 Italy Italy
7 Japan Japan
8 United States United States

References

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Sources

  1. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20030618154017/http://www.beachsoccerbrasil.com.br/camp_mundial/2003/index.asp#
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