Brazil national beach soccer team

Brazil
Nickname(s) Reis da Praia and Canarinha
Association Brazilian Football Confederation
Confederation CONMEBOL (South America)
Head coach Gilberto Costa
Captain Bruno Xavier
Top scorer Neném (336 goals)
FIFA code BRA
BSWW ranking 1 (Oct '17)


First colours


Second colours
First international
 Brazil 2–1 United States 
(2 July 1993, Miami, United States)
Biggest win
 Brazil 23–3 Mexico 
(3 March 2005, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Biggest defeat
 Brazil 4–9 Nigeria 
(18 December 2011, Lagos, Nigeria)

The Brazil national beach soccer team represents Brazil in international beach soccer competitions and is controlled by the CBF, the governing body for football in Brazil. Portugal, Russia and Spain are the only squads to have eliminated Brazil out of the World Cup. Brazil are ranked 1st in the BSWW World Rankings. They are, alongside Portugal, the only team to have won the world title before and after FIFA assumed the government of beach soccer worldwide.

Achievements

Beach Soccer World Cup

Beach Soccer World Championships
Year Round Pos Pld W W
aet/pso		 L GF GA GD
Brazil 1995FinalChampions55005211+41
Brazil 1996FinalChampions5500399+30
Brazil 1997FinalChampions55004613+33
Brazil 1998FinalChampions5500529+43
Brazil 1999FinalChampions55004218+24
Brazil 2000FinalChampions55004216+26
Brazil 2001Third place match4th place53023816+22
Brazil 2002FinalChampions55003113+18
Brazil 2003FinalChampions55004110+31
Brazil 2004FinalChampions55004210+32
Total10/109 Titles504802425125+300
FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup
Year Round Pos Pld W W
aet/pso		 L GF GA GD
Brazil 2005Third place matchThird place54013914+25
Brazil 2006FinalChampions66005216+36
Brazil 2007FinalChampions65104319+24
France 2008FinalChampions66003415+19
United Arab Emirates 2009FinalChampions66004719+28
Italy 2011FinalRunners up64113228+4
French Polynesia 2013Third place matchThird place64112514+11
Portugal 2015Quarter-finals5th place43011611+5
The Bahamas 2017FinalChampions66003815+23
Total9/95 titles514434326151+175

Mundialito de Futebol de Praia

Winners (14): 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2016, 2017

Copa Latina

Winners (9): 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009

CONCACAF and CONMEBOL Beach Soccer Championship

Winner (1): 2005

CONMEBOL Beach Soccer Championship

Winners (6): 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2017

Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup

Winner (3): 2014, 2016, 2017

Current squad

Current as of May 2017.[1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 GK Mão
2 DF Fernando DDI
3 DF Filipe
4 DF Catarino
5 DF Daniel Zidane
6 FW Lucão
No. Position Player
7 FW Bokinha
8 DF Bruno Xavier
9 FW Rodrigo
10 FW Datinha
11 FW Mauricinho
12 GK Rafael Padilha

Coach: Gilberto Costa

Players

Most goals

As of 5 November 2017.[2]
Players in bold are still active.
NoNameGoals
1Neném336
2Júnior Negão318
3Jorginho312
4Benjamin308
5André242
6Buru224
7Bruno Malias214
8Júnior202
9Bruno Xavier166
10Juninho153
Sidney153
12Daniel Zidane127
13Magal123
14Cláudio Adão97
Mauricinho97

References

  1. ↑ "Brasil acaba com jejum de oito anos, goleia Taiti e é pentacampeão mundial". globoesporte.com (in Portuguese). 2017-05-07. Retrieved 2017-05-09.
  2. ↑ "Artilheiros". Retrieved 2017-11-06.

MPC Rio Comunicação & Marketing (Public Relations of CBBS); CBBS (Confederação Brasileira de Beach Soccer); BSWW (Beach Soccer World Wide); and FIFA (Federation International of Football Association)


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