Colombia national beach soccer team

 Colombia

Nickname(s)	Los Cafeteros (The Coffee Growers) La Tricolor (The Tricolors)
Association	Federación Colombiana de Fútbol (FCF)
Confederation	CONMEBOL (South America)
Head coach	Santiago Alzate
FIFA code	COL
BSWW ranking	45 (Mar. '18)
First colours Second colours
First international
Colombia 5–2 Ecuador  (Montevideo, Uruguay; 7 December 2009)
Biggest win
Colombia 9–4 Ecuador  (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 3 August 2011)
Biggest defeat
Brazil 15–0 Colombia  (Montevideo, Uruguay; 10 December 2009)
World Cup
Appearances	0
Best result	none

The Colombia national beach soccer team represents Colombia in international beach soccer competitions and is controlled by the Federación Colombiana de Fútbol (FCF), the governing body for football in Colombia.

Colombia entered the international beach soccer scene in 2009 at the first edition of the South American Beach Games.^[1] The team subsequently debuted at in the largest beach soccer event in South America, the World Cup qualifiers, in 2011,^[2] finishing in 4th place – their best finish in any major competition to date. Since then, Colombia have remained an active team, becoming regulars at the major CONMEBOL events of the World Cup qualifiers, Copa América and Liga Sudamericana, however have yet to achieve a podium finish.

Current squad

As of March 2018^[3]

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 Alejandro Quintero 4 Edwin Rojas 5 DF Escalante Lopez 6 DF Jose Gomez 7 FW Jose Arzuza Fonseca 8 Edward Bonilla

No. Position Player 9 Oscar Hurtado 10 Kevin Zuluaga 11 Kevin Henao 12 GK Levid Sanchez 13 Carlos Mejia 20 Miguel Parra

Coach: Santiago Alzate

Achievements

• CONMEBOL qualifiers for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup best: 4th place
  • 2011
• Copa América de Beach Soccer best: 8th place
  • 2016
• South American Beach Games best: 4th place
  • 2009

Competitive record

FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Year Result Pld W W+ WP L GF GA GD 1995 – 2009 Did not enter 2011 – 2017 Did not qualify 2019 To be determined Total 0/19 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Copa América de Beach Soccer Year Result Pld W W+ WP L GF GA GD 2016 8th place of 10 5 2 0 0 3 16 20 –4 2018 9th place of 10 5 0 0 1 4 18 25 –7 Total 2/2 10 2 0 1 7 34 45 –11

CONMEBOL qualifiers for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Year Result Pld W W+ WP L GF GA GD 2005 Did not enter 2006 2007 2008 2009 2011 4th place of 9 5 1 0 1 3 16 20 –4 2013 7th place of 9 6 3 0 0 3 19 24 –5 2015 8th place of 10 6 0 1 0 5 17 30 –13 2017 6th place of 10 6 2 0 0 4 30 32 –2 Total 4/9 23 6 1 1 15 82 106 –24 – Note: 2005 and 2007 were held in a joint championship with CONCACAF

South American Beach Games Year Result Pld W W+ WP L GF GA GD 2009 4th place of 7 5 1 0 0 4 12 30 –18 2011 5th place of 8 3 1 0 0 2 10 10 0 2014 5th place of 8 5 2 0 0 3 12 18 –6 Total 3/3 13 4 0 0 9 34 58 –24

See also

• Colombia national futsal team

References

External links

• Colombia Profile, at Beach Soccer Worldwide
• Colombia, at Beach Soccer Russia (in Russian)
• List of results – '09, '11, '12, '13, '14, '15, '16, '17, '18