Football 7-a-side at the 2012 Summer Paralympics

Football 7-a-side
at the XIV Paralympic Games
Venue Olympic Hockey Centre
Dates 1 – 9 September 2012
Competitors 96 (8 teams)
Medalists
1st, gold medalist(s) Russia  Russia
2nd, silver medalist(s) Ukraine  Ukraine
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Iran  Iran

Football 7-a-side at the 2012 Summer Paralympics[1] was held in London at the Olympic Hockey Centre, from 1 September to 9 September. Football 7-a-side is played by athletes with cerebral palsy, a condition characterized by impairment of muscular coordination. 96 footballers are expected to compete for one set of medals.[2]

For these games, the men competed in an 8-team tournament.

Qualifying

Means of qualificationDateVenueBerths[3]Qualified
Host nation 1 Great Britain (GBR)
2010 CPISRA Football 7-a-side European Championships15–28 August 2010Glasgow,  United Kingdom1 Ukraine (UKR)
2010 Asian Para Games12–19 December 2010Guangzhou,  China1 Iran (IRI)
2010 CPISRA Football 7-a-side Americas Championships17–27 October 2010Buenos Aires,  Argentina1 Brazil (BRA)
2011 CPISRA Football 7-a-side World Championships17 June – 1 July 2011Drenthe,  Netherlands[4]4 Russia (RUS)
 Netherlands (NED)
 Argentina (ARG)
 United States (USA)
Total8

Group stage

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Russia (RUS) 3 3 0 0 19 1 +18 9 Qualified for the medal round
2  Iran (IRI) 3 2 0 1 13 5 +8 6
3  Netherlands (NED) 3 1 0 2 5 13 −8 3 Qualified for the classification round
4  Argentina (ARG) 3 0 0 3 2 20 −18 0
Source:
Russia 8–0 Argentina
Kuligin  9', 49'
Murvanadze  21', 30'
Ramonov  35'
Kuvaev  38', 58'
Larionov  54'		 Report
Attendance: 4,074
Referee: Stephen Conroy (GBR)
Netherlands 1–4 Iran
Straatman  52' Report Mehri  4'
Akbari  27'
Karimizadeh  30'
Ansari  60+6'
Attendance: 4,405
Referee: Ross Haswell (GBR)
Argentina 1–8 Iran
Fernández Romano  47' Report Gholamhosseinpour  2', 60+3'
Mehri  6', 58'
Atashafrouz  13', 14'
Bakhshi  18'
Heidari  29'
Attendance: 10,561
Referee: Garry Polkey (GBR)
Russia 8–0 Netherlands
Larionov  23'
Ramonov  30', 50', 54'
Van Altena  34' (o.g.)
Murvanadze  36', 39'
Potekhin  60+3'		 Report
Attendance: 10,561
Referee: Kevin Wright (GBR)
Iran 1–3 Russia
Mehri  36' (pen.) Report Kuligin  18'
Larionov  37'
Ramonov  46'
Attendance: 4,276
Referee: Keith Stroud (GBR)
Argentina 1–4 Netherlands
Morana  6' Report Lokhoff  11', 54'
Visker  19', 45'
Attendance: 4,405
Referee: Scott Henry (GBR)

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Ukraine (UKR) 3 2 1 0 17 2 +15 7 Qualified for the medal round
2  Brazil (BRA) 3 2 1 0 12 1 +11 7
3  Great Britain (GBR) 3 1 0 2 5 10 −5 3 Qualified for the classification round
4  United States (USA) 3 0 0 3 0 21 −21 0
Source:
Ukraine 9–0 United States
Shkvarlo  1', 7', 41'
Trushev  10'
Shevchyk  16', 30', 39', 48'
Dutko  32'		 Report
Attendance: 11,780
Referee: Hayley Ives (GBR)
Great Britain 0–3 Brazil
Report Almeida  10'
Silva  13'
Dos Santos  24'
Attendance: 13,247
Referee: Barry Huizinga (NED)
United States 0–8 Brazil
Report Almeida  5', 19'
Guimarães  20', 39'
da Silva  33', 55'
Tostes  49', 57'
Attendance: 4,529
Referee: David Davies (GBR)
Ukraine 7–1 Great Britain
Antoniuk  1', 47'
Shevchyk  9', 10'
Devlysh  15', 54'
Ponomaryov  58'		 Report Diallo  41'
Attendance: 9,329
Referee: Álvaro Azeredo (BRA)
Brazil 1–1 Ukraine
Dos Santos Ribeiro  9' Report Dotsenko  35'
Attendance: 9,994
Referee: Tom Nield (GBR)
United States 0–4 Great Britain
Report Richmond  20'
Fletcher  44'
Diallo  53'
Paterson  60+2'
Attendance: 12,274
Referee: Álvaro Azeredo Quelhas (BRA)

Knockout stage

Classification round

5th–8th place semi-finals

Netherlands 5–0 United States
Straatman  16', 33'
Visker  35'
Swinkels  39' (pen.)
Kooij  59'		 Report
Attendance: 3,848
Referee: Alex Kirkley (GBR)
Great Britain 3–4 (a.e.t.) Argentina
Diallo  14'
Dimbylow  27'
Patrick-Heselton  78'		 Report Lugrin  29'
Vivot  40', 69', 73'
Attendance: 9,942
Referee: Barry Huizinga (NED)

7th–8th place match

United States 1–3 (a.e.t.) Great Britain
Renteria  20' Report Barker  29'
Diallo  70'
Fletcher  74'
Attendance: 10,561
Referee: Barry Huizinga (NED)

5th–6th place match

Netherlands 3–0 Argentina
Visker  9', 12', 18' Report
Attendance: 7,490
Referee: Álvaro Azeredo Quelhas (BRA)

Medal round

Semi-finals

Russia 3–1 Brazil
Larionov  23'
Potekhin  34'
Kuligin  48'		 Report Silva de Oliveira  26'
Attendance: 7,383
Referee: Ross Haswell (GBR)
Ukraine 2–1 Iran
Dotsenko  37'
Shkvarlo  57'		 Report Bakhshi  51'
Attendance: 2,900
Referee: Stephen Conroy (GBR)

Bronze medal match

Brazil 0–5 Iran
Report Atashafrouz  17', 23'
Mehri  20', 60+1'
Bakhshi  57'
Attendance: 11,197
Referee: Kevin Wright (GBR)

Gold medal match

Russia 1–0 Ukraine
Ramonov  44' Report
Attendance: 13,360
Referee: Keith Stroud (GBR)

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Medalists

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's team  Russia
Aleksandr Lekov
Vladislav Raretckii
Aslanbek Sapiev
Alexey Tumakov
Lasha Murvanadze
Aleksei Chesmin
Ivan Potekhin (captain)
Eduard Ramonov
Viacheslav Larionov
Zaurbek Pagaev
Andrei Kuvaev
Aleksandr Kuligin		  Ukraine
Kostyantyn Symashko
Igor Kosenko
Vitaliy Trushev
Yevhen Zinoviev
Taras Dutko
Anatolii Shevchyk
Oleksiy Hetun
Volodymyr Antonyuk (captain)
Ivan Shkvarlo
Ivan Dotsenko
Denys Ponomaryov
Oleksandr Devlysh		  Iran
Mehran Nikoee Majd
Moslem Khazaeipirsarabi
Ehsan Gholamhosseinpour Bousheh
Morteza Heidari
Bahman Ansari
Hashem Rastegarimobin
Sadegh Hassani Baghi
Farzad Mehri
Jasem Bakhshi
Moslem Akbari (captain)
Rasoul Atashafrouz
Abdolreza Karimizadeh

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.london2012.com/football-7-a-side
  2. ↑ "Football 7-a-side", The official site of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, accessed 20 May 2011.
  3. ↑ Football 7-a-Side Qualification Criteria - FT, International Paralympic Committee (IPC), February 2011
  4. ↑ Draw for the CPISRA football 7-a-side world championships 2011 Archived 21 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine., Cerebral Palsy International Sports & Recreation Association (CPISRA)
  5. ↑ Paralympic Football 7-a-side. london2012.com
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