The 1989 FIFA Futsal World Championship was the first ever
FIFA Futsal World Championship, the quadrennial international
futsal Futsal is a football-based game played on a hardcourt, hard court smaller than a football pitch, and mainly indoors. It has similarities to five-a-side football and Indoor soccer, indoor football.
Futsal is played between two teams of five players ...
championship contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of
FIFA
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. It was held between 5 and 15 January 1989 in the
Netherlands
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. It was the first non-Olympic FIFA tournament held in the country.
Brazil
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won the tournament.
Participants
16 countries were invited to participate to the tournament. 6 from Europe, 3 from South America, 2 from North America, Africa and Asia respectively and 1 from Oceania.
Venues
Holland has many hundreds of sports halls. The KNVB's organizing committee has picked five of the largest and most attractive as the venues for the 1st FIFA World Championship for Five-A-Side Football.
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Squads
Round 1
Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Group D
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Round 2
Group A
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Group B
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Final round
Semi-finals
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3rd Place
Final
Champions
Awards
Goalscorers
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* Laszlo Zsadanyi
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* Rudi Schreurs
* Benatti
* Mihaly Borostyan
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Victor Hermans
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Peter Vermes
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;5 goals
* Eric Maes
* Raul
* Toca
* Laszlo Rozsa
* Andrea Famà
* Marcel Loosveld
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Jim Gabarra
;4 goals
* Juan Ávalos
* Nicolas Hidalgo
* Átila
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Brian Laudrup
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Lars Olsen
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* Raoul Albani
* Jose Sanchez
;3 goals
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Khaled Lounici
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He represented Algeria in two major tournaments, which were the ...
* Alain Fostier
* Nico Papanicolaou
* Marquinhos
* Neimar
* Mario Faber
* Daniel Armora
* Domingo Valencia
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Tab Ramos
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Over his thirteen-year professional career, Ramos played as a midfielder in Spain, ...
;2 goals
* Fernando Lozano
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Oscar Crino
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Early life
Crino was born in 1962 in Buenos Aires, Argentina a ...
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Paul Trimboli
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Adílio
* Dirceu
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John Fitzgerald
* Kurt Joergensen
* Sandor Olajos
* Laszlo Qiriko
* Franco Albanesi
* Paolo Minicucci
* Giovanni Roma
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Tsuyoshi Kitazawa
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Club career
When Kitazawa was a junior high student, he played for Yomiuri Junior Youth. After being re ...
* Andre Bakker
* Michel Seintner
* Francisco Alcaraz
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Luis Jara
* Mario Ruiz-Diaz
* Safouk Al-Temyat
* Sergio Bonilla
* Antonio Ferre
* José Iglesias
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Eric Eichmann
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Brent Goulet
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Mike Windischmann
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* Clayton Munemo
* Herman Beyers
;1 goal
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Lakhdar Belloumi
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* Abderrahmane Dahnoune
* Ramon Alvarez
* Hugo Castaneira
* Gabriel Valarin
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Alan Davidson
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Žarko Odžakov
* Raf Hernalsteen
* Karel Janssen
* Luc Reul
* Cadinho
* Carlos Alberto
* Gilson
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Eddy Berdusco
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Alex Bunbury
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He played mainly for Marítimo in Portugal during a 13-year professional career, and represented the Canadian national team during ...
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Tony Nocita
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He has been inducted into the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame in 2003. The Winnipeg Fury's 1992 Mita Cu ...
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Peter Sarantopoulos
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Club career
Sarantopolous was a two-time First Team and one-time Second Team Canadian Interuniversity Sport All-Canadian with the University of Toronto ...
* Torben Johansen
* Ole Moeller Nielsen
* Janos Mozner
* Paolo de Simoni
* Alfredo Filippini
* Toshinori Yato
* Eduard Demandt
* Jeffrey Foree
* Andre Tielens
* Adolfo Jara
* Omar Espineda
* Luis Flor
* Víctor López
* Khaled Al-Behair
* Abdullah Abu Humoud
* Mario Gonzalez
* Carlos Navarro
* A.J. Lachowecki
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Doc Lawson
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Bruce Murray
* Gyula Visnyei
* Antony Kambani
Tournament ranking
References
External links
FIFA Futsal World Championship Netherlands 1989 FIFA.com
FIFA Technical Report
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1989 FIFA Futsal World Championship
FIFA Futsal World Cup
Fifa Futsal World Championship, 1989
1988–89 in Dutch football
International futsal competitions hosted by the Netherlands