The
2005 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup
The 2005 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup was the first edition of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, an international beach soccer competition contest by men's national teams and organized by FIFA. Overall, it was the 11th edition of a world cup in beac ...
was an international
beach soccer
Beach soccer, also known as beach football, sand football or beasal, is a variant of association football played on a beach or some form of sand.
Whilst football has been played informally on beaches, the introduction of ''beach soccer'' was an a ...
tournament held in
Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil from 8 May until 15 May 2005. The 12 national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a squad of 12 players; only players in these squads were eligible to take part in the tournament.
Group A
Head coach: Indio
Spain
Head coach:
Joaquín Alonso
Thailand
Head coach :
Marcelo Martins
Group B
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
Head coach:
Ruy Ramos
Portugal
Head coach:
Jose Miguel Mateus
United States
Head coach:
Roberto Ceciliano
Group C
South Africa
Head coach:
Shezi Lindani
Ukraine
Head coach:
Viktor Moroz
Viktor Vasylyovych Moroz ( uk, Віктор Васильович Мороз; born 18 January 1968) is a Ukrainian professional football coach and a former player. In 2005, he manages the Ukraine national beach soccer team. He made his professio ...
Uruguay
Head coach:
Enrique Belo &
Gustavo Sanchez
Group D
Argentina
Head coach:
Marcelo Suarez Bidondo
Australia
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Head coach:
Adrian Santrac
Adrian Santrac (born 29 June 1958) is an Australian soccer coach and former player for Adelaide City and West Adelaide in the National Soccer League.
Playing career
Santrac was born in Adelaide, South Australia, on 29 June 1958.
A midfield ...
France
Head coach:
Eric Cantona
Sources
FIFA Squad Lists 2005
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Squads
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Beach soccer tournament squads