The Argentina national beach soccer team represents

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest ...

in international beach soccer competitions and is controlled by the

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, the governing body for football in

. The Argentina national beach soccer team has qualified and participated in eight

FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup The FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup is an international beach soccer competition contested by the national teams of the member associations of FIFA, the sport's global governing body. The tournament was preceded by the ''Beach Soccer World Champions ...

Tournaments and has been a Winner of the CONMEBOL Competition once and Runners-up twice. Argentina is ranked 10th in the

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World Rankings.

Current squad

''Correct as of April 2015:Squad

Current staff

* Coach: Gustavo Casado * Technical Assistant: Esteban Pizzi * Head Delegation: Gustavo Lorenzo

FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Record

Beach Soccer World Championships The Beach Soccer World Championships was the premier international beach soccer competition contested by men's national teams between 1995 and 2004. It was replaced by the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup. The tournament took place annually in Brazi ...

Regional honours

* CONCACAF and CONMEBOL Beach Soccer Championship: * 4th

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* 3rd

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CONMEBOL Beach Soccer Championship The CONMEBOL qualifiers for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup (natively in Spanish: ''Eliminatorias CONMEBOL al Mundial de la FIFA de Fútbol Playa''), also previously known as the ''South American Beach Soccer Championship'' (Spanish: ''Sudamerican ...

: * 3rd (3)

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and

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* Runners-up (2)

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and

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* Winners (1)

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Mundialito de Futebol de Praia

* 3rd (3) 2006, 2008,

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Copa Latina The Latin Cup was an international association football, football tournament for club sides from the Romance-speaking Europe, Southwest European nations of France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. In 1949 the football federations came together and r ...

* 2nd (1) 2006 * 3rd (4) 1999, 2003, 2009, 2010

References

External links

World Cup 08 team page
South American national beach soccer teams

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 a ...

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