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Observer
07-05-2025
- Sport
- Observer
Oman out of beach soccer WC with Brazil defeat
MUSCAT, May 7 Oman beach soccer team ended its journey at 2025 Fifa Beach Soccer World Cup in Seychelles from an early stage as they suffered a 11-1 loss against world champions Brazil in the concluding Group D match on Tuesday night. The national team could not manage to move into the knockout stage for the first time in history in their sixth participation at the beach soccer world championships. Oman began their campaign in the tournament with a difficult 7-4 loss against Italy, runners up of the last edition. Then, the team managed to earn a victory against El Salvador through penalty shoot-out as the match ended at 4-4 draw. The only victory was not enough for the team to move into the next round as Italy joined Brazil to the following phase of the championship after they blanked El Salvador by 5-0. It was a one-sided match against Brazil as their players delivered a dominant performance. Edson Hulk opened the scoring early in the first period while Rodrigo added a spectacular acrobatic finish to double the lead for his team. Two more goals were scored in the opening period as Thanger's powerful left-footed strike made it 3-0, while Brendo raised the scoring gap to a 4-0 lead before the period end by two minutes. In the following period, Oman players pressed hard to find a goal but the defending area of the opponents blocked all chances as there were no goals in this period from both sides. In the final set, the world champions raised their attacking focus as they managed to have a goal-scoring spree. Benjinha's penalty strike bounced past the Omani goalkeeper, followed quickly by a sublime goal from Catarino and another goal from Brendo to make it 7-0. Oman's Sami al Balushi scored the only goal for Oman team but the response was so quick from Brazil side as Catarino completed his hat-trick, and goals from Mauricinho and Benjinha sealed an overwhelming 11-1 victory over Oman. Italy snatched showed a solid performance to defeat El Salvador 5-0 in their final group stage clash to join Brazil in the quarterfinals which will begin on Thursday.
CAF
06-05-2025
- Sport
- CAF
Senegal book quarter-final with Italy at the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, Seychelles 2025™
Senegal have booked a FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, Seychelles 2025™ quarter-final with Italy after finishing top of Group C with a resounding 7-3 victory over Chile at the Paradise Arena in Victoria on Tuesday. Senegal took a full haul of nine points from their three games, scoring 17 goals in the process and conceding seven, and will face Group D runners-up Italy in the next stage. Italy were beaten finalists at the last edition of the global finals in 2024. Should Senegal advance past the Italians, they will face the winner of the tie between Belarus and Iran in the semi-finals. The remainder of the quarter-final line-up sees Portugal take on Japan and defending champions Brazil meet Spain. Mandione Diagne, Sidy Fall and Ninou Diatta all scored twice for Senegal to go with a goal by Sanou Thiaw in their comfortable victory. It is the sixth time in 10 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cups™ that Senegal have reached the quarter-finals, with their best finish fourth place in Russia in 2021. It is the first time they have won three games at a global finals as well. In other matches on Tuesday, defending champions Brazil defeated Oman 11-1 as Catarino scored a hat-trick to go with goals for Brendo (2), Benjamin Jr (2), Edson Hulk, Rodrigo, Thanger and Brendo. Italy defeated El Salvador 5-0 with a rare shutout win at a FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup™. It is in fact the joint fifth biggest shut-out victory in the history of the competition, but well short of the 0-0 win for Senegal against Ecuador in 2017. Spain defeated Tahiti 7-4 in the final match of the day.
