{"id":4699,"date":"2021-08-19T14:16:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T14:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/beach-soccer-mozambique-makes-world-cup-debut-vs-spain"},"modified":"2021-08-19T14:15:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T14:15:57","slug":"beach-soccer-mozambique-makes-world-cup-debut-vs-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/beach-soccer-mozambique-makes-world-cup-debut-vs-spain","title":{"rendered":"Beach Soccer: Mozambique makes World Cup debut vs. Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press<\/a> – Mozambique<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The national beach football team will face Spain this Thursday in the first round Group B match of the Beach Soccer World Cup, taking place from 19 to 29 August in Russia.<\/p>\n

The game starts at 7:00 p.m. local time (6:00 p.m. in Mozambique).<\/p>\n

Mozambique\u2019s World Cup beach soccer debut follows on coming second in the African Championship in Dakar, Senegal.<\/p>\n

Mozambique\u2019s first game (to be broadcast on DStv\u2019s SS M\u00e1ximo 360 and GOtv\u2019s SS Football) is against their Spanish counterparts, who are joined in Group B by the United Arab Emirates and Tahiti.<\/p>\n

Mozambique won a friendly match against Uruguay on Monday, 2-0.<\/p>\n

Before heading to the Luzhniki Olympic Complex for the World Cup, the national beach soccer team completed pre-competition training at the Centro de Alto da Nazar\u00e9, Portugal, where they played four warm-up matches.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe balance is positive, considering our trajectory. First we arrived in Portugal without a single training game. We were effectively going to assess our potential. The day after our arrival in Portugal we played against Portugal, and lost 8-3. From there, we started to work on the aspects of our game that concerned us most and were obvious in the match itself,\u201d team coach Abineiro Ussaca said.<\/p>\n

The warm-up matches allowed the national team to gain a competitive rhythm for the World Cup campaign. \u201cOverall, I\u2019m satisfied, because the team has improved a lot \u2013 the confidence indexes, the emotional indexes, the technical capacity, tactics, including the physical component. We are all happy, and I believe that were are in good condition for the opening match against Spain,\u201d Ussaca said.<\/p>\n

The talent of the Mozambican players is the greatest strength of the \u2018P\u00e9rola do \u00cdndico\u2019 team, which includes Nelson Manuel, \u2018Best Player\u2019 of the 2021 African Nations Cup in Dakar, Senegal, where he was also top scorer with a total of 10 goals. Manuek will probably attract of a lot of attention from his opponents.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce again, we thank the teachings of our coaches as well as from Portugal, for learning about a new way of playing beach soccer, new methods of facing the game. For us this is a gain, we grew, we improved some tactical and technical aspects for what are the essences of beach soccer and everything will be seen in the World Cup,\u201d Nelson Manuel said about preparations for his debut in Moscow.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe couldn\u2019t be more pleased with this invaluable opportunity to see our team shine at the Beach Soccer World Cup,\u201d Agnelo Laice, Managing Director of MultiChoice, added, \u201cproviding our viewers with a unique experience of broadcasting matches first-hand, with commentary entirely in Portuguese, helping them experience all the emotions of this great championship.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other inaugural games are UAE vs Tahiti at 2:00 pm, followed by Paraguay vs Japan at 3:30 pm. After our national team faces the Spaniards, the first day ends with a clash between Russia and the USA at 7:30 pm.<\/p>\n

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