2017 Mundialito de Clubes

2017 Mundialito de Clubes
V Mundialito de Clubes
Tournament details
Host country	Brazil
Dates	14–17 December 2017
Teams	8 (from 3 confederations)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Lokomotiv Moscow (2nd title)
Runners-up	Pars Jonoubi
Third place	Corinthians
Fourth place	Flamengo
Tournament statistics
Matches played	16
Goals scored	132 (8.25 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Igor Rangel; (7 goals)
Best player(s)	Nelito
Best goalkeeper	Maxim Chuzhkov
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The 2017 Mundialito de Clubes was the fifth edition of the Mundialito de Clubes (Club World Cup in English), a biennial international club beach soccer competition contested between top men's clubs from across the world (existing clubs and teams specially assembled for the event). The tournament is loosely similar to the FIFA Club World Cup in association football. However, participating teams are not regional champions, entering via invitation.

Organised by Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW) and other local entities in Brazil, the competition took place in Vargem Grande Paulista, São Paulo State, Brazil between December 14 and 17, featuring eight clubs.^[1]

Barcelona were the incumbent champions but did not enter a team this year. The tournament was won by Lokomotiv Moscow who became the first team to win two Mundialito de Clubes titles, beating Iranian club Pars Jonoubi 5–4 in the final.^[2]

Teams

Eight invited clubs entered the competition, representing six different nations and three continents. Africa, North America and Oceania are unrepresented.

Confederation	Team(s)
AFC (Asia)	Pars Jonoubi
CONMEBOL (South America)	Rosario Central Botafogo Corinthians Flamengo
UEFA (Europe)	Sporting CP Lokomotiv Moscow Levante

Squads

2017 Mundialito de Clubes squads^[3]

Botafogo

Paulinho
Anailton Alcántara (GK)
Elinton Andrade (GK)
Balinha
Bernardo Botelho
Dani
Lucas Calmon
Igor Rangel
Vinicius Guedes
Gabriel Novaes
Junior Paulo Gil
Jefferson Sobreira

Andrezinho
Leandro Brito (GK)
José Wesley Da Silva (GK)
Anderson Dias Lima
Fred
Artur Paporotnyi
Daniel Nogueira Lima
Leo Martins
Pedro Moran
Everaldo Santos Souza
Dmitry Shishin
Joao Carlos Silva de Santana

Willian F. de Oliveira (GK)
Jeison Levid Sánchez Escobar (GK)
Marcelo Bueno
Antonio Damasio
Takasuke Goto
Andre Portela da Silva
Deiwerson Pureza Oureza
Anderson Wesley
Benjamin Jr.
Michel Nascimento
Thanger Nascimento
Augusto Matheus

Levante

Christian Biermann
Víctor Viala (GK)
Adrian Frutos Garcia
Pablo Perez
Antonio Aceiton del Haro
Iván Latorre Pitarch
Antonio Mayor
José Miralles Martínez
Elliot Mounoud (GK)
Enrique Moratal
Christian Torres
Javi Torres

Aleksey Makarov
Anton Shkarin
Ilya Leonov
Maxim Chuzhkov (GK)
Maksim Rogovskii (GK)
Llorenç Gomez
Boris Nikonorov
Nelito
Dejan Stankovic
Ozu Moreira
Be Martins

Pars Jonoubi

Hamid Behzadpour (GK)
Mostafa Kiani
Amir Akbari
Arash Karami
Farid Boulokbashi
Hamidreza Mihandoust
Moslem Mesigar
Mohammadjavad Khosravi (GK)
Thyago Pimenta
Pedro Gomides
Ali Mirshekari
Mohammad Masoumizadeh

Rosario Central

Angelo Agustini
Sebastian Azimonti (GK)
Pampero
Luciano Donato
Leandro Camilatti
Luis Alberto Quinta Acuña
Cristian Cuevas
Hugo Luis Longo
Milton Jaimes
Sebastian Navarro (GK)
Maximiliano Ponzetti
Nahuel Gigena

Madjer
Tiago Petrony (GK)
Ricardo Baptista
Duarte Vivo
Mathew Santos
Tiago Batalha
Jordan Santos
Zé Maria
Paulinho
Wanderson Antonio (GK)
Alan Santos
Eudin

Venue

Vargem Grande Paulista

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Location of Vargem Grande Paulista in Brazil

One venue was used in the city of Vargem Grande Paulista, São Paulo.

An arena with a capacity of 2,000^[4] at Rua Serra da Mantiqueira (Rua da Feira) hosted the matches.^[5]

Draw

The draw to split the eight teams into two groups of four was conducted by BSWW and took place in the afternoon of November 30.^[6]

Initially, two teams were automatically assigned to the groups:^[7]

to Group A: as the São Paulo based host club, Corinthians
to Group B: the other seeded club, Flamengo

The remaining six teams were split into three pots of two, shown in the below table.^[7]

The clubs were paired into pots based on similar geographical proximity. From each pot, one team was drawn into Group A and the other team was drawn into Group B.^[7]

Pot 1 (Seeds)	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Corinthians (hosts) Flamengo	Rosario Central Botafogo	Sporting CP Levante	Lokomotiv Moscow Pars Jonoubi

Group stage

All times are local, BRST (UTC–2).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Lokomotiv Moscow	3	3	0	20	6	+14	9	Advance to the Final
2	Corinthians (H)	3	2	1	10	10	0	6	3rd place play-off
3	Botafogo	3	1	2	11	16	−5	3	5th place play-off
4	Sporting CP	3	0	3	6	15	−9	0	7th place play-off

Source: BSWW
(H) Host

14 December 2017