Portugal wins the beach soccer Mundialito
Noa competition that takes place for the first time outside Portugal, in 25 years of competition, Japan reached the end of the first period in advantage by 3-2, but Portugal operated the turnaround in the following one, which reached the end already winning by 5 – 4, having confirmed the triumph by 7-5 in the last partial.
They scored for the Portuguese team Rui Coimbra (02 minutes), Duarte Algarvio (06, 16, 23 and 29), Belchior (13) and Miguel Pintado (36), while Kawai (08), Kibune (09), Akaguma (11 and 31 ) ) and Oba (22) were the authors of the Japanese goals.
“We already expected a difficult game. Japan are runners-up in the world and we already knew it would not be easy. When we were champions in Paraguay and caught them in the semi-finals, we only won on penalties. We already expected a game like this, we knew that we would win”, we said a lot, because that spirit if not, especially, we didn’t have in the defending organization or selection stage Mário of the Portuguese Football Federation, quoted by the website of the Portuguese Football Federation.
About the game of the second round against the United States, on Friday, Mário Narciso said that the equipment will still analyze the game of the Americans against Spain, in Saturday’s opponent.