2017 IFCPF CP Football World Championships explained

Tourney Name:IFCPF CP Football World Championships
Year:2017
Country: Argentina
Dates:4 – 24 September 2017
Num Teams:16
Venues:1
Cities:1
Champion Other: Ukraine
Second Other: Iran
Third Other: Russia
Fourth Other: England
Matches:48
Goals:217
Top Scorer: Dillon Sheridan (10)
Prevseason:Burton-upon-Trent 2015
Nextseason:Salou 2022

The 2017 IFCPF CP Football World Championships was the world championship for men's national 7-a-side association football teams. IFCPF stands for International Federation of Cerebral Palsy Football. Athletes competed with a physical disability. The Championship took place in the Argentina from 4 to 24 September 2017.

Football CP Football was played with modified FIFA rules. Among the modifications there were seven players, no offside, a smaller playing field, and permission for one-handed throw-ins. Matches consisted of two thirty-minute halves, with a fifteen-minute half-time break. The Championships was a qualifying event for the 2019 IFCPF CP Football World Championships.

Participating teams and officials

Qualifying

The following teams were qualified for the tournament:[1]

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Host nation align=center 1 Argentina
16 – 28 June 2015 Burton-upon-Trent, England 7 Brazil
England
Ireland
Netherlands
Russia
Ukraine
United States
29 July – 6 August 2016 Vejen, Denmark 8 Australia
Canada
Iran
Japan
Northern Ireland
Portugal
Spain1
Venezuela
Total 16

1 Scotland would be qualified as a second-placed team by the qualifying tournament for the World Cup. But they had to withdraw their participation. Thus, the nine-place team of the qualifying team, Spain, took part and took part in the world championship.

The draw

During the draw, the teams were divided into pots because of rankings.[2] Here, the following groups:

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Pot 1 Brazil (2) Argentina (4) Netherlands (3) Ukraine (1)
Pot 2 Ireland (5) Russia (7) England (8) United States (6)
Pot 3 Canada (10) Portugal (11) Venezuela (12) Northern Ireland (13)
Pot 4 Spain (22) Iran (15) Japan (14) Australia (16)

Squads

Group A

Brazil Ireland Canada Spain
1 Marcos Dos Santos Ferreira (GK)
2 Eduardo Felipe da Silva Martins
3 Ewerton Rafael Machado de Matos
4 Lucas Henrique da Silva
5 Wesley Martins
6 Leonardo Giovani Moraes
7 Diego Delgado
8 Evandro Oliveira Gomes De Oliveira
9 Ubirajara Magalhães
10 Wanderson Silva de Oliveira
11 Jan da Costa
12
13 Bruno da Silva Ayva
14 Adriano Costa Martins
Coach: Paulo Alberto Da Veiga
1 James Gerard Naughton (GK)
2 Thomas Maher
3 Conor Tuite
4 Oisin Gerard Merritt
5 Aaron Tier
6 Dylan Patrick O'Brien
7 Gary Messett (c)
8 Mark Patrick Barry
9 Ryan Nolan
10 Dillon Sheridan
11 Oluwatomiwa Henk Badun
12 Peter Cotter
13 Samson Paul Carroll
14 Carl McKee
Coach: Paul Breen
1 Damien Wojtiw (GK)
2 Liam Stanley
3 Dan Benoit
4 Nicholas Heffernan
5 Samuel Charron (c)
6 James Victor Ackinclose
7 Dustin Hodgson
8 Duncan McDonald
9 Gaerrisen Freeland
10 Zachary Gingras
11 Raji Kamoun
12 Joshua da Silva
13 Cameron Ohanley
14 Cuauhtemoc Flores
Coach: Drew Ferguson
1 Antonio Jesus Dominguez Galvan (GK)
2 Isaias Pacheco Fernandez
3
4 Daniel Manjon Gomez (c)
5 Alan Flores Pinto
6 Pol Aguilar Diaz
7 Santiago Macia Rovira
8 Daniel Palau Ballester
9 Jose Manuel Bueno Ruiz
10 Jose Manuel Gomez Suarez
11 Mario Fernandez Pardo
12 Victor Rodriguez Dominguez
13 Francisco Jose Martin Guiterrez (GK)
14 Jaume Almenar Avino
Coach: Jorge Peleteiro Rubio

Group B

Argentina Russia Portugal Iran
1 Matias Salvat (GK)
2 Hernando German Romussi
3 Maximiliano Fernandez
4 Claudio Figuera (c)
5 Carlos Carrizo
6 Mariano Cortes
7 Rodrigo Lugrin
8 Kevin Damian Bonomi
9 Matiaz Fernadez
10 Mariano Morana
11 Duncan Coronel
12 Gonzal Bacik (GK)
13 Juan Andrés Acevedo
14 Matías Ezequiel Vera
Coach: Osvaldo Hernandez
1 Vladislav Raretskii (GK)
2 Danila Belov
3 Aleksei Borkin
4 Zaurbek Pagaev
5 Viacheslav Larionov
6 Aleksey Tumakov
7 Marat Eloev
8 Ivan Potekhin
9 Dmitry Minenko
10 Dmitrii Pestretsov
11 Aleksandr Kuligin
12 Guram Chkareuli (GK)
13 Lasha Murvanadze (c)
14 Georgiy Albegov
Coach: Avtandil Baramidze
1 Rui Rocha (GK)
2 Ivo Emanuel De Souza Correia
3 Hugo Pinheiro
4 Vasco Santos
5 Ruben Miguel Sousa Oliveira
6 Luís Miguel Leal Ferreira
7 Vitor Vilarinho (c)
8 Pedro Santos
9 Rui Diogo Ribeiro Gonçalves
10 Tiago Ramos
11 Jesus Leao Barbosa
13 Lucas Pinheiro
12 Cláudio Filipe Ferreira Nóvoa
14 Telmo Baptista (GK)
Coach: Vasco Santos Ferreira
1 Moslem Khazaeipirsarabi (GK)
2 Amir Amjadian
3 Amirreza Ezzatdoust Sehsari
4 Hassan Safari
5
6 Abbas Torabi
7 Abdolreza Karimizadeh (c)
8 Hossein Tiz Bor
9 Mehdi Jamali
10 Jasem Bakhshi
11 Ehsan Masoumzadeh
12 Habibollah Heidari Mehr (GK)
13 Lotfollah Jangjou
14 Mohsen Mokhtari
Coach: Amin Allah Mani

Group C

Netherlands England Venezuela Japan
1 George van Altena
2 Gerard Frederik Bambacht
3 Myron Gebbink
4 Jeroen Schuitert (c)
5 Teddy Witjes
6 Malik Madiba de la Cruz Victoria
7 Daan Dikken
8 Guido Floors
9 Jeroen Saedt
10 Harm Panneman
11 Rik Rodenburg
12 Ramon Pater (GK)
13 Jeroen Duin
14 Job Draaijers
Coach: Max Raeven
1 Giles Moore (GK)
2 Liam Roger Irons
3 Harry Baker
4 James Blackwell
5 Emyle Rudder
6 Matthew Anthony Crossen
7 Michael Barker
8 Jack Rutter
9 David Porcher
10 George Fletcher
11 Oliver Nugent
12 Dale Smith
13 Ryan Kay
14 Lewis Martin Tribe
Coach: Andrew Smith
1
2 Stewart Xavier Ortiz Sira
3
4 Peter Alvarado Gonzales
5 Daniel Sánchez
6 Richard Mogollon Melendez
7 Gabriel Antonio Bravo Olivi
8 Asbrubal Olivares Mora (c)
9 Angel Molina Camacho
10 Jessy Yari Villegas
11 Saul Torres Villegas
17 Jose Quintana
18 Anderson Alberto Morantes Ramirez
99 Frank Pineda Terán (GK)
Coach: José Luis Betancor
1 Hideyuki Yanaghi
2 Hisato Ozaki
3 Shou Kuroda
4
5 Shotaro Osawa
6 Tetsuya Toda
7 Tomohisa Ono
8 Hiroki Kameno
9 Taisei Taniguchi
10 Ryosuke Miura
11 Tatsuhiro Ura
12 Naoyoshi Kagayama (GK)
13 Kazuma Hanaki
14
Coach: Junichi Sano

Group D

Ukraine United States Northern Ireland Australia
1 Kostyantyn Symashko (GK)
2 Vitaliy Trushev
3 Yevhen Zinoviev
4 Taras Dutko
5 Oleh Len
6 Edhar Kahramanian
7 Vitaliy Romanchuk
8 Artem Sheremet
9 Dmytro Molodtsov
10 Stanislav Podolskyi
11 Volodymyr Antoniuk (c)
12 Bohdan Kulynych (GK)
13 Artem Krasylnykov
14 Ivan Shkvarlo
Coach: Serghii Ovcharenko
1 Sean Robert Boyle (GK)
2 Cameron DeLillo
3 Gregory William Brigman
4 Tyler Bennett
5 Bryce Boarman
6 Benjamin Lindau
7 Adam Ballou
8 Andrew Marten Bremer
9 Seth Jahn
10 Kevin Hensley (c)
11 Nicholas Mayhugh
12 Marc Estrella (GK)
13 Mason Abbiate
14 David Garza
Coach: Stuart Sharp
1 Paul Seamus Cassidy (GK)
2 Charlie Fogarty
3 Christian Canning (GK)
4 Jordan Walker
5 Cormac Birt
6 Timothy William McClean
7 David Leavy (c)
8 Sean Coyle
9 Ryan Walker
10
11 Jordan Cush
12
13
14 Ryan Jonathan Neill
Coach: Alan Crooks
1 Chris Barty (GK)
2 Ben Roche (c)
3 Jack Williams
4 Nicholas Prescott
5
6 Taj Lynch
7 David Barber
8 Matthew Hearne
9 Ben Atkins
10 Benjamin Sutton
11 James Turner
12 Christian Tsangas (GK)
13 Cosimo Cirillo
14 Zachary Jones
Coach: Kai Lammert

Venues

The venues to be used for the World Championships were located in San Luis.[3]

San Luis
Provincial Juan Gilberto Funes StadiumStadium Estancia GrandeCampus de Universidad De La PuntaStadium La Pedrera
Capacity: 15,000Capacity: 1,500Capacity: Capacity:
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Format

The first round, or group stage, was a competition between the 16 teams divided among four groups of four, where each group engaged in a round-robin tournament within itself. The two highest ranked teams in each group advanced to the knockout stage for the position one to sixteen. the two lower ranked teams played for the positions 17 to 32. The teams were awarded three points for a win and one for a draw. When comparing teams in a group over-all result came before head-to-head.

In the knockout stage there were three rounds (quarter-finals, semi-finals, and the final). The winners plays for the higher positions, the losers for the lower positions. For any match in the knockout stage, a draw after 60 minutes of regulation time was followed by two 10 minute periods of extra time to determine a winner. If the teams were still tied, a penalty shoot-out was held to determine a winner.

Classification
Athletes with a physical disability competed. The athlete's disability was caused by a non-progressive brain damage that affects motor control, such as cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury or stroke. Athletes must be ambulant.

Players were classified by level of disability.

Teams must field at least one class C5 or C6 player at all times. No more than two players of class C8 are permitted to play at the same time.

Group stage

The first round, or group stage, have seen the sixteen teams divided into four groups of four teams.

Group D

Knockout stage

Quarter-finals

Position 9-16------------

Position 1-8------------

Semi-finals

Position 13-16----

Position 9-12----

Position 5-8----

Position 1-4----

Finals

Position 15-16

Position 13-14

Position 11-12

Position 9-10

Position 7-8

Position 5-6

Position 3-4

Final

Statistics

Goalscorers

10 goals
8 goals
6 goals
5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
own goals

Ranking

RankTeam
Ukraine
Iran
Russia
4. England
5. United States
6. Ireland
7. Brazil
8. Netherlands
9. Argentina
10. Australia
11. Northern Ireland
12. Portugal
13. Canada
14. Venezuela
15. Spain
16. Japan

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Qualification Criteria 2017 IFCPF World Championships . 2016-09-01. en.
  2. Book: CPFWC draw procedure . International Federation of Cerebral Palsy Football. 2015-05-01. en.
  3. Web site: San Luis to host IFCPF 2017 CP Football World Championships. ifcpf.com. 2016-09-19.