Dubai Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup 2012

Date: October 30th - November 3rd

Venue: Dubai Festival City

The hosts, UAE are accompanied in group A by World Champions Russia, Oceania kings Tahiti and the CONCACAF representatives, USA. In turn, group B will see CONMEBOL rulers Brazil, Euro Beach Soccer League champions Switzerland, Asian kings Japan, and African representatives Nigeria fighting round robin in group B. As the competition format sets, only the best two teams in each group will proceed to semifinals.

After the huge success achieved in the first edition, this thrilling competition featuring the best teams in every continent, together with the World Champions and the host side is ready again for a new unbelievable episode. This year, the action will take place at the brand new world class venue at Festival City.

Fixture list

Dubai Beach Soccer..

This weekend sees the President’s Cup Beach Soccer tournament take place at Al Mamzar beach in Dubai. 8 teams will be competing the in the Quarter Final’s this weekend with the likes of Al Shabab & Al Ahli entering teams. Dubai has previously played host to the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in 2009 & the Intercontinental Cup on JBR’s beach.

ARN’s Head of Sport Tom Bushell spoke to Rashid Al AlAwadhi from Dubai Sports Council who promised Dubai will see a lot more beach soccer in the future.

To see this weekend’s action, kick off is at 3.30 on both Friday & Saturday at Al Mamzar beach.

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