# 2011 CPISRA Football 7-a-side World Championships

The 2011 CPISRA Football 7-a-side World Championships was the world championship for men's national 7-a-side association football teams. CPISRA stands for Cerebral Palsy International Sports & Recreation Association. Athletes with a physical disability competed. The Championship took place in the Netherlands from 17 June to 1 July 2011.
Football 7-a-side was played with modified FIFA rules. Among the modifications were that 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 London 2012 Paralympic Games.

## Participating teams and officials
### Qualifying

The following teams are qualified for the tournament:
| Means of qualification | Date | Venue | Berths | Qualified |
| Host nation | Host nation | Host nation | 1 | Netherlands |
| 2009 International Championships | 23 October – 1 November 2009 | Arnhem, Netherlands | 6 | Argentina Brazil Iran Ireland Russia Ukraine |
| 2010 American Cup The next teams that were not yet qualified | 17 – 27 October 2010 | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 2 | Canada United States |
| 2010 Asian Para Games The next teams that were not yet qualified | 12 – 19 December 2010 | Guangzhou, China | 2 | Japan South Korea |
| 2010 European Championships The next teams that were not yet qualified | 17 – 28 August 2010 | Glasgow, Scotland | 4 | England Finland Spain Scotland |
| Oceania Region | Oceania Region | Oceania Region | 1 | Australia |
| Total | | | 16 | |

### The draw

During the draw, the teams were divided into pots because of rankings. Here, the following groups:
| | Group A | Group B | Group C | Group D |
| Pot 1 | Brazil (4.) | Ukraine (3.) | Russia (1.) | Iran (2.) |
| Pot 2 | Netherlands (5.) | Scotland (6.) | Argentina (7.) | United States (8.) |
| Pot 3 | Australia (11.) | Canada (12.) | England (10.) | Ireland (9.) |
| Pot 4 | Spain (14.) | Finland (15.) | South Korea (16.) | Japan (13.) |

### Squads

The individual teams contact following football gamblers on to:
Group A
| Brazil | Netherlands | Australia | Spain |
| 01 Marcos dos Santos Ferreira 03 José Augusto Siqueira 04 Dihego Rezende Rodrigues 05 José Carlos Monteiro Guimarᾶes 06 Mateus Francisco Tostes Calvo 07 Fábio da Silva Bordignon 08 Rael de Medeiros Coelho 09 Renato da Rocha Lima 10 Wanderson Silva de Oliveira 11 Jan Francisco Brito da Costa 12 Moisés Tamiozzo da Silva 16 Jean Adriano Rodrigues | 01 Rudi van Breemen 04 Myron Gebbink 05 Lars Conijn 06 Peter Kooij 07 Dennis Straatman 08 Pawel Statema 09 John Swinkels 10 Stephan Lokhoff 11 Iljas Visker 14 Daan Dikken 15 Joey Mense 16 Bart Adelaars 17 Abel Walraven 18 Gerard Arends 19 Quincy de Beukelaer 22 Stefan Boersma | 01 Sam Larkins 02 Ben Roche 03 Jack Williams 04 Scott Kennedy 06 Christopher Pyne 07 David Barber 08 Brett Fairhall 09 Ben Atkins 10 Thomas Goodman 11 Beau Menzies 12 Jamie Paulsen 13 Jared Eiby | 01 Omar Alvarez Serrano 02 Jonatan Corporales Rodríguez 03 Raúl Carrillo Arjona 04 Ramón Del Pino Bernardó 05 Carlos Antón Valor 06 Roberto Ortiz Lora 07 Sergio Clemente Muñoz 08 Carlos Rodríguez Grande 09 Emilio Manuel Ribeiro Sequeira 10 Raúl Pacheco Pérez 11 Abel Urbina Sánchez 12 Leandro Pérez Ferreira |
| Coach: Paulo Fernando Rodrigues da Cruz | Coach: Marcel Geestman | Coach: Paul Brown | Coach: Emilio Pereira Pérez |
Group B
| Ukraine | Scotland | Canada | Finland |
| 01 Kostyantyn Symashko 02 Vitaliy Trushev 03 Serhiy Vakulenko 04 Taras Dutko 05 Anatolii Shevchyk 06 Ivan Shkvarlo 07 Andriy Tsukanov 08 Denys Ponomaryov 09 Mykola Mikhovych 10 Oleksiy Hetun 11 Volodymyr Antonyuk 12 Ihor Kosenko | 01 Craig Connell 02 Blair Glynn 03 Laurie McGinley 04 Scott Troup 05 Graeme Paterson 06 Jamie Tervit 07 Mark Robertson 08 James Richmond 09 Anton Clarke 10 Jonathan Paterson 11 Thomas Brown | 01 Cameron Kleimer 02 Geoff Wakefield 03 John Phillips 04 Christopher Duehrsen 05 Christopher Fawcett 06 James Akinclose 07 Dustin Hodgson 08 Brendon McAdam 09 Ross MacDonald 10 Vito Proietti 11 Matthew Brown 12 Jeremy Baird | 01 Jaakko Seppälä 02 Joona Kuitunen 03 Wiljami Laurila 07 Jussi Tuominen 08 Mikael Jukarainen 09 Janne Helander 10 Johannes Siikonen 14 Pyry Nopsanen 15 Samuel Taipale 16 Joni Berg |
| Coach: Sergiy Ovcharenko | Coach: Stuart Sharp | Coach: Drew Ferguson | Coach: Samuel Siikonen |
Group C
| Russia | Argentina | England | South Korea |
| 03 Aslanbek Sapiev 06 Aleksey Tumakov 07 Alexey Chesmin 08 Ivan Potekhin 09 Eduard Ramonov 10 Andrey Kuvaev 12 Alexander Lekov 13 Lasha Murvanadze 15 Vyacheslav Larionov 16 Vladislav Raretsky 17 Zaurbek Pagaev 18 Aleksandr Kuligin | 01 Gustavo Nahuelquin 02 Mariano Morana 03 Carlos Ferreira 04 Ezequiel Jaime 05 Brian Vivot 06 Maximiliano Fernandez 07 Ariel Medina 08 Gaston Eduardo Rodriguez 09 Angel Gabriel Rodriquez 10 Rodrigo Lugrin 11 Matias Fernandez 13 Marcos Salazar | 01 Jordan Raynes 02 Matthew Dimbylow 03 Martin Sinclair 04 Alistair Heselton 05 Emyle Rudder 06 Joshua Beacham 07 George Fletcher 08 Matthew Ellis 09 Michael Barker 10 Graham Leclerc 11 Karl Townshend 12 Billy Thompson | 01 Hyeseong Son 02 Hyungsoo Kim 03 Junho Jang 04 Jongtae Kim 05 Haecheol Park 06 Jaesik Moon 07 Seungmok Park 08 Phillip Jung 09 Seungnam Kang 10 Kyeongkuk Gu 11 Sangpil Cho 12 Hyoungjun Lee |
| Coach: Avtandil Baramidze | Coach: Osvaldo Hernandez | Coach: Lyndon Lynch | Coach: Jaeyong Kim |
Group D
| Iran | United States | Ireland | Japan |
| 01 Moslem Akbari 02 Behnam Sohrabibagherabadi 03 Mehran Majd Nikoee 04 Ehsan Gholamhosseinpour Booshehri 05 Heidari Morteza 06 Rasoul Atashafrouz 07 Bahman Ansari 08 Heidari Habibollah Mehr 09 Jasem Bakhshi 10 Mehri Farzad 11 Sadegh Hassani Baghi 12 Hashem Rastegarimobin | 01 Keith Johnson 02 Nick Creasey 03 Jason Slemons 04 Chad Jones 05 Bryce Boarman 06 Chris Ahrens 07 Adam Ballou 08 Tom Latsch 09 Josh McKinney 10 Marthell Vazquez 11 Tyler Bennett 12 Charlie Howard | 01 Brian McGillivary 02 Finbar O'Riordan 03 Paul Dollard 04 Luke Evans 05 Joseph Markey 06 Mark Jones 07 Gary Messett 08 Eric O'Flaherty 09 Jason Moran 10 Daragh Snell 11 Aaron Tiers 12 Simon Le Strange | 01 Henry Naoyoshi Kagayama 02 Hideyuki Yanagi 03 Kenji Hashimoto 04 Yuji Yamada 05 Taisei Taniguchi 06 Ryuta Yoshino 07 Kazuhiro Kubo 08 Kodai Nakaoka 09 Tetsuya Toda 10 Tsukasa Kawano 12 Takayuki Iwasa |
| Coach: Hossein Saleh | Coach: Jay Hoffman | Coach: Daragh Sheridan | Coach: Yukio Jin |

## Venues

The venues to be used for the World Championships were located in Assen, Emmen and Hoogeveen.
| Emmen | Emmen | AssenEmmenHoogeveen | Assen | Hoogeveen |
| Univé Stadion (FC Emmen) | Sportpark Meerdijk Noord (SC Angelslo) | AssenEmmenHoogeveen | Sportpark Marsdijk (Achilles 1894) | Sportveld Weide (club VV De Weide) |
| Capacity: 8,600 | Capacity: unknown | AssenEmmenHoogeveen | Capacity: 5,000 | Capacity: unknown |

## 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 eight. the two lower ranked teams plays for the positions nine to 16. 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.
* Tie-breaking criteria for group play
* The ranking of teams in each group was based on the following criteria:
* Number of points
* Goal difference
* Number of goals scored
* Number of points obtained in matches between tied teams
* Goal difference in matches between tied teams
* Number of goals scored in matches between tied teams
* Drawing of lots
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.
* C5: Athletes with difficulties when walking and running, but not in standing or when kicking the ball.
* C6: Athletes with control and co-ordination problems of their upper limbs, especially when running.
* C7: Athletes with hemiplegia.
* C8: Athletes with minimal disability; must meet eligibility criteria and have an impairment that has impact on the sport of football.
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. In every match a maximum of 10 goals scored were counted. This is indicated with an asterisk (*)

### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualified for |
| 1 | Brazil | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 1 | +20 | 7 | Team play for the position 1 - 8 |
| 2 | Netherlands | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 1 | +12 | 7 | Team play for the position 1 - 8 |
| 3 | Australia | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 19 | −15 | 3 | Team play for the position 9 - 16 |
| 4 | Spain | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 19 | −17 | 0 | Team play for the position 9 - 16 |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualified for |
| 1 | Ukraine | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 2 | +17 | 9 | Team play for the position 1 - 8 |
| 2 | Scotland | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 6 | +8 | 6 | Team play for the position 1 - 8 |
| 3 | Canada | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 9 | −2 | 3 | Team play for the position 9 - 16 |
| 4 | Finland | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 25 | −23 | 0 | Team play for the position 9 - 16 |

### Group C

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualified for |
| 1 | Russia | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 1 | +11 | 9 | Team play for the position 1 - 8 |
| 2 | Argentina | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 7 | +7 | 6 | Team play for the position 1 - 8 |
| 3 | England | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 6 | +6 | 3 | Team play for the position 9 - 16 |
| 4 | South Korea | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 24 | −24 | 0 | Team play for the position 9 - 16 |

### Group D

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualified for |
| 1 | Iran | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 3 | +12 | 9 | Team play for the position 1 - 8 |
| 2 | United States | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 6 | Team play for the position 1 - 8 |
| 3 | Ireland | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 3 | +4 | 3 | Team play for the position 9 - 16 |
| 4 | Japan | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 17 | −16 | 0 | Team play for the position 9 - 16 |

## 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
#### 11 goals

* Michael Barker
* Brian Vivot

#### 9 goals

* Wanderson Silva de Oliveira

#### 8 goals

* Gary Messett

#### 7 goals

* Moslem Akbari
* Fábio da Silva Bordignon
* Sam Larkins

#### 6 goals

* Jamie Ackinclose
* Bahman Ansari
* Laurie McGinley
* Lasha Murvanadze
* Daragh Snell

#### 5 goals

* Volodymyr Antonyuk
* Josh McKinney
* Farzad Mehri
* Mariano Morana
* Raúl Pacheco Pérez
* Denys Ponomaryov
* Marthell Vazquez
* Iljas Visker

#### 4 goals

* Lars Conijn
* Matthew Dimbylow
* Taras Dutko
* Luke Evans
* Sergio Clemente Muñoz
* Mark Robertson
* Dennis Straatman
* Aleksey Tumakov
* Serhiy Vakulenko
* Carlos Antón Valor

#### 3 goals

* Thomas Brown
* Adam Ballou
* Alexey Chesmin
* Dihego Rezende Rodrigues
* George Fletcher
* Peter Kooij
* Aleksandr Kuligin
* Andrey Kuvaev
* Rodrigo Lugrin
* Joseph Markey
* Mykola Mikhovych
* Eric O'Flaherty
* Zaurbek Pagaev
* Ivan Potekhin
* Eduard Ramonov
* Marcos Salazar
* Aslanbek Sapiev
* Anatolii Shevchyk
* Martin Sinclair
* Behnam Sohrabibagherabadi
* John Swinkels
* Aaron Tiers
* Karl Townshend
* Vitaliy Trushev

#### 2 goals

* Jean Adriano Rodrigues
* Baghi Sadegh Hassani
* Jasem Bakhshi
* David Barber
* Jan Francisco Brito da Costa
* Renato da Rocha Lima
* Brett Fairhall
* Alistair Heselton
* Oleksiy Hetun
* Dustin Hodgson
* Jonathan Paterson
* Mikael Jukarainen
* Stephan Lokhoff
* Mariano Morana
* Christopher Pyne
* Angel Gabriel Rodriquez
* Emyle Rudder
* Tetsuya Toda

#### 1 goal

* Rasoul Atashafrouz
* Matthew Brown
* Jeremy Baird
* Mateus Francisco Tostes Calvo
* Anton Clarke
* Ramón del Pino Bernardó
* Paul Dollard
* Matthew Ellis
* Booshehri Ehsan Gholamhosseinpour
* Blair Glynn
* Carlos Rodríguez Grande
* José Carlos Monteiro Guimarᾶes
* Janne Helander
* Vyacheslav Larionov
* Graham Leclerc
* Brendon McAdam
* Jaesik Moon
* Haecheol Park
* Hashem Rastegarimobin
* James Richmond
* Ben Roche
* Ivan Shkvarlo
* Johannes Siikonen
* Taisei Taniguchi
* Andriy Tsukanov
* Ryuta Yoshino

#### own goals

* Raúl Carrillo Arjona (2 goals)
* Chris Fawcett
* Jaesik Moon
* Mariano Morana
* Jordan Raynes

### Ranking

| Rank | Team |
| | Russia |
| | Iran |
| | Ukraine |
| 4. | Brazil |
| 5. | Netherlands |
| 6. | Scotland |
| 7. | Argentina |
| 8. | United States |
| 9. | Ireland |
| 10. | England |
| 11. | Australia |
| 12. | Canada |
| 13. | Japan |
| 14. | Spain |
| 15. | Finland |
| 16. | South Korea |