2012 FIFA Futsal World Cup
The seventh FIFA Futsal World Championship 2012 was held in Thailand from November 1 to 18. For the first time, 24 teams took part in the futsal tournament. The meetings were held in a hall in Bangkok and Nakhon Ratchasima in two halls. Defending champions Brazil won by a 3-2 win after extra time against Spain its fifth title.
- 4.1 knockout round
- 4.2 quarterfinals
- 4.3 Semi-finals
- 4.4 3rd place match
- 4.5 final
Hosts and venues
Thailand was awarded the contract on 19 March 2010, interest in an alignment had also expressed Iran too. According to Hong Kong in 1992 and Taiwan 2004 Futsal World Cup will be held for the third time in Asia. The games take place in the capital Bangkok and in a hall in Nakhon Ratchasima in two halls.
The fourth venue the 2012 newly built Bangkok Futsal Arena was originally provided. However, delays and defects during the construction phase, caused by heavy rains, but the criteria and security requirements of FIFA could not be fulfilled, so that the planned games of the pre- final and final round were moved to the other two arenas of Bangkok.
Participant
The field was increased from 20 to 24 teams. Thailand hosts qualified automatically.
While Germany and Austria had not registered with UEFA for the qualifiers, Switzerland failed in the first round, which was held in the period 20 to 23 October 2011 in Veles (Macedonia), as a group Last of Macedonia ( 2:10 ), France ( 0:7 ) and Montenegro ( 0:9 ).
Preliminary round
The draw for the groups took place on 24 August 2012 in the Thai capital Bangkok held at the St. Regis Hotel.
Group A
With one exception, all of the games in Bangkok in Hun Mark Indoor Stadium.
Group B
With one exception, all of the games in Bangkok in Hun Mark Indoor Stadium.
Group C
With one exception, all of the games in Nakhon Ratchasima in the Korat Chatchai Hall.
Group D
With one exception, all of the games in Bangkok in Nimibutr Indoor Stadium.
Group E
With one exception, all of the games in Bangkok in Hua Mark Indoor Stadium.
Group F
With one exception, all of the games in Bangkok in Nimibutr Indoor Stadium.
Final round
Second round
Quarterfinals
Semifinal
3rd Place Match
Final
Top scorers
With respect to the scorer or the score for "adidas Golden Shoe " are the number of templates with the same number of goals.
Awards
The Golden Ball for the Most Valuable Player of the tournament went to the Brazilian Neto. The Silver Ball received the Spaniards Kike and the Bronze Ball the Portuguese Ricardinho. The Golden Boot for the top scorer received the Russian Eder Lima ahead of the Italian Rodolfo Fortino and Brazilian Fernandinho. The Golden Glove went to the Italian Stefano Mammarella. The Fair Play Award was the team from Argentina.
Referee
When Futsal two come to the referee Futsal rules trained to use. These have the full authority to enforce the rules of the game in the game. In the games of the World Cup also came a reserve assistant referee is used, which supported the two arbitrators especially during substitutions.
A total of 38 referees nominated by FIFA for the World Cup. It presented the UEFA ten, the AFC and the CONMEBOL eight, the six CONCACAF, CAF four and the OFC two game manager.
Brazil and Panama were the only nations that featured two referees. Another peculiarity was that Brazil, with Renata Leite mustered the only referee in the men's squad. Youngest referee was the 28 -year-old Rex Kamusu was of the Solomon Islands during the 45 - year-old Brazilian Sandro Brechane the senior of the game master. From Germany, Austria and Switzerland, where Futsal plays a minor role, no referee was nominated.
With the guidance of the final match between Brazil and Spain was the 39 -year-old Peruvian Héctor Rojas, who came into use already at the 2008 Futsal World Cup, commissioned. For the match for third place between Italy and Colombia the Angolan Jose Katemo was nominated.