2009 CPISRA Football 7-a-side International Championships

2009 CPISRA Football 7-a-side International Championships

Tournament details
Host country	Netherlands
Dates	23 October – 1 November 2009
Teams	12
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Ukraine
Runners-up	Russia
Third place	Iran
Fourth place	Brazil
Tournament statistics
Matches played	31
Goals scored	176 (5.68 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Abdolreza Karimizadeh (13)

The 2009 CPISRA Football 7-a-side International Championships was an international 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 23 October to 1 November 2009.

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 2011 CPISRA Football 7-a-side World Championships.

Participating teams and officials

Qualifying

The following teams are qualified for the tournament:

Means of qualification	Date	Venue	Berths	Qualified
Host nation			2	Netherlands Netherlands O19
2007 ParaPan American Games	13 August – 19 August 2007	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	3	Brazil Canada United States
2006 FESPIC Games	25 November – 1 December 2006	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	2	Iran Japan
2006 European Championships	21 – 28 July 2006	Dublin, Irland	4	Ireland Russia Scotland Ukraine
Oceania Region			1	Australia
Total			12

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	Ukraine	Russia	Iran	Brazil
Pot 2	Ireland	Scotland	Netherlands	Australia
Pot 3	Netherlands O19	United States	Canada	Japan

Squads

The individual teams contact following football gamblers on to:

Group A

Ukraine	Ireland	Netherlands O19
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 11 Volodymyr Antonyuk 10 Oleksandr Devlysh 12 Ihor Kosenko	01 Brian Mc Gillivary 02 Aidan Brennan 03 Paul Dollard 04 Luke Evans 05 Finbar O’Riordan 06 Mark Jones 06 Gary Messett 08 Dara Snell 09 Kieran Devlin 10 Darren Kavanagh 11 Joseph Markey 12 Chris Kirwan
Coach: Sergiy Ovcharenko	Coach: Paul Cassin

Group B

Russia	Scotland	United States
01 Oleg Smirnov 02 Andrey Lozhechnikov 04 Pavel Borisov 05 Georgy Nadzharyan 06 Aleksey Tumakov 07 Alexey Chesmin 08 Ivan Pothekin 09 Mamuka Dzimistarishvili 11 Stanislav Kloykhalov 12 Alexander Lekov 13 Lasha Murvanadze 15 Viacheslav Larionov	01 Craig Connell 02 Kieran Martin 03 Chris Nelson 04 Scott Troup 05 Jamie Tervit 06 Graeme Paterson 08 Connor Hay 09 Jonathan Paterson 10 Laurie McGinley 11 Riley McKenna 13 Keith Gardner	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 13 Tyler Penn 15 Moises Morales
Coach: Avtandil Baramidze	Coach: Stuart Sharp	Coach: Jay Hoffman

Group C

Iran	Netherlands	Canada
01 Mehran Nikoee Majd 02 Bahman Ansari 04 Gholamreza Najafi 05 Hadi Safari 06 Behnam Sohrabi Bagherabadi 07 Rasoul Atashafruz 08 Ehsan Gholamhossein-pour Bousheri 10 Abdolreza Karimizadeh 11 Morteza Heidari 13 Moslem Akbari 22 Ardeshir Mahini	01 Rudi van Breemen 04 Jeffrey Bruinier 05 Joey Mense 06 Patrick van Kempen 07 Dennis Straatman 08 Pawel Statema 09 John Swinkels 10 Stephan Lokhoff 11 Martijn van de Ven 14 Daan Dikken 16 Bart Adelaars 18 Gerard Arends	01 Cameron Kleimer 02 Todd Philips 03 John Philips 04 Christopher Duehrsen 05 Scott van den Boogaard 06 Sefik Smajlovic 07 Dustin Hodgson 08 James Jordon 09 Eric Flemming 10 Vito Proietti 11 Matthew Brown 12 Zack Murdock
Coach: Amin Allah Mani	Coach: Marcel Geestman	Coach: Drew Ferguson

Group D

Brazil	Australia	Japan
01 Delcio Costa 02 Jean Rodrigues 03 Leandro Marinho 04 Antonio Rocha 05 Jose Guimaraes 06 Claudemar Lima 07 Jean Silva 08 Wanderson Silva de Oliveira 10 Renato Lima 11 Mateus Calvo 12 Moisés Tamiozzo das Silva 13 Pedro Santos Jr.	01 Sam Larkings 02 Jarrod Law 03 Patrick Grant 04 Aidan Bennison 05 Brett Cross 06 Daniel Berry 07 Ned McCabe 08 Brett Fairhall 09 Ben Atkins 10 Thomas Goodman 11 Jamie Laybutt 12 Jamie Paulsen	02 Tatsuya Ihara 03 Yasuhiro Yamaguchi 04 Koji Watarai 05 Nobuyuki Suzuki 06 Yuji Yamada 07 Rikiya Sakai 08 Taisei Taniguchi 09 Jun Okada 10 Tsukasa Kawano 11 Keisuke Kawabe 12 Takayuki Iwasa
Coach: Paulo Cruz	Coach: Paul Brown	Coach: Yukio Jin

Venues

The venues to be used for the International Championships were located in Arnhem.

Format

The first round, the first group stage, was a competition between the 12 teams divided among four groups of three, where each group engaged in a round-robin tournament within itself. The two highest ranked teams in each group advanced to the second group stage for the position one to eight. the two lower ranked teams plays for the positions nine to 32. 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 second round, the second group stage, the two groups, each with four teams, fighting for the positions one to eight, the first placed of the two groups played in the finals around the victory of the tournament, the second place around the third place, the third place around the fifth place and the last plays around the seventh place. The five last placed, one from group 1, group 3 and group 4 and two from group 2 plays everyone against everyone. The first placed is the ninth of the tournament, the second-place finishes the tenth, the third-place finishes the eleventh, the fourth place the twelfth and the fifth place the thirteenth. For any match in the finals, 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.

First Group stage

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

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualified for
1	Ukraine	2	2	0	0	13	2	+11	6	Round 2 (2nd Group stage)
2	Ireland	2	1	0	1	4	6	−2	3
3	Netherlands O19	2	0	0	2	2	11	−9	0	drop out of the tournament

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualified for
1	Russia	2	2	0	0	11	0	+11	6	Round 2 (2nd Group stage)
2	Scotland	2	1	0	1	2	7	−5	3
3	United States	2	0	0	2	1	7	−6	0	Team play for the position 9 - 11

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualified for
1	Iran	2	2	0	0	8	3	+5	6	Round 2 (2nd Group stage)
2	Netherlands	2	1	0	1	5	3	+2	3
3	Canada	2	0	0	2	1	8	−7	0	Team play for the position 9 - 11

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualified for
1	Brazil	2	2	0	0	20	0	+20	6	Round 2 (2nd Group stage)
2	Australia	2	1	0	1	5	10	−5	3
3	Japan	2	0	0	2	0	15	−15	0	Team play for the position 9 - 11

Second Group stage

Group W

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Ukraine	3	3	0	0	13	2	+11	9	Team play for the position 1
2	Brazil	3	2	0	1	11	7	+4	6	Team play for the position 3
3	Netherlands	3	1	0	2	7	9	−2	3	Team play for the position 5
4	Scotland	3	0	0	3	0	13	−13	0	Team play for the position 7

Group X

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualified for
1	Russia	3	3	0	0	16	1	+15	9	Team play for the position 1
2	Iran	3	2	0	1	20	3	+17	6	Team play for the position 3
3	Ireland	3	1	0	2	10	16	−6	3	Team play for the position 5
4	Australia	3	0	0	3	1	27	−26	0	Team play for the position 7

Group Y

Position 9-11

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Position
1	Canada	2	2	0	0	11	0	+11	6	position 9
2	United States	2	1	0	1	5	3	+2	3	position 10
3	Japan	2	0	0	2	0	13	−13	0	position 11

Finals

Position 7-8

Position 5-6

Position 3-4

Final

Statistics

Goalscorers

13 goals

8 goals

7 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

own goals

Ranking

Rank	Team
	Ukraine
	Russia
	Iran
4.	Brazil
5.	Ireland
6.	Netherlands
7.	Scotland
8.	Australia
9.	Canada
10.	United States
11.	Japan
--	Netherlands O19

See also

External links

• 2009 CPISRA International Championships
• CPISRA football 7-a-side international championships 2009 match reports (PDF)
• Schedule 2009 CPISRA Football 7-a-side International Championships (PDF)
• Cerebral Palsy International Sports & Recreation Association (CPISRA)
• International Federation of Cerebral Palsy Football (IFCPF)