Football 7-a-side at the 2012 Summer Paralympics

Football 7-a-side at the 2012 Summer Paralympics[1] was held in London at the Olympic Hockey Centre, from 1 September to 9 September. Football 7-a-side is played by athletes with cerebral palsy, a condition characterized by impairment of muscular coordination. 96 footballers are expected to compete for one set of medals.[2]

Football 7-a-side
at the XIV Paralympic Games
VenueOlympic Hockey Centre
Dates1 – 9 September
Competitors96 (8 teams)
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Russia  Russia
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Ukraine  Ukraine
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Iran  Iran
2008
2016

For these games, the men competed in an 8-team tournament.

Qualifying edit

Means of qualification Date Venue Berths[3] Qualified
Host nation   1   Great Britain (GBR)
2010 CPISRA Football 7-a-side European Championships 15–28 August 2010 Glasgow,   United Kingdom 1   Ukraine (UKR)
2010 Asian Para Games 12–19 December 2010 Guangzhou,   China 1   Iran (IRI)
2010 CPISRA Football 7-a-side Americas Championships 17–27 October 2010 Buenos Aires,   Argentina 1   Brazil (BRA)
2011 CPISRA Football 7-a-side World Championships 17 June – 1 July 2011 Drenthe,   Netherlands[4] 4   Russia (RUS)
  Netherlands (NED)
  Argentina (ARG)
  United States (USA)
Total 8

Group stage edit

Group A edit

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1   Russia (RUS) 3 3 0 0 19 1 +18 9 Qualified for the medal round
2   Iran (IRI) 3 2 0 1 13 5 +8 6
3   Netherlands (NED) 3 1 0 2 5 13 −8 3 Qualified for the classification round
4   Argentina (ARG) 3 0 0 3 2 20 −18 0
Source: [citation needed]
Russia  8–0  Argentina
Kuligin   9', 49'
Murvanadze   21', 30'
Ramonov   35'
Kuvaev   38', 58'
Larionov   54'
Report
Attendance: 4,074
Referee: Stephen Conroy (GBR)

Netherlands  1–4  Iran
Straatman   52' Report Mehri   4'
Akbari   27'
Karimizadeh   30'
Ansari   60+6'
Attendance: 4,405
Referee: Ross Haswell (GBR)

Argentina  1–8  Iran
Fernández Romano   47' Report Gholamhosseinpour   2', 60+3'
Mehri   6', 58'
Atashafrouz   13', 14'
Bakhshi   18'
Heidari   29'
Attendance: 10,561
Referee: Garry Polkey (GBR)

Russia  8–0  Netherlands
Larionov   23'
Ramonov   30', 50', 54'
Van Altena   34' (o.g.)
Murvanadze   36', 39'
Potekhin   60+3'
Report
Attendance: 10,561
Referee: Kevin Wright (GBR)

Iran  1–3  Russia
Mehri   36' (pen.) Report Kuligin   18'
Larionov   37'
Ramonov   46'
Attendance: 4,276
Referee: Keith Stroud (GBR)

Argentina  1–4  Netherlands
Morana   6' Report Lokhoff   11', 54'
Visker   19', 45'
Attendance: 4,405
Referee: Scott Henry (GBR)

Group B edit

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1   Ukraine (UKR) 3 2 1 0 17 2 +15 7 Qualified for the medal round
2   Brazil (BRA) 3 2 1 0 12 1 +11 7
3   Great Britain (GBR) 3 1 0 2 5 10 −5 3 Qualified for the classification round
4   United States (USA) 3 0 0 3 0 21 −21 0
Source: [citation needed]
Ukraine  9–0  United States
Shkvarlo   1', 7', 41'
Trushev   10'
Shevchyk   16', 30', 39', 48'
Dutko   32'
Report
Attendance: 11,780
Referee: Hayley Ives (GBR)

Great Britain  0–3  Brazil
Report Almeida   10'
Silva   13'
Dos Santos   24'
Attendance: 13,247
Referee: Barry Huizinga (NED)

United States  0–8  Brazil
Report Almeida   5', 19'
Guimarães   20', 39'
da Silva   33', 55'
Tostes   49', 57'
Attendance: 4,529
Referee: David Davies (GBR)

Ukraine  7–1  Great Britain
Antoniuk   1', 47'
Shevchyk   9', 10'
Devlysh   15', 54'
Ponomaryov   58'
Report Diallo   41'
Attendance: 9,329
Referee: Álvaro Azeredo (BRA)

Brazil  1–1  Ukraine
Dos Santos Ribeiro   9' Report Dotsenko   35'
Attendance: 9,994
Referee: Tom Nield (GBR)

United States  0–4  Great Britain
Report Richmond   20'
Fletcher   44'
Diallo   53'
Paterson   60+2'
Attendance: 12,274
Referee: Álvaro Azeredo Quelhas (BRA)

Knockout stage edit

Classification round edit

5th–8th place semi-finals edit

Netherlands  5–0  United States
Straatman   16', 33'
Visker   35'
Swinkels   39' (pen.)
Kooij   59'
Report
Attendance: 3,848
Referee: Alex Kirkley (GBR)

Great Britain  3–4 (a.e.t.)  Argentina
Diallo   14'
Dimbylow   27'
Patrick-Heselton   78'
Report Lugrin   29'
Vivot   40', 69', 73'
Attendance: 9,942
Referee: Barry Huizinga (NED)

7th–8th place match edit

United States  1–3 (a.e.t.)  Great Britain
Renteria   20' Report Barker   29'
Diallo   70'
Fletcher   74'
Attendance: 10,561
Referee: Barry Huizinga (NED)

5th–6th place match edit

Netherlands  3–0  Argentina
Visker   9', 12', 18' Report
Attendance: 7,490
Referee: Álvaro Azeredo Quelhas (BRA)

Medal round edit

Semi-finals edit

Russia  3–1  Brazil
Larionov   23'
Potekhin   34'
Kuligin   48'
Report Silva de Oliveira   26'
Attendance: 7,383
Referee: Ross Haswell (GBR)

Ukraine  2–1  Iran
Dotsenko   37'
Shkvarlo   57'
Report Bakhshi   51'
Attendance: 2,900
Referee: Stephen Conroy (GBR)

Bronze medal match edit

Brazil  0–5  Iran
Report Atashafrouz   17', 23'
Mehri   20', 60+1'
Bakhshi   57'
Attendance: 11,197
Referee: Kevin Wright (GBR)

Gold medal match edit

Russia  1–0  Ukraine
Ramonov   44' Report
Attendance: 13,360
Referee: Keith Stroud (GBR)

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Medalists edit

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's team   Russia
Aleksandr Lekov
Vladislav Raretckii
Aslanbek Sapiev
Alexey Tumakov
Lasha Murvanadze
Aleksei Chesmin
Ivan Potekhin (captain)
Eduard Ramonov
Viacheslav Larionov
Zaurbek Pagaev
Andrei Kuvaev
Aleksandr Kuligin
  Ukraine
Kostyantyn Symashko
Ihor Kosenko
Vitaliy Trushev
Yevhen Zinoviev
Taras Dutko
Anatolii Shevchyk
Oleksiy Hetun
Volodymyr Antonyuk (captain)
Ivan Shkvarlo
Ivan Dotsenko
Denys Ponomaryov
Oleksandr Devlysh
  Iran
Mehran Nikoee Majd
Moslem Khazaeipirsarabi
Ehsan Gholamhosseinpour Bousheh
Morteza Heidari
Bahman Ansari
Hashem Rastegarimobin
Sadegh Hassani Baghi
Farzad Mehri
Jasem Bakhshi
Moslem Akbari (captain)
Rasoul Atashafrouz
Abdolreza Karimizadeh

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "International Paralympic Committee". 14 July 2021. Archived from the original on 8 June 2011. Retrieved 20 May 2011.
  2. ^ "Football 7-a-side" Archived 8 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine, The official site of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, accessed 20 May 2011.
  3. ^ Football 7-a-Side Qualification Criteria - FT[permanent dead link], International Paralympic Committee (IPC), February 2011
  4. ^ Draw for the CPISRA football 7-a-side world championships 2011 Archived 21 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Cerebral Palsy International Sports & Recreation Association (CPISRA)
  5. ^ "Paralympic Football 7-a-side. london2012.com". Archived from the original on 3 January 2013. Retrieved 22 August 2012.

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