Oman out of beach soccer WC with Brazil defeat

MUSCAT, May 7

Oman beach soccer team ended its journey at 2025 Fifa Beach Soccer World Cup in Seychelles from an early stage as they suffered a 11-1 loss against world champions Brazil in the concluding Group D match on Tuesday night. The national team could not manage to move into the knockout stage for the first time in history in their sixth participation at the beach soccer world championships.

Oman began their campaign in the tournament with a difficult 7-4 loss against Italy, runners up of the last edition. Then, the team managed to earn a victory against El Salvador through penalty shoot-out as the match ended at 4-4 draw. The only victory was not enough for the team to move into the next round as Italy joined Brazil to the following phase of the championship after they blanked El Salvador by 5-0.

It was a one-sided match against Brazil as their players delivered a dominant performance. Edson Hulk opened the scoring early in the first period while Rodrigo added a spectacular acrobatic finish to double the lead for his team. Two more goals were scored in the opening period as Thanger’s powerful left-footed strike made it 3-0, while Brendo raised the scoring gap to a 4-0 lead before the period end by two minutes.

In the following period, Oman players pressed hard to find a goal but the defending area of the opponents blocked all chances as there were no goals in this period from both sides.

In the final set, the world champions raised their attacking focus as they managed to have a goal-scoring spree. Benjinha’s penalty strike bounced past the Omani goalkeeper, followed quickly by a sublime goal from Catarino and another goal from Brendo to make it 7-0. Oman’s Sami al Balushi scored the only goal for Oman team but the response was so quick from Brazil side as Catarino completed his hat-trick, and goals from Mauricinho and Benjinha sealed an overwhelming 11-1 victory over Oman.

Italy snatched showed a solid performance to defeat El Salvador 5-0 in their final group stage clash to join Brazil in the quarterfinals which will begin on Thursday.