Angelo Schirinzi (born 5 November 1972) is a beach soccer player and coach. He is Coach of Switzerland national beach soccer team, and the former Tahiti national beach soccer team Coach 2012-2015. [1] [2] He is the main developer of beach soccer in Switzerland. [3]
Schirinzi has been a FIFA Expert since 2008 and has supervised more than 35 seminars in the last years. [4]
Schirinzi was born in Basel. [5] He was a professional footballer until the age of 26. During his short grass career, he played for FC Riehen and FC Solothurn. He then switched to being a professional trainer. In 2001, at the age of 30, he switched to playing beach soccer with the Sable Dancers of Bern. He also became coach-player of the Swiss beach soccer team. [5]
Schirinzi has been a FIFA instructor since 2008, [6] UEFA PRO coach and partner of Swiss Beach Soccer GMBH, the company that manages beach soccer in Switzerland. He has a UEFA Pro License , wrote the Beach Soccer manual. [4] [5]
After the Swiss team failed to qualify for the 2013 World Cup, Schirinzi accepted the position of coach of the Tahitian national team. He won these 6 preparation matches against France and the Netherlands. Organizer of the World Cup, the Tiki-Toa won an unexpected 4th place. [5] He later won the Swiss championship with his team. [6]
In October 2013 he was appointed a knight of the Order of Tahiti Nui. [7] [8]
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The following were the events of association football for the year 2019 throughout the world.
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