Benjamin Pereira da Silva

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Personal information
Full nameBenjamin Pereira da Silva
Date of birth (1969-05-29) May 29, 1969 (age 50)
Place of birth Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Height 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)
Playing position Forward
Club information
Current team
Corinthians (beach soccer)
Number 10
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2006–2011 Milano Beach Soccer
2010–2011 Corinthians (beach soccer)
2012 Flamengo (beach soccer)
National team
1999present Brazil (beach soccer) (288)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Benjamin Pereira da Silva better known as Benjamin is a Brazilian beach soccer player. He plays in forward position.

Brazil Federal republic in South America

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At 8.5 million square kilometers and with over 208 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the fifth most populous. Its capital is Brasília, and its most populated city is São Paulo. The federation is composed of the union of the 26 states, the Federal District, and the 5,570 municipalities. It is the largest country to have Portuguese as an official language and the only one in the Americas; it is also one of the most multicultural and ethnically diverse nations, due to over a century of mass immigration from around the world.

Beach soccer football played in beach

Beach Soccer, also known as beach football, sand football or beasal, is a variant of association football played on a beach or some form of sand.

Honours

Beach soccer

The Brazil national beach soccer team represents Brazil in international beach soccer competitions and is controlled by the CBF, the governing body for football in Brazil. Portugal, Russia and Spain are the only squads to have eliminated Brazil out of the World Cup. Brazil are ranked 1st in the BSWW World Rankings. They are, alongside Portugal, the only team to have won the world title before and after FIFA assumed the government of beach soccer worldwide.

FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup beach soccer tournament for national teams

The FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup is an international beach soccer competition contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of FIFA, the sport's global governing body.

FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL) South American beach soccer tournament for national teams

The CONMEBOL qualifiers for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, also previously known as the South American Beach Soccer Championship, is the main championship for beach soccer in South America, contested between the senior men's national teams of the members of CONMEBOL.

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