Nickname(s) | La Vinotinto (The Burgundy) Los Llaneros (The Plainsmen) | ||
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Association | Venezuelan Football Federation | ||
Confederation | CONMEBOL (South America) | ||
Head coach | Roberto Cavallo | ||
FIFA code | VEN | ||
BSWW ranking | 23 (8 April 2024) [1] | ||
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Biggest defeat | |||
Brazil 16-1 Venezuela (Santa Marta, Colombia; 20 October 2018) | |||
World Cup | |||
Appearances | 3 (first in 2000 ) | ||
Best result | Quarterfinals, (2000) | ||
CONMEBOL Beach Soccer Championship | |||
Appearances | 6 (first in 2006 ) | ||
Best result | Third Place, (2011) |
The Venezuela national beach soccer team represents Venezuela in international beach soccer competitions and is controlled by the FVF, the governing body for football in Venezuela.
Current as of August 2011. [2]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW) is the organisation responsible for the founding and growth of association football's derivative sport of beach soccer. The founding partners of BSWW codified the rules of beach soccer in 1992, with BSWW as it is known today having been officially founded in late 2000 as a singular institution to develop the sport and organise international beach soccer competitions across the globe, primarily between national teams. The company is recognised as playing the biggest role in helping to establish the rules of beach soccer, to spread and evolve the sport around the world as cited by FIFA who took on governing body status of the sport from BSWW in 2005. Having established the sport's key regulations, FIFA acknowledged BSWW's framework, making their rules the official laws of beach soccer and now controls them and any modifications.
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