Football 5-a-side at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
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2008 Summer Paralympics
The 2008 Summer Paralympic Games, the thirteenth Paralympics, took place in Beijing, China from September 6 to September 17, 2008. As with the 2008 Summer Olympics, equestrian events were held in Hong Kong and sailing events in Qingdao....
was held at the Olympic Green Hockey Field
Olympic Green Hockey Field
The Olympic Green Hockey Field was one of nine temporary venues used for the 2008 Summer Olympics. It hosted the field hockey competitions during those games....
from September 7 and September 17. One event was contested, a men's team competition.
Classification
The tournament was classified as a B1 event, meaning that it was for blind athletes. Athletes wore eyeshades to ensure that vision-impaired and totally blind athletes were level in ability. Goalkeepers could be sighted as long as they had not been registered with FIFAFIFA
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association , commonly known by the acronym FIFA , is the international governing body of :association football, futsal and beach football. Its headquarters are located in Zurich, Switzerland, and its president is Sepp Blatter, who is in his fourth...
since 2003. Each team was also allowed to have a guide behind their opponents' goal to direct players. The ball made a rattling sound when kicked, so fans were required to keep quiet during play.
Qualification
| Match | Qualifying Criteria | Amount | NPC |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006ISBA Football 5-a-side Championship | Champion | 1 | |
| Qualifying Match | Asian Qualifying Tournament | 1 | |
| 2007 Parapan American Games | 1 | ||
| European Qualifying Tournament | 2 |  Great BritainUnited Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... |
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| Host Nation | 1 | ||
| Total | 6 | ||
Competition format
The six teams first played a singe round-robin tournamentRound-robin tournament
A round-robin tournament is a competition "in which each contestant meets all other contestants in turn".-Terminology:...
. Then the top two teams competed for the gold medal, the third and fourth place teams competed for the bronze medal, and the remaining two teams played a match to determine fifth and sixth place.
Group stage
| Team | P | W | D | L | G | GA | GD | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 13 | ||
| 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 11 | ||
| 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 10 | ||
| 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | |||
| 4 | ||||||||
| 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 15 | |||
| 3 | ||||||||
| 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 10 | |||
| 1 |
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5th-6th classification
Bronze medal match
Final
Medallists
| Men's team | Fabio Ribeiro Vasconcelos (captain) Sandro Soares Damiao Ramos Severino Silva Ricardo Alves Marcos Felipe Mizael Oliveira Joao Batista Silva Jefferson Goncalves Andreonni Farias Rego Coach: Antonio Padua Alves da Costa |
Li Xiaoqiang (captain) Xia Zheng Wang Zhoubin Chen Shanyong Wang Yafeng Wei Zheng Zhang Qiang Yu Yutan Yang Xinqiang Zheng Wenfa Coach: Dong Junjie |
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