FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup
The FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup is an international beach soccer competition contested by the national teams of the member associations of FIFA, the sport's global governing body. The tournament was preceded by the Beach Soccer World Championships established in 1995 which took place every year for the next decade under the supervision of Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW) and its predecessors. FIFA joined hands with BSWW in 2005 to take over the organization of the competition, re-branding it as an official FIFA tournament.
A scene from the 2007 event in Brazil
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.
International match
Women's beach soccer game at YBF 2010 in Yyteri Beach, Pori, Finland
A beach soccer game at the 2006 Chicago Beach Soccer Invitational
A beach soccer ball