by Luca Ranocchiari - Futsalplanet.com editor

Something new from Brazil, where the Brazil vs World Stars game has been replaced by a 100% brazilian challenge. In order to close one more great season of national futsal, CBFS has organised an interesting double clash between the greatest athletes currently playing in their native country and their colleagues who're helping foreign clubs in reaching the highest level of their own leagues (mainly european). Below have a look at both roster, the "national" one and the "foreign" squad, completed by the Indio's couple (both the fixo and the pivot, beeing the second sometimes indicated as Indiao in recent times, since they played together with Barcel Euro Puebla in Spain).

The first battle, which took place in Santos (SP), went to the national stars (3-2 the final score) thanks to an impressive comeback. The "international" roster went ahead 0-2 through Indião just after 53 seconds and scored the second goal with Pula, when just 2 minutes and 12 seconds were gone. The national stars managed to change the game just in the second half: Lenísio (what a wonderful goal!) and Thiaguinho (double) were the key.

The second act was staged on december 28th in São Bernardo do Campo (SP), ending with a 3-3 tie. Once again Pula was on target for the foreign stars, scoring the first goal of the game after almost 4 minutes. The 1-1 goal came with Malwee's Leco, while Gadeia gave national stars a first half minimal advantage. Pixote did the 3rd "national" goal and that seemed to be the sign of one more triumph for the local players squad, but finally Indio and Robinho fixed the final score, with no winners nor losers.






National Stars - Players List **

Goalkeepers
Djony (Florianópolis FutSal)
Franklin (Krona/Joinville/DalPonte)

Fixos/Defenders
Neto (Malwee/Cimed)
Leco (Malwee/Cimed)

Alas/Flanks
Gadeia (Copagril/Faville/DalPonte)
Pixote (V&M Minas)
Guina (Krona/Joinville/DalPonte)
Murilo (Krona/Joinville/DalPonte)
Thiaguinho (Carlos Barbosa)

Pivots
Dieguinho (V&M Minas)
Lenísio (Malwee/Cimed)
Valdin (Malwee/Cimed)

Coach: Marcos Sorato Zopelini "Pipoca"

** clubs are indicated as for the season just over in Brazil and are not taking into account some changes already announced (ex: Lenisio to Petropolis)

Foreign Stars - Players List

Goalkeepers
Greuto (MFK Tyumen - RUSSIA)
Rogério (Neftchi ISM Baku - AZERBAIJAN)

Fixos/Defenders
Rômulo (Dinamo Moscow - RUSSIA)
Índio (Malwee/Cimed - BRAZIL)

Alas/Flanks
Tatu (Dinamo Moscow - RUSSIA)
Robinho (Gazprom Ugra - RUSSIA)
Pula (Dinamo Moscow - RUSSIA)
Joan (Sibiryak Novosibirsk - RUSSIA)
Éder (Gazprom Ugra - RUSSIA)
Pelé Junior (Gazprom Ugra - RUSSIA)

Pivots
Anderson (Kairat Almaty - KAZAKHSTAN)
Maicky (Kairat Almaty - KAZAKHSTAN)
Indiao (Suzano - BRAZIL)
Cirilo (Dinamo Moscow - RUSSIA)

Coach: Vander Iacovino