The Guatemala Beach soccer team won on Saturday, March 15, its greatest victory in history: obtain Seychelles World Cup classification which will be played from May 1 to 11 with a total of 13 teams.
The Guatemalan team had nothing easy to get here, since it had to go through several processes and difficulties, until finally on March 15, 2025 the dream of the national selected and coaching staff came true when Bahamas won by A 3-2 score in the semifinals of the Concacaf Premundial.
Then the Guatemala team played the match for the title of the region, and with the World Cup ticket under the arm, and ended its participation with an outstanding second place after fall into the final 1-2 against El Salvador.
The historic classification to the World Cup and the Concacaf runner -up are two achievements that will remain in the memory of all the members of the National Team, as in The case of Denilson Álvarez, who until before the Premundial had never stepped on a plane And now he dreams of traveling to Seychelles, African country where the World Cup will take place.
Mason’s assistant to qualify with Guatemala to the Beach Soccer World Cup
Denilson Álvarez, from Pioneros FP, is one of the 12 players who arrived in Bahamas, headquarters of the premundial, with the illusion of obtaining the World Cup ticket and succeeded after a historic victory against the local team per marker of 3-2.
However, what is now a moment of joy and joy was not always like this to Álvarez, which, like many of the other selected beach soccer, does not dedicate 100% to sport and have to combine training with their work, in order to obtain daily livelihood.
Álvarez’s story could not be understood without the relationship between the sand and the ball. According to Denilson himself to the microphones of THIRD TIME GT before leaving for the premundial, He grew up in the Hawaiia beach located on the south coast of the department of Santa Roca.
According to Álvarez, life out there “wins fighting”, since there are no stable work sources of those who live there they should seek sources of income to be able to bring daily sustenance.
Denilson, 26, I worked as a mason’s assistant until receiving the call to the Guatemala team that achieved the World Cup ticket.
“Life there is always fightingon the coast you play a lot of beach football, they saw me there and I had the opportunity to play here, so the teacher saw me and pulled me for the national team, ”he said.
Álvarez never imagined that he would hold for fate before traveling to Bahamas to dispute the premundial, since in his words I had never left the country and less travel by plane.
“I did not imagine it, I never thought that I was going to be in the National Team, less to think that my name was going to be among all those who have put effort,” he said.
The only way he got permission in his work to be able to go to the call of the National Team was because one of his teammates was his boss in the work, so they both enlisted to meet the Bahamas matches.
Denilson’s is just one of the 12 stories of the national teams who will seek to continue taking the name of Guatemala high in the 2025 World Cup in Seychelles.