National Soccer
The Guatemala selection debuted in the maximum event of beach football with a 2-6 score at the Paradise Arena in the opening match of the Seychelles World Cup.
Guatemala debuted with a defeat in its premiere in a World Cup of Beach Soccer. (Free Press Photo: Fedefut)
In a match where he went from more to less, the Guatemala selection fell into his debut in the Seychelles 2025 Beach Soccer World Cup. The Japanese squad, which was already runner-up in 2021, ended up imposing by score of 2-6.
The Guatemalan team that coach Farley Castro began better and with more offensive actions. During the first minutes played Berny Marroquín premiered on top Since he not only got Guatemala’s first goal in a Beach Soccer World Cup, but the first also of the 2025 World Cup in Seychelles.
Japan soon react and just six seconds later Ryota Tsuboya found 1-1.
However, the Guatemalan national team was on the racing and Again he took advantage thanks to a great goal by Miguel González.
From that moment on, the game became practically what the Japanese team wanted, since Guatemala dedicated himself to seeking to defend the advantage And little by little I am physically diminished.
In the second period the score did not move, but it was not because there were no goal occasions.
In fact, if in the second 12 minutes the game continued 2-2 it was thanks to the great interventions of the goalkeeper Hendrick Cordova that saved Guatemala up to two clear occasions and also three Japanese shots that crashed in the post.
However, for the third and last period the physical state of Guatemala was no longer the same as that of Japan and that was the way that the Asian national team used to take advantage.
Japan turned the scoreboard for eight minutes and almost 50 seconds later he got 2-4.
Japan’s fifth goal came by the free kick of Ozu Moreira, who with a cross shot left Cordova without options and the sixth was from Ryota Tsuboya in the absence of a minute.