Angola Press Agency (Luanda)
2 July 2009
side football team participation in the first stage of the fifth edition of the "Great Prize of Brazil in Futsal" was considered as reasonable by a top official of this sport, Luís Mourão.
The chairperson of the Angolan Five-a-side Football (Fafusa), said so on Wednesday here, while making an assessment of the country's participation, organised by the Brazilian Confederation of Five-a-side Football, with the support of the International Football Federation (FIFA).
According to him, in first the calendar was very difficult for the fact that the country was in group with teams on top of the world ranking such as Paraguay (9th), Hungary (16th) and Guatemala (35th), whereas Angola is the 36th.
In the competition, Angola was defeated by Paraguay (2-3), played to a goalless draw against Hungary, and beaten by Guatemala (4-5).
On Thursday, the African country is to play Peru for the ninth of the 16th position of the championship.
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