Cancun and the All Stars set 2012 opening

Three flashing battles shape the first weeks of the Beach Soccer season in three different continents

After the 2011 dropped curtains in a really intense mood and Christmast time gave room for a little rest, the first steps in this upcoming 2012 are getting outlined. Three events will fire the passion with the finest Beach Soccer in Brazil, Mexico and Russia in the first weeks of the year.

The traditional showdown facing Brazil and the Beach Soccer Worldwide All-star Team will kick the international season off. In this occasion, the Verdeamarela will host this exciting Challenge fixture, to happen next Sunday January 22nd, in the Beach Stadium in La Repressa de Guarapiranga, São Paulo. The list of players of both teams will be confirmed soon, so beach soccer fans must keep connected to www.beachsoccer.com to get the last updates about the squads. Although being a friendly game, there is much to fight about, as Guga’s side need to recover their confidence after the last defeats in Ravenna, Dubai and Lagos, and no better opponent possible than a selection of the best players in the globe.

After this ice-breaking battle in Brazil, the best Beach Soccer action travels to North America with the first BSWW Tour event of the year: The Beach Soccer Worldwide Cancun Cup, which will bring for the first time the international elite circuit of the sport to the Mexican resort. From February 10th to 12th, a four-team Round Robin competition will give the Atlantic Quintana Roo its first taste of the top-notch Beach Soccer the whole country is already in love with, as the yearly successes of Acapulco and Puerto Vallarta have been proving lastly.

Then, on the very following weekend, the European season gets also started with one of the most attractive competitions of the circuit, the Euro Beach Soccer Cup 2012, to be held in Moscow from the  17th to the 19th. As advanced some weeks ago, and following the usual format of the competition the eight top ranked teams in 2011 will fight, on a knock-out format, to see if anyone is able to beat current title holders and World Cup winners Russia.