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Argentina vs Solomon Islands for FIFA Futsal 2016 World Cup: Will Argentina Maintain Its No-Loss Record? Game Preview, TV Info and Lineup

by Neal A. Lasta

September 14, 2016

Argentina and Solomon Islands will face each other during their FIFA Futsal 2016 World Cup match on September 15, at 20:00 Local time.

Game Preview

The game will be held at the Coliseo Bicentenario at the city of Bucaramanga, Colombia. The overall capacity of this stadium is 7,000 people. The game will be officiated by Lance Vanhaitsma of the USA, Quoc Dung Truong of Vietnam, Tomohiro Kozaki of Japan, and Vahid Arzpeyma of Iran.

Argentina currently has a standing of 1 win with no loss, while Solomon Islands has no wins and 1 loss.
The Solomon Islands lost to Costa Rica in the group E opener with a score of 4-2. Carlos Chaves once and Alejandro Paniagua twice scored for Costa Rica, making the score 3-0.

Then Elliot Ragomo scored a goal for the Solomon Island, making the score 3-1. This was followed by a Costa Rican goal courtesy of Erick Brenes. Finally, Jeffrey Bule scored for the Solomon Islands, making the final score 4-2.

Argentina, also belonging to Group E, beat Kazakhstan 1-0. The only goal in the match was scored by Alamiro Vaporaki. According to Diego Giustozzi, coach of Argentina, "We're fairly pleased because the World Cup has only just started and we expected to have a few teething problems. The team didn't play as well as I would have liked, but keeping a clean sheet was crucial to our winning the game."

Lineup

Argentina will play with Sarmiento (Goalkeeper), Stazzone, A. Vaporaki, Battistoni, Rescia, Wilhelm, Cuzzolino, Basile, Borruto, C. Vaporaki, Brandi, Quevedo (Goalkeeper), Mosenson (Goalkeeper) and Taborda. The team will be coached by Diego Giustozzi.

On the other hand, Solomon Islands will have Mango (Goalkeeper), Huia (Goalkeeper), Ragomo, Stevenson, Lafai, Laua, Egeta, Bule, Micah, Osifelo, Coleman, Wetney, Mathias and Alvin. The team will be coached by Juliano Schmeling from Brazil.

TV Info

The FIFA Futsal 2016 World Cup is televised in various channels across several countries. The list can be found here. In the United States, the games will be shown in Fox Sports (English) and NBC Deportes (Spanish).

A total of 24 teams will be playing in FIFA Futsal 2016 World Cup, which has mostly been dominated by Brazil during the last seven years (winner 5 times; the other 2 times was won by Spain). These teams are: Egypt, Morocco, Mozambique, Australia, Iran, Thailand, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Azerbaijan, Italy, Kazakhstan, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Ukraine, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, Panama, Solomon Islands, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Paraguay.



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