After making audience boxes thanks to the Spanish Super Cup and the King Cup this season (with a Clasico at 1.3 million viewers in January and a second hectic final between Real Madrid and Barça last Saturday), the Channel L'Equipe offers even more football. The TNT canal (therefore available for free) is the diffuser, in France, of the Beach Soccer World Cup organized by FIFA.
The 2025 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup launched Thursday at Seychelles but without the French team unfortunately. The Blues led by Claude Barrabé (goalkeeper who passed by PSG and Montpellier in the 1980s and 90s) failed in European qualifications last October, winning none of their three matches in the second round.
The beach football world started with Guatemala-Japon and Portugal-Paraguay on Thursday afternoon in Victoria, the capital of the host country. The opportunity for viewers of the L'Equipe chain to discover or rediscover this fairly spectacular discipline, since the players, sunk into the sand, rarely run with the ball and prefer to juggle before sending resumes to the opposing goal. The Japanese goalkeeper scored a superb goal against the Guatemahs.
Tahiti on the Chain L'Equipe
Friday, the Channel L'Equipe will broadcast the entry into Italy against Oman, at 1 p.m., then Chile-Tahiti at 2 p.m. The selection of Beach Soccer on the island of French Polynesia (an overseas community) is one of the great nations of this football, since the Tiki Toa were beaten in the final in 2015 and 2017. On Sunday, it is on the Live Team, the chain accessible to media subscribers, that we will find Brazil-Italie and Spain-Chili shocks.
In December 2022, FIFA allocated the organization of the World Cups of Beach Soccer 2023 and 2025 to the United Arab Emirates and Seychelles. Bahrain, Colombia and Thailand were also candidates. The Seychelles were occupied by the French until 1811 before being part of the British Empire. The name of the archipelago pays tribute to Jean Moreau de Séchelles, then controller general of the finance of Louis XV.
