NEWS
Japan Beach Football Team names Marcelo Mendes as new coach
10 April 2014
The Japan Football Association announced that they have signed with Marcelo Mendes as head coach for their national beach football team.
Profile
Marcelo Silveira MENDES
[Date of birth] 23rd January, 1970 (44 years old)
[Nationality] Brazil（Rio de Janeiro）
[Coaching career]
| 1998 | Women's football coach, Universidade Gama Filho |
| 1998-99 | Women's football coach, Flamengo F.C. (Brazil) |
| 1999-2000 | Head coach, Portugal national beach football team |
| 2000 | Head coach, Fluminense beach football team (Brazil) |
| Head coach, Sao Paulo beach football team (Brazil) | |
| 2001 | Coach, United States national beach football team |
| Head coach, Rio de Janeiro beach football team | |
| Head coach, Vasco da Gama (Brazil) | |
| 2002 | Head coach, Trinidad Tobago national beach football team |
| 2002-05 | Head coach, Sao Paulo beach football team (Brazil) |
| 2003 | Head coach, Portugal national beach football team |
| 2003-04 | Head coach, Bonsucesso U-20/U-15 (Brazil) |
| 2005 | coach, Madureira football team (Brazil) |
| Head coach, Trinidad Tobago national beach football team | |
| 2005-06 | Head coach, Uruguay national beach football team |
| 2006 | Head coach, South Africa national beach football team |
| 2007-13 | Head coach, UAE national beach football team Competed in four FIFA Beach Soccer World Cups（2007、2008、2009、2013） |
| 2011-12 | Head coach, SeattleSounders F.C. beach football team |
[Qualifications] FIFA beach football instructor
※Note：Past Japan national beach football national team head coaches
| 2005 | Ramos Ruy | final four in FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Rio de Janeiro |
| 2006.5 | KATO Eiichi | |
| 2006.8 | TORIKAI Hiroyuki | final eight in FIBA Beach Soccer World Cup 2006 in Rio de Janeiro |
| 2007 | NENEM | eliminated in group stage in FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup 2007 in Rio de Janeiro |
| 2008 | KAWAHARAZUKA Tsuyoshi | eliminated in FIBA Beach Soccer World Cup 2008 in Marseille |
| 2009-13 | Ramos Ruy | final eight in FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup 2009 in Dubai Eliminated in FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup 2011 in Ravenna, Italy Final eight in FIBA Beach Soccer World Cup 2013 in Tahit |
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