Nike JOGA3


JOGA3, in full: Nike JOGA3, is a futsal tournament that major, popular and leading sports brand Nike created in 2006 for two main reasons. Firstly, it was for the run-up to the FIFA World Cup 2006 finals, and also, it was to help promote the Joga Bonito campaign and its five principles. JOGA3 was hosted in 39 different nations, with each nation having multiple cities/towns that hosted it, in which there were multiple locations in the cities/towns that hosted it. There was a National Finals for every country, and the winners earned a place at the World finals.
There were four categories: Under-20 male, Under-20 female, U-16 male, U-16 female. For the whole Under-20 category, players qualifying to play in it must not have turned 21 by 31 August, 2006. For the whole of the Under-16 category, players qualifying to play in it must not have turned 17 by 31 August, 2006. The minimum age for this category was to be at least 13 years old.

Format

Each JOGA3 game lasts for three minutes. It is winner-stays-on, and the losers have to officially get themselves in the JOGA3 order again. If it is a draw, both teams leave the field.
For every win, 1000 points are awarded. No points are awarded for a draw and a loss. Knock-out games in regional tournaments commenced at the end of the night, and the teams that went through were decided on a league system of the teams with the most point gained on the night advancing to the knock-out phase. All points that are gained at any time will always go on the overall record as well; so being a good team and traditionally having an overall good record doesn't necessarily mean on the night the team will advance, while having a poor record but doing great on the night is very likely to get a team in that situation to the knock-out phase.