Intro:

Swiss beach boys set for soccer action at Baku 2015.

Script:

SOUNDBITE: (English) Moritz Jaggy, Swiss beach soccer player:

"Probably the world's strongest team at the moment is Russia, and they are here as well. They are two-times world champions, so they're going to be a big, big opponent. There's going to be Portugal, which we face today. They're all very strong. Spain and Italy for sure, and the other remain teams have chances as well. So every team which is here can win this tournament. So it's a very, very high class tournament."

SOUNDBITE: (English) Moritz Jaggy, Swiss beach soccer player:

(on claims the tournament has stronger teams than the Beach Soccer World Cup).

"I would probably agree to that statement, yes, because Europe has probably the highest density of powerful teams, and the eight most powerful teams of Europe are here. So competition among these teams is very, very high. The playing level is going to be huge in this tournament. It could be even higher than at the World Cup, yes."

SOUNDBITE: (English) Noel Ott, Swiss beach soccer player:

(on the appeal of beach soccer).

"I think you have every minute, every second the chance to score, and to have a good action in the game. You are always or mostly on a place where it's nice weather. You are on the beautifulest beach in the world. So I think that is very good reason."

SOUNDBITE: (English) Noel Ott, Swiss beach soccer player:

"I don't know. I am not Lionel Messi, I'm Noel Ott! But I also play for Barcelona, and then some people say you are also a little bit small, you are fast, you have good techniques, so they said you are a little bit like Lionel Messi. But I'm not Lionel Messi - I'm Noel Ott."