Futsal is played in
School gyms across the city(mainly west end for
now). It is 5 aside and no walls are used. We use a low bounce ball
which promotes ball control. Please check out Fifa's
laws of Futsal.
Futsal is FIFA's
official indoor soccer game which is, essentially, a scaled down
version of
outdoor soccer played indoors. It is a small sided game (5v5) played on
a
smaller
Field (roughly basketball
court sized) with a smaller
(Size 3-4) ball.
Futsal is played with touchline boundaries.
There are no walls
in play. This is the game that outdoor soccer players around the globe
play
when they are indoors to refine and maintain their control skills and
touch.
It is superior to
walled soccer in terms of developing better skills and technique.
In
traditional
walled soccer, players regularly whack the ball (and sometimes their
bodies)
against the boards which promote improper technique and too often
reward errant
play. In Futsal, players are constantly reminded to play the same
quality
control game that is required for success in the outdoor game.
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Futsal is the only
indoor game sanctioned by FIFA. If skills development is important,
Futsal is
recognized as clearly the best form of indoor soccer. But that's not
the only
reason.
* Better Skills Development - Futsal
promotes quality touches
* Safer - Futsal eliminates the injuries
associated with wall
collisions
* Less Expensive - Futsal makes
quality
soccer more affordable |
| Futsal is the new
rage in North American soccer. However, as is often the case, the Canada is just catching on to what the
world
already knows. Superior soccer skill is built by simulating the outdoor
game
indoors with small sided games and a smaller ball. World famous clubs
such as Ajax have used this approach for
years. Futsal
has been around for over fifty years but Canadian interest in soccer
skill
development has only recently focused attention on the training
techniques used
in successful soccer powerhouses such as Brazil, Holland, Germany, France, and Italy. So, Futsal has been around for
many years
but interest is just starting to explode in North America. |
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The
origin of
Futsal can be traced back to Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1930 when Juan Carlos
Ceriani devised
a five-a-side version of soccer for youth competition in YMCAs.
The
game is played
on basketball-sized courts, both indoors and out without the use of
sidewalls.
The term FUTSAL is the international term used for the game. It is
derived from
the Spanish or Portuguese word for "soccer", FUTbol or FUTebol, and
the French or Spanish root word for "indoor" or "room",
SALon or Salle or SALa. Taken literally, Futbol means 'foot and ball'
(i.e.
playing outdoors) and Futsal indicates 'Futbol in room' (i.e. playing
indoors).
The game is frequently referred
to as
Five-A-Side.
Futsal gained rapid popularity
throughout South America, particularly in Brazil. The skill developed in this
game is
visible in the world-famous style the Brazilians display outdoors on
the
full-sized field. Pele, Zico, Socrates, Bebeto and other Brazilian
superstars
developed their skill playing Futsal. While Brazil continues to be the Futsal hub
of the
world, the game is now played, under the auspices of FIFA, all over the
world,
from Europe to North and Central America and the Caribbean, South America, Africa, and Asia and Oceania.
The first international
competition took
place in 1965, when Paraguay won the first South American
Cup. Six more
South American Cups were held through 1979, with Brazil winning all of them. Brazil continued its dominance with a
victory in
the first Pan American Cup in 1980 and won it again the next time it
was played
in 1984.
The first Futsal World
Championship
conducted under the auspices of FIFUSA (before its members integrated
into FIFA
in 1989) was held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1982, with Brazil finishing in first place. The
Brazilians
repeated as champions at the second World Championship in 1985 in Spain, but lost in the third World
Championship
in 1988 in Australia to Paraguay. FIFA took over direct
sponsorship of the
event in 1989 in Holland and 1992 in Hong Kong. Brazil won both times. The last world
championship was held in Taiwan in 2004 with
Spain winning .
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