Kids soccer games on tennis courts?!
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Anonymous
Well, yeah, my kids soccer games---he plays 90 full minutes. Futsal is 40 min. total per game. He does play two full 90-minute games in tournaments. It is a different type of conditioning. I am a marathon runner and can barely swim a few laps. A sprinter does not have the same muscle type or endurance as a distance runner. I don't think cross-training is a bad thing---be it basketball or Futsal...the court is different than the field. |
Anonymous
You might want to read this. https://www.futsalfocus.net/hall-famer-one-americas-most-successful-soccer-coaches-endorses-futsal/ From the most successful women's soccer coach in history. He cites Futsal as 100% necessary to keep the USWNT on top since they have always lagged in technique. Anson said: “That, in my opinion, is the key platform in the success of the US women’s national soccer team. If you’re the Japanese you’re better than we are technically, if you are the Germans you’re better than we are tactically, if you are the French you have just as many athletes as we have, so what is it in the American nature that still permits us to be dynastic in a sport that is not even ‘our’ sport? Well, we’re dynastic because of our mentality, an excerpt from above: “Players get more touches on the ball, they have to get used to being put under pressure and what to do under that pressure, it forces players to think quicker, to find space, to be confident on the ball and puts them in more one on one situations. It improves their technical skills, and tactical skills because soccer is starting to use a lot of futsal type systems to try and find ways through packed defenses and to navigate through defensive teams when put under pressure. Keeping the ball on the ground, finding space and players, passing the ball out of danger and not just kicking it up the pitch or out of play.” “I could go on and on about how much I love this sport. However, futsal isn’t just a development tool for football, I know it is a sport in its own right and a sport that is growing in popularity around the world. For me, the opportunity in the States can start with the women’s game because since the rest of the world is working to catch up, this can be another weapon for our enormous population. Right now I am starting at a grass roots level, and my dream is to have futsal in every elementary, middle, high school, and YMCA in the country. I think we should eventually have a women’s professional futsal league during the off season of the current women’s pro league. The NWSL season runs from March to October, and during that off season, many players will go to other countries to play but many don’t. When they stay here, lets organize them into professional or semi-professional futsal leagues. It is a great opportunity for the clubs and the league to have another revenue stream plus it gives us the opportunity to gauge the American public’s interest in the sport because they will be watching talented young women, they are aware of already. This will also help to increase awareness of the game exponentially. During this period, we could also bring players from abroad who play futsal to be included in the league, so the other players get a balance of what it takes to play futsal against seasoned players. What you might find is that futsal becomes so popular that we find pools of players who just want to play futsal and therefore, we expand the league from the off season eventually to its own season. Futsal is professional in many countries around the world and I think America should be embracing this game, we are suited to it due to our indoor culture, and the abundance of suitable indoor and outdoor courts that we have. It makes absolute sense to me that we would adapt to the sport.” “At the youth level, futsal being a part of the Youth Olympics now is also another fantastic opportunity and one that should not be missed by our Olympic Committee. I have certainly watched highlights of the last Youth Olympics futsal tournament in Argentina and it was incredible. I look forward to the next Youth Olympics to watch more, and I especially look forward to seeing futsal at the senior Olympics when it is introduced, and who knows maybe America will be a part of both. I was certainly disappointed to see that we were not a part of the last Youth Olympics.” “Eventually, I hope to see futsal played at every University, College, High School and Junior High School across the country, and it is a development I will work hard to assist in the United States. We have the infrastructure for the sport already, this is something that Keith Tozer (the former U.S National futsal team head coach, technical director at US Youth Futsal, and commissioner of the Professional Futsal League), and I were discussing at the last U.S Soccer Coaches Convention. Right now, my priority is to do what I can in my home state of North Carolina and that promotion has already started. But, I also plan to approach both the women’s league and the US Olympic Committee about the sport, and let’s see what happens.” |
Anonymous
| high school and college futsal... maybe in 100 years? |
Anonymous
| OP so do you feel pretty stupid now or what? |
Anonymous
Really should add a pulisic comment or some pele/Messi thing to make it really compelling. Probably should also ignore the fact that AD makes $60K+ running futsal camps. Did he say kids should play futsal in lieu of soccer, or rather as something to do instead of taking a break during cold northeast winters when outside soccer isn’t happening? I mean, if you want to put forward compelling evidence, at least be level handed lest you reveal your true motivations. MW? |
Anonymous
Right, and who pays your bills, or where does your kid play, so we can understand your true motivations? Or are you gonna tell us all about what US Soccer says we should be doin/ |
Anonymous
This is the Mid Atlantic not the northeast but this wasn't the only fact that got in your way. |
Anonymous
Lol found the DRATER |
Anonymous
Got it, all about the money. |
Anonymous
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Futsal is all about technical skills and first touch. A player can mask/hide his/her lack of technical skills and first touch on a soccer field but not in futsal.
Futsal is credited to making Brazilian players so great and skillful with a soccer ball. Anyhow, why are we educating futsal to the selfish OP who only cares about his tennis court? He’s a selfish entitled jerk. |
Anonymous
Selfish? Kicking tennis players off a court so you can play salon soccer. Look in the mirror. If you think playing with a small weighted ball is going to improve your soccer skills, you’re cheating. Play with a real ball on a real pitch. I know it’s bigger and hard, but that’s why professional futsal players can’t become professional soccer players. The only entitled jerk here is the one more concerned about their paycheck instead of the kids and parents they should be honest with... |
Anonymous
You might understand the game of tennis but you have no comprehension of soccer or futsal. Anyhow, go complain with your county or city. They are the ones that rented out the tennis courts for money. Coming on a soccer forum shows how stupid you are. Anyhow, you lost so accept it. |
Anonymous
No real tennis player plays below 50 degrees. |
Anonymous
Yep. Our neighborhood tennis courts become a de facto dog park when the temps get to 40 degrees. |
Anonymous
Yup. Tennis courts in our local parks and public schools are all empty. |