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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Last year, my son played futsal for the first time as a u11 and absolutely loved it. This year, the technical director in our regular outdoor academy recommended that u12 not do futsal because they will begin playing 11 a side in the spring. He believes it may counter productive to go from a tiny space to a huge field. The argument is legit, however we still signed up for futsal because its fun and my boy has no illusions on going pro.
I wonder what is everyone's opinion.
I know this is purely circumstantial but I listed to an interview by the now retired Brazilian Marcelo from Real Madrid and he mentioned that he played only futsal until the age of 15, then started playing outdoors.[/quote]

This entirely depends on your son’s outdoor level of play.

If he is elite, then futsal should at most be for fun when out of season with zero structure.

If he is not elite, do whatever, just have fun.

Numerous reasons why at u12 and older futsal is a huge net negative for outdoor play. But take-home is that it takes 2 years to untrain futsal for outdoor players. And age 14 is a big year for elite players.[/quote]

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