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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Futsal is not Soccer

Field of play is smaller
Ball is smaller, heavier
the goal is smaller and sized very differently
the amount of players is 5 versus 11 per team
The surface must be a hard surface not a soft grass or turf surface

now that we have established that a soccer field is not an appropriate field for futsal maybe it will make sense to you when i suggest you and your tennis racket go play tennis on a ping pong table or badminton court.  Plenty of those around and based on your premise they should suit your tennis game as well as a soccer field will suit a futsal game.

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This is funny. I was told by my kids coach that futsal was used to improve my kids soccer game when my DC couldn’t get out on the soccer field. Now that I think about it, that is in accurate. If my golf pro told me that for $500 I should play mini-golf next to an empty golf course I would have laughed her out of the room. If my tennis pro said  (for $500) I should play table tennis next to an empty tennis court to improve my tennis game, she wouldn’t be my tennis coach. So now I ask myself, if my DC’s soccer coach is saying I should pay extra to play futsal instead of playing soccer in order to improve my DC’s soccer game, should I be listening to this guy? None of this is about developing my DC’s soccer playing skills, just about me paying more money. Can someone give me recommendations on where to move to to find a club that is more focused on soccer player development and less so on money-making ancillary activities?[/quote]

You might want to read this.

https://www.futsalfocus.net/hall-famer-one-americas-most-successful-soccer-coaches-endorses-futsal/

From the most successful [b]women's[/b] 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.”[/quote]

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