The Brazilian Model Exposed

FOUR FOUR TWO EXCLUSIVE: Brazilian coach Mauricio Marquez told the FFA’s coaching conference in Sydney that Brazil does not have a formal coaching structure or organised football until U13 level.

Here is some of what Marquez, a consultant for the Brazilian Football School (CBF), Atletico Miniero and a former Brazil Futsal coach, said in his keynote presentation today.

“It’s important to respect differences. It’s a great strategy that FFA is using in this conference of getting what is good in each country and then developing the Australian way.

“We’re not here to copy the Brazilian way, the German way, the Dutch way, we’re here to build up the Australian way. And I think that’s something we have to keep in mind.

“You have your culture, you have your history and on top of that you have to develop your game. So you have to bear that in mind when you’re exchanging ideas about football.

“Let me explain just a little about the system in Brazil. Usually a coach starts working, or coaching, in the schools. Then they coach futsal, followed by football with an academy or local club and then they go into the youth teams of professional clubs. That’s the initial pathway.

“Or, you can be a former player. And then you go directly to being a professional coach. As you see, we don’t have a coaching scheme.

“It’s interesting that Brazil with such a huge tradition, we don’t have an official coaching course like you have here and UEFA A, B and so on.

“We try to build up on our history and tradition and knowledge that’s there.

“As an example, Mario Zagallo a four time World Cup winner as a coach, player and technical director, never did a coaching course in his life.

“Also a lot of coaches in Brazil, there is a lot of involvement in physical education. These physical education teachers can work in schools but they can also work in clubs as coaches.

“We don’t have a structured coaching scheme. Which in a certain way is good because then people have to find other ways to develop their knowledge. So they are looking for knowledge.

“So, we try to search out, get the knowledge that is there but we don’t want to lose the creativity or capacity to improvise of our players and coaches.

“We do have courses and seminars but it’s not from the top to the bottom. The coaches association, they build up the curriculum and they run the courses.

“Some people say that Brazil only win because they have good players. That’s not true. We have excellent quality coaches.

“A network of coaches is important too. I have coaches meetings where we talk about philosophy, methodology, but we also talk about applied areas, such as crossing and the drills we use. What sort of drills? What sort of capacity? What we can do?

“And so once a week in my role as a consultant with the clubs, I meet with coaches to share ideas and come up with something that can be applied in our daily work as coaches in tactical, psychological, physical, emotional areas.

“We also do a lot of mentoring. Assistant coaches who work alongside a coach for five, ten years before they take over. You can learn. It’s like an apprenticeship.

“I have done a survey of players from professional clubs in Brazil and those players, 70%, say they learned soccer from the streets. And then the rest in academies, homes or in the schools.

“But what is in the street? No coaching, no structure, the average number of hours a day I found was four hours.

“And another interesting thing is that our young national teams like the U/15s or U/17s don’t stay together too long, maybe 15 days before a big tournament internationally.

“They are developed through the clubs.

“We also talk about the sampling years. That’s interesting because I know in Australia you have so many different sports to play.

“And we say from six or five years old we have the sampling years in football with beach soccer, foot volley, futsal, straight football, playing with a rubber ball, a proper ball, where they can try different movements.

“So we develop our skills within the sport. And that means there is less chance of burning out the kid if they are having fun. The more the better.

“And from around 10-13 it’s more organised coaching with my suggestion being six hours of that per week.

“And in fact, the first category we start is at 13 years of age [U/13s]. Before that they are playing in the school, the streets the academies, but it’s not an organised system in that way before 13 years old.

“It’s about process rather than outcome. In the past it was about winning if you were playing for a big club like Flamengo, or Vasco, the president wanted them to win because it was a big club.

“But what they realized was that the coaches were not developing players, they were just winning games.”

Source : Australian Four Four Two
By : Aidan Ormond
Published : 27/5/2008

Vikings : Coomera River Cup

For the second time this month, the Vikings Coomera River Cup has been decided on goal difference, highlighting how competitive this Gold Coast competition is becoming.

Last Thursday, May 22ND saw the seventh event of 2008’s “Vikings Coomera River School Cup”, this time staged at UCSC for the 14 Girls division.

The games were hotly contested with ST ANDREWS, ROBINA SHS, UPPER COOMERA STATE COLLEGE and ASSISI COLLEGE all showing at various times the fruits of their Futsal programs. There were 37 goals scored in the six games played with ROBINA SHS finishing champions for the afternoon.

Thank you to all players, coaches and officials for a wonderful evening of Futsal.

FINAL RESULTS : 14 GIRLS : MAY 22ND, 2008:

ROBINA SHS 2 DEFEATED UCSC 0
ROBINA SHS 6 DEFEATED ASSISI 0
ST ANDREWS 9 DEFEATED ASSISI 0
ROBINA 5 DEFEATED ST ANDREWS 1
ASSISI 3 DREW WITH UCSC 3
ST ANDREWS 7 DEFEATED UCSC 1

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PREVIOUS TOURNAMENT RESULTS:

2008:
14 GIRLS WINNERS (MAY 2008) : ROBINA SHS
14 BOYS WINNERS (MAY 2008) : ASSISI COLLEGE / UCSC
16 BOYS WINNERS (MAY 2008) : ROBINA SHS
15 GIRLS WINNERS (APRIL 2008) : ROBINA SHS
OPEN BOYS WINNERS (APRIL 2008) : ROBINA SHS
15 BOYS WINNERS (MARCH 2008) : ASSISI COLLEGE
OPEN GIRLS WINNERS (FEBRUARY 2008) : ST ANDREWS LUTHERAN COLLEGE

2007:
15 GIRL WINNERS (OCTOBER 21ST,2007) : ROBINA SHS
16 GIRL WINNERS (SEPTEMBER 13TH, 2007) : ROBINA SHS
16 BOYS WINNERS (SEPTEMBER 6TH, 2007) : ROBINA SHS
13 BOYS WINNERS (AUGUST 30TH, 2007) : ASSISI COLLEGE
14 BOYS WINNERS (JULY 19TH, 2007) : ST ANDREWS LUTHERAN
15 BOYS WINNERS (MAY 31ST, 2007) : PACIFIC PINES SHS
16 GIRLS WINNERS (MAY 17TH, 2007) : ASSISI COLLEGE
15 GIRLS WINNERS (MAY 3RD, 2007) : ST ANDREWS LUTHERAN

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WHO ARE THE COOMERA RIVER VIKINGS SCHOOLS?
The Coomera River Futsal Schools are a group of schools straddling the Coomera River on Queensland’s Gold Coast who meet to play afternoon and weekend school Futsal competitions under the Queensland Vikings Banner.

WHICH SCHOOLS ARE INVOLVED?
Schools that have played in the Coomera River Futsal Competitions since 2005 include:

1. Assisi Catholic College, Upper Coomera (EVENT ORGANISERS)
2. Benowa SHS
3. Coomera Anglican College, Upper Coomera
4. Miami SHS
5. Pacific Pines SHS
6. Queensland Academy of Health and Science (QAHS)
7. Rivermount College
8. Robina SHS (VENUE HOSTS)
9. Shailer Park SHS
10. St Andrews Lutheran College, Tallebudgera
11. Upper Coomera State College (VENUE HOSTS)
12. Varsity College

HOW DOES MY SCHOOL JOIN THIS GROUP?
Should you wish to join in these competitions, please contact Paul McKarzel on (07) 5529-4700

WHAT IS THE VIKINGS COOMERA RIVER FUTSAL CUP?
The Vikings Coomera River Cups are a series of Futsal tournaments played amongst the member schools in various age groups for both girls and boys.

Current divisions include:
13 BOYS
14 BOYS
15 BOYS
16 BOYS
OPEN BOYS

13 GIRLS
14 GIRLS
15 GIRLS
16 GIRLS
OPEN GIRLS

Source : Queensland Futsal
Published : 31/5/2008

Winter State League Round 5 Review

Round five of the Winter State took place last night at The Olympic Sports Halls at Homebush.

Mens…

Sydney Benfica continued their winning ways with a 4-1 victory over Inner West Allstars this still Benfica remain undefeated and sit pretty at the top of the ladder. Inner West Allstars are currently sitting 9th on the ladder.

Dural Warriors are in 2nd after a 9-1 thumping of Shire Futsal. The Dural outfit has been scoring goals for fun at the minute and defensively is very well organized and hard to break down. Shire Futsal remains in 12th position.

Sydney City Eagles had a fine 3-1 win over Northern Beaches, this leaves the eagles in 3rd position on the ladder and Northern Beaches remain in 6th position.

Campbelltown Quake had a 2-0 victory over Parramatta Blues. Quake are currently sitting in 4th position on the ladder with Parramatta remaining in 11 position.

Commodores held on to fifth spot with a 5-3 victory over West City Crusaders, this leaves West City in 8th position.

Plumpton had a 3-3 draw with Maccabi, The young Plumpton side has surprised a few sides so far and they are currently sitting 7th on goal difference, while Maccabi is in 10th position.

Women’s…

Sydney Tragic remain undefeated after their convincing 6-2 victory over Sydney city Eagles, the Tragics are enjoying some fine form at the minute and will be tuff to beat for the remainder of the season. Tragics are top while Sydney City drop to 5th place.

Liverpool Fusion is also undefeated but had to settle for a 1-1 draw with Quake, this leaves Fusion in 2nd position with Quake remaining in 3rd position.

Inner west Allstars ran out 7-2 victors over Dural Warriors. Inner West are currently 4th with Dural remaining in 6th.

Results on the night

Men-

West City Crusaders 2 (Guilheme 9′, 14′)
Commodores 5 (Nathan Wynn 9′, Joel Waller 17′, Scott Dingwall 20′, Chris Dingwall 22′, 23′)

Plumpton 3 (Kane Wright x2; Jamal Saliba)
Maccarbi 3 (Gareth New x3)

Sydney City 3 (B Zabellos, B Lam, R Fazzocaro)
Northern Beaches 1 (Andrew Wardlaw)

Quake 2 (Danny Martinez 3′, Dean Lochardt 19′)
Parramatta Blues 0

Sydney Benfica 4 (Marcelo Andrace, Osmar Barros x2, Caio Ongaratto)
Inner West Allstars 1 (J Dimento)

Shire Futsal 1 (Scott Farahar)
Dural Warriors 9 (Greg Giovenali; Julian Gonzalo; Ben Lawson x2; Toby Seeto x3; Rhs Giovenali x2)

Women-

Dural Warriors 2 (Jaqui Frier; Ellie Rugg)
Inner West Allstars 7 (D Caridad; E Goss x2; A Smith x2; A Gauthier x2)

Liverpool Fusion 1 (Justine Vella)
Quake 1 (Stephanie Haim)

Sydney City Eagles 2 (B Cowie; D Lusic)
Sydney Tragic 6 (Natasha Lo Guidice; Joanne Saliba; Kahlee Doyle; Natalie Spirovski)

Source : Football NSW
Published : 29/5/2008

Australia and Italy form beautiful friendship

The number 3 country in world football has joined forces with Football Federation Australia in an historic agreement announced today.

FFA Chairman, Frank Lowy, and the President of the Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio (FIGC or Italian Football Federation), Dr Giancarlo Abete, signed the agreement in Sydney just prior to the official start of the Opening Ceremony of the FIFA World Congress.

“Italy and Australia have long had a close relationship at all levels because of the large number of Australians of Italian origin,” said Mr Lowy.

“The Italian football team is also one of the great exponents of football and has thrilled many football fans over the years.

“This agreement reinforces the depth of the relationship between our countries, and also broadens it to include our shared passion for the beautiful game.”

The agreement includes the sharing of resources and expertise, including technical exchange in the areas of coaching, referees, game development, youth football, women’s football, sports science and medicine and others.

“This is an exchange in every sense of the word,” Mr Lowy said.

“In some areas, the FIGC clearly offer great experience and expertise, and in other areas Australia does.”

The FIGC will also provide advice and expertise to FFA in developing the ‘Home of Football’ in Australia which is to include a technical centre and a domestic training base for Australia’s nine national teams.

Mr Lowy said the agreement also covers cooperation in the staging of international friendly matches between the men’s and women’s teams at all age groups as well as Futsal.

“The ‘Azzurri’ defeated us on the field in Germany in a very hard fought battle between us, and they went on to win the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

“We are delighted to form this relationship with FIGC,” Mr Lowy said.

Source : Football Australia
Published : 29/5/2008

The Futsal Spy : Solomon Islands vs Sydney Magic

Sydney Magic, the reigning N.S.W. Premier League champions featuring 3 full internationals in their ranks backed up by numerous State players, and the young Solomon Islands All Age team served up another feast of exciting, attacking Futsal for a delighted crowd of over 200 people last night at the Dural S & L C.

In a game of fluctuating fortunes and end to end play, the young Islanders completed their round of practice matches with their first defeat of the tour, but they can hold their heads high as they pushed the Magicians to the limit.

The first 5 minutes belonged to the boys from Honiara as they extracted some brilliant saves from Peter Spathis who kept the score at 0-0 with some great acrobatics. As Rob Varela introduced new players into the game the Solo boys began to hand over the initiative to the locals who capitalised with 2 quick goals. The visitors came back into the game strongly in the last few minutes of the half, only to see themselves thwarted time and time again by an inspired Spathis.

The 2-0 halftime score line could have been different but the second half held a promise of more enthralling play.

The second stanza began in similar fashion to the first with the smiling young men from the South Pacific dominating the play forcing Peter “Spider” Spathis to reach deep into his bag of tricks to keep them at bay. Against the run of play Sydney Magic extended their lead and this seemed to affect the blue-and-whites (wearing the away strip) momentarily, and this allowed the PCYC lads to control the tempo of the game. Not to be denied, after a “timely” time out the S.I. boys seemed to regather themselves and threw everything at the P/L champs closing down the score line to 3-2. An exchange of goals in the next few minutes gave us the final result of 4-3 in favour of the more experienced Sydney Magic outfit. As the Solo kids continued to attack Roberto M, in goals, backed up Spiders performance by denying them the equaliser.

Speaking to Rob Varela after the game he commented that the boys were progressing nicely, and after the next 2 training sessions he will have a better idea of how well placed the young lads will be for their tilt at an improbable place in the World Cup later in the year.

Personally, just to think that a group of boys that do not even have a strong weekly competition to play in, can push some of the best futsal players in NSW is testimony to their natural ability and enthusiasm for the game.

These 3 games should prove to all the doubters what a wonderful sport, and spectacle, Futsal is. All that is needed now is for the administrators to back up the players efforts by promoting and developing the sport, fiercely and consistently, outside the usual Futsal circles.

THE FUTSAL SPY

National honours for Townsville futsal duo

DAVID Lecornu and Corey Harvey will wear an Australian jersey for the first time when they represent their country in China later this year.

The 13-year-olds’ performances stood out to selectors when they represented North Queensland in Brisbane during the Easter holidays.

Both players admitted receiving an invitation to represent Australia against Chinese teams in October was a shock.

“We didn’t know the Australian selecters were there and didn’t think we could go from playing for North Queensland to playing for Australia,” Lecornu said.

“It should be a lot of good fun in China.

“We are going to play against schools and representative teams in Chengdu City in China.”

Lecornu, who was going overseas for the second time, says it was going to be a challenge to play a Chinese team.

“It’s going to be hard for both of us with the language difference, but it should be fun,” he said.

Harvey was also honoured to be playing for Australia and said it was a challenge he was looking forward to.

“It will be different. I’ve been to China before but I’m looking forward to playing there,” Harvey said.

“It’s going to be pretty hard because they are going to have really fast feet.”

The boys were both busily fundraising for their trip, with raffle tickets and other fundraising activities at the Friday night markets at Riverway.

Source : Townsville Bulletin
By : Natalie Peut
Published : 28/5/2008

The Futsal Spy : Solomon Islands vs Northern Beaches/Quake

What a great game of Futsal an enthusiastic crowd of around 200 people witnessed at the Dural Sport and Leisure Centre on Tuesday night!

The protagonists: the young and inexperienced Solomon Islands All Age team, up against a fired up Northern Beaches / Campbelltown City Quake outfit featuring 2 current Australian Futsalroos, and a host of current and former State players ably marshalled but current Australian assistant coach Steven Knight.

Everyone in the crowd, including recently appointed New Zealand coach Erkin Osman, would have been impressed with the superb start by the Northern Quake outfit who put the shellshocked young islanders to the sword and led 4-0 with only 10 minutes gone on the clock.

Coach Rob Varela put a temporary end to the slaughter by calling a time out just to settle his troops down and reorganise a defence that was being run ragged by the quick ball movement of the Minto seasiders. Whatever he said must have worked for in the next 10 minutes the Solomon boys took control of the game with their speed and ball skills and managed to pull back 3 goals and, frustratingly, missing several more clear cut chances.

The 4-3 halftime scoreline was a true reflection of how the half had panned out.

The second half proved to be a reenactment of the latter part of the first stanza, with the the Solomon Islands pressurising the Macarthur Beachboys into errors, while their speed continued to pose problems for the tiring blue-and-gold defence. It was not surprising to see the tyros from the South Pacific take the lead with 2 superb goals only to see their advantage nullified by a great goal from the North-South boys. With the score tied at 5-5 the the Solo kids kept pushing for the victory with lightning fast attacking raids which were rewarded with what was to prove to be the winner with 4 minutes remaining. The Combined Army threw everything at the lads from Honiara but to no avail, whilst the S.I. outfit could have increased their lead with some very good counter-attacking play which was foiled by superb goalkeeping.

The final whistle saw the crowd come to their feet to applaud all players for a fantastic exhibition of attacking futsal by both teams played in great spirit and refereed in very good style.

The island boys back up again on Wednesday 28th against the might of the current N.S.W. Premier League champions, Sydney Magic, in what will undoubtedly prove to be another thrilling encounter.

YOU need to be there!

THE FUTSAL SPY

 

Balls ‘n all Blog : Registrations in NSW

Welcome readers to my first foray of many, fully devoted 100% on futsal.

Whilst my opinions might ring true to some, to others I’m sure there will be topics and comments made throughout many a thoughts that will tingle a nerve.

If you like it and agree, continue reading, if you don’t continue reading anyway and then leave a comment and have a sook below.

Remember these are my views and not that of Futsal4all.

 

 

 
Three years ago Soccer Australia was abolished and was on its way to being replaced by the current FFA.

At the time we had 2 divided Futsal fraternities, NSW Futsal and ISA 5 a side.
As part of the FFA reform, Futsal had its hand forced to join with Soccer NSW at the time.

Many might say it wasn’t forced,

But when Robert Waddell, the at the time C.E.O of Soccer NSW waddled in and met with all Futsal representatives he sold a great story so much so he instantly became the front runner of Sales Person of the Year. He sold a story so grand which went along the lines of FFA wants Futsal under the governing body of your state, if you don’t agree to it and go at it alone no players will be able to represent Australia as it wont be supported by the FFA.

Like previously mentioned we weren’t forced.

The one positive of minimal choices about having to join with Soccer NSW was the two bodies would no longer be recognized as individual bodies and they formed the Futsal Clubs, Centres and Organizations we see before us today.

Now three years on Futsal NSW has become a part of Football NSW, the biggest non National Sporting company in Australia and it still beggars belief what on earth has Football NSW really done for our sport.

Our registration numbers have dived south with 30 thousand registered players between the two organisations expected with the forming of the two bodies, give or take 5 thousand as dual registered players that registered in both ISA and NSW Futsal and we should still have at least with the growth of sport over the past three years 30 thousand registered players.

We currently have give or take 16 thousand registered players. Yep that’s right 16 thousand so where have the other 14 thousand players gone?

Now is it just me or does it seem every season a lot more people are talking about the Futsal Premier and Super leagues and their kids wanting to play in it. Every season the competition gets bigger with more clubs entering and its getting so much stronger with more players playing.

So the question I ask again is where have 14 thousand paying futsal players gone?

There are two logical scenarios.

1. That centre administrators are simply not forwarding the registrations onto FuNSW, pocketing the money from registrations and leaving FuNSW out of pocket making themselves possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars throughout the year.
or
2. Centres and competition administrators are noticing that paying FuNSW $67.50 is just not worth it and can do it cheaper themselves.

See centre administrators, especially Futsal ones, are some of the shrewdest in the business. With the registration format as it currently stands, it is flawed beyond fascination and needs a major overhaul if the sport wants to make some money.

As the old cliché goes “You need to spend money to make money”.

Take this as an example -

A player “Little Johnny” heads down to Centre X and pays his $47.50, the competition administrator gets little Johnny and his parents to sign his FFA registration book, hands Little Johnny’s Dad his copy which is also is receipt and proof that he has paid and wollah, bobs your uncle - Little Johnny is registered to play a game of futsal because he is allowed to play with his Yellow form.

Where to that $47.50? Could Little Johnny be one of those 14 thousand players that have gone missing?

You may sit and read this and a little light blub goes off and you think - Well what ever happened to that rule no card no play?
Well that’s a good question, and apparently that rule still stands.

So how does Little Johnny play if he just paid that night and the administrator has to send in his registration details into FNSW?
Another very good question.

At the moment the way around that problem is to let the player play with his coloured FFA form until the player gets his ID card back from FuNSW.
But this is where the problem lies see. If the administrators don’t send in that Registration form with that passport photo to FuNSW they don’t have any idea that Little Johnny was just registered.

Futsal these days especially with the costs of running such centres and even more so clubs has become ridiculously expensive - Referee fees are increasing, Court hire increases, less court hiring available to generate more income and the extraordinary costs of running a club in the current PL/SL as well as time consumption makes life very difficult for most people. Such is the importance of running competitions to PL/SL clubs sees centres now which are affiliated with clubs paying what were volunteers to administer competitions and they really have no choice such is the importance of the game fees towards running their club. Nowadays even more so every penny counts.

The risk of an administrator not sending in his players registration is dangerous indeed, especially in the case of someone getting injured and in regards to insurance.

So what happens if a player does get Injured and the administrators haven’t sent their forms to be registered in ………? Well simply the player is deemed insured from the moment he is registered.

This exact scenario only took place weeks ago involving a current Super League club who also run local competitions.

So again why would any administrator send in their registrations to FNSW besides of those that are needed to compete in SL/PL?

Loyalty is one of the main reasons, but most importantly it is where clubs need to be for their players to be selected for the various State and National representative sides, to be involved in tournaments such as the current School, State and National Championships.

But what about the Centres which aren’t affiliated with a club in Premier League or are just a local centre which is exactly that and just runs local competitions?

These people /centres are in fact the main source of potential income for FuNSW.

Example Fivedock Leisure Centre - One of the biggest if not the biggest independent running centre not affiliated with a “club”. They have over 1000 registered players within their junior, mixed and senior competitions which are played over 4 nights throughout the week. They were once affiliated with NSW Futsal and were also affiliated with club Fivedock Wanderers and Fivedock Force (now Inner West Allstars).

As part of NSW Futsal Fivedock Leisure Centre became a member of FNSW - that relationship lasted one year.

Fivedock Leisure Centre now independently run their own competitions with all the incomes going directly to their centre keeping the money “in house” whilst using Sports Co health cover, the insurance for the centre as their insurance company charging half the price. FNSW in that one centre alone lost anywhere between 5 and 8 thousand dollars.

Another organization which could prove extremely dangerous for FNSW are the PCYC. Thankfully for FNSW the relationship between the PCYC and FNSW currently seems to be workmanlike with PCYC having clubs in both the Outdoor and Futsal fraternities but PCYC only charge a $5 registration cost. That’s right $5.

PCYC have 21 Centres within metro areas of NSW as well as 38 regional centres with Futsal competitions being played in 35 of those centres throughout NSW. All those centres have been made to pay the $67.50 registration by their Chairman even though they could just pay the $5 registration within their own organisation as well as using their own insurance at no extra cost. Should the relationship between the two organisations sour, FuNSW could lose possibly another 10-15 thousand dollars.

Now if an organization such as PCYC can get their insurance to be so cheap that they only have to charge their members $5 and be covered by insurance then where are we going wrong?

That’s a difference of $62.50 for an adult in registration costs.

Quite simply as we speak the structure that is the registration process as it stands is flawed and possibly costing FNSW between 25 to 100 thousand dollars a year and within 3 years of working within SNSW/FNSW they haven’t come out up with a solution on how to fix it or quite possibly maybe they don’t think they have a problem.

Looking from afar it is quite evident to me that there are two major issues with the current registration system which are a major problem for FNSW…..

a) Administators whom use their affiliation with FNSW as a way to attract players and teams are taking advantage of this.
Going purely on the numbers, some centres are signing up players and not passing on their registration fees to the governing body therefore costing FuNSW many thousands of dollars
and
b) The price of FNSW registration is forcing centres away from being affiliated with FuNSW and at the same time possibly forcing futsal players to pay 2 registrations. First for their local non FNSW affiliated centre and Second if they are selected to play in the PL or SL competitions.

There are two possible scenarios which could possibly help FNSW with this money and player loss.

The idea which has been suggested now many a times and that’s increase the outdoor registration fee by a minimal amount even $5 and make every Football NSW member an automatic Futsal registered player.

Lets do the numbers, currently FuNSW has 16,000 futsal players.

The numbers are almost 50-50 in regard to Senior and Junior Players. Lets say
9000 Senior Players @ $67.50 = $607,500.00
7000 Junior Players @ $47.50 = $332,500.00
That’s $940,000.00

Unbelievably the cost of just producing that plastic ID card is a whopping $6.
$6 @ 16,000 players = $96,000.000

So that equates to roughly $840,000.000 profit via FuNSW registrations.

Currently FNSW has 190,000 registered outdoor players. If FNSW would increase the registration by only $5 and that increase going to FuNSW and making every outdoor player a readily registered Futsal player FuNSW makes $950,000.00 clear on the spot.

If that was the case the Futsal registration would surely no longer need to be $67.50 as the insurance component would decrease as the numbers would increase with the merger of numbers combining both Futsal and Outdoor therefore also possibly reducing the registration fees to non FNSW members to even possibly half.

Add to that figure of $950k another say 7 out of the 16 thousand players that play Futsal for recreation that aren’t part of Youth League or Senior Outdoor Leagues at half the current price and that’s another possible $245,000.00, taking the possibility of Registration intake from $840k to $1.2mil.

In that scenario you also wouldn’t have the burden of the loss of $100k on registration cards as all players would have the same ID number for both Futsal and Outdoor except for those 5 thousand players which is a massive decrease from 16,000 resulting in only a loss of $30k from $96k.

a) Futsal makes a massive windfall.
b) Playing Futsal numbers would dramatically increase as all players would more than likely play Futsal as they don’t have to pay an extra fee.
c) Outdoor competitions such as 6 a side and 7 a side would struggle to compete with Futsal as any registration fee those competition charge would be dearer than what Futsal competitions would charge.
d) Its easier to manage players for both Futsal / Outdoor and most importantly
e) Centres can’t take advantage of the system by not registering their players.

If they want to charge an additional registration fee then they have every right to via their centres but FuNSW no longer suffer because of it.

With that extra $400,000.00 FuNSW now have they could possibly take a leaf out of the old regime at NSW Futsal and give every affiliated FuNSW Centre a laptop where centres can simply take a photo of their non registered FNSW players and get them sent directly to the offices at FuNSW and a card can be sent within a week of being registered.

Where the solution to the other problem of players playing with their coloured slip would also come to an end and would not cost FuNSW any money what so ever. There would be no excuse with the laptop system.

If you don’t send those registrations through within 2 weeks of registration the centre should be fined a massive amount of money i.e $1000 per player. In fact I think that Futsal NSW should apply that rule as we speak and any player who hasn’t had their registrations sent in within 21 days becomes ineligible for insurance forcing the centres to send in ALL their registrations as they wouldn’t be able to take the risk of having a player get injured.

The centres continue to make money whilst running their competitions, FuNSW make extra money to develop the sport, Football NSW aren’t fazed either way and continue in their money making schemes and everyone is happy.

So I go back to the original question posed at the beginning of this blog, What has Football NSW really done for our sport?

Sure we have the best PL/SL competitions in the last decade, advertising has increased via newspapers and televisions shows but have they helped out at the grass roots levels and helping increase numbers within our sport the answer is simply NO in fact numbers have decreased.

The evidence is there.

The write ups in the paper and the televisions shows are solely on the back on the quality of one competition not the sport as a whole.

If Football NSW would come to the party with something along the lines that is being suggested then the question is undoubtedly YES.

Until they do, then FuNSW as it currently stands will only continue to run a prestigious and envious league with decreasing numbers and increasing fees.

-Balls ‘n all

 

2008 NSW Schools Regional Futsal Championships Results

Football NSW Futsal is currently holding the NSW 2008 schools Regional Championships across a number of venues within NSW. Schools participate in competition against a variety of schools in their regions with the winner and runners up competing in the State Championships held at Penrith Sports Stadium during the 23rd-26th of June 2008.

The regional results were as follows…

2008 NSW Schools Regionals - Central Coast

Grade	Winner	Runner Up
u10 mixed	Kinkumber 1	Empire Bay
u12 Boys	Empire Bay	Holy Cross
u14 boys	Brisbane Water Umina	Henry Kendall
u14 Girls	St Pias X	Narara Valley
u16 Boys	Lisarow	Hunter Sports
u16 Girls	Narara Valley	Brisbane Water Umina
u19 Boys	Nabbenben Sports	Narara Valley
u19 Girls	Narara	Lisarow

2008 NSW Schools Regionals - South Coast

Grade	Winner	Runner Up
u10 mixed	Nareena Red	The Illawarra Grammar Schools
u12 Boys	The Illawarra Grammar Schools	Figtree
u12 Girls	Vincent A	Figtree
u14 boys	Holy Spirit	Keira
u14 Girls	Illawarra Sports	Lake Illawarra
u16 Boys	The Illawarra Grammar Schools	Worilla 1
u16 Girls	St Johns Nowra	Illawarra Sports
u19 Boys	Holy Spirit	Illawarra Sports A
u19 Girls	Erindale A	Bomaderry

2008 NSW Schools Regionals - Penrith

Grade	Winner	Runner Up
u10 mixed	Our Lady of Nativity - Lawson	Braddock PS
u12 Boys	Our Lady of Nativity - Lawson	Wollemi Collage A
u12 Girls	Emerton Public School	Banks Public School
u14 boys	McCarthy Catholic College	St Dominics
u14 Girls	Kingswood HS	McCarthy Catholic College
u16 Boys	Merrylands HS	Emmaus Catholic College
u16 Girls	McCarthy Catholic College	Plumpton HS
u19 Boys	Green Point Christian College	Loyola Senior HS

2008 NSW Schools Regionals - Windsor

Grade	Winner	Runner Up
u10 mixed	Freemans Reach PS	Grose View PS
u12 Boys	Grose View PS	Freemans Reach PS
u12 Girls	Grose View PS	Freemans Reach PS
u14 boys	St Pauls Grammar	Windsor HS
u14 Girls	Hawkesbury HS	Riverstone HS
u16 Boys	Tera Sancta College	St Agnus CHS
u16 Girls	Tera Sancta College	Xavier College
u19 Boys	Hills Grammar School	Richmond HS
u19 Girls	Hills Grammar School	Barrenjoey HS

2008 NSW Schools Regionals - Blue Mountains

Grade	Winner	Runner Up
u14 boys	Kingswood HS	La Salle Academy
u14 Girls	Kellyville HS	Nagle College
u16 Boys	Kingswood HS	Katoomba HS
u16 Girls	St Columbus	La Salle Academy
u19 Boys	Kingswood HS	Liverpool Boys HS
u19 Girls	Springwood HS	Nagle College

2008 NSW Schools Regionals - Sutherland

Grade	Winner	Runner Up
u14 boys	Endeavour Sports HS	St Spyridan
u14 Girls	Woolooware HS	Sarah Redfern HS
u16 Boys	Blakehurst HS	Innaburra HS
u16 Girls	Jannali HS	Blakehurst HS
u19 Boys	Kogarah HS	St Johns Park HS
u19 Girls	Blakehurst HS	Kirrawee HS

2008 NSW Schools Regionals - Marrickville

Grade	Winner	Runner Up
u10 mixed	Claremont College 4 Red	Al Zahra
u12 Boys	Clovelly Public School	Newtown Public School
u12 Girls	Clovelly Public School	Claremont College 14 White
u14 boys	Homebush Boys	De La Salle College
u14 Girls	Marist Sisters College	Riverside Girls High
u16 Boys	Kingsgrove High	All Saints Grammar
u16 Girls	St. Spyridon College	Burwood Girls
u19 Boys	Kingsgrove HS	South Sydney HS
u19 Girls	Riverside Girls High	Canterbury Girls HS

2008 NSW Schools Regionals - Campbelltown

Grade	Winner	Runner Up
u10 mixed	Balgownie HS	Robert Townsen
u12 Boys	Balgownie HS	St Andrews PS
u12 Girls	St Pauls	Santa Sabina
u14 boys	John Terry Catholic	Ambervale HS
u14 Girls	Kellyville HS	Elderslie High
u16 Boys	Robert Townsen	Kellyville HS
u16 Girls	Robert Townsen	Sarah Redfern HS
u19 Boys	St Johns Park	Hawker College
u19 Girls	Westfields Sports	Hawker College

2008 NSW Schools Regionals - Dural

Grade	Winner	Runner Up
u10 mixed	The Hills Grammar	Oakhill Drive PS
u12 Boys	Dural PS	Pacific Hills
u12 Girls	Dural PS	Hills Grammar
u14 boys	Epping Boys HS	Epping Boys HS
u14 Girls	Pymble Ladies	Stella Maris HS
u16 Boys	Epping Boys HS	Pacific Hills
u16 Girls	Bossley Park HS	Narara Valley
u19 Boys	Oakhill College	Cherrybrook Tech
u19 Girls	Pymble Ladies College	Galston HS

2008 NSW Schools Regionals - Liverpool

Grade	Winner	Runner Up
u10 mixed	Sule College - Prestons	Al Amanah
u12 Boys	Sule College - Prestons	International Grammar School
u12 Girls	Governor Phillips PS	Green Valley Islamic college
u14 boys	Hills Sports High	Westfield Sports
u14 Girls	Cecil Hills	Westfield Sports
u16 Boys	All Saints Liverpool	De La Salle Ashfield
u16 Girls	Monte Sant Angelo	Thomas Reddall
u19 Boys	Bonnyrigg HS	All Saints Senior
u19 Girls	Elderslie HS	Pennant Hills HS

More info on the Schools Champs can be found in the PDF file here on the FootballNSW Website.

Source: Football NSW
Published : 21/05/2008

New Futsal Comp starting at Tempe

NEW FUTSAL COMPETITIONS COMMENCING AT THE TEMPE NETBALL CENTRE, HOLBEACH AVE, TEMPE

Applications for entries for competition for both MENS and MIXED are now being accepted.

Only limited spots are available and will be accepted on a first in first served manner.

$$$ PRIZEMONEY FOR BOTH MENS AND MIXED COMPS $$$

Competitions are played on a Tuesday evening commencing Tuesday the 27th of May

In player friendly time slots with all games governed by official Football NSW referees.

For further enquiries or to cement your position in the competition call administrator

Ross Maiorana on 0419 979 518 or email Matteo on matteoacm@hotmail.com

 

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