Vikings Players to Experience Professional Futsal (NZ)
Micheal Sannum of Dunedin and Josh Cremen of Christchurch left today (15/04/09) to link up with Brazilian Serie A Futsal Club Minas.
This will be the first time that any New Zealander has been linked with a Professional Futsal Club and could very well pave the way for more players in the future.
Both Michael and Josh were identified as players with outstanding ability last year and an approach was made for them to link with the Club in Brazil. Former Brazilian Youth team coach and EBF director Mauricio Marques aided in setting up the oportunity and feels that they will benefit hugely from the expereince.
At just 19 years of age both have the Futsal world at their feet and will look to build upon the oportunity and distinguish themselves as 2 of the best Futsal talents in New Zealand today.
Both players have come through the Vikings Futsal NZ set up and have been playing for 4-5 years. CEO, Paul Wadsworth believes that this could be the tip of the iceberg for talent within the Vikings set up. “After watching our junior teams perform at the recent Vikings Titles in Sydney I would expect to see a steady procession of players being invited to Brazilian clubs”. “There is a lot of talent within the Vikings system and they are now getting the opportunity to display it on the world stage”, Wadsworth comments.
In the next 12 months Vikings NZ will send teams of all ages to tournaments around the world including Australia, China, Philippines and Europe. The experience gained by those players will go a long way to more being invited to train and play in Brazil.
For now, Josh and Mike will lead the way for Futsal in NZ as they learn to be part of a fully professional Futsal Club with trainings twice a day and regular fixtures and tournaments. You can check out where they will be based HERE
Vikings Futsal NZ would like to wish them all the best and we all look foward to regular updates as to how they are going
Source : Vikings NZ
Published : 15/4/2009
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