Please be advised of a Change of date for the Sutherland Schools Regional’s.

The Sutherland Region will now be taking place on the 18th-21st of May.

These dates have been changed due to a National Schools testing days occurring this week.

The New Days

18th May – 14 Boys & 14 Girls

19th May – All Primary Categories

20th May – 16 & 19 Girls

21st May – 16 & 19 Boys

Football NSW wishes to apologize for any inconvenience.

We are pleased to announce a new Forum on Futsal4all where you can have a top level Referee answer your futsal related queries on the laws of the game and how they should be interpreted.

Scott Kidson, one of Australia’s FIFA Futsal referees has kindly offered his time and expertise to field and answer your questions.

Registration on the forum is free so we encourage you to make the most of being able to draw on his extensive knowledge of the game and its laws.

Please note the following :

If you want an answer about what a particular Laws of the Game is, want to know what would happen in a certain situation, or would like to know the current interpretation on any given Law, this IS the place to ask those questions. This is NOT a place to come if you want to question a decision in your match (in fact we will remove team, player or referee names posted here). This is also NOT the place to come to bag a referee’s performance (those posts will just be straight deleted). The aim is to increase awareness of the Laws and foster understanding between all futsal participants. SO fire away.

>> ASK THE REF FORUM <<

 

Foolad Mahan is getting ready to participate in the 2009 AFC Futsal Club Championship, slated for July 4 to 12 in Isfahan’s Pirouzi Stadium.

“We have talked to Falcao’s agent and are looking forward to hearing from him. Foolad is going to win the AFC Futsal Club Championship and we can not waste our time. We will wait for Falcao until the end of next week and if he doesn’t want to join us, we’ll stop trying to buy him,” Foolad Mahan General Manager Ali Taheri said.

Foolad Mahan of Sepahan was drawn in Group A along with Japanese Nagoya Oceans, Stroitel Zarafshan of Uzbekistan, AUB Altyn Tas Bishkek from Kyrgyzstan and Iraq’s Nawrouz.

Alessandro Rosa Vieira, known as Falcão, helped the Brazilian national futsal team win the 2008 FIFA Futsal World Cup for the 4th time.

He has scored 200 goals in 150 appearances for the national futsal team of Brazil.

After taking up a dream offer to train in Brazil for 3 months, Michael Sannum has returned to New Zealand due to illness. Whilst not life threatening, it was decided it was best for Michael to return home to recover. Minas management have extended an offer for Michael to return to the club in the future.

Meanwhile, Josh Cremen is making the most of his time in Brazil and has been training with the Minas U20 side. 18yr old Cremen travelled to Brazil with Sannum, and continues to impress and best of all learn. He still has a further 2 months with the club before returning to New Zealand in July.

Sydney Magic have published their 2008/09 Seasons Bloopers Reel.

It can be viewed here : http://www.sydneymagic.com.au/Sydney_Magic/2008-2009_Bloopers.html

** Update 8/5/2009 : Video Highlights for all the teams are now available **

Sydney Magic have published the full report of their 6th Annual Presentation Night, held Match 14th 2009 :

Sunday the 14th of March was the chosen date at the lush new setting of Wests Ashfields Leagues club that Sydney Magic PCYC had their 6th annual Presentation evening. In what was a spectacular evening with over 150 people in attendance, the night was a massive success with a number of awards presented including Sydney Magic Team of the Year, C.E.O Awards, Club Person of the Year, Goal Keeper of the Year and the prestigious Johnny Warren Player of the Year as well as the introduction of a part paid scholarship to Brazil for 8 weeks for one lucky player.

The evening opened with speeches from Club Officials- Chris Gardiner, Carmine Bortone, Jamie Amendolia and Club Captains Peter Spathis and Natalie Spirovski. The first lot of presentations to open proceedings were to the 50 odd players that represented NSW at the recent 2009 National Championships that were held in Canberra. Those awards were presented by Mr Matt Gillett of PCYC

Our academy side once their 5 minutes of season highlights was shown was the first team to be called upon stage and introduced the boys got a great reception due to the outstanding play they produced throughout the season. Manager Bill Dimopolous was thankful to the club on a great first year experience and stated the boys couldn’t wait for next season.

Click here to see the Academy Season Highlights

Our Fantastic under 12s side accompanied by coach Roberto Maiorana were next to be introduced after seeing their highlights whom were then followed by our under 14 squad along with Coach Billy Dimitropolous. Both those sides were presented by Chris Gardiner.

Click here for the 12 Boys Season Highlights

Click here for the 14 Boys Season Highlights

Committee member Kristin Maloney then awaited Mick Bergin and his u/13 girls after seeing their season highlights before awarding them their season trophies. Coach Mick Bergin was as fascinating as always making sure that all the club knew that the u/13 girls only picked up 7 points all season in his speech, he then reminded everyone in attendance that the Club won the Club Championship by 6 points. Was fascinating stuff.

Click here for the 13 Girls Season Highlights

The u/16 boys side had a special side to their presentation after watching their season highlights and coach Carmine doing his best Toyota “What a feeling” impersonation, Carmine had a special framed Magic signed team jersey which he presented to special young Magician Terry Antonis who will be embarking on a 4 year stay in England where he just signed for Premier League club Everton. Both coaches Dylan and Carmine had a few words to say and passed on their gratitude to a great squad most of which have been at the club for 4 years and that a Grand final win was the icing on the cake for a treble winning season.

Click here for the 16 Boys Season Highlights

With half the club presented their trophies our brilliant entertainment for the evening started in the form of International Entertainer Marty Rhone. Marty kept everyone entertained with his terrific 45 minute set especially Jewels and the 16 girls who turned into Marty’s back up dancers when they made it on stage. Nina’s virtuoso dancing performance when she, hmmm not sure what the exact word are to what she performed was just as entertaining as Martys performance itself.

With Martys performance not over special guest and Club Patron Mr Les Murray was called upon stage to say a few words and he made sure how important he thought Futsal was to everyones.

The u/16 girls were the next team that were awarded their trophies with club patron Mr les Murray presenting.

Click here for the 16 Girls Season Highlights

The Youth team were next and special guest Mr Erkin Osman was on hand to present those.

Click here for the Youth Season Highlights

The 2 senior sides were next to be presented, who then made a great gesture and with some of their payments from throughout the season they gave to volunteer and club official Mr Carmine Bortone for the time and hours he put into the club.

Click here for the Womens Season Highlights

Click here for the Mens Season Highlights

Once the team awards were over the business end of the presentation night commenced and the first club award was the introduction of the PCYC Scholarship Award. The club picks one truely outstanding player and sends them on a part paid scholarship to Brazil to the value of almost $7,000.00. The player selected for the first trip was u/16 boys starlet George Khoury. George will travel to Belo Horizonte in Brazil and stay and play futsal for 8 weeks with leading Brazilian Futsal club Minas. We wish Georgey all the best.

The next award presented was the C.E.O Awards. The CEO awards are presented to 2 players one male and one female player, to value of $500.00. The are for players who the club deem to be the future of the club. That $500.00 goes towards both paying the club registration and towards paying for their NSW registration for the National Championships in Canberra. Last years recipients were Samantha Bergin and Jake Mason. This years awards winners were:

Marie Svinos and Mark Rizovski

The next award was the Club person of the Year, last years recipient Carmine Bortone was on hand to award it to this years winner:

Mr James Brackenrig

James received his well earned award for the unbelievable amount of time he and his family spent filming all the club games for the entire season as well as putting together the fantastic season highlights that were on show throughout the presentation evening. James’ son Mark and wife came upon stage to receive the award on James behalf.

The next piece of footage was the goal of the Year where we picked the Top goals of the season with it being a very close call between the top 3 choices of David Han vs Inner West, Alex Doyle vs Western Raiders and Servet Uzunlar vs West City Crusaders but the eventual winner was Servet Uzunlar and her spectacular one touch double 1-2 with Natalie Spirovski against the West City Crusaders in round 13 that got the gong.

Click here to see the Top 10 Season Goals

The clubs next award is the always popular Sydney Magic Team of the year. We were thankful to have C.E.O of the Johnny Warren Football Foundation Mr Francis Awaritefe to present the final 3 prestigious awards. This years team was:

Peter Spaths
Natalie Spirovski
Juliana Dundovic
Mark Rizovski
Daniel Paino
Helen Petinos
Marino Musumeci
Roberto Maiorana
Alberto Crocco
Natasha Lo Giudice
Samantha Bergin
Andres Gomes
Yvonne Illioglou
George Khoury
Anthony Poniris
John Dimitrakis

The next award was the Goal Keeper of the year. Last years receipt Roberto Maiorana was again one of the nominees as were John Dimitrakis, Marcello Bortone, Peter Spathis, Dominic Breckenbridge and Mark Brackenrig. But this years winner presented by Roberto was:

Club Captain Peter Spathis

This award capped of a remarkable season for Spath who cemented himself as Australias number 1 goalkeeper, was appointed the NSW Thunder Captain and will now lead that side to the Asian Champions league in Iran later in the year, as well as Captaining our Magic side to back to back Championships and capping that off by his heroics in the Grand final penalty shootout where he saved 4 out the 5 penalties for a remarkable win.

Click here to see the Mens Penalty Shootout

And last but definitely not least the Johnny Warren Sydney Magic PCYC Player of the Year award. Out of the Team of the Year 6 players were nominated for the top award. Open Womens Natalie Spirovski, Youth Mens Albert Crocco, u/16Girls Natasha Lo Giudice,Open Mens Marino Musumeci, u/16 Boys George Khoury and u/12 Boys Mark Rizovski.

In one of the closest finishes ever the 2008/09 Player of the Year was awarded to:

Natasha Lo Giudice

Tash who played a major part in both the u/16s and Open Womens team had a fantastic season and scored over 35 goals was a well deserved winner. After being a nominee for the award for the past 2 years, 3rd time was definitely lucky for Natasha.

The great night then ended with the infamous season bloopers and the Mens team heroic penalty shootout win.

Overall was another brilliant night. A very big thankyou to Wests Ashfields on a brilliant venue, Dolcissimo for the catering of the great food. PCYC representatives Mr Chris Gardiner and Mr Matt Gillett and special guests Mr Les Murray, Mr Francis Awaritefe and Mr Erkin Osman. The clubs committee on their tireless efforts Mr Carmine Bortone, Mr Ross Maiorana, Mrs Kristin Maloney and Mr Carlo Lo Giudice. Mr James Brackenrig for the great footage he created and then produced on the night and of course all the players, coaches, parents and friends for the tremendous support that each and everyone of you continue to show the club by attending these special nights. It’s after nights like these that all of us that put the effort in to keep this club going are most proud to continue doing it.

Have a great offseason and hope to see you all sooner rather than later. Click for Photos Album of Evening

Dear Team Organiser / New Member / Supporters and players.
2009 / 2010 SUMMER FUTSAL APPLICATIONS;

We will continue to supply two competitions for the development of Futsal throughout NNSW.

The normal competitions for players six to all age, male, female, and mixed will be available at;

HOWZAT/ Newcastle for all Newcastle players.

BROADMEADOW Basketball Stadium. (Limited Times)

SPORTSWORLD / Oakdale Rd Gateshead ,
for all Lake Macquarie players.

MAITLAND Basketball Federation .
FOR ANY HUNTER VALLEY TEAMS.

LAKE HAVEN Indoor Complex
(Northern area Central Coast).Monday and Thursday Night.

PORT MACQUARIE Indoor Centre
(Monday Night and Saturday A.M. at Present)

TAMWORTH Federation Park; TBA

See Dates and Draw list attached ; competition will still have break in 1st week of October but will start a little earlier the following year (Only for those teams affected) so as to have the final series earlier and not to clash with outdoor.

The second competition will be a Premier League between Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Maitland, Port Macquarie, Lake Haven and Manning Futsal / Saxby’s Taree and will be available only for players Under 12, 14, 16, Youth, Women’s A/A, and Men’s A/A. These teams will be chosen from players wishing to participate OR can be a full team of players wishing to only play part of the season and not play in the normal competition . Great for SYL and AIS players that need to be free from playing games by XMAS. Games will be held on a Sunday and in a lot of instances you will play two games in the one day EG Travel once and play Taree and Port Macquarie teams on same day.

One registration covers all competitions undertaken by Hunter Strikers (Incorporated Club).

GET ALL YOUR INFORMATION ON OUR WEB SITE : www.hfss.com.au

(a)Please down load a Strikers Team application form from our web site and fill out.
(b) Register your team by 31st August (even if they cannot start until Outdoor finishes). We can allow for teams to start a little later but once our times / court space is full we can not accept any other teams. PLUS for those needing shirts we will have the time to get them to you before competition . So don’t miss out. Remember to state on the TEAM FORM wether the team or individual is playing Normal Competition or Premier league or Both .

Once more on behalf of the committee I thank you for you support and look forward to seeing you at one of the centres.

REGISTER YOUR TEAM NOW !!!
Help spread the word. FUTSAL IS FUN !!!!!
Yours in sport
George Poulos

We have now started our skills clinic on Friday nights. The junior program is designed to provide all children with the means of developing superior Futsal skills in an enjoyable and encouraging environment.

Our philosophy is to keep class sizes to a maximum of 12 students to ensure that each child will receive ample attention from the coach, both one on one and within the group environment.

We will guarantee that your child will receive hundreds of touches of the ball at each session and will always be engaged. For more information please visit here [also shown below]

Futsal Junior Skills Program 

Overview

The junior program is designed to provide all children with the means of developing superior Futsal skills in an enjoyable and encouraging environment.

Our philosophy is to keep class sizes to a maximum of 12 students to ensure that each child will receive ample attention from the coach, both one on one and within the group environment.

We will guarantee that your child will receive hundreds of touches of the ball at each session and will always be engaged.

Session times

Beginners (Friday 5:30 – 6:30pm)
Our class for beginners runs for one hour every Friday evening from 5.30pm to 6.30pm. Children who have had little/no experience in either Futsal or outdoor Football (soccer) would typically be suited to the beginner’s class.

Intermediate (Friday 6:30 – 7:30pm)
Our intermediate/advanced class is also staged on a Friday evening, from 6.30 – 7.30pm. Children who would be suited to this class are typically experienced in either/both Futsal and the outdoor game.

The junior program will normally run parallel with Primary School terms and will span over a nine week period.

Costs and “Try it for Free”

$95 per student for a 9 week term which includes a standard level of player insurance.

Come and try it for FREE
Parents are welcome to bring their child to a session on a first lesson free – “come and try” basis. Parents must book a free session prior by contacting the Flames Futsal coaching staff on 0412 199 639.

Program structure

First and foremost, each session must be fun and engaging for each child. Typically, each session will start with an emphasis on a particular core skill. These include fundamentals like pass, receive, movement etc. Over time, the children will also work on more advanced fundamentals including Team offensive/defensive, shape, set pieces, one on one skills etc.

The emphasised skill will be worked through a series of drills over the first 20-30 minutes with the balance of the session dedicated to match play where the emphasised skill is worked in greater detail.

In addition, external teams of a similar standard will be invited to provide friendly matches which will be played within the normal session timeslot.

Further development and pathway

Our more talented children will be invited to play for the Knox Hornets in the “Supa Liga” which is run by Vic Futsal. This tournament is played at the Oakleigh Recreation Centre on Saturday afternoons/evenings from late October to December and was televised every Wednesday on Channel 31.

Supa Liga features some of the best Futsal players from all regions of Victoria and is used as a means of selection for Victorian state representation.

Contact

Please forward all your enquiries direct to:

John Myszka
Head Coach – Flames Futsal & Knox Hornets Supa Liga
0412 199 639

Vikings official Results PDF is available here. Its contents are shown below :

Junior Boys Ladders (after group matches)

GROUP A

                                Played GD Points
1 Rowville Secondary College A     3   20   9
2 East Preston Islamic College     3    4   6
3 St. John's Regional College B    3  -10   3
4 Camberwell High School D         3  -14   0

GROUP B

                                Played GD Points
1 St Josephs College               3   11   8
2 Hume Central A                   3    9   8
3 The King David School B          3   -7   3
4 Camberwell High School B         3  -13   0

GROUP C

                                Played GD Points
1 Camberwell High School A         3    8   9
2 St. John's Regional College A    3    6   6
3 Isik College                     3   -1   3
4 Hume Central B                   3  -13   0

GROUP D

                                Played GD Points
1 Fawkner Secondary College        3    9   9
2 Rowville Secondary College B     3    4   6
3 The King David School A          3   -5   3
4 Camberwell High School C         3   -8   0

Junior Boys Finals

Semi-Final1 First in Group A vs First in Group C
Rowville Secondary College A 1-3 Camberwell High School A

Semi-Final2 First in Group B vs First in Group D
St Josephs College 3-0 Fawkner Secondary College

FINAL Winner Semi-Final 1 vs Winner Semi-Final 2
Camberwell High School A 4-1 St Josephs College

Qualified for Champion of Champions

1. Camberwell High School
2. St. Joseph’s College
3. Rowville Secondary College
4. Fawkner Secondary College

Junior Girls (after group matches)

                                Played GD Points
1 St. Johns Regional College       5    5   11
2 Isik College                     5    6   10
3 Camberwell High School           5    2   10
4 Fawkner Secondary College        5    2    8
5 The King David School            5   -4    5
6 East Preston Islamic College     5  -11    1

Junior Girls Final (1 vs 2)
St. Johns Regional College 1-3 Isik College

Qualified for Champion of Champions
1. St. John’s Regional College
2. Isik College
3. Camberwell Secondary College
4. Fawkner Secondary College

Senior & Intermediate Girls (after group matches)

                                Played GD Points
1 Erindale College                 6   54   16
2 Rowville Secondary College       6   28   16
3 CRC Sydenham                     6    0   11
4 Isik College A                   6  -10    7
5 Isik College B                   6  -20    7
6 Fawkner Secondary College        6  -23    3
7 East Preston Islamic College     6  -29    3

Senior & Intermediate Girls Final (1 vs 2)
Erindale College 2-0 Rowville Secondary College

Qualified for Champion of Champions
1. Erindale College
2. Rowville Secondary College

A small indoor soccer centre is offering aspiring locals the chance to represent their country.

Endeavour Hills-based centre Flames Futsal just began its fourth season of competition as it gears up for this year’s Supa Liga tournament in Oakleigh from October to December. Futsal is derived from the Portuguese ‘futebol de salão’ and the Spanish ‘fútbol sala/de salón’, which can be translated as ‘indoor football’. Co-managers John Myszka and Ian Vincent established Flames Futsal two years ago and there are men’s and women’s competitions at the venue.

Myszka also runs a junior program that encourages fun and participation and offers the opportunity for players to take their soccer further.

The centre’s best senior and junior players form the Knox Hornets, who take on seven other teams from around the state in the annual Supa Liga tournament.

The Hornets represent the southern metropolitan region.

“If you’re good enough you’ll get picked for the representative side and do your training at Endeavour Hills and play at Oakleigh and you may get to play interstate and possibly overseas,” Myszka said.

“The tournament is from October until December and will be televised on Channel 31 again this year.

“We are going to have under-10s, 12s, women’s and men’s teams and possibly a 14s side.”

Selectors will pick a Victorian squad from the Supa Liga to compete in an interstate carnival in January.

Myszka said he and Vincent were trying to change the perception of Futsal.

“We’re treating Futsal not as a pastime, but as a proper sport where you can have a calendar of events through the year that will fill you up as much as outdoor soccer would,” Myszka said.

“You have your training and meaningful games and can go on overseas tours and stuff like that.

“That’s what we’re doing and bearing in mind there is a national team to play for as well in the sport.”

Visit Flames Futsal’s website at www.flamesfutsal.com.au for further information.