In anticipation that Liverpool Fusion Futsal Club will be successful in its application to participate in the Football NSW 2009/10 Futsal Super League, the club is seeking expression of interest in the following grades for players and coaches.

Boys: 12, 14, 16, Youth Men & Open Men’s
Girls: 12, 14, 16 & Women’s

If interested, please email dicondio@gmail.com

Trial Dates are yet to be confirmed!!!

Ba lost 0-2 to Southern Forest Navua in the New World National League at the TFL National Stadium in Suva yesterday.

Solomon Islands futsal rep Jack Wetney was the toast of the Navua team displaying marvellous footwork and skills that caught the Ba defender off guard.Wetney was a thorn in the Ba side as he masterminded the Navua attacking force to record the biggest scoreline Navua has scored against Ba.

Wetney was instrumental for Navua when he beat three Ba defenders to set up Jesoni Takala in Navua’s first goal in the 40th minute.

Ba without the services of some of their key players like Osea Vakatalesau, Peni Finau, Aisea Codro, Malakai Tiwa gave their best shot but their best was not enough to win them the game.

The men-in-black was taken to task by the Navua team who played superbly under the soggy Laucala underfoot.

Former Ba player Pita Baleitoga put the final nail on the Ba’s coffin when he scored a classic goal in the second spell to put his team on the driver’ seat.

Ba striker Josai Bukalidi and Ronald Lawrence missed out several opportunities.

But again the day belonged to Navua thanks to their Solomon Islands import that provided the much needed spark in their attacking force.

Navua coach Gurjit Singh was in cloud nine after the win and was full of praises for Wetney.

“He was our hero in today’s game he has magnificent skills and played a huge role in our win,” Singh said.

“Jack displayed some breathtaking skills and he would be an asset to our side during the Inkk Mobile BOG.

“I also thank the other boys in the team who played together as a unit that resulted to the win.

“This is one of biggest scoreline we have scored against Ba for a very long time and I thank the boys for their effort.”

Navua soccer boss Anil Sharma echoed the similar sentiments that Wetney played a huge role in their win.

“Jack has proven to us today that he has it takes to be in the team and the reason why we wanted him in the very first place.

“He will lead our attacking force at the upcoming Inkk BOG tournament.”

Sharma said he has a lot of respect for Ba and knew that the men-in-black would bounce back strongly.

The Sutherland Shire will again be represented in the Futsal Super League which commences in late September 2009 and concludes February 2010.

The region will have 9 representative teams from under 12’s girls to all age women and under 12’s boys to all age men. The Futsal Association will also cater for representative teams from under 9’s, 10’s and 11’s consistent with the development programs of our high performance unit.

Trials will be conducted at Menai Indoor Sports Centre, 98 Allison Crescent, Menai and Endeavour Sports High School, Taren Point Road and The Boulevard, Caringbah. The dates, times and venues for each age group shown below:

Menai Indoor Sports Centre Under 12’s girls, 14’s girls, 16’s girls and all age women, Saturday’s 1st and 8th August 2009 from 2pm – 4pm.

Endeavour Sports High School Under 12’s boys, Friday’s 17th, 24th, 31st July 2009 and the 7 August 2009, from 7pm – 8pm.

Menai Indoor Sports Centre Under 14’s boys, Sunday’s 19th and 26th July 2009 and 2nd and 9th August 2009 from 10am – 11am

Menai Indoor Sports Centre Under 16 Boys, Youth Men 19’s and All Age Men, Sunday’s 19th, 26th July 2009, 2nd and 9th August 2009 from 11am – 12noon.

There is no cost to trial, however registration fees will apply upon formal selection mid August 2009. Each person participating in the trials must complete an application form 15 minutes prior to your first trial. Selection criteria advice will be given to each player upon completion of the trial application form.

We look forward to seeing you at the trials.

For more information contact the Secretary, Ruth Guerreiro 0405 215 940 or email secretary@shirefutsal.com.au

Sydney Magic are taking expressions of interest from Coaches for the upcoming 2009/2010 NSW Premier League season.

Email your applications to sydneymagic@hotmail.com

Applications close soon.

Do you play Futsal….? Do you play Football…? Here is your opportunity to trial for a Victorian Futsal State Squad!

Football Federation Victoria is calling for junior female players to trial for Victorian State Squads competing at the 2010 National Futsal Championships.

Click here to register for trials using our online registration form.

Registrations close Friday 31st July 2009, so be quick!

The following junior girls squads will compete in the National Futsal Championships in Canberra between 11th-15th January 2010:

Under 11 – players born during 1998
Under 12 – players born during 1997
Under 13 – players born during 1996
Under 14 – players born during 1995
Under 15 – players born during 1994
Under 16 – players born during 1993

The National Futsal Championships are the pinnacle event on the Australian Futsal calendar, incorporating state and regional teams from Victoria, ACT, NSW, Queensland, Northern Territory, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea.

A participant’s age is determined by their age at 31st December 2009. Players may not be any older than the age category in which they are participating, although players are permitted to be no more than two years younger. Players must trial in their correct age group based on their year of birth shown as listed above.

Senior squad registrations for youth and open age groups will open later in the year.

For more information, please contact FFV Talented Player Coordinator, Anthony Grima, on 9474 1804 or alternatively via email agrima@footballfedvic.com.au

Twin coppers Andrew and Christopher Gwilliam are taking on fellow boys in blue from around the world this weekend in a battle that takes them away from the front-line.

The 25-year-olds are representing the New Zealand police at the Worldwide Indoor Soccer Police Association tournament at ASB Stadium in Kohimarama.

Teams from Ukraine, Russia, China, Ireland and Brazil arrived in Auckland on Wednesday, spent a day sightseeing yesterday and have their first games today.

The Kiwis take on Brazil in the opening game at 11am this morning.

The team was chosen after trials last month. Four of the 10 members also play for East City Futsal Indoor Soccer Club.

Andrew, a constable at Auckland central police station, has been in the police force for six years and is organising the New Zealand team.

Christopher left the army to join the police after finding out his brother was on a much healthier salary. He is now a constable based at Mt Wellington and, like Andrew, works mainly in emergency response.

Indoor soccer is a bit of a Gwilliam family affair. Both men have been playing for 20 years and their mum Barbara is the chairwoman of the East City club, based at ASB Stadium.

Christopher has taken on the job of tournament director and Barbara is managing the competition.

Getting the 10 team members together for practices is no easy feat. They had just their second training last night.

“Because we’re all working in different areas and different types of policing it’s hard to even talk to them really,” Andrew says.

The fast-paced, five-a-side game is a smaller version of outdoor soccer but with no throwing and more goals scored.

“You have to be pretty quick and agile,” Christopher says.

It will be the ninth Worldwide Indoor Soccer Police Association tournament but its first time in New Zealand. The Police Association has contributed to running costs.

Barbara says the event wouldn’t have been possible without the manpower and equipment donated by East City members.

Group matches are today and tomorrow with semis and finals on Sunday. Information and a games schedule at www.wispa09.co.nz.

The Honiara Open Category Futsal League have been confirmed to start soon.

The league’s Local Organising Committed had decided that the Women Futsal League will begin on 5 August 2009.

Registration opens on 20 July and closes on 28 July.

A technical meeting for all participating women’s clubs is set for 28 July at 4pm at the Solomon Islands Football Federation (SIFF) Academy conference room.

For registration, the organising committee is charging a fee of $200 per club.

In the meantime, the Men’s Futsal League will start on 27 July this year.

The technical meeting is set for 21 July starting at 4pm at the SIFF conference room.

The organising committee calls on the team managers to attend the technical meeting on the set dates.

So far, 32 teams have been registered.

For new clubs who wish to be part of the league, a fee of $800 will be charged.

For those existing clubs under HFA regulations, a fee of $400 will be charged.

SIFF Futsal and Beach Development Officer Victor Waiia (Chairman of the LOC) also call on the following schools: Mbokonavera, Mbua Valley, Mbokonavera and St John, sport teachers to attend a meeting scheduled for 4pm, 22 July at Lawson Tama.

Australia’s open men’s futsal side are set to progress to the second phase of their competition in the Maccabiah Games.

Despite suffered a first-up hammering to tournament big-guns Israel on the first day of competition, the team has bounced back with resounding 5-2 and 4-0 wins against Great Britain and Spain.

Simon Keith’s outfit took the more-fancied Israeli unit by surprise early on, flying out of the blocks to lead 1-0 and 2-1 in the first half.

But the Israeli’s came out like a side possessed in the second period and blew an unusually subdued Aussie group off the park with five second-half goals to win 7-2.

Australia had no time to dwell, with their second match against Great Britain less than 24 hours later. The side showed great character to claim a morale boosting 5-2 win. They had to play from behind after conceding an early deflected goal, but they were rewarded for a poised 15 minute period with a goal to Adam Friedman.

They then served the British the same treatment they received from Israel the day before, unleashing a four goal second term with goals to Jordan Mundell, Samuel Kettler, Antony Tow and Friedman.

Despite back-to-back matches and a late shift at the opening ceremony behind them, the Aussies were scintillating in their third match against Spain that all but sealed their progress to the next phase.

The sides starting-four — Mundell, Tow, captain Doron Pozniak and Lev Lewis — were too hot to handle for the Spaniards from the get-go, and it came as no surprise when Tow rifled home after just three minutes.

This well-drilled Aussie side was full of interplay, movement and patience, which finally unlocked the Spaniards just before the break through a venomous long range drive from Paul Meltz.

Mundell scored a tap-in after typically determined and classy play from Tow, before Lewis sealed the rout with a lovely long range drive.

Solomon Islands National Futsal team captain Elliot Ragomo has broken the world record by scoring the fastest goal in a futsal match.

He scored the fastest goal in three seconds in their first Confederation Futsal Championship match against New Caledonia last week in Fiji, which the Kurukuru won 8-3.

Ragomo beat the record set by a Portugal player who scored in the fifth second in last year’s Futsal World Cup in Brazil.

The Kurukuru captain, who led the national side to reclaim their crown as futsal kings in Oceania, had certainly inscribe his name into futsal history.

According to reports from Fiji, the goal caught futsal fans in Suva by storm and was the much talked about score.

It was the fastest in Oceania region and certainly would have broken the world fastest record scored in five second at the World Cup last year.

According to Ragomo the achievement was unexpected.

Describing the fastest goal to Star Sports yesterday, he said it was just brilliant although it came as a surprise.

“The New Caledonia defenders made a mistake which gave me room. Receiving the ball, I did not think of holding on or dribbling the keeping the ball.

“I forced myself and blasted it (ball) into the net after just three seconds,” he said.

The excited Ragomo who was still in a celebration mode after winning the OFC Championship said, to score the fastest goal in a futsal match was something he did not expect but at least it shows that Solomon Islands futsal is gaining new heights.

The new record adds to Ragomo’s personal achievements in the sport, including the second fastest goal scorer in the FIFA Futsal World Cup in Brazil last year.

He scored in the seventh second during Kurukuru’s first match against Cuba.

Ragomo unfortunately missed out on the award after a Portugal player scored in the fifth second in the same World Cup.

But it was in the recent OFC Futsal Championship, which ended in the Vodafone Arena in Suva that Ragomo raised his personal best and marked Solomon Islands supremacy in futsal in the region and may be in the world.

The Kurukuru won all silver wares including golden boot, best player of the tournament, best goalkeeper of the tournament and the fairest team awards.

In his final words of the OFC Futsal Championship, Ragomo said the World Cup last year has given them a lot of confidence, which eventually paid off.

“It was a good feeling walking into every game with confidence.

“Kurukuru went into last week’s championship with the boys aiming for the game against Vanuatu after they beat as last year.

“We scored eleven goals which was very satisfying,” he said.

Ragomo said the Kurukuru will remain focus for October’s invitation tournament in Libya and another shot at playing Japan whom they faced in last year’s World Cup.

The Solomon Islands Futsal team have touched down in Honiara to a rapturous reception after winning the OFC Futsal Championship Fiji 2009 late last week.

Memories of the championship are fading fast, but oceaniafootball.com brings you a photo gallery of images that will provide fans with a permanent momento of the event.

The Solomon Kurukuru defended their Oceania title in convincing fashion scoring 32 goals and conceding only seven in their four matches. They also cleaned up the overall awards with honours going to the following standout performers:

Futsal Golden Ball (Best player)
Jack Wetney (SOL)

Futsal Golden Boot (Top goal scorer)
Micah Lea’alafa (SOL)

Futsal Golden Glove (Best goalkeeper)
Paul Huia (SOL)

Futsal Fair Play
Solomon Islands

Click the pic below for the gallery…