Play Futsal Holiday Programs are a great place for the kids to spend a few days running around playing Futsal. The programs are for Prep – Grade 4 kids, involving skills, coaching, games, match play and above all good fun!

Dates / Times:

Box Hill
Wed 23rd Sept, Thurs 24th Sept, Fri 25th Sept – 9am – 1pm (Morning Tea is provided)

Waverley
Wed 30th Sept, Thurs 1st Oct, Fri 2nd Oct – 9am – 1pm (Morning Tea is provided)

Venues:

Box Hill High School
Cnr Middleborough & Whitehorse Rds
Box Hill

Waverley Christian College
1248 High Street Rd
Wantirna South

The cost of the program is: $120 per child

For further information about the program please contact Derek on 0430 543 263 or at info@playfutsal.com.au

NAT FLIES IN FROM BRAZIL WITH HIS FUTSAL FEET FIRMLY ON THE GROUND

It’s roughly a year ago that Futsal Goal Keeper, Nat Caldwell started to raise his public profile both locally and nationally. Futsal is the name for indoor 5 aside soccer that is played with a smaller, hard, non- bounce ball. Nat – now with skull and cross bones eyebrow piercing has just returned as one of two Australian Goal Keepers who attended the Vikings Australian Futsal tour of Brazil. Players were selected from across Australia, Nat was the only player selected from NSW.

Originally the tour was to include Chile and Argentina but one week before take off due to the swine flu outbreaks and closure of schools it was decided that the tour would be confined to the South of Brazil. Tour organizer Juliana Oliveira, from Vikings Futsal pulled out all stops to ensure that our Aussie boys had the best training and competition experience.

Nat’s playing highlight of the tour was in the first game – a friendly against Brazil in Vernopolis, where he was chosen by the Brazil side to play as their Goal Keeper. Nat conceded one goal to his fellow Aussies, his Brazilian team winning the game. Nat now wears his goal keeping shirt from that game proudly. The rest of the three week tour, our Aussies were unable to beat Brazil, we did draw once. The team learnt a lot of Futsal game tactics and new training techniques from the masters of the sport.

The team experienced the thrill of being introduced to the crowd at the Brazilian International Stadium and then proudly walked a lap of the honor with the Australian flag, whilst our National Anthem was played with our boys in their green and gold colors before being interviewed by Television, Radio and Sports International Magazine. The team then became a part of the crowd and joined in the atmosphere of the Brazilians intensity when watching Brazil International verse Sao Paulo. Our boys merged with the crowd and yelled “goooooool” as they rushed forward in a running wave imitating the locals from a secured area. Learning lots of life lessons along the way including how lucky we are to live in Australia. Nat was shocked to see barbwire and the use of moats to keep crowds at bay during soccer games even at international events.

After landing back in Australia and having two weeks recovery Nat has been back in training and has been the only Northern Rivers Futsal player selected to represent Northern NSW as Goal Keeper at the Vikings National Futsal School Championships held at the end of September in Melbourne. The Northern NSW region is from Port Macquarie, Taree north to the Queensland border. Attending training, Nat just turning fourteen, will be playing up a year in the 15’s age group yesterday at Coffs Harbor the team is under the experienced eye of Alison Fazzolar, who has coached winning teams in the Quantas National Soccer Championships.

Nat is grateful to the local community who have supported him by buying raffle tickets, Newrybah Produce and The Park Hotel for supporting him. Nat still takes time out to enjoy a beef burger at “The Park.” Nat also recognizes the efforts of his physiotherapist and Pilates Instructor, Ryan Huxley and Personal Trainer Nathan Collins for their persistence and patience…..and his mum for her support. Nat attends school through Southern Cross Distance Education that allows him to continue school whilst following a strict training timetable. After attending the National Schools Titles, Nat will compete in the Vikings National Club and Team Titles in Sydney in January and the Pacific Titles in Easter. In 2010 Nat will return to Brazil for more intensive training and tour the UK returning to the David Beckham Academy in London, who first identified his goal keeping skills.

After a successful change of administration and location of their head NSW office to Goonellabah, Vikings Futsal has experienced a serge of enthusiasm from locals. Nat enjoys the faster game of Futsal to outdoor soccer and the team comradery and sportsmanship learned from older players like NSW Coordinator, Ashley Collins who give back to the sport. For Vikings Futsal sign-on’s in Goonellabah, Lismore, Lennox Head, Byron and Mullumbimby contact James Watson on 0458 431 074.

Click the pic below for the official Flyer (PDF)

The Vikings NZ U/17 side ran out winners at the Foshan Cup with a solid display of Futsal. After winning there first game 9-1 the boys backed it up with a 5-1 victory in their first game on Sunday with goals to Marcus Livingston 3, Trent Wales 1 and Scott McElroy 1. With the temperature hitting 40c the boys took on their next opponent and ran out of legs, energy and faced some interesting referee calls. In the end they went down 1-4 but showed huge heart as players struggled in the extreme heat.

The side had Monday as a much needed rest day and headed to Guangzhou for a spot of shopping and an evening dinner cruise on the Pearl River. The cruise took you past huge skycrappers that turned into the biggest video screens that anyone had seen. The night sky was lit up with fork lightening that added to the cruise and brought a much needed drop in temperature.

Today (Tuesday) the boys visited an active 500 year old kiln and had a chance to buy some of the pottery on offer. From here the side went for their sixth game on tour against Foshan University. The University side was easily the best side they had come up against on tour but the boys finally put all their training into good use. Defensively in the first half they were perfect and just before the break Dan Williamson scored from a free kick.

The second half started at a blistering pace but the boys held tight and repelled any attacks from Foshan until a quick turnover finally saw Foshan Uni get on the board. 5 minutes later they scored again to take the lead but this only inspired the New Zealanders to dig deeper. The rest of the half was all New Zealand as they attacked with everything. Finally after some great team build up work Dan Williamson slotted his second to tie the game.

The game ended a draw (2 all) but the Kiwi’s were unlucky not to snatch the win when Scott McElroy had a header cannon off the crossbar with the keeper beaten and only 15 seconds to play.

In the end it was a great result for the team and one they will want to build upon for the rest of the tour.

Former Australian FUTSAL coach Scott Gilligan is in the country to assist the Fiji Football Association in setting up a proper development structure for the abbreviated code of the game which has immensely gained popularity.

Gilligan who is currently attached with Oceania Football Confederation as a FUTSAL Development Officer has been actively involved in designing and monitoring programs in the Island nations, namely the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia.

He is currently conducting a weeklong workshop in Suva for local coaches to broaden their coaching skills.

Fiji FA chief executive officer Bob Kumar said more than 35 local coaches participating in the workshop should learn a lot from Gilligan.

“We are honored to have Scott as he is the most qualified Futsal coach in the region and has done wonders with the Island nations where he has worked with the local coaches.”

“We are happy he accepted our invite and is in the country to assist us and the local coaches should take full advantage of the workshop with him.”

“Fiji FA is serious about developing Futsal and raising awareness of the sport and will also develop its own pitch in the new academy in Suva.”

“Apart from working with the participants at the workshop, he will also work closely with national coaching director Saiyad Ali and other development officers, sharing his knowledge and experience in the sport” he concluded.

It’s not just players and clubs that are put through their paces during the last month before the start of the season.

NSWFRA referees who will be officiating in the Football NSW Futsal Premier and Super Leagues have a big month ahead of them for September as well, with compulsory fitness testing, seminars, the commencement of fortnightly training and the odd trial game too.

For season 2009/10, the NSWFRA will publish a list of up to 50 referees who will make up the NSWFRA Advanced Referees Panel. Of these referees, 22 will make up the Select and Supplementary 1 Groups, all of which will be required to pass fitness testing twice throughout the season and attend 3 physical and technical training sessions each month.

With Advanced Referees Panel nominations scheduled to close on the 4th September, pre-season fitness tests are scheduled for the 10th, 13th and 15th of September across the Sydney metropolitan area.

The pre-season program culminates with the Advanced Referees Panel seminar on the 18th September where referees will be issued with information and directives for the new season and the first physical training session on the 29th September.

Expected areas of focus for NSWFRA referees are disciplinary standards across all age divisions, the correct use of away and goalkeeper jerseys, violent conduct and serious foul play.

NSWFRA President Gavin Lee said that he was looking forward to yet another step up in standards of refereeing and professionalism for the coming season.

“Once again, we’ve raised the bar a little higher for our referees and I expect, like last year, our referees will rise to the challenge, resulting in even better officiating”, Lee said.

Vikings NZ CEO Paul Wadsworth is in negotiations with Chengdu Futsal who are wanting to sign a New Zealand Futsal player for the upcoming Chinese National League.

“They have made an approach to sign atleast one Kiwi to their roster, we are working throughthe negotiations, but it will come down to player availability”, said Wadsworth. “This is a great opportunity for a Vikings player from NZ to go away and play professional Futsal”.

The season starts in late September and goes through until March 2010 and will comprise of almost 72 games. Chengdu signed Queenslander Scott Fenn last season but are very interested in signing a New Zealand player after recent outstanding results for the Vikings NZ Men side.

Hey Kids,

Ever wanted to be an Eagle!!!!!!! Well now you can.

Sydney City Eagles is targeting 7 to 12 year old players for its new and exciting academy to start early September.

The program runs for 8 weeks and will be covering the fundamentals of futsal by our experienced coaching staff.

If interested, send an email for more details – admin@sydneycityeagles.com

A group of 40 girls mixed it with the best in the business when World Cup Star Joe Burgess put them through a FREE Futsal Clinic on the weekend.

Joe Burgess, who has represented Australia in the World Cup Competition in both Futsal and Soccer, came to FNQ to conduct Futsal clinics in a bid to promote the sport among the girls in the Region.

The experienced Futsal player said there was no shortage of natural talent among the young group of players who attended the clinic.

FNQ Futsal is introducing an “All Girls Academy” with Joe Burgess to be making monthly visits to help develop the program.

If you would like further information about this Academy please call Sandra on 4034 3925 or email sandra.fnqfutsal@gmail.com

SPRING 2009 LEAGUES STARTING SOON

Registrations Now Open!!!

Leagues will be starting from Sunday 20th September

Leagues for u10s to U17s, Seniors, Premier Men and Masters

Click here for our Spring 2009 Newsletter with full details (PDF)

Draft playing dates are now available

PLACES ARE LIMITED! REGISTER and PAY EARLY!

Registrations close midnight Sunday 13th September OR EARLIER if leagues are full.

Click Here to register NOW

 

Additional info from their ECISC website is now shown below : 

EAST CITY FUTSAL INDOOR SOCCER CLUB

www.ecisc.org.nz

WELCOME TO THE 2009 SPRING SEASON

East City is home to the game of 5-a-side indoor soccer – FUTSAL – a great fitness and skill builder for all ages. Fast, furious and full of fun. The Spring 2009 season starts from Sunday 20 September 2009.

The Club will run Spring 2009 leagues for the following (subject to entries):

• U10’s (born 1999) Tuesdays 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
• U11’s (born 1998) Tuesdays 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
• U12’s (born 1997) Tuesdays 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
• U13’s (born 1996) Tuesdays 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
• U14’s (born 1995) Sundays 4:00 pm- 6:00 pm
• U15’s (born 1994) Sundays 4:00 pm- 6:00 pm
• U16/U17’s (born 1992/93) Sundays 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
• Senior B Sunday Sundays 6:00 pm – 9:45 pm
• Premier Men Mondays 6.30 pm – 10:00 pm
• Masters (born pre 1979) Wednesdays 6.30 pm – 10:00 pm
• Senior B Wednesday Wednesdays 6.30 pm- 10:00 pm

(days and times subject to change depending on number of entries and stadium availability. Times are indicative only and may vary)

REGISTRATIONS OPEN Thursday 27 August 2009. Online registrations preferred – go to www.ecisc.org.nz/registration.php and follow the instructions carefully

REGISTRATIONS CLOSE at midnight Sunday 13 September – or earlier if leagues are full. Late registrations allowed only where there are places available and subject to $50 per team late registration fee

Due to the demand for places PLEASE avoid disappointment – REGISTER and PAY FOR YOUR TEAM EARLY TO GUARANTEE A PLACE

Each team will need a “Team Organiser” to register and manage the team and be the point of contact for information from the Club

Youth and Junior teams will require an adult “Team Organiser”

REGISTRATION FOR SPRING 2009 LEAGUES

We accept registrations from teams of 5 to 8 players (up to 10 players allowed in Premier Men and Masters). Team organisers should register their teams online at www.ecisc.org.nz Click the “Registration” button for full details.

We cannot accept registrations from individuals but are happy to facilitate those wishing to get in touch with others to form teams. See the “Players Seeking Teams” section on the home page of the website.

PREMIER MEN’S LEAGUE FOR ELITE LEVEL

The Club is again offering an elite league for men played on the full international sized court.

The standard of this league is expected to be high. The winning team will receive a $400 credit toward their entry fee into the 2010 Summer Premier Men’s League. The runners up will receive a $200 credit.

The final composition of the league will be at the discretion of the Committee to ensure that all teams are of an appropriate standard for this competition. Team organisers entering this league are asked to email details of the experience and background of their team players to cosworth@xtra.co.nz

Click here to read the rest of their latest newsletter (PDF)