Play Futsal Holiday Programs are a great place for the kids to spend a day running around playing Futsal. The programs are for all primary school kids, involving skills, coaching, games, match play and above all good fun!

Dates / Times:
9am – 3pm

Box Hill – Wednesday April 7th
Banyule – Wednesday March 31st
Waverley – Tuesday March 30th

Venues:

Box Hill High School
Cnr Middleborough & Whitehorse Rds
Box Hill

Banyule Nets Stadium
2 Somers Ave
Macleod

Waverley Christian College
1248 High Street Rd
Wantirna South

The cost of the program is:

$50 per child
($45 for additional siblings)

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

To Register now click here

The popular Winter Season is just around the corner, with round one starting on Friday the 12th of March. There are no games on the 5th of March as we are taking a break for the Labor Day long weekend.

We have a full competition in all age groups, but please see us asap if you haven’t registered your team yet. The fixtures will be able to be found the same way – by checking the news items and front pages of the website and by looking through the results vault feature of the site. The season will be found under 2010 and the leagues under Winter Season and then the relevant age group.

The competition is sure to be exciting as ever, with the Victorian Championships coming up quickly. There will be more exciting news about this tournament later on this month. Please keep checking the website for any updates.

Victoria’s Under 12 girls’ team had a fantastic run during the recent Australian National Futsal Championships in Canberra, reaching the grand final where it fell 4-0 to an accomplished NSW team.

It was the first time in the 31-year history of the tournament that a Victorian U12 team reached the final.

The Vics defeated the ACT Cobras in the semi-final. The final was played in the AIS’s main arena.

Madeline Stockdale of the Brighton Thunderbirds was the Vics leading goal scorer, kicking five of the team’s 14 goals during its seven games.

Lucy Kennedy of the Sandringham Soccer Club was also on the side along with Gabriella Fox (Keilor), Sarina Vallese (Green Gully), Danniella Galluccio (Box Hill), Zoe Stamatopolous (Epping), Rosemaree Scarpino (Brunswick Zebras), Alicia Vakalopoulos (Richmond), Chloe Cini (Sydenham) and goalkeeper Emma Heckenberg (Monash Soccer Club).

The team was coached by South Melbourne’s Sam Mlynarz. Derek Smith, of Keilor and the Australian Futsal Group, served as team manager

Heckenberg played a vital role in goal and also kicked several goals herself during the series. Defenders Vallese, Fox and the cool, calm and experienced Kennedy stopped many opposition attacks on goal

Midfielders Stamatopolous, Gallucio and Vakalopoulos set up many opportunities up front with direct and accurate passing.

Strikers Stockdale, Cini and Scarpino all scored amazing goals under pressure.

IN 2010 THE VICTORIAN FUTBOL & FUTSAL ACADEMIES WILL CONTINUE TO BOOM!

Already operating for over eight years and initially based exclusively out of Oakleigh Recreation Centre, the academies concept for our sport seems to gain greater numbers and results with every year. More than ever witnessed before, many players are gaining genuine acknowledgement for their commitment and efforts by being identified to represent their respective ages at state level both at Futsal and Football. Aside from these obvious results, all novice and intermediate academy reps have developed at astounding rates, in regards to personal goals and targets that they set out to achieve!

Boasting the best coaches in the state and now expanding into the domain of Football due to the newly established partnership with the education arm of the official Brasilian Football fraternity (CBF) and professional club Atletico Mineiro, the opportunities that the academies sought after curriculum and delivery of quality instruction provide, have firmly established themselves, as not only the longest lasting provider of their kind but more importantly the most credentialed.

The Academy now operates out of the following locations:

Ashburton – Ballarat – Brunswick – Dandenong – Doncaster – Hawthorn – Oakleigh & Rowville

In turn it serves to provide the following programs/ courses:

Futsal Specific – Football – Female Specific – Sub Junior Development – Striker School & Goalkeeping academy

Mission statement: The Aim of each of our Programs:

The provision of an optimal sporting preparatory program and realisation of high performance opportunities in Futsal and Football at an elite level, through the development of skills, attitudes and knowledge in players, that will enable them to compete successfully at the highest levels on a regular basis.

For further details for the 2010 Victorian Futbol & Futsal Academies Programs please contact; infovic@vikingsfutsal.net

ALL ACADEMIES BEGIN PROGRAMMING IN FIRST WEEK OF FEBRUARY

Term 1 Registrations are Open

Melbourne Reds would like to invite existing and new members to register for our Term 1 training program.

Training will commence from Saturday February 6th and the term will run for 16 weeks. Full details of the training program can be found via the following link.

Training Program Details

New members can pre-register by clicking on the following link and completing the on-line form.

Online Registration

Calcio 90 on top!

Bad Beats and newcomers, Calcio 90, got off to winning ways last night in the Mens Social competition.There were some very rusty and tired looking players on the court….most were still recovering from their Christmas dinners and holidays, by the looks of their waist lines! However,no doubt with a few more games the sharpness will reappear in the players! Bad Beats pipped Salsa in a re match of last season’s final 5-2. Calcio 90 came from behind to beat a tired Red Devils outfit 7-5. CFC had the bye this week. There will be some double headers coming up, when all of the players are more fit!

MFL KICKS OFF SOON!

The Pirates Academy is in full swing, with the Academy’s MFL teams getting ready for the conclusion of the 2009 season and then the new 2010 season! New players are always welcome. Just contact Mark.

Victorian’s Jonathon Barrientos and Fernando De Moraes have been selected in a squad of 18 players by Qantas Futsalroos Head Coach Steven Knight, for a training camp to be held in Sydney between 24- 26 January 2010.

Knight will use the camp to help select a final squad of 14 players that will then head to Indonesia for the AFC Futsal Championship ASEAN Zone qualifiers in February.

Knight is excited by the prospect and confident that the group of players that he has selected will be able to do the job.

“The group that we have selected are the in-form players from the last few months and recent FFA National Futsal Championships,” Knight said.

“There are also a number of talented young players in the group who will benefit from the experience of being involved in the training and may even push for selection.”

The AFC Futsal Championship ASEAN Zone qualifiers will take place from 20-25 February in Jakarta with the top three teams qualifying for the AFC Futsal Championships which will be played in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, from 23-30 May.

The Qantas Futsalroos have been drawn in Group A along with Indonesia and Myanmar, while Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia and Philippines make up Group B.

Qantas Futsalroos Squad

Jonathon Barrientos (Victoria), Haken Canli (Northern NSW), Anthony Capaldi (South Australia), Heber Carvalho (NSW), Peter Crevanni (NSW) , Josh Codrington (NSW), Ivo De Jesus (NSW), Fernando De Moraes (Victoria), Daniel Fogarty (NSW), Rhys Giovenali (NSW), Simon Keith (NSW), Shervin Keshavarz-Adeli (NSW), Angelo Konstantino (ACT), Dean Lockhart (NSW) , Bruno Pivato (NSW), Tom Rogic (ACT), Patrick Ross-McGee (ACT) & Adrian Vizzari (NSW).

Below is a list of Victorian success from the 2010 Nationals

Click Here to View All Results

Under 15 Boys Final

QLD City 4 Defeated Victoria 1

ALL STAR SELECTIONS
Anthony Brown Victoria.

Youth Women’s Final

NSW 7 Defeated Victoria 0

ALL STAR SELECTIONS
Azite Errneli VIC.

Youth Men’s Final

North QLD 4 Defeated Victoria 2

ALL STAR SELECTIONS
David King VIC & Ian Dosch VIC.

Open Men’s

ALL STAR SELECTIONS
Fernando De Moras Victoria.

Local girls Keely Lockhart from Eltham North and Cassandra Dimovski from Lower Plenty, both from Eltham Redbacks FC (previously Eltham North Soccer Club), represented Victoria this week at the FFA National Futsal Championships in Canberra.

Lockhart competed for the U11 girls team who were very competitive with a highlight 8-1 win over Canberra in Round 10 but unfortunately missed out on making the final.

Dimovski competed for the U16 girls who did particularly well and made the final but lost 2-0 to a very strong team, NSW Thunder. Victoria’s highest score in their league was a 9-1 win over Northern NSW Hawks in Round 4.

The Rebacks have historically had very strong girls and womens membership highlighted by the Women’s Premier League team which was very successful in past years under coach Bob McGuinness before disbanding in 2009 due to lack of facilities.

Players such as Enza Barilla, Nicole Paul and Deanna Niceski have all played for the Redbacks and have gone on to play for the Victory W-League team.

The Redbacks, complete with a brand new state-of-the art FIFA 1-star artificial surface, are open for registration for the 2010 season.

Offical Futsal Nationals site: http://www.futsalnationals.com.au/

Eltham Redbacks FC site: http://elthamredbacksfc.org.au

Shpitz FC have continued their great form by defeating Zeljo 11:8 in the final of the Super Cup. Both teams had a good run in making the final, with Shpitz FC having to work the harder of the two teams coming from behind to beat the dangerous Altona Juniors by a couple of goals. Captain Ante from Shpitz picked up the MVP with two solid games. Zeljo next meet Shpitz in round 4 action of the A grade on Monday the 18th of January. Both teams have already cooked up a good rivalry in the short time they have been playing each other, and are both looking strong to make the finals.