** Update 12/5/2009 : A promotional video for the Academies has also been released and is available by clicking here. (5 Meg WMV File) **

Starting soon are all of the Tasmanian Islanders Futsal Academies.

The successful Tasmanian Islanders Academy program is expanding with 4 new programs opening.

Starting also in winter are academies in Sorell (Eastern Cyclones), Kingborough Soccer Club (Lion’s Edge), Rosetta Soccer Club (Glenorchy Knights) and of course continuing in the North (Northern Fusion).

With these new academies coming on board at similar times and dates it will give us more opportunity to have our main Islanders Hobart Academy playing competitive games. The growth in all areas with Academy programs is great and the benefits are very clear for all to see.

At the end of the program we are looking at a tournament similar to the North vs South games recently including all 4 Academies.

For all of those Goalkeepers out there we will be running a specialist goalkeeping Academy coached by Australian Mens Goalkeeper Michael McKenna who has recently returned from Spain. This will be included in the Sunday Academies and will be every second academy week as per the program. Contact us for further details.

I hope to see as many players as possible participating as we prepare as soon as possible for our National Competitions.

For all of you that may be part of Kingborough (Tuesday evening), Eastern Cyclones (Wednesday) or Glenorchy Knights (Thursday Evening) you will be more than welcome to join the programs I will be running within your clubs but please be aware these programs will be altered to fit into the club needs. If you can do both programs that is great and I know some of you will but I request that if you must choose one or the other please choose the Hobart Sunday Academy for best development.

There may be some of you who love Futsal so much that you would like to participate in academies 3 times a week. If this is the case please enrol in the sunday academy and then speak to myself about joining into extra nights as the terms and conditions may be dependant on Club policies.

The Hobart Islanders Academy will still be our showcase academy with the most professionally thought out program focusing purely on preparing Futsal players for elite Futsal competition.

I hope to see the best turn out so far in this years academy.

Please encourage players from your teams or players that may be interested to also join the Academy.

Corey Smith

FUTSAL TASMANIA (VIKINGS FUTSAL ASSOC. INC.) corey@vikingsfutsal.com Web – www.tasfutsal.com Ph – (03) 6278 1422 Fax – (03) 6278 1433 Mob – 0437 935 991 Postal Address – P.O.Box 298. Moonah, Tas. 7009

** Update 12/5/2009 : Revised Mens draw now shown below. Full Womens draw now published too **

The Monday night competition is being held at the Sydney Olympic Park Sports Halls, Grand Pde, Sydney Olympic Park.

Mens Draw

Winter State League Mens 2009 - Team List

RED GROUP	BLUE GROUP
Riff Raff	Sydney Tigers
Pirates	Enfield Rovers
Academy	Quake Youth
Maccabi Maulers	Barcelona
Futsal4all Pheonix	Northern Tigers
PGA	Dural Warriors

Winter State League Mens 2009 - Draw (updated 12/5/2009)

Date	Round	Court	Time	Teams
May 11th	1	One	8.20 pm	Riff Raff v Maccabi Maulers
May 11th	1	Two	8.20 pm	Pirates v Futsal4all Pheonix
May 11th	1	One	9.00 pm	Sydney Tigers v Barcelona
May 11th	1	Two	9.00 pm	Enfield Rovers v Northern Tigers
May 11th	1	Two	9.40 pm	Quake Youth v Dural Warriors
May 11th	1	One	9.40 pm	Academy v PGA
May 18th	2	One	8.20 pm	Maccabi Maulers v Futsal4all Pheonix
May 18th	2	Two	8.20 pm	Pirates v PGA
May 18th	2	One	9.00 pm	Barcelona V Northern Tigers
May 18th	2	Two	9.00 pm	Enfield Rovers V Dural Warriors
May 18th	2	Two	9.40 pm	Sydney Tigers V Quake Youth
May 18th	2	One	9.40 pm	Riff Raff v Academy
May 25th	3	One	8.20 pm	Riff Raff v PGA
May 25th	3	Two	8.20 pm	Maccabi Maulers v Pirates
May 25th	3	One	9.00 pm	Sydney Tigers v Dural Warriors
May 25th	3	Two	9.00 pm	Northern Tigers v Quake Youth
May 25th	3	Two	9.40 pm	Barcelona v Enfield Rovers
May 25th	3	One	9.40 pm	Futsal4all Pheonix v Academy
June 1st	4	One	8.20 pm	Maccabi Maulers v PGA
June 1st	4	Two	8.20 pm	Futsal4all Pheonix v Riff Raff
June 1st	4	One	9.00 pm	Quake Youth v Enfield Rovers
June 1st	4	Two	9.00 pm	Northern Tigers v Sydney Tigers
June 1st	4	Two	9.40 pm	Barcelona v Dural Warriors
June 1st	4	One	9.40 pm	Academy v Pirates
June 15th	5	One	8.20 pm	Pirates v Riff Raff
June 15th	5	Two	8.20 pm	Futsal4all Pheonix v PGA
June 15th	5	One	9.00 pm	Enfield Rovers v Sydney Tigers
June 15th	5	Two	9.00 pm	Northern Tigers v Dural Warriors
June 15th	5	Two	9.40 pm	Quake Youth v Barcelona
June 15th	5	One	9.40 pm	Academy v Maccabi Maulers
June 22nd	6	One	8.20 pm	Riff Raff v Maccabi Maulers
June 22nd	6	Two	8.20 pm	Pirates v Futsal4all Pheonix
June 22nd	6	One	9.00 pm	Sydney Tigers v Barcelona
June 22nd	6	Two	9.00 pm	Enfield Rovers v Northern Tigers
June 22nd	6	Two	9.40 pm	Quake Youth v Dural Warriors
June 22nd	6	One	9.40 pm	Academy v PGA
June 29th	7	One	8.20 pm	Maccabi Maulers v Futsal4all Pheonix
June 29th	7	Two	8.20 pm	Pirates v PGA
June 29th	7	One	9.00 pm	Barcelona V Northern Tigers
June 29th	7	Two	9.00 pm	Enfield Rovers V Dural Warriors
June 29th	7	Two	9.40 pm	Sydney Tigers V Quake Youth
June 29th	7	One	9.40 pm	Riff Raff v Academy
July 6th	8	One	8.20 pm	Riff Raff v PGA
July 6th	8	Two	8.20 pm	Maccabi Maulers v Pirates
July 6th	8	One	9.00 pm	Sydney Tigers v Dural Warriors
July 6th	8	Two	9.00 pm	Northern Tigers v Quake Youth
July 6th	8	Two	9.40 pm	Barcelona v Enfield Rovers
July 6th	8	One	9.40 pm	Futsal4all Pheonix v Academy
July 13th	9	One	8.20 pm	Maccabi Maulers v PGA
July 13th	9	Two	8.20 pm	Futsal4all Pheonix v Riff Raff
July 13th	9	One	9.00 pm	Quake Youth v Enfield Rovers
July 13th	9	Two	9.00 pm	Northern Tigers v Sydney Tigers
July 13th	9	Two	9.40 pm	Barcelona v Dural Warriors
July 13th	9	One	9.40 pm	Academy v Pirates
July 27th	10	One	8.20 pm	Pirates v Riff Raff
July 27th	10	Two	8.20 pm	Futsal4all Pheonix v PGA
July 27th	10	One	9.00 pm	Enfield Rovers v Sydney Tigers
July 27th	10	Two	9.00 pm	Northern Tigers v Dural Warriors
July 27th	10	Two	9.40 pm	Quake Youth v Barcelona
July 27th	10	One	9.40 pm	Academy v Maccabi Maulers
August 3rd	Semi Finals	One	8.20 pm	1st Red v 2nd Blue
August 3rd	Semi Finals	Two	8.20 pm	2nd Red v 1st Blue
August 17th	Finals	Two	9.00 pm	Winners SF1 V SF2

Womens Draw

Note that after Round 7 the Womens competition will be divided into Division A and Division B as per the points table. Each Division will be 4 teams and will have a round robin followed by seperate Semi Finals and Finals.

Winter State League Womens 2009 - Draw (updated 12/5/2009)

Date	Round	Court	Time	Teams
May 11th	1	One	7.00 pm	Just 4 Kicks v Force 10
May 11th	1	Two	7.00 pm	Sydney City Quake v Hachies
May 11th	1	One	7.40 pm	Cienna v Pirates
May 11th	1	Two	7.40 pm	V.I.M. v Wadeys Army
May 18th	2	One	7.00 pm	Force 10 v Hachies
May 18th	2	Two	7.00 pm	Just 4 Kicks v Pirates
May 18th	2	One	7.40 pm	Cienna v Wadeys Army
May 18th	2	Two	7.40 pm	Sydney City Quake v V.I.M.
May 25th	3	One	7.00 pm	Just 4 Kicks v Cienna
May 25th	3	Two	7.00 pm	Sydney City Quake v Wadeys Army
May 25th	3	One	7.40 pm	Force 10 v V.I.M.
May 25th	3	Two	7.40 pm	Hachies v Pirates
June 1st	4	One	7.00 pm	Just 4 Kicks v Wadeys Army
June 1st	4	Two	7.00 pm	Pirates v V.I.M.
June 1st	4	One	7.40 pm	Hachies v Cienna
June 1st	4	Two	7.40 pm	Force 10 v Sydney City Quake
June 15th	5	One	7.00 pm	V.I.M. v Cienna
June 15th	5	Two	7.00 pm	Pirates v Sydney City Quake
June 15th	5	One	7.40 pm	Hachies v Just 4 Kicks
June 15th	5	Two	7.40 pm	Force 10 v Wadeys Army
June 22nd	6	One	7.00 pm	Cienna v Sydney City Quake
June 22nd	6	Two	7.00 pm	V.I.M. v Just 4 Kicks
June 22nd	6	One	7.40 pm	Hachies v Wadeys Army
June 22nd	6	Two	7.40 pm	Pirates v Force 10
June 29th	7	One	7.00 pm	Sydney City Quake v Just 4 Kicks
June 29th	7	Two	7.00 pm	Pirates v Wadeys Army
June 29th	7	One	7.40 pm	Cienna v Force 10
June 29th	7	Two	7.40 pm	V.I.M. v Hachies
July 6th	8	One	7.00 pm	Division A
July 6th	8	Two	7.00 pm	Division A
July 6th	8	One	7.40 pm	Division B
July 6th	8	Two	7.40 pm	Division B
July 13th	9	One	7.00 pm	Division B
July 13th	9	Two	7.00 pm	Division B
July 13th	9	One	7.40 pm	Division A
July 13th	9	Two	7.40 pm	Division A
July 27th	10	One	7.00 pm	Division A
July 27th	10	Two	7.00 pm	Division A
July 27th	10	One	7.40 pm	Division B
July 27th	10	Two	7.40 pm	Division B
August 3rd	Semi Finals	One	7.00 pm	Division B S/F 1
August 3rd	Semi Finals	Two	7.00 pm	Division B S/F 2
August 3rd	Semi Finals	One	7.40 pm	Division A S/F 1
August 3rd	Semi Finals	Two	7.40 pm	Division A S/F/2
August 17th	Grand Finals	Two	7.40 pm	Division B
August 17th	Grand Finals	Two	8.20 pm	Division A

In the Intermediate Age group, Rowville Secondary College B beat Copperfield College 3-2 in the final.

Rowville Secondary College came out winners 5-3 over Erindale College A in the Senior group.

The full round results, tables and Champion of Champions lists are available here in the official PDF file from Vikings.

Matches will be played on a home and away basis. All colleges have both girls and boys teams and play at the same school venue. The first listed team is the home team. Odd weeks boys start first and even weeks girls start first unless the two colleges make other arrangements in advance.

It has been decided that a Northside and Southside competition will be followed by semi finals (top 2 from each pool) and finals on the same day. In each pool teams will play each college at home and away. There will be an attempt to get official referees but if they are unable to attend the 2 colleges will need to negotiate refereeing (home team supply main referee).

Match venues cannot be changed as Futsal matches have been banked against netball.

Teams

North side
Hawker
Lake Ginninderra
Dickson
Melba Copland Secondary

Southside
Erindale
Narrabundah
Canberra
Lake Tuggeranong

The Draw can be viewed here (PDF)

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 <<

 

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