Sunday, September 20, 2015

YM indoor soccer name change FUTSAL!

For convenience  and to delineate our sport from "soccer"  we will now  call  our sport "Futsal".
 I actually  first heard of it from someone from Portugal who has moved to Salt Lake City and somehow  stumbled across our  SAMS LDS   sports blog, and he asked if we played  "Futsal".


Futsal

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Futsal
Futebol Salao Pan2007.jpg
International futsal match between Argentina and Brazil
Highest governing body FIFA and AMF
First played 1930, Uruguay
Characteristics
Contact Yes
Team members Five per side
Type Indoor
Equipment Futsal ball
Venue Futsal field
Presence
Olympic No
Paralympic No
Futsal (Portuguese pronunciation: [futˈsal]) is a variant of association football that is played on a smaller field and mainly played indoors. It can be considered a version of five-a-side football.[1] Its name comes from the Portuguese Futebol de salão , which can be translated as "room football". It was developed in Brazil in the 1930s and 1940s.
In Brazil, futsal is played by more people than football but does not attract as many spectators as the outdoor sport. Several futsal players have moved on to careers as successful professional football players.[2]
Futsal is a game played between two teams of five players each, one of whom is the goalkeeper. Unlimited substitutions are permitted. Unlike some other forms of indoor football, the game is played on a hard court surface delimited by lines; walls or boards are not used. Futsal is also played with a smaller ball with less bounce than a regular football due to the surface of the field.[3] The surface, ball and rules create an emphasis on improvisation, creativity and technique as well as ball control and passing in small spaces.[4]


  Tell me  does  this not sound more like what we are playing than "soccer"? 
So  from now on lets call our sport  Futsal.

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