Final Futsal GMI Sem 6, Industrial Electronics, October 2009 - Mecha 2 vs Mecha 1 (Vol. 2)

Mecha 2 vs Mecha 1, Live from GMI Futsal, Final Sem 6 Inter Futsal Sport, Industrial Electronics, October 2009

The final result is Mecha2 6-2 Mecha1

Final GMI Futsal Inter Sport Match, October 2009

Mecha 2 has proof its skills in futsal game when yesterday final match against Mecha 1 ends with 6-2 results.

Mecha 2 Sem 6 has become champion for the October 2009 batch futsal inter sport match in the Industrial Electronics.

Futsal Surface vs Your Game

Previously, the post is about futsal pitch build material.

Because there are several of them, the futsal game is also become slightly different.

If you have a match in a synthetic turf pitch, the opponent may be gladly done a lot of sliding tackle.

To dribble in this sort of futsal pitch can be sloppy if the player is not prepared.

On the other hand, if you are playing in the rubberized futsal pitch, long pass and dribbling can be a good choice.

Plane futsal pitch like this will likely to exhaust your energy quicker, because the ball has smooth plane to travel, and it travel a lot quicker.

Evaluate your futsal pitch and strategize before you play a match.

Material for Futsal pitch

Rubberized Floor

Synthetic Turf

Rubber granules

The 3 pictures above show the common material that is usually used in the Futsal pitch.

The most recommended pitch is the Rubberized floor.

This floor is smooth and has high grip ability.

It is also not very painful if you fall into it.

The synthetic turf is usually added with rubber granules to prevent injury.

The downside of it is when you use normal Futsal shoes the traction is very low.

Sometimes for player who is not used to it, it will affect the player performance.

Manage your own Futsal Club

If you are in to Futsal, why don’t you do it with passion?

Find several players that you are comfortable with, and manage a Futsal.

Of course the minimum player is 5 people.

When you got a fix club or team, although it is not a professional one, you will have good chemistry between each other.

Who knows you might even win tournament if you all train hard.

Playing Futsal with a fix team can be fun, plus if they are all you close friend.

Maintain fit body can be easier when you got a fix Futsal team.

FIFA Futsal - Mission and Goals

FIFA, the main organization of futsal football is also handling the Futsal sport and is committed to standardized Futsal sport so it can be play internationally. To achieve this objective FIFA has rule out the mission and goal for the international community who is involve in Futsal sport. By doing this, it is hope that Futsal sport can be globalize as like the football franchise.

Mission

FIFA has made a commitment to promote and structure the sport of futsal globally, by means of competitions, courses and other proactive measures, and to encourage its members to do the same.

Goals

• To launch, integrate and establish futsal in FIFA member associations;


• To communicate the Laws of the Game of futsal and provide the required infrastructure and equipment;


• To support and promote the setting up of new futsal competitions through the confederations and member associations;


• To organize courses and seminars and to publish teaching material for futsal players, coaches, referees and officials;


• To provide technical and organizational help with arranging futsal competitions;


• To standardize the Laws.

Futsal promotes Freestyle

Futsal skills and drills are very much promoting the act of using freestyle skills during the futsal game.

This is because the low and compact space of futsal pitch with 10 players stuck inside.

By nature the player will try their best beat the last defence to score goal.

Freestyle dribble skills can be play to trick the opposition defender.

While the futsal ball is made to be less bouncing and easier to control, thus another factor for freestyle skills to be born.

Freestyle skills in futsal while playing can add much more fun to the game while you are plying it with your colleague.

Play Futsal with Brain

As we all known, futsal is a fast sport in a court that is quite small compare to football.

The player needed to content and release the energy only when needed.

If a player constantly running without getting the ball, fatigue can come in a matter of minutes.

Play with your brain! Observe the opponent skills and game play.

Every individual player must have one skill in particular that he will do a lot, and that can be his weakness.

If one player can predict the opponent move, this can boost the team player morale.

In an important match, psychological act like this can help.

Robert Pires: “Today, football gets faster and faster, with lots of moves. So you need to play with your brain as well as your feet."

Current Ranking of National Futsal Team (21 September 2009)

1. Brazil
2. Spain
3. Italy
4. Portugal
5. Russia
6. Iran
7. Argentina
8. Ukraine
9. Japan
10. Paraguay

The ranking is a progressive ranking, using point that collected from match qualified by FIFA. The top ten national ranking is sited by country that is familiar with football, showing the close link between the two sports.

Play Football = Play Futsal

In majority player will first play the football before they join the futsal.

Football does not need any investment, just a pair of shoes and a group of people to play with.

When it comes to futsal, a proper futsal court need to be rent plus with the proper futsal shoes.

For the player that is used to play football, play futsal game is only a matter of changing the game play.

Background from playing football helps a lot when playing futsal.

If you are new to futsal, play football for training will surely help to improve your futsal technique.

If one player is good at futsal, he can surely play football well enough and vice versa.

Football to Futsal

Football was first to be play by man long before futsal was created.

The reason why futsal sport is created was always link closely with the football interest.

This close link is true even with the gameplay and skills of both sports.

Football game needs an 11 man per team, 22 people for one complete game.

Because of that people start playing football with less people but spate it even with both teams.

This basic concept will eventually gave birth to the idea of playing in a plain ground with net all over the pitch, and is called Futsal.

Futsal can be played by 8 people or 10 according to the pitch size.

A country that has lesser space for green grassy field, this is the answer for sports man to able to release their craving for football.

Now futsal is widely known in country that is famous with football sport.

Key in Fitness for Futsal, Running

This is common for all coaches in futsal sport.

Running is a necessity for building stamina and injury prevention before any futsal game.

Uses running as a punishment for losing result and any mistake are appropriate since that act can return in good result afterwards.

Human body can really excel further even just when we run consistently.

Professional futsal player that being doing this the whole time will have no fitness problem in their futsal match.

So just keep on running, a basic thing that will come in a long way.

Keeper for Futsal Game

The last line of defence is the keeper in any Futsal game.

Any team in Futsal game should have at least one fix keeper.

A fix keeper will give the player an experience better than anyone.

Unlike any other player in futsal, the keeper should train twice as hard as anyone.

Added with the special design drills and training for keeper.

The futsal game is a fast game, chance for keeper to have a clean sheet like soccer would be slim, but a good keeper can reduce the goal deficit in Futsal match.

Dynamic vs Static Stretching, Futsal

Warming up before one futsal match is a must.

We must do stretching to warm up and there are several types of stretching to choose.

There is dynamic and static stretching.

Test has showed that the static stretching shows that it does not really prevent injury.

Dynamic stretching is more advice for sportsmen to warm up before a futsal game.

By moving your body, hand and legs, the flexibility and stretch of one body increase even more optimum.

That is why dynamic stretching is more likely to prevent injury rather than static stretching.

A sports performance program could look like this:

Beginning - Dynamic warm up
Middle - Actual workout
End - Cool down/static stretching

Ball Possession in Futsal Game

In futsal game, ball possession is very important.

This is to control the game as what we wanted.

The concept is simple, opponent don’t get the ball they don’t get to score.

Passing neatly in one team can provide a good possession of the ball.

Other than that, stop ball, individual ball possession is the key of the team possession.

A good chemistry futsal team will help when their partner is in trouble by giving him the area to pass the ball cleanly.

Possession is one difficult part to master, because it relate to the whole team game play.

Training with the same team often will help increase chemistry and produce a good possession game in a match.

The Important of Rest in Futsal

Futsal player that actively play this game will feel the exhaustion gradually.

Matches that are intense in a row can exert one player to exhaustion.

Proper rest and recovery are needed for the futsal player to recover back to optimum condition.

Mental and physically restore from one match can prevent tiredness and even injury.

With proper rest within every match, drills and training the futsal player can gain back their energy and grow fitness,skills, strength and agility.

Futsal Team Ability Testing

Beep Test

In futsal sport, performance and the ability of a team can be asses by the individual player.

Several testing method can be used by trainer, such as Illinois Agility Test, 20/40 Metres Dash Test and Hoff Test.

The most common test will be the Beep Test, a measure of how well the stamina of a player.

The test can put the team on shape and test readiness in the futsal team.

Ability test can also be the motivator factor to the player for them to improve further their skills and stamina.

Integrated Body Movement = Speed in Futsal

What do the most sought after skills in futsal?

Is it speed, dribble ability, shooting accuracy?

Depends on what is the player position in one match.

With that entire technical thing, one thing in common with the entire player despite all their position, speeds ability.

With high speed ability you will give an impact in the futsal game and you will be noticed.

This is vital and very common in futsal, all the player need to have it to be good.

The speed is in all aspect, in defence, control ball, running with the ball, and turning fast.

So drills for speed are important. Not to forget about core training, because our body is integrated.

When running, hand, legs, core body is all utilize.

Use all your body part when you are training, this will help you increase speed in futsal.

Strength Training for Futsal

In sport, the strength training is very important to prevent injury and improved performance.

The thinking of strength training produce bulky and slow body is so absurd.

With proper weight and quick rep of set, this will produce a body with muscular strength and agility.

In term of futsal game, strength and agility will help a lot, since to
dribble pass defender can sure takes a lot of rapid body movement.

For a starter, a dumbbell training with quick rep consistently is a positive training to build up strength.

Psychological Part in Futsal

There is a common nature between all the good players in
futsal.

They all have high confidence in their self.
Self confidence is a psychological component in a player that helps them to excel.

With proper training, it can increase confidence to a higher level. Once the player confidence is high, the player’s game can be more aggressive and swift.

Built your confidence by training so that you will not melt down when oppose a better opponent in futsal.

Confidence can prevent a sloppy game and improve your finishing strike.

Balance Training In Futsal

High speed sport like futsal makes the player to run and stop swiftly with the ball in control.

Here comes the balancing of the player body, to increase the player balancing.

A set of training that imitates the movement of running and stopping is needed to be done.

Set a range about 10 meters, and then run back and forth quickly.

Rest every 8 set of running.

Although this training seems simple, but it is even used by the professional player to increase balancing and agility.

Dribble In Futsal

Futsal and ball dribbling technique is very well connected.

Common dribbling technique can be seen as fancy footwork and fundamental technique.

Both can be apply in futsal game according to the player.

Although a basic dribbling technique is used, apply at a right place can also be enough.

The key technique in dribbling is not in the leg but in the eyes.

The real good dribble technique start in the eye, the opposition player body is closely look before the attacking player commit a move that counter the opponent move.

It is just like a dance, but in a way that it must kill the opponent move. So look carefully at your opponent body and execute a killer move.

Good Luck!

Nutrient in Futsal

Do you always feel tired even when you are just starting to play the futsal game?

If you always feeling like this, maybe there is one field that you need to take serious in. Nutrition!

As simple as it gets, eating can make athlete to excel even further in sports.

Even scientist has proven that.

To generate lots of energy in futsal game, carbohydrate based food should give you the energy that you needed.

Other than that nutritious food will give benefits even in the long run.

After a good training, a good meal is also a good way towards the making of the ultimate super machine futsal player.

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Passing Through Victory

During a match a good game play is needed in order to win.

What is a better game play rather than the old school technique, passing!

Passing is a technique that can break any deadlock in a futsal match.

Passing also means team work and chemistry inside one team.

If the team is able to pass through his men around the pitch, this will tear up the opponent team and result in fatigue to them.

Passing is not an easy task, to make it smooth, a fairly good chemistry with the team is the essential part.

Training with the team regularly will increase the whole team member experience.

If one team embraces the passing game plays in futsal match.

That team will possess a higher chance of winning compare to its opponent.

Type of futsal pitch and futsal shoes

Futsal shoes with rough surface sole

Futsal shoes with rubber resin sole

Futsal has different type of pitch. Futsal pitch commonly use a synthetic turf, synthetic surface, parquet floor or on a concrete.

Because of the different surface, the futsal shoes are also different.

Generally to compensate this surface, there is only 2 types of shoes that is needed.

1. Sole made up mainly of rubber resin, allowing a significant adherence on all types of surface
2. A rough surface of shoe sole to allow grip at turf or grassy like pitch

Generally the type 1 shoes are the most common since the pitch is majority a non-turf pitch.

Image above show both type of futsalfutsal shoes.

Ball Kicking Technique(Futsal)

Ball kicking technique is important in Futsal sport. By improving this technique, passing and shooting will become improve to.

The image above shows 3 colored circles, this circle shows how the ball will behave if you kick using that part of foot. The non-kicking foot provides support, and should be bent as you kick.

Red circle is use to produce in swinger ball, accurate passing, accurate shooting.

Yellow circle, lob the ball, shooting air ball, shoot ground level ball.

Green circle, out swinger ball, low ball.

To be careful, when kicking the ball, don’t use your toe, it is wrong and painful. While shooting do not hit the ground, your ankle may be injured if this happen. Ankle injury will let you off the futsal pitch for months, so careful.

To practice with less injury probability, use comfortable futsal shoes, do not shoot with full force at start, and try shooting in grass plain.

Good Luck!

Training Futsal Alone

If you are not in the pitch, the training can still be done.

Image above shows how you can train futsal alone.

Kick the ball to the wall and then try to contain it before it touches the ground.

You may also juggle the ball with continuously hitting the wall.

Try how well you can contain the ball.

This drills will teach your leg how to be fast but still in control.

The longer you do, you will noticed that the ball is more predictable and you skills will get higher.

Good Luck!

Marking Player

Marking the opponent is very important in term of defensive in futsal. By marking the opponent player by 1:1, it will surely reduce the chance of letting off goal.

That is the most basic type of defensive.

When marking the challenger there is also proper technique to use, your body should be in a slightly crouched but stable position with your eyes focused on the opponent's hips and conscious of the immediate surroundings through peripheral vision.

Your distance from the futsal opponent depends on the skills of both of you as well as on the position of the marking.

The more skilled the opponent the further distant the marking, the nearer you are to your futsal goal the closer the marking should be.

Physical needs in futsal sport

This topic tries to avoid the skills and technique that differ from one individual to another, but focusing on just physical need of a normal person.

Stamina, this is a big issue in futsal sport. For a beginner that does not know how to dribble well, if this person has a high stamina, give him the time playing futsal and he will gradually improve.

In order to improve, one must have the stamina to run and challenge the opposition player, by doing this the experience learn from match to match will soon educate him to become good to. Without stamina, improvement in futsal sport is also radically reduced.

So tips to the beginner, the key to futsal improvement is in stamina. If you can run through the whole game, you can be fairly good in no time.

Preventing injury (answering previous post)

From my previous post, maybe who is reading it may hinder them to play futsal. This post I will tell about how to prevent legs injury while playing futsal.

Do not worry, all injuries can be prevented at the first place. I list up some several ways for you guys to manage.

It is always good if you do a stretching first before you enter the pitch. 5 minutes with a slow jog and some leg stretching can be vital to determine whether or not you will go home with an injury.

If you are starting a futsal game, start with a slow phase rather than running until your heart beats out. If it is a match, maybe it’s worth it.

The proper advice is that you must train your own body to be fit and agile. Do some exercise! Do some leg strengthening routine and jog a lot. If your body limitation is high so the injury threshold will also be increase.

For the beginner don’t push yourself to hard, maybe you will end up getting injury more then a month to recover.

Futsal gear like shoes, don’t share it, use your own that suits you. Buy a shoe that suits your size, because you will need it when you are running and chasing the whole game.

All the best!

Futsal Common Injury

Because this is a sport that uses legs the most, so leg injury is the common one. Ankle, shin and knee pain were always the regular part that the player is most commonly will get an injury.

Ankle, when the player shoots the ball without proper technique while having to swing the leg at full force. Sometimes your ankle might thump the ground more than you hit the ball. The stress will surely leave your ankle an injury.

Shin, while playing this sport (futsal) with others in a high speed phase, of course there is a lot of collision around. Either you are the defender or the striker running while dribbling the ball can be harmful to you shin. But then even if no collision happen, your shin might even give up if your leg are not ready to run for the full time game.
Knee, this part of your leg will be injured if you twist it fast in a short time more than the limit of your knee. This may be the most vital part that you need to save, because it may take a toll in the long run.

So stay safe and play hard.

Futsal vs Soccer

Above is the table showing the comparison between soccer and futsal rules of play.

FUTSAL PATTERNS OF PLAY

DEFENCE

The major aim of defense is to avoid opposition from scoring.
Another aim is to take the ball from the opposition. These two objectives are closely related to each other. Most of goals in FUTSAL are
scored from the 'D' area, so this 'D' zone and the area close to it
should be very well protected
Areas in the middle must be protected better than areas on the sides
since the probability of scoring from these areas is higher. There
are two widely used defensive structures 2-2 (square) and 1-2-1
(rhombus). The goalkeeper is the last line of defense and must be
made as energetic as possible.

ATTACK

Keeping control of the ball is the key of victory in attack.
When your team controls a ball then you can score and the
opposition cannot. Passing is the extremely vital element of an
attack. Moving without the ball is another very important element of
an attack. Always try to give the player with the ball extra than one
alternative for a pass. There are different attacking systems in FUTSAL
and you can decide to use one or a number of them, but don't play
like robots use your mind, spontaneity, skills and creativity.
Most general offensive systems in FUTSAL are 2-2 (square) 3-1
with 4-0.

COACHES SNEEK STRATEGY

1-3 (1 defender 3 forward)

2-2 (2 defender 2 forward)

3-1 (3 defender 1 forward)

COACHES SNEEK STRATEGY

Playing Futsal, is it a way to standardize your team formation, like showing one finger, which formation should they follow?

Of course there is a formation in this game, the above picture tells you about the futsal formation in the pitch.

Players are cautioned with a yellow card, and sent off with a red card.
The indirect free kick shall be taken from the place where the infringement occurred.
Yellow and red cards are both used in Futsal. The yellow card is to caution players over their actions, and if they get two they are given a red card, which means they are sent off the field. A player is shown the red card and sent off if they engage in serious foul play, violent conduct, spitting at another person, denying the opposing team a goal by handling the ball (except the goalkeeper inside his penalty area). Also punishable with a red card is denying an opponent moving towards the player’s goal a goal scoring opportunity by committing an offence punishable by a free kick or a penalty kick, using offensive, insulting or abusive language or gestures. A player who has been sent off must leave the vicinity of the pitch. A substitute player is permitted to come on two minutes after a team-mate has been sent off, unless a goal is scored before the end of the two minutes. If a team of five players scores against a team of less than five players, another player can be added to the team with less than five players. If the teams are equal when the goal is scored, or if the team with less players scores, both teams remain with the same number of players.

A direct free kick can be awarded to the opposing team if a player succeeds or attempts to kick or trip an opponent, jumping, charging or pushing an opponent, or striking or attempting to strike an opponent. Holding, touching or spitting at an opponent are offenses that are worthy of a direct free kick, as are sliding in to play the ball while your opponent is playing it or carrying, striking or throwing the ball (except the goalkeeper). These are all accumulated fouls. The direct free kick is taken where the infringement occurred, unless it is awarded to the defending team in their penalty area, in which case the free kick may be taken from anywhere inside the penalty area. A penalty kick is awarded if a player commits one of the fouls that are worthy of a direct free kick inside his own penalty area.

The start and restart of game

At the start of the futsal game, a coin toss is used to settle on who will start the match. A kick off is used to indication the start of play, and is also used at the start of the second half, and any stages of extra time.

It is also used subsequent to a goal has been scored, with the other team starting the play.

After a momentary stoppage for any cause not mentioned in the Laws of the Game, the referee will drop the ball where the play was discontinue, provided that preceding to the stoppage when ball was in play and had not crossed either the touch lines or goal lines.

If the ball goes above the goal line or touchline, hits the ceiling or the play is stopped by the referee, the ball is out of play.

If it strikes the ceiling of an indoor arena, play is restarted with a kick-in to the rival of the team that last touched the ball, under the place where it hit the ceiling.

Tie breaker and duration of futsal

In some competitions, the match cannot finish in a tie, so away goals, added time and penalties are the three ways for deciding the champ after a match has been drawn. Away goals indicate that if the team score is same after playing one home and one away match, the goals scored in the away match count as twice.
Added time consists of two stages of five minutes. If no winner turns out after these methods, five penalties are gave and the team that have scored the most wins.
A benchmark game consists of two identical periods of 20 minutes. The span of either half is extended to permit penalty kicks to be taken, or a straight free kick to be taken against a team that has committed further than five fouls. The half time period between the two halves cannot go beyond 15 minutes.
If it is not settle on after five penalties, it continues to go on until one squad has scored more goals than the other. Unlike extra time, the goals scored in a penalty shoot out do not count towards the goals scored during the contest.

Futsal Pitch

Futsal pitch in Tokyo, on top of building

The pitch is a made up of wood or synthetic material, even though any even, smooth and non- coarse material may be used.
The span of the pitch is in the range 38-42 m (42-46 yd) and the width is in the range 18-25m in worldwide matches. For other matches, it can be from 25-42m (27-46 yd) in length, while the width can be 15-25m (16-27 yd), as long as the length of the longer boundary lines (touchlines) are greater than the shorter borders where the goals are position (goal lines).
Ahead of each goal is a region known as the penalty area. This region is created by outline quarter circles with a 6 m (7 yd) radius from the goal line, centred on the goalposts.
The line spot the edge of the penalty area is known as the penalty area line. The penalty area marks where the goalkeeper is permitted to handle the ball with his hands. The penalty mark is six metres from the goal line when it reaches the core of the goalpost. A penalty kick from the penalty spot is awarded if a player causes a foul inside the penalty area.

Futsal official, player and equipment

There are five players on every team, one of whom is the goalkeeper. The highest number of substitutes allowed is seven, with infinite substitutions during the match. Substitutes can come on still when the ball is in play. If a team has less than three players in the team, the match is discarded.
The match is controlled by a referee who implements the Laws of the Game, and the primary referee is the only one who can discard the match because of intrusion from outside the pitch. This referee is also aided by a second referee. The verdicts made by the referees are final, and can only be changed if the referees consider it is necessary and play has not restarted. There is also a third referee and a timekeeper, who are provided with apparatus to keep a record of fouls in the futsal match. In the event of harm to the referee or second referee, the third referee will restore the second referee.
The kit is made up of a jersey or shirt with sleeves, shorts, and socks, shin guards made out of rubber or plastic and shoes with rubber soles. The goalkeeper is allowed to wear long trousers and a diverse coloured kit, to distinguish himself from the previous players in the team and the referee. Jewellery is not approved, as are other items that could be hazardous to themselves or other players.

Gameplay of futsal

Futsal is played among two teams of five players, one of who is the goalkeeper, and up to seven substitutes per team. Unlike some other forms of indoor football, the sport is played on a firm court plane delimited by lines; walls or boards are not used. Futsal is also played with a smaller ball with less bounce than a guideline football. The rules generate an emphasis on creativeness, creativity and technique as well as ball control and passing in lesser spaces.

Futsal History

Futsal was happening in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1930 when Juan Carlos Ceriani created a side of football for competition in YMCAs.In Brazil, this version developed on the streets of Sao Paulo, and finally a rule book was published. The sport began to extend across South America, and its reputation ensured that a prevailing body was formed under the name of FIFUSA (Federación Internacional de Fútbol de Salón) in 1971, along with the World Championships. The first FIFUSA World Championship were held in São Paulo, with hosts Brazil crowned champions in front of Paraguay and Uruguay. Even more countries participated in the second World Championships held in Madrid in 1985. Due to a disagreement between FIFA and FIFUSA over the administration of fútbol, FIFUSA coined the word fut-sal in 1985.

FIFA took control of the World Championships in 1989. Under new strategy made by FIFA, the scientific aspects of the game for players and spectators were improved. The linesmen were replaced with a second referee and there were infinite substitutions. It also introduced a size 4 football, which was weighted to reduce spring up by 30% compared to a conventional ball, which enabled quicker play and, for the initial time, scoring goals with the head.

Futsal Information

Below is the actual dimension of futsal court.

Futsal is a variation of connection football that is largely played insides. Its name is resultant from the Portuguese "Futebol de Salão" and the "Spanish language" Spanish fútbol sala/de salón, which can be translate as 'indoor football'. In Madrid 1985 the name fútbol de salón and all other names the game was call were changed officially and internationally into FUTSAL. Now it has been some phenomena to country that primarily uses space like the grass field to make the way for the development. Futsal is the answer to replace the grass field.