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.