Futsal presentation

1. Futsal
Neil Lucas

2. What is Futsal ?
The origin of Futsal can be traced back to Uruguay, in the 1930s as a five-a-
side version of Football due to a lack of football pitches in the inner city’s.
The game quickly spread across South America.
The Name Futsal derives from the Portugese name Futebol De Salao or
Spanish name Futbol Sala Meaning Indoor Football.
It’s a 5-a-side game, normally played on a basketball size pitch with hockey
sized goals and a smaller ball with a reduced bounce. It is played to
touchlines and all players are free to enter the penalty area and play the
ball over head height.
As a game it places considerable demand on technique, movement, tactical
awareness and fitness. The differences to our traditional versions of Small
Sided Football are the absence of rebound boards and some slight
amendments in the laws that favour skilful, creative play above the physical
contact that tends to be a feature of English five a side.

3. What is Futsal?
The Basics…
5-a-Side including Goalkeeper
Pitch size – Length - Minimum 25m
Maxinmum 42m
Width - Minimum 15m
Maximum 25m
Smaller ball with 30% reduced bounce
Largest size is size 4. young children use size 2
Smaller, ‘Hockey’ sized goals (3mx2m)

4. Will Futsal improve me as a player?
• Improved co-ordination
• Closer control
• Improved technical ability
• Greater awareness of space
• Improved combination play

5. More Benefits of the Small Sided game…
• Far more repeated touches of the ball
• More touches throughout all areas of the pitch
• More attacking 1v1 scenarios
• More shots on goal and technical demand on goalkeepers
• Repeated decision making
• Emphasis is on individuals to take more responsibility
• All players must defend and attack
• Less time + Less Space = quicker thinking

6. 1 full size 11v 11 pitch = 7.5 futsal
courts. This equates to a 37v37 match

7. What’s the difference between futsal
and 5 a side?
Futsal is the only recognised small sided game by FIFA

8. Footballers who played Futsal as children
 Many of the world’s best professional players started out with Futsal to build
fundamental skills. Players include Messi, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Kaka, Iniesta,
Xavi, Coutinho and many more started out playing Futsal. In Brazil, the
majority of children start out with Futsal rather than association football since
it requires less space and many schools in the country do not have a field to
play traditional association football. In Spain Futsal rather than football is part
of the school PE Curriculum for the same reason

9. The young player should not be at all bothered with tactics,
defending or positional elements. The focus should be on
learning basic techniques. It should be ball, ball and more
ball." Zico

10.  "It's helped me a lot because in Futsal it's all short passes and on a football
pitch it's totally different, you have more time to think. When I was little
we always played Futsal and now it's easy to control the ball in short
spaces, that's where it's helped me a lot."
Ronaldinho

11. The Futsal Numbers
Can You Match them up?
 Conservative estimate of worldwide
participation
 Registered Futsal players in Iran alone
 20% of the Spanish population who play Futsal
 Registered Futsal players in Italy
 Futsal referees in Japan
 Registered teams in Iran
4 million
23,000
16 million
9 million
42 million
35,000

12. The Answers..
 42 million =
 16 million =
 9 million =
 4 million =
 35,000 =
 23,000 =
Conservative estimate of worldwide participation
(at a par with women's football)
Registered Futsal players in Iran alone (source: AFC)
20% of the Spanish population who play Futsal (47m – 2011) (source: LNFS
(Liga Nacional Futbol Sala)
Registered Futsal players in Italy
(1.1million in football: source FIGC 2010)
Futsal referees in Japan (source: AFC)
Registered teams in Iran (source: AFC)

13. Futsal ‘Principles of Play
What are they?
 There are 3 Principles..
 1 Defending (Out of possession)
 2 Attacking (In possession)
 3 Counter Attacking (Transition)

14. The Russian Futsal team consists of ex Brazilian nationals..

16. Development..
 “I learned how to play football as
a kid through trial and error.
When you start kicking the ball
about in Brazil there are no
tactics. I played futsal right up
until I turned professional at 16. I
think Brazilian football has
reached the level it has because
of futsal. The pitches are smaller.
The goals are smaller. You have
to be faster in everything that you
do; particularly, you have to make
quick decisions.”
 OSCAR..

17. Questions…
 Neil Lucas
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 neil@salasoccerschools.com