Saturday Junior Training

ATTENTION 

Junior Training will break for Christmas after Saturday the 10th of December and will recommence Saturday the 28th of January at the University.  

Time: 10.00am -12.00pm and costs $8 per session.

If you would like to register for this training please contact the office on 54431100 or email JLIB_HTML_CLOAKING   

Question about Futsal?

Q1. Who administers Futsal in Australia? A1. Futsal is governed international by FIFA and is run in Australia by FFA and it's state member bodies, in Queensland by Football Queensland.

Q2. Where does the name Futsal come from? A2. It comes from the portugese words that literally mean Soccer/Football inside.

Q3. What are the benefits of futsal? A3. Futsal provides opportunity for players to have lots of touches on the ball, improves speed of decision making and the speed of execution of the technical skills. + much much more...........

Q4. What are the main differences between Futsal and Football? A4. Futsal is 5 A-side and played on a much smaller court than football and played at all levels with a smaller ball that has low-bounce.  Football is 11 aside played primarily on grass fields.  Both games are governed by FIFA and have a World Cup.

Who is the greatest Footballer of all time?

Pele

Pele Sports wear is now available at The Football Shop.Shoes,Shirts,Shorts etc Pele talks about the importance of Futsal for development of Football. See below...

During the course of the interview, Pele spoke about his involvement in futsal and how important it was to his development as the greatest football player ever "When I played Futsal in Brazil, it was actually called "Futebol de salao". A lot of Brazilian players play both normal football and futsal. I played futsal for 3 years before I joined Santos".  Futsal is a fast moving, high scoring game and Pele spoke of the appeal of this aspect of the game to him:

"I wanted to score lots of goals. I was 12, 13, 14... three years I played futsal, it was very important to me".

In Brazil, futsal is seen as the ideal skill building environment for 11 a side football and is often referred to as football's "little brother". Even today, futsal still has a big part to play within Pele's family:

"My son was a futsal player and nowadays he is involved in organising futsal tournaments in Brazil ."

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