Showing posts with label toronto futsal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label toronto futsal. Show all posts

Saturday, October 11, 2014

Futsal season countdown REGISTER NOW!

Futsal season starts right after thanksgiving long weekend. If you have not already done so; registrations are still being accepted for the following divisions:

U8 (2008, 2007)*
U10 (2006/2005)
U12 (2004/2003)
U14 (2002/2001)
U16 (2000/1999)

Training will be held twice a week at Lincoln M. Alexander SS, Thistletown CI and Queensplate Community Gymnasium. Additional player training will be available upon progression throughout the season. Fees include: training kit, home and away kits, tracksuit, bag, water bottle, hat and all futsal league registration costs. 

NEW Drop-In Futsal will be available during the week for those players wishing to better their foot skills by incorporating futsal into their weekly program. Dates will be released after season kicks off. For additional information please feel free to contact the club registrar.

*one game; one training session


NEYMAR AND HULK Talk Futsal:

Neymar, FC Barcelona forward
Futsal helps a lot because you need to think quickly. It's a more dynamic game and today in Europe there's not much space so you need to think quicker and futsal has helped me a lot with that. Futsal is one of my passions. I always loved to play, but unfortunately I had to stop to progress on the football pitch.

Hulk, FC Zenit forward
I played some futsal when I was five or seven years old, I liked it a lot. Anyone who plays futsal a lot will end up showing what they have learned on the football pitch too. There are some tactical moves in futsal which are much more difficult to break out from, but when you have some experience in futsal it ends up being easier.
I think the fans love futsal because of the smaller pitch, you're closer to goal although the goal is a bit smaller, but I think that it's the number of goals that makes the fans enthusiastic.
Despite it being a pitch for ten players, four each side plus the goalkeepers on both teams, there is a lot of movement. You run a lot. You might not think so, but it's like the movement we have during a football match, although I think there's even a bit more movement in futsal than in football on a grass pitch.
[Playing futsal I learned] control of the ball, the way you dominate the ball. In futsal the ball always comes faster, it has more speed, and you have to have more agility to be able to immediately break out of a play or marking, so that helps a lot on the [football] pitch.

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

CONCACAF Futsal Club Championship Try-Outs

The 2014 CONCACAF Futsal Club Championships will be held in Guatemala City from August 19-23, 2014 and The Ontario Soccer Association (OSA) is hosting tryouts for the Ontario based Futsal Club team. For more information visit the OSABlog

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Roy Blanche Technical Staff-Kuwait National Futsal Team

Roy Blanche-Coach Kuwait National Futsal Team
We would like to congratulate Roy Blanche Technical Director of Futsal Club Toronto for his appointment to the Kuwait National Futsal Team. He will be working with Spanish Head Coach Luis Fonseca an article posted on this accomplished Futsal Coach can be found here: http://www.abc.es/20120626/deportes/abci-futbol-sala-entrevista-luis-201206221652.html

Roy has been offered the position with the Kuwait National Futsal Team and is currently working hard with the team in preparation for the 2014 AFC Futsal Championships in Vietnam from April 30-May 10. The Kuwait National Team will be traveling to Murcia, Spain for a camp and friendlies versus Pozo Murcia and Cartagena are part of the itinerary prior to heading out to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to play a series of friendlies before their arrival to Ho Chi Minh City-Vietnam for the 2014 AFC Futsal Championships. Roy Blanche will finish off his current contract with the National Team and will return to Toronto, Canada by May 10th pending the national sides success in Vietnam.

The experience Roy is currently receiving in the Middle East is superior to any experience he currently could receive in his native land Canada. His former club Al-Arabi SC competed in the Kuwait Futsal League which currently ranks top 10 in the world for FIFA Futsal Leagues. FIFA Futsal Rankings, as of March 2014, lists Kuwait as 43rd in the world and Canada currently sits in 60th place with no activity in futsal since the 2012 CONCACAF Futsal Qualifier.


We all miss him dearly, especially those players that had the opportunity to train with him at Futsal Club Toronto, currently the only club in Canada that provides 100% futsal training. He is truly an exceptional coach with strong values, morals and ethics and delivers his sessions with great passion which makes him not only a great coach but a true mentor for all athletes. As a coach he is gaining an incredible amount of knowledge that will only compliment the training and expertise provided to all members at Futsal Club Toronto and to Canada Futsal minds who currently seek and lack the futsal coaching courses necessary to develop the sport and to implement in trainings; something not currently being offered in Ontario or Canada. Futsal forms part of new LTPD program and coaches could benefit immensely from Roy's futsal coaching expertise abroad; however, we are optimistic and remain enthusiastic of what the future holds for futsal in Ontario and Canada as we are certain there is a bright future for a nation that experiences a good 7 months of winter. 

All games in the 2014 AFC Futsal Championships will be televised and available online during the week long event held in Ho Chi Minh City-Vietnam. The Kuwait National Futsal Team has been drawn in Group A with hosts Vietnam, Tajikistan and Iraq. Lets support Roy Blanche as an accomplished Canadian Futsal Coach on the international futsal stage during the 2014 AFC Futsal Championships-Vietnam.
Kuwait National Futsal Team-Technical Staff