The goalkeeper speedily rolls the ball out to his teammate who takes only one touch and notices he is missing a shin guard. Brandon, playing on a U12 team, immediately passes the ball to another teammate, turns and runs to his team bench. "Coach, I need to put on my other shin guard!" "Okay. Kyle, go in for Brandon!", yells the coach. Kyle runs onto the futsal court while the game continues. ("Flying" subs is standard in a futsal game.) Kyle receives the ball. Facing an opponent now, he steps over the ball to the right and then pushes the ball to the left, but his opponent pokes the ball out over the touchline. Kyle runs to get the ball, picks it up, places it on the touchline and quickly kicks it back into play to a teammate running down the middle. (Kick-ins replace throw-ins in the game of futsal.) Emily, their team's best player, receives the ball, passes to a teammate wide of the other team's goalkeeper. The ball is "one touched" back to Emily who scores. Gooooooooooal!!! That advances Emily's team ahead by one goal. The score is now 4 to 3 with only 1 minute left. (Futsal games are often higher scoring than soccer games.) Will Emily score again? Will the other team tie the game up? Take the lead back with only 1 minute left? That's the excitement commonplace in futsal. North Alabama FUTSAL has been conducting winter and summer seasons of futsal for two years - now in their third year - and is hosting the 1st Annual Dixie Defrost Futsal Tournament in January for youth teams - U8 through U19. Interested? See the Tournaments page on the North Alabama FUTSAL website. The tournament is exactly one month from today. You have only four more days to register at the reduced Early Bird rate. Afterwards the rate returns to normal. Also see attachment. |
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