THE POWER OF FIVE #2 September 2011

THE MAGAZINE OF NEW ZEALAND FOOTBALL FUTSAL

ISSUE 2 SEPTEMBER 2011

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Action from the opening of the ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington as Futsal Whites flanker Brayden Lissington tries his luck from wide out at against St Patricks during the Cup of Nations (this page) while Futsal Whites captain Marvin Eakins tussles with Hicham Kamri (top right).

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A busy time for futsal...

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Welcome to the second edition of Power of Five, NZF Futsal’s quarterly ‘round up’. It has been a busy three months for futsal with national and international competitions, new programmes, new world class facilities, more futsal dedicated staff and more centres!

The Futsal Whites missed out on the FIFA Futsal World Cup 2012 in a heart-breaking semi final penalty shootout with Tahiti but spirits were quickly lifted when the country got a glimpse of the future at the NZF Futsal National Junior/Youth Championships. With 36 teams, and over 130 action packed games - the tournament was a showcase of incredible skill, discipline and fun for all.

Teams from as far north as Whangarei and as far south as Christchurch converged on Hawke’s Bay Futsal’s excellent facility Pettigrew.Green Arena.

This is testament to the rapid growth of the game on our shores and from what was on show the future is very bright indeed!

Meanwhile, Capital Futsal will still be pinching themselves to make sure they are not dreaming with the new ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington.

The Futsal Whites led the way at the 15,000 attendance grand opening with a showcase game against a well structured St Patrick’s College representative futsal team in front of Wellington and national dignitaries. This was followed by a number of tournaments for all age groups and abilities and a chance for the local community to challenge the Futsal Whites to a game.

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We now have seven dedicated Futsal Development Managers and Futsal Development Officers working nationally in our federations and the numbers will continue to rise as we near the end of 2011. There are now over 120 qualified futsal referees officiating up to 700 games of futsal a week.

Futsal now has its place in the sporting landscape of New Zealand, but as always in sport a big thank you goes out to those dedicated volunteers who, day in, day out,go the extra mile for the development of futsal. This issue is a tribute to these coaches, team managers, administrators and mentors. You know who you are and the futsal community thanks you all.

Dave Payne NZF Futsal Development Manager

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OFC Championships MVP and Golden Boot winner Elliot Ragomo (top).

Tahiti and Solomon Islands lineup before the classic final at Vodafone Arena.

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SOLOMONS IslandS will represent OCEANIA at the 2012 FIFA FUtSAL WORLD CUP IN THAILAND. FUTSALWHITES FINISH THIRD after a shootout loss in their semi-final against tahiti.

Solomon Islands will once again face the world’s best futsal sides at the FIFA Futsal World Cup, after a thrilling 6-4 victory over Tahiti in the OFC Futsal Championships Final at the Vodafone Arena in Suva in May. A massive shock looked on the cards after the impressive Tahiti side lead the favourites 4-1 early in the second half of a pulsating final. But the Solomons Islands comeback, led by captain and tournament MVP Elliot Ragomo swept the Tahitians aside and the ‘Kurukuru’ booked their place in Thailand 2012, much to the delight of a packed stadium and their fans back home.

The Futsal Whites meanwhile, will have to wait another four years for their shot at futsal glory, following a heartbreaking penalty shootout loss in the semi-final after a 3-3 extra time draw with Tahiti.

Earlier the Futsal Whites had finished top of Group A, following a draw against Fiji and victories over Vanuatu and tournament newcomers Kiribati.

NEW ZEALAND 4 FIJI 4 On the opening night, a well-prepared Futsal Whites got off to a hesitant start, going down 1-0 early to a fired up local side. Skipper Marvin Eakins equalized five minutes before half time and notched a second after the break, before goals from

Lucas da Silva and Dylan Manickum saw New Zealand cruising at 4-1. Fiji brought it back to 4-3 late in the game and then stunned Matt Chandler’s men with a controversial equalizer from a sideline kick-in in the last seconds of the game, following a Futsal Whites defensive mixup.

NEW ZEALAND 21 KIRIBATI 1 The Futsal Whites opened Day Two of the championships by dismantling Kiribati with a controlled display of possession futsal. It was a ‘‘goalfest’’ from start to finish - with East City’s Nathan Robertson and Dylan Manickum leading the way with five and four respectively. Marvin Eakins claimed a hat-trick while Jakub Sinkora, Miro Major and Micky Malivuk claimed two each.

Goals from Tariq Assad, Lucas da Silva and Daniel Koprivcic completed the rout and the Futsal Whites were on course for the semi-finals.

NEW ZEALAND 6 VANUATU 4 A fine solo effort from Jakub Sinkora followed by a clinical finish from Nathan Robertson gave the Futsal Whites the best possible start in this ‘must win’ game for the Futsal Whites. Vanuatu brought the game back to 2-2 just after halftime and soon after it was 3-3 after Robertson and Vanuatu’s influential Don Mansale traded blows. Goals from Micky Malivuk and Dylan Manickum made it five for the Futsal Whites before Vanuatu scored again

to keep in touch at 5-4. Greg O’Connor then came off the bench to score a fine sixth, ensuring the Futsal Whites had not only made the semi-finals, but avoided a match up with the rampant Solomon Islands.

NEW ZEALAND (2)3 TAHITI (2)3 (TAHITI won 4-3 on penalties) The Futsal Whites made a hesitant start to their most important game for four years and the well organised Tahitians took control of the first half, going into the break with a 2-0 lead. Daniel Koprivcic got the Futsal Whites back on track after the restart, turning home Dylan Manickum’s cross from close range, before Nathan Robertson turned to slot a well-deserved equalizer following a sustained period of domination by the Kiwis. The game finished all square at full time, then in extra time Marvin Eakins looked to have sealed it for New Zealand with a back post finish, following a killer ball from Miro Major, before a late turnover gifted the Tahitians with the equalizer to set up a dramatic penalty shootout. Manickum and Koprivcic saw their efforts saved by Tahiti custodian Atanui Tetihia and the Tahitians stunned the Futsal Whites to win the shootout 4-3. The New Zealanders were left to rue another slow start and their inability to hang on to a lead in the final stanza of the game. The ‘dream final’ against the Solomon Islands was not be and the World Cup dream was placed on

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ice for another four years. Instead the Futsal Whites would have to return to the arena the following night for the Bronze Medal Game.

NEW ZEALAND 1 VANUATU 1 (NEW ZEALAND won 5-4 on penalties) An early goal from Micky Malivuk in an entertaining and tightly fought game looked like it was going to be enough for the Futsal Whites to claim 3rd place at the tournament. But it was deja vu for New Zealand and Vanuatu equalized with the last kick of the game to take the game straight to the penalty shootout. Keeper David Plowright emerged as the hero for the New Zealanders, slotting his sudden death penalty before keeping out rival custodian Chickau Mansale’s piledriver to send the New Zealanders and the crowd wild, ensuring a consolation prize for the popular 2011 Futsal Whites squad.

GROUP PHASE 1 Tahiti (TAH) 6 Tuvalu (TUV) 0 2 Vanuatu (VAN) 9 Kiribati (KIR) 2 3 Solomon Islands (SOL) 13 New Caledonia (NCL) 5 4 Fiji (FIJ) 4 New Zealand (NZL) 4 5 Kiribati (KIR) 1 New Zealand (NZL) 21 6 Tuvalu (TUV) 1 New Caledonia (NCL) 11 7 Fiji (FIJ) 2 Vanuatu (VAN) 5 8 Solomon Islands 1 (SOL) v Tahiti (TAH) 0 9 New Caledonia (NCL) 2 v Tahiti (TAH) 2 10 Tuvalu (TUV) 0 v Solomon Islands (SOL) 16 11 Fiji (FIJ) 22 v Kiribati (KIR) 3 12 New Zealand (NZL) 6 v Vanuatu (VAN) 4

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Group Standings: GROUP A New Zealand (NZL) Vanuatu (VAN) Fiji (FIJ) Kiribati (KIR)

P W D L F A GD Pts

GROUP B Solomon Islands (SOL) Tahiti (TAH) New Caledonia (NCL) Tuvalu (TUV)

P W D L F A GD Pts

3 3 3 3

3 3 3 3

2 2 1 0

3 1 1 0

1 0 1 0

0 1 1 0

0 31 9 22 1 18 10 8 1 28 12 16 3 6 52 -46

0 30 5 25 1 8 3 5 1 18 16 2 3 1 33 -32

7/8 Playoff 13 Tuvalu (TUV) 2 v Kiribati (KIR) 3

7 6 4 0

9 4 4 0

5/6 Playoff 14 Fiji (FIJ) 8 v New Caledonia (NCL) 6 Semi Finals 15 New Zealand (NZL) 2:3 v Tahiti (TAH) 2:3 AET, Tahiti won 5-4 on penalties 16Solomon Islands (SOL) 13 Vanuatu (VAN) 1 3/4 Playoff 17 New Zealand (NZL) v Vanuatu (VAN) 1:1 New Zealand won 5-4 on penalties Final 18 Tahiti (TAH) 4 Solomon Islands (SOL) 6 Player of the Tournament: Elliot Ragomo (SOL) Golden Boot: Elliot Ragomo (SOL) 19 goals Golden Glove: Atanui Tetihia (TAH) New Zealand Goalscorers Nathan ROBERTSON Marvin EAKINS Dylan MANICKUM Micky MALIVUK Jakub SINKORA Daniel KOPRIVCIC Miro MAJOR Greg O’CONNOR Lucas SILVA David PLOWRIGHT Tariq ASSAD

8 7 6 5 3 2 2 2 2 1 1

Above: New Zealand’s most experienced campaigner Nathan Robertson enjoyed another excellent tournament leading the golden boot stakes for the Futsal Whites with 8 strikes, while proving to be a constant thorn in the side of opposition teams.

Top: Heartbreak for New Zealand as Tahiti emerge triumphant from the dramatic semi final shoout.

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Championships

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AUckland win 10s, 12s and 14s - HAWKE’S BAY TRIUMPH IN THE 16s Thirty six teams from around the country descended on Napier in the middle week of the July school holidays for the 3rd Annual NZ Football Futsal National Junior/Youth Championships.

The largest futsal event on the local calendar was played out over three actionpacked days at the home of HB Futsal - the Pettigrew Green Arena in Taradale.

Teams from Northland, Auckland Futsal, East City, HB Futsal, Capital Futsal, Nelson Bays Futsal and Mainland Futsal Canterbury squared off in four grades, while crowds of up to 500 flocked in over the weekend to witness outstanding displays of futsal from New Zealand’s finest young players.

Well developed sides from Auckland Futsal took home the 10s, 12s and 14s titles, while home town boys HB Futsal were popular winners of the 16s grade on the Sunday afternoon. Newcomers Mainland Futsal Canterbury made two finals and impressed everyone throughout the weekend with the quality of their futsal.

Tournament Coordinator Paul Toohey was delighted with the event and said it showed how far junior and youth futsal had come in the last few years.

“It felt like everybody stepped it up a few gears this year. The teams were well prepared and it was obvious that many centres had put a lot of work in,” he said.

“In previous years, most teams were playing indoor football rather than futsal, but the technical ability and movement of the more successful teams suggests we are entering a new phase of the game in this country”, Toohey added.

“It will be interesting to see how the individual centres progress over the next few years. Those that are able to get coaching programmes and regular sessions for their players will definitely have the edge. ”

comeback kings of the tournament, fighting back from 0-3 in the group phase against Mainland to draw 3-3 and then overturning a 0-3 deficit to prevail 5-3 against Capital Futsal in a thrilling semi-final.

The teams: HB Futsal Fireballs HB Futsal Unison Vineyard Capital Futsal WS Titans HB Futsal Crazy Horses Mainland Futsal Canterbury Auckland Rio HB Futsal Greendale HB Futsal Bedpost Brazil Final

The 14s final between Auckland Sampa and Mainland Canterbury proved to be an outstanding finale to the tournament, with Auckland prevailing 7-6 in extra time after a titanic clash between two experienced and skilful sides.

Toohey also paid tribute to the referees who despite a massive workload, kept the standard high.

“Futsal is not the easiest game to referee.

We always knew the referees would be a key factor in the success of the tournament and the team Dave Payne and Ken Wallace assembled for the weekend did not let us down. They were top notch”, he said.

RESULTS 10s Auckland Rio were winners in the youngest section of the nationals with a hard fought 5-2 win over an excellent Mainland Canterbury in front of a packed Saturday afternoon crowd. Rio proved to be the

Auckland Rio 5 Canterbury 2

12s A tightly contested grade with three evenly matched teams from Auckland, plus excellent sides from Wellington and Christchurch. The exciting Auckland Sampa, who featured several players from the championship winning side at the Australian Futsal Nationals in Canberra in 2011 prevailed over last year’s Junior grade champions with a hard fought victory.

The teams: Nelson Bays Knights Auckland Futsal Santos Capital Futsal Yellow Auckland Futsal Rio Capital Futsal Petone Barca HB Futsal Red Steel Mainland Futsal Canterbury HB Futsal CHB HB Futsal Cyclones HB Futsal MacKirdy Auckland Futsal Sampa Capital Futsal WS Rogerson Final Auckland Rio 5 Canterbury 2

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14s Another tightly contested grade dominated

by Auckland and Canterbury sides. East City ousted last year’s champion Auckland Rio side in a classic quarter final eoncounter and the tournament concluded with the unforgettable topsy-turvy final between the two best sides, Auckland Sampa and Mainland Futsal Canterbury. After a titanic battle, Sampa had one hand on the trophy until a last second equalizer from the southerners took the game into extra time.

Reese Cox’s late thunderbolt was enough to steal the glory for the Brazilian coached Aucklanders.

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The teams: HB Futsal CHB HB Futsal MYI Mainland Futsal Canterbury Capital Futsal Welllingtn Yellow Auckland Futsal Rio HB Futsal Fuego East City Auckland Futsal Sampa Capital Futsal Team Awesome Nelson Bays Futsal Blues Final Auckland Rio (6)7 Canterbury (6)6 AET

16s Some high quality futsal was the hallmark of the 16s, with an excellent Northland side unlucky not to make the final. In the end, the very experienced HB Futsal had too much class for allcomers on their home

court, despatching Capital 6-0 in a one sided final after being taken to the wire by Northland and Canterbury in earlier games.

The teams: HB Futsal Blue Capital Futsal Wellington NFF Northland Futsal HB Futsal CHB 1 HB Futsal Stormers Mainland Futsal Canterbury Final HB Futsal Stormers 6 Capital Futsal 0

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Around the Centres

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NFF Futsal Northern Football Federation Futsal Launch 17 September 2011 When: Saturday 17 September, 10-2pm Where: Massey University Recreation Centre – Albany We will have two showcase games being played on a full sized futsal court against the Futsal Whites.

• 10:30am Futsal Whites vs Football Ferns • 12:00pm Futsal Whites vs Massey University Champions This is an opportunity for the community to come along and experience what futsal is, join in, have some fun and meet players from our national futsal team.

NFF are running the following futsal programmes and leagues: Junior/Youth Programmes: • Pilot Futsal Programme • The Leisure Centre – Stanmore Bay (Term 3 and 4) • Massey University Recreation Centre – Albany (Term 4 Monday 3:30-6pm) • West Wave Recreation Centre – Henderson (Term 4) • Rutherford College – Te Atatu (Term 4) • Adult Leagues: • Lunchtime Business House Futsal League – Massey University Recreation Centre Albany (STARTS Friday 11:30-2pm 28 October) • Youth / Senior Futsal League - Massey University Recreation Centre Albany • (STARTS Monday 6-8pm 31 October) • Further Futsal leagues and programmes will be offered throughout the NFF region.

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To register your interest in futsal for your club or for more information on the above, please contact: Sarah Payne E: sarah.payne@nff.org.nz M: 021 795 045 or visit our website www.nff.org.nz Hibiscus Coast Pilot Programme The Leisure Centre, Stanmore Bay Wednesdays 7-10 years 31 August - 5 October (Late registrations will be accepted. Please contact Sarah for cost.)

Session one: 3:30 - 4:45pm Session two: 4:45 - 6pm Thursdays 11-14 years 1 September - 6 October (Late registrations will be accepted. Please contact Sarah for cost) Session one: 6:00 - 7:15pm The idea of the Pilot Futsal Programme is to provide skills based coaching suitable for your players age group in a 40 minute block followed by a 35 minute block of quick rotation games, roll on roll off, first to a goal etc. It is a great introduction to futsal and a way for players to improve their football skills and also have some fun at the same time.

You may wish to encourage as many of your outdoor team as possible as this is an excellent way for your team to remain together as the winter season comes to a close and helps their football skills to stay strong and continue to work as a team in preparation for next season.

You will need shin pads and non marking sneakers or futsal shoes.

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Avondale • An Auckland Football Federation Senior Men’s Futsal league is launching on September 27 at Avondale College.

What: Senior Men’s League (players 16 years old or over) When: Starts Tuesday 13 September Where: Avondale College (2 court venue) Cost: $330 per team Contact: Yonas • Game times - 5.30pm-6.45pm • 12 players per squad • League limited to 10 teams • 11-week season (including finals) To register for AFF-Futsal Avondale League contact Centre Officer - Yonas Gebre at playbeautiful10@gmail.com Manukau Otara Leisure, AFF-Futsal and Counties Manukau Sport have teamed up to deliver the KiwiSport funded Primary Futsal in Schools Programme.

• Futsal ‘Give it a Go’ sessions delivered to 960 7-9 year olds.

• 10 week school programme delivered throughout Manukau between October-February.

• Primary League established between February-April • ‘Futsal in Schools’ Programme Coach Education delivered to 70 Manukau Institute of Technology students • Teachers trained to deliver basic coaching

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a team which included a large contingent of Auckland representative players. East City made a tremendous start, going 4-0 up within the first five minutes, before Rio staged a strong comeback to level by half time and then to lead 7-5 early in the second half. The East City boys kept their composure and put the Rio defence under such pressure that they conceded a number of fouls in and around their own goal box, with two of the resulting free kicks being coolly converted to bring the scores level. The boys snatched the lead with less than two minutes to play, and displayed great maturity to hold Rio at bay.

In the semi final the boys were again given a futsal lesson by an extremely skilful and well drilled Mainland Futsal team, who went on to lose an extra-time thriller in the final against Auckland Futsal Sampa.

East City Winter Premier League Winners 2011, KBT. PHOTO: EAST CITY

East City East City Futsal, based at the ASB Stadium in Kohimarama, Auckland, runs a premier league on Monday nights (comprised of ten teams) which is played on an international size court with two referee officials per game.

The competition this season has been exceptional; all games have been close, with some upsets along the way.

The East City Youth Development Squad took advantage of East City National League training, finishing in the top four - a huge accomplishment.

The final night was a no-holds barred night, both semi-finals, and finals. Arabian Knights and KBT went head to head in the final’s, and after a very intense game with some amazing futsal skills by both teams, KBT took out the Premier Winter League, now winning back to back seasons.

-Barbara Gwilliam

East City took a squad of 8 players to the U14s 2011 NZ Football Futsal National Junior / Youth Championship, held at Pettigrew Green Arena, Napier, on 23-24 July. The team was drawn from participants in our in-house Summer 2011 competition.

The team was coached by Dennis Dow, the older brother of one of our players, who plays in the club’s premier league with our youth development squad.

The boys got off to a flying start, with a convincing 9-0 win over Nelson Bays.

The highlight of the game was a 6-goal haul by midfielder Matthew Bouzaid, who went on to repeat this achievement in the games against Wellington Team Awesome and Auckland Futsal Rio. In total Matthew scored 19 goals, only one short of winning the Golden Boot Award.

The highlight of our tournament was the quarter-final against Auckland Futsal Rio,

The East City boys can be very proud of the fact that their only two losses during the tournament came to the teams which finished first and second. As the competition progressed their confidence and awareness improved markedly and will stand them in good stead in future years.

- Derek Dow Contact Email futsal@mandata.co.nz East City Administration Line 579-0652

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Auckland Futsal 2011 NZF FUTSAL CHAMPIONS 10, 12, 14 Boys Grades Auckland Futsal’s representatives 10,12 & 14 Boys swept all aside to win a record three national titles at the 2011 NZ Futsal Championships held in Napier in July.

Auckland Futsal’s Brazilian coaches Felipe Bernardi & Juliano Schmeling prepared our representative teams to play an authentic, Brazilian style of futsal - highly technical, constant, rhythmic movements and fast, intricate passing.

Auckland Rio - NZ Champion - 10 Boys 1 Finn Ambridge 2 Gene Toohey 3 Josh Coe 4 Theo Hardy 5 Sidney Boyd 6 Joel Clissold 7 Harrison Chadwick 8 Oscar Browne Auckland SAMPA - NZ Champion - 12 Boys 1 Ahmed Mohammadi 2 Ethan Amey 3 Jack Vaughan 4 Nicholas Milne (K) 5 Sean Green 6 Matthew Hunter

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Auckland SAMPA - NZ Champion - 14 Boys 1 Dylan Burns 2 Harry Bell 3 Phillip Paul 4 Reese Cox 5 Sean Clark 6 Tinashe Marowa 7 Emman Rahimi 8 Charlie Thomas 9 Corey Walters (K) 10 David Masters (K)

Junior Leagues starting in September 2011 7 - 19 yrs Harbour - Wednesdays Auckland Central - Mondays Thursdays Fridays Sundays Auckland East - Mondays Tuesdays Brazil Futsal Academy Authentic Brazilian Futsal skills, techniques, movement, creativity & learning to ‘Play Like a Brazilian’. Let our Brazilian coaches help you become an exciting player!

Ages: 5 - 13 yrs Harbour - Sundays Auckland Central Mondays, Sundays Contact Craig Empson play@aucklandfutsal.org www.aucklandfutsal.org

HB Futsal After hosting the third annual National Junior and Youth Championships at the Pettigrew Green Arena, we have turned our attention to the Term 4 Leagues which commence on October 25. Enrolments are underway, with over fifty teams (Junior/Intermediate/Youth/ Social/Premier) expected to take part in our Tuesday night leagues.

Recent discussions with the Arena have highlighted the high demand for court space from the other sporting codes who currently use the facility. Basketball, volleyball and netball are all experiencing huge growth, due in particular to the college programmes in operation. The challenge for futsal in Hawke’s Bay is finding enough courts to enable the heavily subscribed leagues to expand further, as we are in the unfortunate position at the moment of having to turn teams away.

A major highlight of the last quarter was the success of the HB Stormers who picked up the 16s championship trophy at the recent Nationals, after beating Capital Futsal 6-0 in the final.

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NZF Futsal 16s Champions 2011 - HB Stormers.

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Many of these 1996 born players started with us back in the original leagues of 2006 and under the watchful eye of coach Mark Cozens have blossomed into a well organised and dedicated outifit with a bit of an ‘x-factor’. We fully expect many of these players to continue on the futsal pathway being offered by NZF Futsal, with all the boys hoping to play in the National League in the near future. www.hbfutsal.org.nz

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Action from the Cup of Nations at ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington. PHOTO: INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY.

Capital Futsal Futsal’s future in Wellington looks bright if the success of ASB Sport Centre’s grand opening in August is anything to go by.

There were also womens and youth tournaments held and one court was also set aside for people to try futsal in different gender and age groups, with Futsal Whites players mixing with locals game enough to step on court.

As one of many sports which will call the 12 court, $47.5 million venue in Kilbirnie home, futsal was exposed to a large new audience with around 15,000 visiting during the open day.

“It was a great chance to get in front of people who may not have played much futsal, if at all,” said NZF Futsal Development Manager Dave Payne.

Futsal activities held throughout the day included the national team, the Futsal Whites, competing in a cup of nations against ethnic-based local sides.

“The interest from kids was particularly pleasing, and I think they really enjoyed the sport as well as the opportunity to play against national team players and get their autographs while they were there.

The Futsal Whites predictably prevailed, beating an Africa United team led by Team Wellington striker Hicham Kamri 7-1 in the final.

“Some turned up after winter football, some had played other sports but were taken by the skill of the game and the fact that anyone can play.

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“Capital Futsal has experienced a boost in registrations and the success of the open day and the quality of the venue bodes well for continued growth of futsal in Wellington.

Up to six futsal courts will be in action every Monday, Tuesday and Friday night beginning in October, and a range of tournaments will run during the October school holidays. Close to 300 futsal teams will play in leagues and tournaments at the ASB Sports Centre between October and December.

Contact matt@futsal.net.nz 021 971 798 www.futsal.net.nz

Mainland Futsal All systems are go in the Mainland region with over 50 teams now playing every week in our various leagues. This means we can start to build our other regions up over the next few months. Our Christchurch leagues now run to 3 divisions of Senior Men, 1 Women’s division, 2 Youth divisions, 1 Junior, a Mixed and a Masters.

We had a fabulous trip to the Youth and Junior Nationals, taking a team in each group and, eventually (returning in the snow storm of the year), with two silver medals. Special congratulations are due Top: Luke Tongue clears the ball in a 12s National’s game in Napier, Benji lapslie, Sam Philip, Ellis HareReid (G) and Joe Bell (10) look on.

Centre: Mainland Canterbury 10s.

Bottom left: Stephen Livingstone pressures the keeper in a 14s Nationals game.

Bottom right: Avery Addei breaks in the 16s Nationals while Sam Lapslie, Miguel Mitchell, Hamish Mitchell (GK) and Sam Roger watch.

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to Peter Livingstone for coaching the 14s to Silver and Matt Hoole doing the same for the 10s, but all the teams, coaches and support staff did themselves proud.

It was a great opportunity to play against all the regions of the country and the boys returned with growth and knowledge under their belt as well as great memories of a great event.

Queenstown Falcons took out the first tournament and Real Football winning the second tournament. Luiz Uhera (Futsal South National League Coach) and Chris Button (Futsal South National League Manager) have selected an initial training squad of 30 players from those involved to train towards the 2011/12 National League.

NZF Futsal Contacts

September sees our “Futsal Camp” run every Saturday, Under 12s and 12-15s using the time to grow their game with expert coaches and players guidance.

Along with our schools competition starting next term and a very successful referees training day, adding 10 refs to our roster, we are growing in all areas and on all fronts.

In September 2011 we are starting our summer Futsal leagues. We have Senior leagues running on Monday and Wednesday nights, Primary school leagues on Wednesday afternoons, Intermediate and Junior High School leagues on Tuesday afternoons and Senior High School leagues on Thursday afternoons.

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We look forward to catching up with the Futsal community at the Girls Nationals and the Masters, where we will bring teams to both.

Futsal South Football South Futsal has recently changed its name to Futsal South. Each centre within the Futsal South region will use the logos above with their centre name as per Futsal South – Dunedin logo.

We now have centres in Dunedin, Wanaka, Queenstown, Timaru and looking to start in Balclutha.

Futsal South has held two selection tournaments in Dunedin to choose our National League squad from. Teams from Queenstown, Wanaka and Dunedin were involved over the 2 rounds with some great Futsal played by all involved.

With the introduction of our Primary School League we are also offering a futsal in Schools coaching program, which involves a part time coach, teaching basic Futsal skills in Primary and Intermediate School pupils. We have had a very positive response to our pilot program that was run at Tahuna Intermediate with over 450 pupils being given Futsal instruction in their Physical Education classes for 2 weeks.

We have signed up a number of schools for this program for terms 3 & 4 of 2011 and also have schools signed up for next year.

We are also looking to take the program to the Central Otago and Clutha districts to help boost player numbers in those areas.

This should give a real boost towards the future of Futsal in our region.

Futsal South has been running referee courses over the region and now have 52 qualified referees and another course running shortly.

Northern Football Futsal - Northland/Far North sarah.payne@nff.org.nz dave.alabaster@nff.org.nz East City Futsal (Auckland) cosworth@xtra.co.nz eastcityfutsal@mandata.co.nz Auckland Futsal play@aucklandfutsal.org

AFF Futsal - Manukau Mike.ibbertson@manukauleisure.co.nz Maraea.Howe@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz WAIBOP Futsal peter.a@waibopfootball.co.nz simon.m@waibopfootball.co.nz Hawkes Bay Futsal p.toohey@hbfutsal.org.nz Wairarapa Futsal peter.cox@sparc.co.nz paul_burns@xtra.co.nz Red Sox Manawatu Futsal (Palmerston North) bergie007@vodafone.co.nz Capital Futsal (Wellington) matt@capitalfootball.org.nz Marlborough Futsal (Blenheim) marlboroughfootball@xtra.co.nz Nelson Bays Futsal sportsmall@xtra.co.nz Mainland Futsal - Canterbury richard@mainlandfutsal.co.nz Mainland Futsal - West Coast sport@greyhigh.school.nz Futsal South - Dunedin kneepads@paradise.net.nz footballmike@ihug.co.nz Futsal South - Wanaka cecis@xtra.co.nz Futsal South - Queenstown info@queenstownfootball.com kampman@queenstown.co.nz Queenstown Falcons Futsal marcosmelo1313@hotmail.com raulharpya@yahoo.com.br Futsal South - Timaru jcames@ymcasc.org.nz

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Capital FutsalMatt Fejos Interview

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Capital Futsal’s Development Officer is at the centre of the growing futsal scene in Wellington. With four years’ experience as a player, coach, administrator and volunteer, under his belt, Fejos is a regular fixture at tournaments and events around the country. POWER OF FIVE caught up with him, in the days following the opening of the new state of the art twelve court ASB Community Centre the new home for futsal in Wellington Matt - how long have you been involved in futsal?

Since late 2007, coming back to Wellington for summer after Otago University and wanting to play indoor soccer - which is all I knew at the time. A knock on Dave and Sarah’s Payne’s door changed my life I guess!

Tell us a little bit about your role with Capital Futsal. Capital City Futsal has recently been integrated into Capital Football hasn’t it?

Yes, we are currently going through the transition of Capital Football taking on the responsibility for delivering futsal, as with other federations around the country.

My role up until now has been everything really, running and promoting the leagues, school visits with a focus on the Kiwisport College programme, administering everything and overall organising.

This is now changing as things get bigger and with the transition to Capital - I now

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have a great team behind me with support in areas like accounts, which allows me to spend more of my time planning the ASB Centre programme as well as getting out into even more schools.

How much coaching are you doing?

Last term I trialled “Coach n Play” leagues in both of our U13 leagues, which went well. At the moment I coach the St Pats U16 team on a weekly basis, with the ambition of winning NZSSSC College Nationals hosted right next door at the ASB Centre in March 2012. Our U19 squad is a representative team and is going to Australia for the nationals in January. We will be together playing and training three times a week from next month. Our Island Bay Team Awesome U13s have been training once and playing once a week in preparation for Nationals in Australia too. From next term Friday nights will be coaching nights for U11s and each age group up to 16s, 19s and Men. We see this as an important part of the programme to help educate futsal players, which in turn will also produce better football players.

What’s a typical week for you Matt Futsal every day? Most evenings?

All day, all night! Yes. As part of the Capital transition and with the new centre, I am involving more people in running and refereeing the leagues, so I can be more efficient in the overall management, as opposed to being out “on the ground” at

leagues four nights a week. The emails, administration and practical running of things are endless, so good thing I do it because I love it! At times it seems there is too much interest. It is a fantastic problem to have.

Are you still finding time to play?

I sneak in a few social games a week, which allows me to drop in on the leagues too and make sure everything is ok too. I don’t have the time for much more than that and have made the decision that I have more to contribute off the court than on, by way of contributing to the opportunities of others.

You guys are doing well on the referee development side of things. How many qualified referees do you have now in Wellington?

We have about 25 from our last two courses in Wellington. Most encouraging is the college students involved in what is traditionally seen as an ‘old man’s’ thing. There are also pathways within refereeing onto the National League and OFC Championships. The new centre with twelve courts and a brand new meeting room will provide a professional venue to host referee and coach education sessions. Capital Football’s Jamie Cross has also officiated at the OFC Championships in the past so has a lot of experience. And Adam Walker volunteers and develops referees which is a real asset to us.

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I believe more clubs teams of all ages will adopt futsal as one of their training nights during the football season.

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I still have much I want to achieve here in Wellington and dream of futsal’s own ‘Bahrain moment’ in 2015 - so who knows what the future holdS?

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Can you tell us a little bit about the KiwiSport College Futsal initiative you are involved with?

Capital Futsal and myself personally would not be here without it so we owe a great deal of gratitude to KiwiSport, College Sport Wellington and Sport Wellington.

It allowed me to leave a job in a bank fourteen months ago and get out into colleges to grow the game. Over 2000 students from 16 different colleges have been involved, from sessions in their school, to local college leagues, up to College Nationals and young Izaac O’Hara showing the pathways in the game being involved with the Futsal Whites.

What about the National League this year?

Capital were the top New Zealand side in 2010/11. Will you have pretty much the same outfit as last year?

Things are always changing. We lose two of our senior Futsal Whites overseas in Lucas da Silva and Tariq Assad. We have some new Brazilians who have been training with the team. I am hoping one or two of my promising U19 squad will squeeze in too but things are getting very competitive. We have the same management and coaching team which provides some continuity to build on last season and catch those Aussies! Our new competitive league will be played on our three international courts which will help too.

How did the Capital teams enjoy the Junior/Youth Nationals this year? The 16s did particularly well, and made the final...

I think it was a real landmark event.

The standard went through the roof and centres now will have to send their best players selected from their leagues and

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training together. It was great to see. My 16s were the St Patrick’s College team and performed amazingly with just six players from one school, showing the benefit of futsal specific training to learn technically and tactically how to play the game. Beating squads of eight and nine players selected from federations was quite an achievement. They also played the first ever game of any sport at the Opening Day (of the new stadium) against the Futsal Whites, and only lost 4-1 in 16 minutes of game time which speaks volumes for these boys I think. I was happy with all the teams from the 10s up to 16s and come next year I can only imagine what our top teams will look like after playing and training in the best facility in the country.

Capital have always been pioneers - a few years ago Brian Blellock and others set up that great little futsal club in Hataitai.

Now you have offices in the what is probably the best facility in the Southern Hemisphere. What are long term plans for the game in Wellington?

I think even medium term the transition to Capital Football is the most important thing. It is not going to be instant and we are still learning every day. To integrate futsal into trainings, have futsal specific days, and host top tournaments. Who knows maybe in a few years we might become a ‘major’ sport. In just four years since that league in Hataitai we have become a major stakeholder in the new centre with netball and basketball. Four years ago you would have thought we were mad but it shows firstly, the potential

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of this amazing game that is already proven around the world and secondly, that with a team of volunteers willing to put in lots of work into something they believe in, amazing things can happen.

The new centre presents a great opportunity to get more players involved.

There is the potential for 200 teams in the new centre, and with perfect timing of the outdoor season coming to a close. The womens and college leagues are showing huge potential for growth. As we build momentum over the summer and work through Capital Football, I believe more clubs teams of all ages will adopt futsal as one of their training nights during the football season.

What about the national scene? Do you feel the game has come a long way in the last few years? What are the top priorities for the next few years. Can the Futsal Whites get close to the Solomon Islands?

That youth tournament in Napier in July, as I said, was a real landmark. They are the future and to have our kids playing from a young age is how we will catch

the Solomons. For the next World Cup campaign in four years time I hope some of our Capital 16-19 year olds might progress. Longer term if we can be teaching our children from five years up and create a futsal culture, with our facility, I’d like to think we will catch the Aussies too.

stakeholders, etc. I have been forced to develop at the same pace as the sport here which is a great challenge, so I am learning and growing every day in a broad set of skills. I still have much I want to achieve here in Wellington and dream of futsal’s own “Bahrain moment” in 2015 so who knows what the future holds?

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And what about your own professional development in futsal. It must be tremendous working in the game that you love. Where would you like to be in a few years?

People have asked me this question and in all honesty I don’t know. To do something you love and contribute something positive to your community as opposed to as opposed to measuring the money earned our hours worked is an honour. Things have been so busy I just plan to keep my head down for another twelve months and then assess things then, I am pretty happy with where I am at at the moment. As things are still growing I am fortunate enough to develop a wide range of experience in marketing, managing, coaching, dealing with key

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Calendar

CALENDAR 2011/12 2011/12

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Sun 25 September 2011

NZF-Futsal Level One Refereeing Course

PG Arena, Napier

Sat/Sun 22/23 October 2011

National Girls and Women’s Futsal Tournament

ASB Sports Centre, Wellington

Sat/Sun 3/4 December 2011

National League Series 1

Edgar Centre, Dunedin

Sat/Sun 11/12 February 2012

National League Series 2

ASB Stadium, Auckland

Sat/Sun 11/12 February 2012

Futsal - NZ Masters Games

Edgar Centre, Dunedin

Sat/Sun 17/18 March 2012

National League Series 3

ASB Sports Centre, Wellington

Sat/Sun 26/27 March 2012

NZF-Futsal Secondary Schools National Futsal Championships

ASB Sports Centre, Wellington

Junior action from the opening of the ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington in August.

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SERIES ONE DUNEDIN 3/4 DECEMBER 2011

SERIES TWO

AUCKLAND 11/12 FEBRUARY 2012

SERIES THREE WELLINGTON 17/18 MARCH 2012

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