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Tough going in futsal

Toa Roode, Lukas Schafer, Levi Fletcher at the NZ Youth National Futsal Championships at the ASB Centre in Wellington. The national youth futsal champs proved a tough assignment for Southern Football’s Under-19 futsal squad last weekend.

A team featuring Wānaka trio Toa Roode, Lukas Schafer and Levi Fletcher found the competition too tough as they were beaten in all six outings from Saturday to Monday.

But the side remained competitive throughout, losing by the odd goal in nine to Bay of Plenty and by two to Wellington.

The tournament started and finished with losses to Auckland - first in the pool play and finally in the playoff for seventh and eighth place.

Leon Roode said despite not notching up a win the side put up a series of good performances. The Wānaka trio did their town proud, he said. “Now the boys will return and play futsal in the local Wānaka league and hope to repeat what they did last year and win the title again. Meanwhile the Ealing Times in England is reporting on a young sportsman who will be familiar to football fans in Wānaka. Jasper Klein, 19, grew up skiing in Wānaka alongside his brother Felix, now 20 - and after moving to Cirencester five years ago both have represented Great Britain. Jasper Klein - who played junior football in Wānaka - told the Ealing Times a Winter Olympic odyssey alongside brother would cap a true family fairytale. He competed at the Youth Winter Olympic Games 2020 in Lausanne, securing a top 10 finish in the men’s big air competition. “We’re on GB together, which is actually really great. My parents are very, very supportive of both of us. Living in Wānaka and skiing was so popular, and all of our mates got into it, so it just felt natural to do it,” he told the Times. “I still get to go back to New Zealand and see all my mates and train as well. I do love it there.” Fergus Smith and Harry Schikker (right) had hoped to be celebrating seven day before the Upper Clutha Rams’ prizegiving last Saturday. The pair were members of the Rams squad which was beaten 12-11 in the Central Otago club rugby final by Cromwell. At the end of a season which saw the club go within a whisker of the title, the pair were honoured for their efforts during the season - Smith and Schikker were named the Rams’ 2021 players of the year.

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