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[Bananiot]

Futsal is like table football.

[halil]

Futsal is like table football.

Bananiot we are learning new words everyday .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futsal


History of Futsal
The origin of Futsal can be traced back to Montevideo Uruguay where in 1930 Juan Carlos Ceriani devised a five-a–side ball kicking game with adjusted size goals for youth competition in YMCAs. The game is played on basketball-sized courts, both indoors and outdoors without the use of sidewalls.[3]

The international governing body FIFUSA (Federación Internacional de Fútbol de Salón, International Futsal Federation) was created in 1971 to administer the game, and held its first futsal world championship in São Paulo in 1982. Due to an apparent dispute with FIFA over the administration of fútbol, FIFUSA coined the word fut-sal in 1985.
FIFA soon began to administer its own indoor football games, creating its own version of the rules and hosting its first FIFA Indoor Soccer World Championship in 1989 in Rotterdam, Netherlands, in 1992 it was the FIFA Five-a-Side World Championship (Hong Kong) and since 1996 it has been called the FIFA Futsal World Championship (Guatemala). One of the most remarkable changes was the reduction of the ball weight and increase in ball size (from a handball size to a football size 4), which enabled faster play and, for the first time, scoring goals with the head (though this is still difficult and uncommon).

In 2004, members of PANAFUTSAL (La Confederación Panamericana de Futsal, The Pan-American Futsal Confederation) formed AMF (Asociación Mundial de Fútbol de Salón, World Futsal Association), an international futsal governing body independent of FIFA. Both FIFA and AMF continue to administer the game.

Some professional players start out with futsal to build fundamental skills. Brazilian players Ronaldinho, Robinho, Ronaldo, Rivaldo, Juninho and many more started out playing futsal. In Brazil, the majority of children start out with Futsal rather than association football since it requires less space and many schools in the country do not have a field to play traditional association football. There are also some notable players like Falcão who continue to play futsal at the club level. Iranian Vahid Shamsaie has scored the most goals in futsal history. He has helped Iran win every AFC futsal championship except one.

Rules:
As international governing bodies of futsal, FIFA and AMF are responsible for maintaining and promulgating the official rules of their respective versions of futsal. Like football, futsal has 'laws' that define all aspects of the game, including what may be changed to suit local competitions and leagues.

The first rule of futsal is no contact with the hand below the elbow unless it's the goal keeper.

more to read from above link.

[DT.]

Gentlemen I play futsal every Thursday and take it from someone that doesn't need to look it up in wikipedia or compare it with "table football!!" (what the hell are you on about badminton boy?)

No one takes any banners to futsal, not apoel, not cetinkaya, not halloumopitta.

[SSBubbles]

Gentlemen I play futsal every Thursday and take it from someone that doesn't need to look it up in wikipedia or compare it with "table football!!" (what the hell are you on about badminton boy?)

No one takes any banners to futsal, not apoel, not cetinkaya, not halloumopitta.

You any good then DT?

What was wrong with me Googling 'futsal' then? It was something I had never heard of, so I rectified that!

[DT.]

Gentlemen I play futsal every Thursday and take it from someone that doesn't need to look it up in wikipedia or compare it with "table football!!" (what the hell are you on about badminton boy?)

No one takes any banners to futsal, not apoel, not cetinkaya, not halloumopitta.

You any good then DT?

What was wrong with me Googling 'futsal' then? It was something I had never heard of, so I rectified that!

Nothing to do with you bubbles. I was clarifying to Bananiot who thinks its a game of fussball and not a 5-a-side game of football and Halil who thinks its the Apoel-omonoia derby.

[SSBubbles]

Gentlemen I play futsal every Thursday and take it from someone that doesn't need to look it up in wikipedia or compare it with "table football!!" (what the hell are you on about badminton boy?)

No one takes any banners to futsal, not apoel, not cetinkaya, not halloumopitta.

You any good then DT?

What was wrong with me Googling 'futsal' then? It was something I had never heard of, so I rectified that!

Nothing to do with you bubbles. I was clarifying to Bananiot who thinks its a game of fussball and not a 5-a-side game of football and Halil who thinks its the Apoel-omonoia derby.

Oh! okay! So, are you any good then?

[halil]

Gentlemen I play futsal every Thursday and take it from someone that doesn't need to look it up in wikipedia or compare it with "table football!!" (what the hell are you on about badminton boy?)

No one takes any banners to futsal, not apoel, not cetinkaya, not halloumopitta.

why don't you join the tournament than forum members will come to support u .

leave yhe bananiot alone mate . he just tried to explain and i learned new word as well .

have a look at the above pictures ones more .what is the atmosphere of the stadium .

you are the footballer of the forum .

[DT.]

Gentlemen I play futsal every Thursday and take it from someone that doesn't need to look it up in wikipedia or compare it with "table football!!" (what the hell are you on about badminton boy?)

No one takes any banners to futsal, not apoel, not cetinkaya, not halloumopitta.

why don't you join the tournament than forum members will come to support u .

leave yhe bananiot alone mate . he just tried to explain and i learned new word as well .

have a look at the above pictures ones more .what is the atmosphere of the stadium .

you are the footballer of the forum .

Halil, thats a picture of the Argentina Vs Brazil game....

this tournament is in Palloutiotissa.

[halil]

Gentlemen I play futsal every Thursday and take it from someone that doesn't need to look it up in wikipedia or compare it with "table football!!" (what the hell are you on about badminton boy?)

No one takes any banners to futsal, not apoel, not cetinkaya, not halloumopitta.

why don't you join the tournament than forum members will come to support u .

leave yhe bananiot alone mate . he just tried to explain and i learned new word as well .

have a look at the above pictures ones more .what is the atmosphere of the stadium .

you are the footballer of the forum .

Halil, thats a picture of the Argentina Vs Brazil game....

this tournament is in Palloutiotissa.

DT,
you thinking mate i am that much blind or i can not understand or compare the things ..... cheeky boy ..... hopefully Cyprus can have these kind of events too .
i am off now .

[Hazza]

I remember the old days in the UK, playing in the Powerleague every Thursday in Barking, winning promotion as champions but requesting NOT to go up as we didn't think we were good enough for the top flight, and we used to have a laugh in the second division whilst the top division was a little more serious..

Now, I just play every Monday in Larnaca, twisting my ankle virtually every week....