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Brief presentation about Finnish futsal and Ilves FS
Introduction
In Finland futsal belongs to the activities of the Finnish FA. It all started in 1994 when Finnish students´ team took part in the World University Futsal Championships in Cypros. The next WUFC were organized in Jyväskylä, Finland in 1996. This event paved the way for the establishment of the Finnish Championships during the following year. Twelve teams, Ilves FS among others, participated in the first tournament. However, in this tournament Ilves fS was still competing under its previous name – Duck Park rangers FC (DPR FC). The name was changed into Ilves FS in 2001. Ilves by the way means lynx in English. It was as recently as in 1998 that Finland played its first international match in futsal (4-7 home defeat against Hungary). The following year saw the birth on Finnish national futsal league.
Finnish futsal league
There are ten teams in the Finnish futsal league in the season 2006-07. Each team will play against each other twice. Team that has most points at the end of the league will be finnish champion.
Finnish futsal season is very short as it is running from October to February. There are about 1200 teams and almost 18000 registered players in Finland (including also the junior players, girls and boys). Most of these players play also football during the summer as Finnish football season runs from April to October.
During the relatively short history of the Finnish futsal league, Ilves FS / DPR is the most successful team with three titles, two silvers ans one bronze medal.
Ilves FS ( FS means no more than just futsal)
DPR FC was established in 1992 and at the beginning it played football in Finnish leagues gaining promotion from the 7th division into the 2nd division. In 2001, it changed name Sorsapuiston Ilves and co-operated closely with Ilves Tampere, the biggest junior football club in Finland. Ilves has still about 4000 players. Ilves FS comes from the central part of Finland. The hometown named Tampere. There are about 200 000 inhabitants.
All the players of Ilves FS are amateurs. Most of them are students. Futsal is only a hobby for them as they play football in various Finnish divisions (1st-3rd) during the summer. During futsal season Ilves FS trains 3-4 times per week.
Olli Terho and Tommi Nieminen are the coaches of Ilves FS in the season of 2007 - 08.
As futsal is relatively new comer in Finland the most experienced player is Juha Ristimäki, who has played futsal for nine years. The others mainly four to five years. There are couple of players in Ilves who have played in national team of Finland. These are Teemu Terho, Juha-Pekka Torvinen, Janne Mertanen, Jukka Lottonen, Jussi Lahtinen and Petteri Saukoniemi. The former coach of Ilves FS, Jouni Pihlaja (one of the founder member of DPR FC) is nowadays coach of the national team of Finland.
Fact file:
Established DPR FC in 1992
Changed name into Ilves FS in 2001
Colours: yellow-green-yellow (green-white-green)
Greatest achievements:
2000/01 third in League
2001/02 second in League
2003/04 champions
2004/05 champions
2005/06 second in League / cupwinner
2006/07 champions
web.site: //ilvesfs.sporttisaitti.com
First place at the all-time table in Finnish futsal league.
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22/03/2005
Juninho shares his football tips
Courtesy: news.bbc.co.uk
Juninho, Celtic and Brazil star
I think the best way to improve your skills is to play football on a smaller pitch.
I didn't play 11-a-side football until I was 13.
In Brazil most kids play what we call futebol de salao, which is similar to five-a-side.
It is played on a hard surface and the ball is a lot smaller and weighted with foam so it doesn't bounce.
This makes the ball harder to play with at first - but it's great practice for when you move to full-size football.
On a small pitch you need to have good control and move the ball around quickly.
There isn't much space so you need to be skilful.
Most of the kids in my neighbourhood played futebol de salao.
That is why Brazil always produces players with great skill.
The amount of space in 11-a-side is not good for young kids.
You spend too much time running around without the ball.
In futebol de salao you are always involved.
It's great to play 11-a-side when you're older - but it's better if you play on a small pitch first.
The pitches in Brazil can be poor quality - you need to have good control to play on them otherwise you will lose the ball.
This is another reason Brazilian players have good technique.
Sometimes making things harder for yourself improves your game in the long-run.
But remember that football isn't just about skill. it's also about having the right attitude.
The most important skill you can learn is discipline.
http://www.futsalplanet.com/news/news-01.asp?id=4550
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24/09/2004
Interesting article from FIFA
Courtesy: FIFA.com
For a rainy day: A brief history of futsal
(FIFA.com) 23 Sep 2004
The first record of an organised five-a-side brand of football dates back to 1930 in Montevideo, Uruguay. The same year the pioneering football nation hosted the first FIFA World Cup™ at its brand-new Estadio Centenario, an Argentine-born coach by the name of Juan Carlos Ceriani, so tired of rain-soaked pitches and cancelled training sessions, brought the game indoors for the first time.
With an eye to making his new indoor game more accessible, but also more organised, he put together a set of rules strikingly similar to those that govern futsal today. The children of Montevideo took to the small-sided game with aplomb, and it was played in YMCA houses throughout the capital. The hybrid version was perfectly suited to either outdoor or indoor venues, as all that was needed was a small, basketball-size court.
Hazy origins
While Ceriani was fostering the game Uruguay, a similar small-sided game was being played on the streets of Sao Paolo, Brazil.
The game quickly spread throughout South America as 'futbol sala' (room football, or indoor football) or 'futebol de salao' in Brazil - where the first local leagues sprang up like weeds.
Not surprisingly Brazil took to the hyper-technical, sometimes claustrophobic hybrid of football better than any other. Today many of Brazil's greats point to a childhood full of futsal as one of the main reasons for their skilful ability. Ronaldinho, Pele, Zico, Socrates, Bebeto and countless others all grew up playing futsal, and credit the game freely.
Going global
It didn't take long for the game to spread to every corner of Latin America, and the first international futsal competition kicked off in 1965. And in a bit of a shock it was Paraguay that got off the blocks best, taking home the first South American honours. Brazil won the next six Championships between 1965 and 1979. The yellow-clad pioneers of the five-a-side art then went on to extend their dominance with victories in the 1980 and 1984 Pan American games.
With a lesser number of players, a smaller field and a weighted ball, futsal demanded the emergence of new strategies. Quick feet and a quick mind were imperative, as was the use of the toes and the bottom of the foot.
The International Federation for Futebol de Sala (FIFUSA) was officially founded in Brazil in 1971. And the first Futsal World Championship (though not yet affiliated to FIFA) took place in 1982 in the five-a-side hotbed of Sao Paolo. Continuing their stranglehold on the game, Brazil again took the honours with a team studded with stars from the outdoor game. They then went on to repeat their winning ways in Spain three years later in 1985, before losing their crown in Australia to rivals Paraguay.
Enter FIFA
FIFA got on board in 1989, bringing the five-a-side game under its auspices and sponsoring the first 'official' FIFA Futsal World Championship in 1989 in Holland. With the new official tag, the name of the game officially became 'futsal.' Brazil also got themselves back on track and won the title twice on the trot (Holland 1989 and Hong Kong 1992)
In 1996 the Brazilians again took the world title, but four years later in 2000, Spain - Europe's emerging power - upset the South American apple cart in Guatemala.
Currently on the cusp of challenging Brazil's long-term supremacy, Spain is not the only European team finding their way in the world of futsal. Russia, England, Italy and Ukraine are all emerging as fine five-a-side purveyors in their own right.
With professional leagues popping up in Brazil, Russia, Portugal, Spain, Iran and Japan, the old assumption that futsal is merely a means of developing creativity and skills to be used in the outdoor game is beginning to fade. The small-sided game is thriving, in its own right, on six continents.
Crucial for development
Futsal's role in fostering imagination and creativity to be used in the outdoor game is still crucial.
"Players in Brazil are better than Americans in general because they are more technically sound," current U.S. futsal captain and veteran of Spain 96 Sean Bowers recently told FIFA.com. "We (in the USA) are some of the best athletes in the world, but we really need to get that extra technical edge, and this is where futsal comes in."
Brazil and Real Madrid superstar Ronaldo pointed directly to futsal after scoring a brilliant, toe-poke goal against Turkey in the semi-final of the FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan 2002.
"Nobody expected me to do it," he admitted. "It's not easy to shoot the ball with the point of the toe, but it was just instinctive, and I owe it to playing a lot of futsal when I was a boy."
Looking ahead to the upcoming FIFA Futsal World Championship in Chinese Taipei (10-27 November), all eyes will surely be on Brazil's five-a-side maestros. But with development and participation on the rise, parity is bound to be the watchword this tim around.
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http://www.fifa.com/
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