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Big opportunity for emerging futsal player

Monday, 15 August, 2016

Futsal White Brayden Lissington has earned an opportunity he feels money can’t buy after showing off his skills in an online video.

The 24-year-old was voted to take part in the Professional Futsal League (PFL) All-Star Showcase in Florida earlier this month, which offers the chance to rub shoulders with some superstars of the indoor game in an exhibition match and perhaps even earn a professional contract.

"It’s unreal, I still can’t comprehend it," Brayden says. "If I had all the money in the world, I still couldn’t put together an experience like this."

The PFL is the United States’ first professional futsal competition and is set to kick off in 2018. To publicise the league, a host of promotional campaigns are being staged and Brayden is the beneficiary of one after showing his skills in a self-made video.

Futsal players from all around the world were invited to earn the right to play in the PFL All-Star Showcase by posting a clip online of themselves pulling off a selected set of futsal moves and tricks.

"I thought I’d see if I could do one and was actually able to do all of them," Brayden says.

Almost 80,000 fans took part in the voting process for the #PFLNext competition while the expert opinions of legendary futsal players Falcão and Ricardinho - who took part in the exhibition match - were also taken into account.

Brayden was one of 10 players from eight countries to make the final selection and says he can’t wait to share the court with such iconic figures.

As well as helping grow the game at federation level, Brayden has played in the NZF Futsal National League - representing his native Hawke’s Bay before also starring for WaiBOP - and is a regular feature of the Futsal Whites national squad. He’s studying towards a Graduate Diploma in Creative Technologies at the University of Waikato.


Posted by Luca Ranocchiari --> luca.ranocchiari@futsalplanet.com