Courtesy: Donegal Now


Donegal schools urged to take part in FAI Futsal tournament

Friday 14th of October 2016

Donegal’s Scoil Mhuire SS, Buncrana’s girls team will be hoping to make it two in a row, as this year’s FAI Primary & Post Primary Schools Futsal Programme kicks off nationwide this month.

Last year’s winners Scoil Mhuire were crowned last year’s Post Primary Schools champions, no doubt they’ll be hoping to achieve the same feat.

The Post Primary Schools Ulster provincial final will be held in Aura Leisure Centre, Letterkenny on Tuesday, November 15.

Futsal is an indoor version of association football. It is played between two teams of five players, one of whom is the goalkeeper, and up to seven substitutes per team. Unlike some other forms of indoor football, the game is played on a hard court surface delimited by lines; walls or boards are not used.

Futsal is also played with a smaller ball with less bounce than a regulation football.

The rules create an emphasis on improvisation, creativity and technique as well as ball control and passing in small spaces.

PRIMARY SCHOOLS FUTSAL PROGRAMME: This is a participation initiative run to local level. Boys and girls in third and fourth class will participate in this fun filled one-day blitz. There are separate competitions for boys and girls but girls are permitted to play in the boy’s competition.

POST PRIMARY SCHOOLS FUTSAL PROGRAMME: It caters for First Year students, boys and girls. The programme will begin at county level and the winners will progress to Provincial and National qualifiers.

As part of the FAI Schools development programme, futsal is used as a way of introducing youngsters to the game of football and thus increasing grassroots participation within the sport.

The programme has quickly become one of the most popular sections of the schools soccer calendar, with talented students from all over the country aspiring to replicate the talents of Lionel Messi, Zico, Juninho, Kaka and Ronaldo. These legends of the football world have inspired youngsters to get involved and in doing so have increased the profile of futsal on an International scale.



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