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THE MAGAZINE OF NEW ZEALAND FOOTBALL FUTSAL ISSUE 2 SEPTEMBER 2011 NATIONAL JUNIOR/YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIPS OFC CHAMPIONSHIPS REVIEW CAPITAL FUTSAL’S MATT FEJOS CENTRE REPORTS PHOTO: ALPHAPIX PHOTOS: ALPHAPIX

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Page 1: THE POWER OF FIVE #2 September 2011

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

THE MAGAZINE OF NEW ZEALAND FOOTBALL FUTSAL ISSUE 2 SEPTEMBER 2011

NATIONAL JUNIORYOUTH CHAMPIONSHIPSOFC CHAMPIONSHIPS REVIEW CAPITAL FUTSALrsquoS MATT FEJOSCENTRE REPORTS

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

PHOTO ALPHAPIXPHOTOS ALPHAPIX

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

Action from the opening of the ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington as Futsal Whites flanker Brayden Lissington tries his luck from wide out at against St Patricks during the Cup of Nations (this page) while Futsal Whites captain Marvin Eakins tussles with Hicham Kamri (top right)PHOTOS INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

03

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

Welcome to the second edition of Power of Five NZF Futsalrsquos quarterly lsquoround uprsquo It has been a busy three months for futsal with national and international competitions new programmes new world class facilities more futsal dedicated staff and more centres

The Futsal Whites missed out on the FIFA Futsal World Cup 2012 in a heart-breaking semi final penalty shootout with Tahiti but spirits were quickly lifted when the country got a glimpse of the future at the NZF Futsal National JuniorYouth Championships With 36 teams and over 130 action packed games - the tournament was a showcase of incredible skill discipline and fun for all Teams from as far north as Whangarei and as far south as Christchurch converged on Hawkersquos Bay Futsalrsquos excellent facility - PettigrewGreen Arena

This is testament to the rapid growth of the game on our shores and from what was on show the future is very bright indeed

Meanwhile Capital Futsal will still be pinching themselves to make sure they are not dreaming with the new ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington

The Futsal Whites led the way at the 15000 attendance grand opening with a showcase game against a well structured St Patrickrsquos College representative futsal team in front of Wellington and national dignitaries This was followed by a number of tournaments for all age groups and abilities and a chance for the local community to challenge the Futsal Whites to a game

We now have seven dedicated Futsal Development Managers and Futsal Development Officers working nationally in our federations and the numbers will continue to rise as we near the end of 2011 There are now over 120 qualified futsal referees officiating up to 700 games of futsal a week

Futsal now has its place in the sporting landscape of New Zealand but as always in sport a big thank you goes out to those dedicated volunteers who day in day outgo the extra mile for the development of futsal This issue is a tribute to these coaches team managers administrators and mentors You know who you are and the futsal community thanks you all

Dave PayneNZF Futsal Development Manager

A busy time for futsal

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

OFC Championships MVP and Golden Boot winner Elliot Ragomo (top) Tahiti and Solomon Islands lineup before the classic final at Vodafone ArenaPHOTOS OFC

05

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

Solomon Islands will once again face the worldrsquos best futsal sides at the FIFA Futsal World Cup after a thrilling 6-4 victory over Tahiti in the OFC Futsal Championships Final at the Vodafone Arena in Suva in May

A massive shock looked on the cards after the impressive Tahiti side lead the favourites 4-1 early in the second half of a pulsating final But the Solomons Islands comeback led by captain and tournament MVP Elliot Ragomo swept the Tahitians aside and the lsquoKurukurursquo booked their place in Thailand 2012 much to the delight of a packed stadium and their fans back home

The Futsal Whites meanwhile will have to wait another four years for their shot at futsal glory following a heartbreaking penalty shootout loss in the semi-final after a 3-3 extra time draw with Tahiti

Earlier the Futsal Whites had finished top of Group A following a draw against Fiji and victories over Vanuatu and tournament newcomers Kiribati

NEW ZEALAND 4 FIJI 4On the opening night a well-prepared Futsal Whites got off to a hesitant start going down 1-0 early to a fired up local side Skipper Marvin Eakins equalized five minutes before half time and notched a second after the break before goals from

SOLOMONS ISLANDS WILL REPRESENT OCEANIA AT THE 2012 FIFA FUTSAL WORLD CUP IN

THAILAND FUTSALWHITES FINISH THIRD AFTER A SHOOTOUT LOSS IN THEIR SEMI-FINAL

AGAINST TAHITILucas da Silva and Dylan Manickum saw New Zealand cruising at 4-1 Fiji brought it back to 4-3 late in the game and then stunned Matt Chandlerrsquos men with a controversial equalizer from a sideline kick-in in the last seconds of the game following a Futsal Whites defensive mix-up

NEW ZEALAND 21 KIRIBATI 1The Futsal Whites opened Day Two of the championships by dismantling Kiribati with a controlled display of possession futsal It was a lsquolsquogoalfestrsquorsquo from start to finish - with East Cityrsquos Nathan Robertson and Dylan Manickum leading the way with five and four respectively Marvin Eakins claimed a hat-trick while Jakub Sinkora Miro Major and Micky Malivuk claimed two each Goals from Tariq Assad Lucas da Silva and Daniel Koprivcic completed the rout and the Futsal Whites were on course for the semi-finals

NEW ZEALAND 6 VANUATU 4A fine solo effort from Jakub Sinkora followed by a clinical finish from Nathan Robertson gave the Futsal Whites the best possible start in this lsquomust winrsquo game for the Futsal Whites Vanuatu brought the game back to 2-2 just after halftime and soon after it was 3-3 after Robertson and Vanuatursquos influential Don Mansale traded blows Goals from Micky Malivuk and Dylan Manickum made it five for the Futsal Whites before Vanuatu scored again

to keep in touch at 5-4 Greg OrsquoConnor then came off the bench to score a fine sixth ensuring the Futsal Whites had not only made the semi-finals but avoided a match up with the rampant Solomon Islands

NEW ZEALAND (2)3 TAHITI (2)3 (TAHITI won 4-3 on penalties)The Futsal Whites made a hesitant start to their most important game for four years and the well organised Tahitians took control of the first half going into the break with a 2-0 lead Daniel Koprivcic got the Futsal Whites back on track after the restart turning home Dylan Manickumrsquos cross from close range before Nathan Robertson turned to slot a well-deserved equalizer following a sustained period of domination by the Kiwis The game finished all square at full time then in extra time Marvin Eakins looked to have sealed it for New Zealand with a back post finish following a killer ball from Miro Major before a late turnover gifted the Tahitians with the equalizer to set up a dramatic penalty shootout Manickum and Koprivcic saw their efforts saved by Tahiti custodian Atanui Tetihia and the Tahitians stunned the Futsal Whites to win the shootout 4-3 The New Zealanders were left to rue another slow start and their inability to hang on to a lead in the final stanza of the game The lsquodream finalrsquo against the Solomon Islands was not be and the World Cup dream was placed on

OFC CHAMPIONSHIPS

OFC Championships MVP and Golden Boot winner Elliot Ragomo (top) Tahiti and Solomon Islands lineup before the classic final at Vodafone ArenaPHOTOS OFC

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

ice for another four years Instead the Futsal Whites would have to return to the arena the following night for the Bronze Medal Game

NEW ZEALAND 1 VANUATU 1 (NEW ZEALAND won 5-4 on penalties)An early goal from Micky Malivuk in an entertaining and tightly fought game looked like it was going to be enough for the Futsal Whites to claim 3rd place at the tournament But it was deja vu for New Zealand and Vanuatu equalized with the last kick of the game to take the game straight to the penalty shootout Keeper David Plowright emerged as the hero for the New Zealanders slotting his sudden death penalty before keeping out rival custodian Chickau Mansalersquos piledriver to send the New Zealanders and the crowd wild ensuring a consolation prize for the popular 2011 Futsal Whites squad

GROUP PHASE1 Tahiti (TAH) 6 Tuvalu (TUV) 02 Vanuatu (VAN) 9 Kiribati (KIR) 23 Solomon Islands (SOL) 13 New Caledonia (NCL) 54 Fiji (FIJ) 4 New Zealand (NZL) 45 Kiribati (KIR) 1 New Zealand (NZL) 216 Tuvalu (TUV) 1 New Caledonia (NCL) 117 Fiji (FIJ) 2 Vanuatu (VAN) 58 Solomon Islands 1 (SOL) v Tahiti (TAH) 09 New Caledonia (NCL) 2 v Tahiti (TAH) 210 Tuvalu (TUV) 0 v Solomon Islands (SOL) 1611 Fiji (FIJ) 22 v Kiribati (KIR) 312 New Zealand (NZL) 6 v Vanuatu (VAN) 4

GROUP STANDINGSGROUP A P W D L F A GD PtsNew Zealand (NZL) 3 2 1 0 31 9 22 7Vanuatu (VAN) 3 2 0 1 18 10 8 6Fiji (FIJ) 3 1 1 1 28 12 16 4Kiribati (KIR) 3 0 0 3 6 52 -46 0

GROUP B P W D L F A GD PtsSolomon Islands (SOL) 3 3 0 0 30 5 25 9Tahiti (TAH) 3 1 1 1 8 3 5 4New Caledonia (NCL) 3 1 1 1 18 16 2 4

Tuvalu (TUV) 3 0 0 3 1 33 -32 0

78 PLAyOFF13 Tuvalu (TUV) 2 v Kiribati (KIR) 3

56 PLAyOFF14 Fiji (FIJ) 8 v New Caledonia (NCL) 6

SEMI FINALS15 New Zealand (NZL) 23 v Tahiti (TAH) 23 AET Tahiti won 5-4 on penalties16Solomon Islands (SOL) 13 Vanuatu (VAN) 1

34 PLAyOFF17 New Zealand (NZL) v Vanuatu (VAN) 11 New Zealand won 5-4 on penalties

FINAL18 Tahiti (TAH) 4 Solomon Islands (SOL) 6

Player of the Tournament Elliot Ragomo (SOL)Golden Boot Elliot Ragomo (SOL) 19 goalsGolden Glove Atanui Tetihia (TAH)

New Zealand GoalscorersNathan ROBERTSON 8Marvin EAKINS 7Dylan MANICKUM 6Micky MALIVUK 5Jakub SINKORA 3Daniel KOPRIVCIC 2Miro MAJOR 2Greg OrsquoCONNOR 2Lucas SILVA 2David PLOWRIGHT 1Tariq ASSAD 1

Above New Zealandrsquos most experienced campaigner Nathan Robertson enjoyed another excellent tournament leading the golden boot stakes for the Futsal Whites with 8 strikes while proving to be a constant thorn in the side of opposition teams

Top Heartbreak for New Zealand as Tahiti emerge triumphant from the dramatic semi final shooutPHOTOS OFC

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

PHOTO ALPHAPIX

ReportJUNIORYOUTH

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

National JuniorYouth Championships

PHOTOS ALPHAPIX

ldquoIn previous years most teams were playing indoor football rather than futsal but the technical ability and movement of the more successful teams suggests we are entering a new phase of the game in this countryrdquo Toohey added

ldquoIt will be interesting to see how the individual centres progress over the next few years Those that are able to get coaching programmes and regular sessions for their players will definitely have the edge rdquo

The 14s final between Auckland Sampa and Mainland Canterbury proved to be an outstanding finale to the tournament with Auckland prevailing 7-6 in extra time after a titanic clash between two experienced and skilful sides

Toohey also paid tribute to the referees who despite a massive workload kept the standard high

ldquoFutsal is not the easiest game to referee We always knew the referees would be a key factor in the success of the tournament and the team Dave Payne and Ken Wallace assembled for the weekend did not let us down They were top notchrdquo he said

RESULTS10sAuckland Rio were winners in the youngest section of the nationals with a hard fought 5-2 win over an excellent Mainland Canterbury in front of a packed Saturday afternoon crowd Rio proved to be the

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

Championships NAPIER

comeback kings of the tournament fighting back from 0-3 in the group phase against Mainland to draw 3-3 and then overturning a 0-3 deficit to prevail 5-3 against Capital Futsal in a thrilling semi-final

The teamsHB Futsal FireballsHB Futsal Unison VineyardCapital Futsal WS TitansHB Futsal Crazy HorsesMainland Futsal CanterburyAuckland RioHB Futsal GreendaleHB Futsal Bedpost Brazil

Final

Auckland Rio 5 Canterbury 2

12sA tightly contested grade with three evenly matched teams from Auckland plus excellent sides from Wellington and Christchurch The exciting Auckland Sampa who featured several players from the championship winning side at the Australian Futsal Nationals in Canberra in 2011 prevailed over last yearrsquos Junior grade champions with a hard fought victory

The teamsNelson Bays KnightsAuckland Futsal SantosCapital Futsal YellowAuckland Futsal RioCapital Futsal Petone BarcaHB Futsal Red SteelMainland Futsal CanterburyHB Futsal CHBHB Futsal CyclonesHB Futsal MacKirdyAuckland Futsal SampaCapital Futsal WS Rogerson

Final

Auckland Rio 5 Canterbury 2

Thirty six teams from around the country descended on Napier in the middle week of the July school holidays for the 3rd Annual NZ Football Futsal National Junioryouth Championships

The largest futsal event on the local calendar was played out over three action-packed days at the home of HB Futsal - the Pettigrew Green Arena in Taradale

Teams from Northland Auckland Futsal East City HB Futsal Capital Futsal Nelson Bays Futsal and Mainland Futsal Canterbury squared off in four grades while crowds of up to 500 flocked in over the weekend to witness outstanding displays of futsal from New Zealandrsquos finest young players

Well developed sides from Auckland Futsal took home the 10s 12s and 14s titles while home town boys HB Futsal were popular winners of the 16s grade on the Sunday afternoon Newcomers Mainland Futsal Canterbury made two finals and impressed everyone throughout the weekend with the quality of their futsal

Tournament Coordinator Paul Toohey was delighted with the event and said it showed how far junior and youth futsal had come in the last few years

ldquoIt felt like everybody stepped it up a few gears this year The teams were well prepared and it was obvious that many centres had put a lot of work inrdquo he said

AUCKLAND WIN 10s 12s and 14s - HAWKErsquoS BAY TRIUMPH IN THE 16s

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

14sAnother tightly contested grade dominated by Auckland and Canterbury sides East City ousted last yearrsquos champion Auckland Rio side in a classic quarter final eoncounter and the tournament concluded with the unforgettable topsy-turvy final between the two best sides Auckland Sampa and Mainland Futsal Canterbury After a titanic battle Sampa had one hand on the trophy until a last second equalizer from the southerners took the game into extra time Reese Coxrsquos late thunderbolt was enough to steal the glory for the Brazilian coached Aucklanders

The teamsHB Futsal CHBHB Futsal MYIMainland Futsal CanterburyCapital Futsal Welllingtn YellowAuckland Futsal RioHB Futsal FuegoEast CityAuckland Futsal SampaCapital Futsal Team AwesomeNelson Bays Futsal Blues

FinalAuckland Rio (6)7 Canterbury (6)6 AET

16sSome high quality futsal was the hallmark of the 16s with an excellent Northland side unlucky not to make the final In the end the very experienced HB Futsal had too much class for allcomers on their home

court despatching Capital 6-0 in a one sided final after being taken to the wire by Northland and Canterbury in earlier games

The teamsHB Futsal BlueCapital Futsal WellingtonNFF Northland FutsalHB Futsal CHB 1HB Futsal StormersMainland Futsal Canterbury

Final HB Futsal Stormers 6 Capital Futsal 0

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

PHOTO OFC

PHOTOS ALPHAPIX

Around theCentres12

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

PHOTO OFCNFF Futsal

Northern Football Federation Futsal Launch 17 September 2011When Saturday 17 September 10-2pmWhere Massey University Recreation Centre ndash Albany

We will have two showcase games being played on a full sized futsal court against the Futsal Whitesbull 1030am Futsal Whites vs Football

Fernsbull 1200pm Futsal Whites vs Massey

University Champions

This is an opportunity for the community to come along and experience what futsal is join in have some fun and meet players from our national futsal team

NFF are running the following futsal programmes and leagues

Junioryouth Programmesbull Pilot Futsal Programme bull The Leisure Centre ndash Stanmore Bay

(Term 3 and 4)bull Massey University Recreation Centre ndash

Albany (Term 4 Monday 330-6pm)bull West Wave Recreation Centre ndash

Henderson (Term 4)bull Rutherford College ndash Te Atatu (Term 4)bull Adult Leaguesbull Lunchtime Business House Futsal

League ndash Massey University Recreation Centre Albany (STARTS Friday 1130-2pm 28 October)

bull Youth Senior Futsal League - Massey University Recreation Centre Albany

bull (STARTS Monday 6-8pm 31 October)bull Further Futsal leagues and

programmes will be offered throughout the NFF region

To register your interest in futsal for your club or for more information on the above please contact

Sarah PayneE sarahpaynenfforgnz M 021 795 045or visit our website wwwnfforgnz

Hibiscus Coast Pilot ProgrammeThe Leisure Centre Stanmore BayWednesdays 7-10 years 31 August - 5 October (Late registrations will be accepted Please contact Sarah for cost)Session one 330 - 445pm Session two 445 - 6pm

Thursdays 11-14 years 1 September - 6 October (Late registrations will be accepted Please contact Sarah for cost)Session one 600 - 715pm

The idea of the Pilot Futsal Programme is to provide skills based coaching suitable for your players age group in a 40 minute block followed by a 35 minute block of quick rotation games roll on roll off first to a goal etc It is a great introduction to futsal and a way for players to improve their football skills and also have some fun at the same time

You may wish to encourage as many of your outdoor team as possible as this is an excellent way for your team to remain together as the winter season comes to a close and helps their football skills to stay strong and continue to work as a team in preparation for next season

You will need shin pads and non marking sneakers or futsal shoes

AFF Futsal

AVONDALEbull An Auckland Football Federation Senior

Menrsquos Futsal league is launching on September 27 at Avondale College

What Senior Menrsquos League (players 16 years old or over)When Starts Tuesday 13 SeptemberWhere Avondale College (2 court venue)Cost $330 per teamContact Yonas bull Game times - 530pm-645pmbull 12 players per squadbull League limited to 10 teamsbull 11-week season (including finals)

To register for AFF-Futsal Avondale League contact Centre Officer - yonas Gebre at playbeautiful10gmailcom

MANUKAUOtara Leisure AFF-Futsal and Counties Manukau Sport have teamed up to deliver the KiwiSport funded Primary Futsal in Schools Programme

bull Futsal lsquoGive it a Gorsquo sessions delivered to 960 7-9 year olds

bull 10 week school programme delivered throughout Manukau between October-February

bull Primary League established between February-April

bull lsquoFutsal in Schoolsrsquo Programme Coach Education delivered to 70 Manukau Institute of Technology students

bull Teachers trained to deliver basic coaching

EAST CITyEast City Futsal based at the ASB Stadium in Kohimarama Auckland runs a premier league on Monday nights (comprised of ten teams) which is played on an international size court with two referee officials per game

The competition this season has been exceptional all games have been close with some upsets along the way

The East City Youth Development Squad took advantage of East City National League training finishing in the top four - a huge accomplishment The final night was a no-holds barred night both semi-finals and finals Arabian Knights and KBT went head to head in the finalrsquos and after a very intense game with some amazing futsal skills by both teams KBT took out the Premier Winter League now winning back to back seasons -Barbara Gwilliam

East City took a squad of 8 players to the U14s 2011 NZ Football Futsal National Junior Youth Championship held at Pettigrew Green Arena Napier on 23-24 July The team was drawn from participants in our in-house Summer 2011 competition The team was coached by Dennis Dow the older brother of one of our players who plays in the clubrsquos premier league with our youth development squad

The boys got off to a flying start with a convincing 9-0 win over Nelson Bays The highlight of the game was a 6-goal haul by midfielder Matthew Bouzaid who went on to repeat this achievement in the games against Wellington Team Awesome and Auckland Futsal Rio In total Matthew scored 19 goals only one short of winning the Golden Boot Award

The highlight of our tournament was the quarter-final against Auckland Futsal Rio

a team which included a large contingent of Auckland representative players East City made a tremendous start going 4-0 up within the first five minutes before Rio staged a strong comeback to level by half time and then to lead 7-5 early in the second half The East City boys kept their composure and put the Rio defence under such pressure that they conceded a number of fouls in and around their own goal box with two of the resulting free kicks being coolly converted to bring the scores level The boys snatched the lead with less than two minutes to play and displayed great maturity to hold Rio at bayIn the semi final the boys were again given a futsal lesson by an extremely skilful and well drilled Mainland Futsal team who went on to lose an extra-time thriller in the final against Auckland Futsal Sampa

The East City boys can be very proud of the fact that their only two losses during the tournament came to the teams which finished first and second As the competition progressed their confidence and awareness improved markedly and will stand them in good stead in future years

- Derek Dow

ContactEmail futsalmandataconz East City Administration Line 579-0652

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

East City Winter Premier League Winners 2011 KBTPHOTO EAST CITY

HB Futsal

After hosting the third annual National Junior and Youth Championships at the Pettigrew Green Arena we have turned our attention to the Term 4 Leagues which commence on October 25 Enrolments are underway with over fifty teams (JuniorIntermediateYouthSocialPremier) expected to take part in our Tuesday night leagues

Recent discussions with the Arena have highlighted the high demand for court space from the other sporting codes who currently use the facility Basketball volleyball and netball are all experiencing huge growth due in particular to the college programmes in operation The challenge for futsal in Hawkersquos Bay is finding enough courts to enable the heavily subscribed leagues to expand further as we are in the unfortunate position at the moment of having to turn teams away

A major highlight of the last quarter was the success of the HB Stormers who picked up the 16s championship trophy at the recent Nationals after beating Capital Futsal 6-0 in the final

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

AUCKLAND FUTSAL2011 NZF FUTSAL CHAMPIONS 10 12 14 Boys Grades

Auckland Futsalrsquos representatives 1012 amp 14 Boys swept all aside to win a record three national titles at the 2011 NZ Futsal Championships held in Napier in July

Auckland Futsalrsquos Brazilian coaches Felipe Bernardi amp Juliano Schmeling prepared our representative teams to play an authentic Brazilian style of futsal - highly technical constant rhythmic movements and fast intricate passing

Auckland Rio - NZ Champion - 10 Boys1 Finn Ambridge2 Gene Toohey3 Josh Coe4 Theo Hardy5 Sidney Boyd6 Joel Clissold7 Harrison Chadwick8 Oscar Browne

Auckland SAMPA - NZ Champion - 12 Boys1 Ahmed Mohammadi2 Ethan Amey3 Jack Vaughan4 Nicholas Milne (K)5 Sean Green6 Matthew Hunter

Auckland SAMPA - NZ Champion - 14 Boys1 Dylan Burns2 Harry Bell3 Phillip Paul4 Reese Cox5 Sean Clark6 Tinashe Marowa7 Emman Rahimi8 Charlie Thomas9 Corey Walters (K)

10 David Masters (K)

Junior Leagues starting in September 20117 - 19 yrsHarbour - WednesdaysAuckland Central - Mondays Thursdays Fridays SundaysAuckland East - Mondays TuesdaysBrazil Futsal AcademyAuthentic Brazilian Futsal skills techniques movement creativity amp learning to lsquoPlay Like a Brazilianrsquo Let our Brazilian coaches help you become an exciting playerAges 5 - 13 yrs

Harbour - SundaysAuckland Central Mondays Sundays

Contact Craig Empsonplayaucklandfutsalorgwwwaucklandfutsalorg

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

Many of these 1996 born players started with us back in the original leagues of 2006 and under the watchful eye of coach Mark Cozens have blossomed into a well organised and dedicated outifit with a bit of an lsquox-factorrsquo We fully expect many of these players to continue on the futsal pathway being offered by NZF Futsal with all the boys hoping to play in the National League in the near future

wwwhbfutsalorgnz

Capital Futsal

Futsalrsquos future in Wellington looks bright if the success of ASB Sport Centrersquos grand opening in August is anything to go by

As one of many sports which will call the 12 court $475 million venue in Kilbirnie home futsal was exposed to a large new audience with around 15000 visiting during the open day

Futsal activities held throughout the day included the national team the Futsal Whites competing in a cup of nations against ethnic-based local sides

The Futsal Whites predictably prevailed beating an Africa United team led by Team Wellington striker Hicham Kamri 7-1 in the final

There were also womens and youth tournaments held and one court was also set aside for people to try futsal in different gender and age groups with Futsal Whites players mixing with locals game enough to step on court

ldquoIt was a great chance to get in front of people who may not have played much futsal if at allrdquo said NZF Futsal Development Manager Dave Payne

ldquoThe interest from kids was particularly pleasing and I think they really enjoyed the sport as well as the opportunity to play against national team players and get their autographs while they were there

ldquoSome turned up after winter football some had played other sports but were taken by the skill of the game and the fact that anyone can play

NZF Futsal 16s Champions 2011 - HB StormersPHOTO ALPHAPIX

Action from the Cup of Nations at ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

ldquoCapital Futsal has experienced a boost in registrations and the success of the open day and the quality of the venue bodes well for continued growth of futsal in Wellington

Up to six futsal courts will be in action every Monday Tuesday and Friday night beginning in October and a range of tournaments will run during the October school holidays Close to 300 futsal teams will play in leagues and tournaments at the ASB Sports Centre between October and December

Contactmattfutsalnetnz021 971 798wwwfutsalnetnz

Mainland Futsal

All systems are go in the Mainland region with over 50 teams now playing every week in our various leagues This means we can start to build our other regions up over the next few months Our Christchurch leagues now run to 3 divisions of Senior Men 1 Womenrsquos division 2 Youth divisions 1 Junior a Mixed and a Masters

We had a fabulous trip to the Youth and Junior Nationals taking a team in each group and eventually (returning in the snow storm of the year) with two silver medals Special congratulations are due

Top Luke Tongue clears the ball in a 12s Nationalrsquos game in Napier Benji lapslie Sam Philip Ellis Hare-Reid (G) and Joe Bell (10) look on

Centre Mainland Canterbury 10s

Bottom left Stephen Livingstone pressures the keeper in a 14s Nationals game

Bottom right Avery Addei breaks in the 16s Nationals while Sam Lapslie Miguel Mitchell Hamish Mitchell (GK) and Sam Roger watch

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

to Peter Livingstone for coaching the 14s to Silver and Matt Hoole doing the same for the 10s but all the teams coaches and support staff did themselves proud It was a great opportunity to play against all the regions of the country and the boys returned with growth and knowledge under their belt as well as great memories of a great event

September sees our ldquoFutsal Camprdquo run every Saturday Under 12s and 12-15s using the time to grow their game with expert coaches and players guidance Along with our schools competition starting next term and a very successful referees training day adding 10 refs to our roster we are growing in all areas and on all fronts

We look forward to catching up with the Futsal community at the Girls Nationals and the Masters where we will bring teams to both

Futsal South

Football South Futsal has recently changed its name to Futsal South Each centre within the Futsal South region will use the logos above with their centre name as per Futsal South ndash Dunedin logo

We now have centres in Dunedin Wanaka Queenstown Timaru and looking to start in Balclutha

Futsal South has held two selection tournaments in Dunedin to choose our National League squad from Teams from Queenstown Wanaka and Dunedin were involved over the 2 rounds with some great Futsal played by all involved

Queenstown Falcons took out the first tournament and Real Football winning the second tournament Luiz Uhera (Futsal South National League Coach) and Chris Button (Futsal South National League Manager) have selected an initial training squad of 30 players from those involved to train towards the 201112 National League

In September 2011 we are starting our summer Futsal leagues We have Senior leagues running on Monday and Wednesday nights Primary school leagues on Wednesday afternoons Intermediate and Junior High School leagues on Tuesday afternoons and Senior High School leagues on Thursday afternoons

With the introduction of our Primary School League we are also offering a futsal in Schools coaching program which involves a part time coach teaching basic Futsal skills in Primary and Intermediate School pupils We have had a very positive response to our pilot program that was run at Tahuna Intermediate with over 450 pupils being given Futsal instruction in their Physical Education classes for 2 weeks

We have signed up a number of schools for this program for terms 3 amp 4 of 2011 and also have schools signed up for next year We are also looking to take the program to the Central Otago and Clutha districts to help boost player numbers in those areas

This should give a real boost towards the future of Futsal in our region

Futsal South has been running referee courses over the region and now have 52 qualified referees and another course running shortly

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Auckland Futsalplayaucklandfutsalorg

AFF Futsal - Avondale Playbeautiful10gmailcom

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WAIBOP Futsalpeterawaibopfootballconzsimonmwaibopfootballconz

Hawkes Bay Futsal ptooheyhbfutsalorgnz

Wairarapa Futsal petercoxsparcconzpaul_burnsxtraconz

Red Sox Manawatu Futsal (Palmerston North) bergie007vodafoneconz

Capital Futsal (Wellington)mattcapitalfootballorgnz

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Mainland Futsal - Canterburyrichardmainlandfutsalconz

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Futsal South - Dunedinkneepadsparadisenetnzfootballmikeihugconz

Futsal South - Wanaka cecisxtraconz

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Futsal South - Timarujcamesymcascorgnz

have a great team behind me with support in areas like accounts which allows me to spend more of my time planning the ASB Centre programme as well as getting out into even more schools How much coaching are you doingLast term I trialled ldquoCoach n Playrdquo leagues in both of our U13 leagues which went well At the moment I coach the St Pats U16 team on a weekly basis with the ambition of winning NZSSSC College Nationals hosted right next door at the ASB Centre in March 2012 Our U19 squad is a representative team and is going to Australia for the nationals in January We will be together playing and training three times a week from next month Our Island Bay Team Awesome U13s have been training once and playing once a week in preparation for Nationals in Australia too From next term Friday nights will be coaching nights for U11s and each age group up to 16s 19s and Men We see this as an important part of the programme to help educate futsal players which in turn will also produce better football players Whatrsquos a typical week for you Matt - Futsal every day Most eveningsAll day all night Yes As part of the Capital transition and with the new centre I am involving more people in running and refereeing the leagues so I can be more efficient in the overall management as opposed to being out ldquoon the groundrdquo at

Capital Futsalrsquos Development Officer is at the centre of the growing futsal scene in Wellington With four yearsrsquo experience as a player coach administrator and volunteer under his belt Fejos is a regular fixture at tournaments and events around the country POWER OF FIVE caught up with him in the days following the opening of the new state of the art twelve court ASB Community Centre - the new home for futsal in Wellington

Matt - how long have you been involved in futsalSince late 2007 coming back to Wellington for summer after Otago University and wanting to play indoor soccer - which is all I knew at the time A knock on Dave and Sarahrsquos Paynersquos door changed my life I guess Tell us a little bit about your role with Capital Futsal Capital City Futsal has recently been integrated into Capital Football hasnrsquot itYes we are currently going through the transition of Capital Football taking on the responsibility for delivering futsal as with other federations around the country My role up until now has been everything really running and promoting the leagues school visits with a focus on the Kiwisport College programme administering everything and overall organisingThis is now changing as things get bigger and with the transition to Capital - I now

leagues four nights a week The emails administration and practical running of things are endless so good thing I do it because I love it At times it seems there is too much interest It is a fantastic problem to have

Are you still finding time to playI sneak in a few social games a week which allows me to drop in on the leagues too and make sure everything is ok too I donrsquot have the time for much more than that and have made the decision that I have more to contribute off the court than on by way of contributing to the opportunities of others You guys are doing well on the referee development side of things How many qualified referees do you have now in WellingtonWe have about 25 from our last two courses in Wellington Most encouraging is the college students involved in what is traditionally seen as an lsquoold manrsquosrsquo thing There are also pathways within refereeing onto the National League and OFC Championships The new centre with twelve courts and a brand new meeting room will provide a professional venue to host referee and coach education sessions Capital Footballrsquos Jamie Cross has also officiated at the OFC Championships in the past so has a lot of experience And Adam Walker volunteers and develops referees which is a real asset to us

MATT FEJOSINTERVIEW

Capital Futsal

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ldquoI BELIEVE MORE CLUBS TEAMS OF ALL AGES WILL ADOPT FUTSAL AS ONE OF THEIR

TRAINING NIGHTS DURING THE FOOTBALL SEASON rdquo

Capital Futsal

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Can you tell us a little bit about the KiwiSport College Futsal initiative you are involved withCapital Futsal and myself personally would not be here without it so we owe a great deal of gratitude to KiwiSport College Sport Wellington and Sport Wellington It allowed me to leave a job in a bank fourteen months ago and get out into colleges to grow the game Over 2000 students from 16 different colleges have been involved from sessions in their school to local college leagues up to College Nationals and young Izaac OrsquoHara showing the pathways in the game being involved with the Futsal Whites What about the National League this year Capital were the top New Zealand side in 201011 Will you have pretty much the same outfit as last yearThings are always changing We lose two of our senior Futsal Whites overseas in Lucas da Silva and Tariq Assad We have some new Brazilians who have been training with the team I am hoping one or two of my promising U19 squad will squeeze in too but things are getting very competitive We have the same management and coaching team which provides some continuity to build on last season and catch those Aussies Our new competitive league will be played on our three international courts which will help too How did the Capital teams enjoy the JuniorYouth Nationals this year The 16s did particularly well and made the finalI think it was a real landmark event The standard went through the roof and centres now will have to send their best players selected from their leagues and

training together It was great to see My 16s were the St Patrickrsquos College team and performed amazingly with just six players from one school showing the benefit of futsal specific training to learn technically and tactically how to play the game Beating squads of eight and nine players selected from federations was quite an achievement They also played the first ever game of any sport at the Opening Day (of the new stadium)against the Futsal Whites and only lost 4-1 in 16 minutes of game time which speaks volumes for these boys I think I was happy with all the teams from the 10s up to 16s and come next year I can only imagine what our top teams will look like after playing and training in the best facility in the country

Capital have always been pioneers - a few years ago Brian Blellock and others set up that great little futsal club in Hataitai Now you have offices in the what is probably the best facility in the Southern Hemisphere What are long term plans for the game in Wellington I think even medium term the transition to Capital Football is the most important thing It is not going to be instant and we are still learning every day To integrate futsal into trainings have futsal specific days and host top tournaments Who knows maybe in a few years we might become a lsquomajorrsquo sport In just four years since that league in Hataitai we have become a major stakeholder in the new centre with netball and basketball Four years ago you would have thought we were mad but it shows firstly the potential

ldquoI STILL HAVE MUCH I WANT TO ACHIEVE HERE IN WELLINGTON AND DREAM OF FUTSALrsquoS OWN lsquoBAHRAIN MOMENTrsquo IN 2015 - SO WHO KNOWS

WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDSrdquo

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of this amazing game that is already proven around the world and secondly that with a team of volunteers willing to put in lots of work into something they believe in amazing things can happen

The new centre presents a great opportunity to get more players involved There is the potential for 200 teams in the new centre and with perfect timing of the outdoor season coming to a close The womens and college leagues are showing huge potential for growth As we build momentum over the summer and work through Capital Football I believe more clubs teams of all ages will adopt futsal as one of their training nights during the football season

What about the national scene Do you feel the game has come a long way in the last few years What are the top priorities for the next few years Can the Futsal Whites get close to the Solomon IslandsThat youth tournament in Napier in July as I said was a real landmark They are the future and to have our kids playing from a young age is how we will catch

the Solomons For the next World Cup campaign in four years time I hope some of our Capital 16-19 year olds might progress Longer term if we can be teaching our children from five years up and create a futsal culture with our facility Irsquod like to think we will catch the Aussies too And what about your own professional development in futsal It must be tremendous working in the game that you love Where would you like to be in a few yearsPeople have asked me this question and in all honesty I donrsquot know To do something you love and contribute something positive to your community as opposed to as opposed to measuring the money earned our hours worked is an honour Things have been so busy I just plan to keep my head down for another twelve months and then assess things then I am pretty happy with where I am at at the moment As things are still growing I am fortunate enough to develop a wide range of experience in marketing managing coaching dealing with key

stakeholders etc I have been forced to develop at the same pace as the sport here which is a great challenge so I am learning and growing every day in a broad set of skills I still have much I want to achieve here in Wellington and dream of futsalrsquos own ldquoBahrain momentrdquo in 2015 so who knows what the future holds

More action from the Cup of Nations as Futsal Whites target Micky Malivuk deals with an aerial ball gainst Africa UnitedPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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CALENDAR 201112

Sun 25 September 2011 NZF-Futsal Level One Refereeing Course PG Arena Napier

SatSun 2223 October 2011 National Girls and Womenrsquos Futsal Tournament ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 34 December 2011 National League Series 1 Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1112 February 2012 National League Series 2 ASB Stadium Auckland

SatSun 1112 February 2012 Futsal - NZ Masters Games Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1718 March 2012 National League Series 3 ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 2627 March 2012 NZF-Futsal Secondary Schools National Futsal Championships ASB Sports Centre Wellington

Calendar201112

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SERIES ONEDUNEDIN

34 DECEMBER 2011

SERIES TWOAUCKLAND

1112 FEBRUARy 2012

SERIES THREEWELLINGTON1718 MARCH

2012

201112

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201112

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Page 2: THE POWER OF FIVE #2 September 2011

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Action from the opening of the ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington as Futsal Whites flanker Brayden Lissington tries his luck from wide out at against St Patricks during the Cup of Nations (this page) while Futsal Whites captain Marvin Eakins tussles with Hicham Kamri (top right)PHOTOS INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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Welcome to the second edition of Power of Five NZF Futsalrsquos quarterly lsquoround uprsquo It has been a busy three months for futsal with national and international competitions new programmes new world class facilities more futsal dedicated staff and more centres

The Futsal Whites missed out on the FIFA Futsal World Cup 2012 in a heart-breaking semi final penalty shootout with Tahiti but spirits were quickly lifted when the country got a glimpse of the future at the NZF Futsal National JuniorYouth Championships With 36 teams and over 130 action packed games - the tournament was a showcase of incredible skill discipline and fun for all Teams from as far north as Whangarei and as far south as Christchurch converged on Hawkersquos Bay Futsalrsquos excellent facility - PettigrewGreen Arena

This is testament to the rapid growth of the game on our shores and from what was on show the future is very bright indeed

Meanwhile Capital Futsal will still be pinching themselves to make sure they are not dreaming with the new ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington

The Futsal Whites led the way at the 15000 attendance grand opening with a showcase game against a well structured St Patrickrsquos College representative futsal team in front of Wellington and national dignitaries This was followed by a number of tournaments for all age groups and abilities and a chance for the local community to challenge the Futsal Whites to a game

We now have seven dedicated Futsal Development Managers and Futsal Development Officers working nationally in our federations and the numbers will continue to rise as we near the end of 2011 There are now over 120 qualified futsal referees officiating up to 700 games of futsal a week

Futsal now has its place in the sporting landscape of New Zealand but as always in sport a big thank you goes out to those dedicated volunteers who day in day outgo the extra mile for the development of futsal This issue is a tribute to these coaches team managers administrators and mentors You know who you are and the futsal community thanks you all

Dave PayneNZF Futsal Development Manager

A busy time for futsal

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OFC Championships MVP and Golden Boot winner Elliot Ragomo (top) Tahiti and Solomon Islands lineup before the classic final at Vodafone ArenaPHOTOS OFC

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Solomon Islands will once again face the worldrsquos best futsal sides at the FIFA Futsal World Cup after a thrilling 6-4 victory over Tahiti in the OFC Futsal Championships Final at the Vodafone Arena in Suva in May

A massive shock looked on the cards after the impressive Tahiti side lead the favourites 4-1 early in the second half of a pulsating final But the Solomons Islands comeback led by captain and tournament MVP Elliot Ragomo swept the Tahitians aside and the lsquoKurukurursquo booked their place in Thailand 2012 much to the delight of a packed stadium and their fans back home

The Futsal Whites meanwhile will have to wait another four years for their shot at futsal glory following a heartbreaking penalty shootout loss in the semi-final after a 3-3 extra time draw with Tahiti

Earlier the Futsal Whites had finished top of Group A following a draw against Fiji and victories over Vanuatu and tournament newcomers Kiribati

NEW ZEALAND 4 FIJI 4On the opening night a well-prepared Futsal Whites got off to a hesitant start going down 1-0 early to a fired up local side Skipper Marvin Eakins equalized five minutes before half time and notched a second after the break before goals from

SOLOMONS ISLANDS WILL REPRESENT OCEANIA AT THE 2012 FIFA FUTSAL WORLD CUP IN

THAILAND FUTSALWHITES FINISH THIRD AFTER A SHOOTOUT LOSS IN THEIR SEMI-FINAL

AGAINST TAHITILucas da Silva and Dylan Manickum saw New Zealand cruising at 4-1 Fiji brought it back to 4-3 late in the game and then stunned Matt Chandlerrsquos men with a controversial equalizer from a sideline kick-in in the last seconds of the game following a Futsal Whites defensive mix-up

NEW ZEALAND 21 KIRIBATI 1The Futsal Whites opened Day Two of the championships by dismantling Kiribati with a controlled display of possession futsal It was a lsquolsquogoalfestrsquorsquo from start to finish - with East Cityrsquos Nathan Robertson and Dylan Manickum leading the way with five and four respectively Marvin Eakins claimed a hat-trick while Jakub Sinkora Miro Major and Micky Malivuk claimed two each Goals from Tariq Assad Lucas da Silva and Daniel Koprivcic completed the rout and the Futsal Whites were on course for the semi-finals

NEW ZEALAND 6 VANUATU 4A fine solo effort from Jakub Sinkora followed by a clinical finish from Nathan Robertson gave the Futsal Whites the best possible start in this lsquomust winrsquo game for the Futsal Whites Vanuatu brought the game back to 2-2 just after halftime and soon after it was 3-3 after Robertson and Vanuatursquos influential Don Mansale traded blows Goals from Micky Malivuk and Dylan Manickum made it five for the Futsal Whites before Vanuatu scored again

to keep in touch at 5-4 Greg OrsquoConnor then came off the bench to score a fine sixth ensuring the Futsal Whites had not only made the semi-finals but avoided a match up with the rampant Solomon Islands

NEW ZEALAND (2)3 TAHITI (2)3 (TAHITI won 4-3 on penalties)The Futsal Whites made a hesitant start to their most important game for four years and the well organised Tahitians took control of the first half going into the break with a 2-0 lead Daniel Koprivcic got the Futsal Whites back on track after the restart turning home Dylan Manickumrsquos cross from close range before Nathan Robertson turned to slot a well-deserved equalizer following a sustained period of domination by the Kiwis The game finished all square at full time then in extra time Marvin Eakins looked to have sealed it for New Zealand with a back post finish following a killer ball from Miro Major before a late turnover gifted the Tahitians with the equalizer to set up a dramatic penalty shootout Manickum and Koprivcic saw their efforts saved by Tahiti custodian Atanui Tetihia and the Tahitians stunned the Futsal Whites to win the shootout 4-3 The New Zealanders were left to rue another slow start and their inability to hang on to a lead in the final stanza of the game The lsquodream finalrsquo against the Solomon Islands was not be and the World Cup dream was placed on

OFC CHAMPIONSHIPS

OFC Championships MVP and Golden Boot winner Elliot Ragomo (top) Tahiti and Solomon Islands lineup before the classic final at Vodafone ArenaPHOTOS OFC

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ice for another four years Instead the Futsal Whites would have to return to the arena the following night for the Bronze Medal Game

NEW ZEALAND 1 VANUATU 1 (NEW ZEALAND won 5-4 on penalties)An early goal from Micky Malivuk in an entertaining and tightly fought game looked like it was going to be enough for the Futsal Whites to claim 3rd place at the tournament But it was deja vu for New Zealand and Vanuatu equalized with the last kick of the game to take the game straight to the penalty shootout Keeper David Plowright emerged as the hero for the New Zealanders slotting his sudden death penalty before keeping out rival custodian Chickau Mansalersquos piledriver to send the New Zealanders and the crowd wild ensuring a consolation prize for the popular 2011 Futsal Whites squad

GROUP PHASE1 Tahiti (TAH) 6 Tuvalu (TUV) 02 Vanuatu (VAN) 9 Kiribati (KIR) 23 Solomon Islands (SOL) 13 New Caledonia (NCL) 54 Fiji (FIJ) 4 New Zealand (NZL) 45 Kiribati (KIR) 1 New Zealand (NZL) 216 Tuvalu (TUV) 1 New Caledonia (NCL) 117 Fiji (FIJ) 2 Vanuatu (VAN) 58 Solomon Islands 1 (SOL) v Tahiti (TAH) 09 New Caledonia (NCL) 2 v Tahiti (TAH) 210 Tuvalu (TUV) 0 v Solomon Islands (SOL) 1611 Fiji (FIJ) 22 v Kiribati (KIR) 312 New Zealand (NZL) 6 v Vanuatu (VAN) 4

GROUP STANDINGSGROUP A P W D L F A GD PtsNew Zealand (NZL) 3 2 1 0 31 9 22 7Vanuatu (VAN) 3 2 0 1 18 10 8 6Fiji (FIJ) 3 1 1 1 28 12 16 4Kiribati (KIR) 3 0 0 3 6 52 -46 0

GROUP B P W D L F A GD PtsSolomon Islands (SOL) 3 3 0 0 30 5 25 9Tahiti (TAH) 3 1 1 1 8 3 5 4New Caledonia (NCL) 3 1 1 1 18 16 2 4

Tuvalu (TUV) 3 0 0 3 1 33 -32 0

78 PLAyOFF13 Tuvalu (TUV) 2 v Kiribati (KIR) 3

56 PLAyOFF14 Fiji (FIJ) 8 v New Caledonia (NCL) 6

SEMI FINALS15 New Zealand (NZL) 23 v Tahiti (TAH) 23 AET Tahiti won 5-4 on penalties16Solomon Islands (SOL) 13 Vanuatu (VAN) 1

34 PLAyOFF17 New Zealand (NZL) v Vanuatu (VAN) 11 New Zealand won 5-4 on penalties

FINAL18 Tahiti (TAH) 4 Solomon Islands (SOL) 6

Player of the Tournament Elliot Ragomo (SOL)Golden Boot Elliot Ragomo (SOL) 19 goalsGolden Glove Atanui Tetihia (TAH)

New Zealand GoalscorersNathan ROBERTSON 8Marvin EAKINS 7Dylan MANICKUM 6Micky MALIVUK 5Jakub SINKORA 3Daniel KOPRIVCIC 2Miro MAJOR 2Greg OrsquoCONNOR 2Lucas SILVA 2David PLOWRIGHT 1Tariq ASSAD 1

Above New Zealandrsquos most experienced campaigner Nathan Robertson enjoyed another excellent tournament leading the golden boot stakes for the Futsal Whites with 8 strikes while proving to be a constant thorn in the side of opposition teams

Top Heartbreak for New Zealand as Tahiti emerge triumphant from the dramatic semi final shooutPHOTOS OFC

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PHOTO ALPHAPIX

ReportJUNIORYOUTH

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National JuniorYouth Championships

PHOTOS ALPHAPIX

ldquoIn previous years most teams were playing indoor football rather than futsal but the technical ability and movement of the more successful teams suggests we are entering a new phase of the game in this countryrdquo Toohey added

ldquoIt will be interesting to see how the individual centres progress over the next few years Those that are able to get coaching programmes and regular sessions for their players will definitely have the edge rdquo

The 14s final between Auckland Sampa and Mainland Canterbury proved to be an outstanding finale to the tournament with Auckland prevailing 7-6 in extra time after a titanic clash between two experienced and skilful sides

Toohey also paid tribute to the referees who despite a massive workload kept the standard high

ldquoFutsal is not the easiest game to referee We always knew the referees would be a key factor in the success of the tournament and the team Dave Payne and Ken Wallace assembled for the weekend did not let us down They were top notchrdquo he said

RESULTS10sAuckland Rio were winners in the youngest section of the nationals with a hard fought 5-2 win over an excellent Mainland Canterbury in front of a packed Saturday afternoon crowd Rio proved to be the

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Championships NAPIER

comeback kings of the tournament fighting back from 0-3 in the group phase against Mainland to draw 3-3 and then overturning a 0-3 deficit to prevail 5-3 against Capital Futsal in a thrilling semi-final

The teamsHB Futsal FireballsHB Futsal Unison VineyardCapital Futsal WS TitansHB Futsal Crazy HorsesMainland Futsal CanterburyAuckland RioHB Futsal GreendaleHB Futsal Bedpost Brazil

Final

Auckland Rio 5 Canterbury 2

12sA tightly contested grade with three evenly matched teams from Auckland plus excellent sides from Wellington and Christchurch The exciting Auckland Sampa who featured several players from the championship winning side at the Australian Futsal Nationals in Canberra in 2011 prevailed over last yearrsquos Junior grade champions with a hard fought victory

The teamsNelson Bays KnightsAuckland Futsal SantosCapital Futsal YellowAuckland Futsal RioCapital Futsal Petone BarcaHB Futsal Red SteelMainland Futsal CanterburyHB Futsal CHBHB Futsal CyclonesHB Futsal MacKirdyAuckland Futsal SampaCapital Futsal WS Rogerson

Final

Auckland Rio 5 Canterbury 2

Thirty six teams from around the country descended on Napier in the middle week of the July school holidays for the 3rd Annual NZ Football Futsal National Junioryouth Championships

The largest futsal event on the local calendar was played out over three action-packed days at the home of HB Futsal - the Pettigrew Green Arena in Taradale

Teams from Northland Auckland Futsal East City HB Futsal Capital Futsal Nelson Bays Futsal and Mainland Futsal Canterbury squared off in four grades while crowds of up to 500 flocked in over the weekend to witness outstanding displays of futsal from New Zealandrsquos finest young players

Well developed sides from Auckland Futsal took home the 10s 12s and 14s titles while home town boys HB Futsal were popular winners of the 16s grade on the Sunday afternoon Newcomers Mainland Futsal Canterbury made two finals and impressed everyone throughout the weekend with the quality of their futsal

Tournament Coordinator Paul Toohey was delighted with the event and said it showed how far junior and youth futsal had come in the last few years

ldquoIt felt like everybody stepped it up a few gears this year The teams were well prepared and it was obvious that many centres had put a lot of work inrdquo he said

AUCKLAND WIN 10s 12s and 14s - HAWKErsquoS BAY TRIUMPH IN THE 16s

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14sAnother tightly contested grade dominated by Auckland and Canterbury sides East City ousted last yearrsquos champion Auckland Rio side in a classic quarter final eoncounter and the tournament concluded with the unforgettable topsy-turvy final between the two best sides Auckland Sampa and Mainland Futsal Canterbury After a titanic battle Sampa had one hand on the trophy until a last second equalizer from the southerners took the game into extra time Reese Coxrsquos late thunderbolt was enough to steal the glory for the Brazilian coached Aucklanders

The teamsHB Futsal CHBHB Futsal MYIMainland Futsal CanterburyCapital Futsal Welllingtn YellowAuckland Futsal RioHB Futsal FuegoEast CityAuckland Futsal SampaCapital Futsal Team AwesomeNelson Bays Futsal Blues

FinalAuckland Rio (6)7 Canterbury (6)6 AET

16sSome high quality futsal was the hallmark of the 16s with an excellent Northland side unlucky not to make the final In the end the very experienced HB Futsal had too much class for allcomers on their home

court despatching Capital 6-0 in a one sided final after being taken to the wire by Northland and Canterbury in earlier games

The teamsHB Futsal BlueCapital Futsal WellingtonNFF Northland FutsalHB Futsal CHB 1HB Futsal StormersMainland Futsal Canterbury

Final HB Futsal Stormers 6 Capital Futsal 0

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PHOTO OFC

PHOTOS ALPHAPIX

Around theCentres12

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PHOTO OFCNFF Futsal

Northern Football Federation Futsal Launch 17 September 2011When Saturday 17 September 10-2pmWhere Massey University Recreation Centre ndash Albany

We will have two showcase games being played on a full sized futsal court against the Futsal Whitesbull 1030am Futsal Whites vs Football

Fernsbull 1200pm Futsal Whites vs Massey

University Champions

This is an opportunity for the community to come along and experience what futsal is join in have some fun and meet players from our national futsal team

NFF are running the following futsal programmes and leagues

Junioryouth Programmesbull Pilot Futsal Programme bull The Leisure Centre ndash Stanmore Bay

(Term 3 and 4)bull Massey University Recreation Centre ndash

Albany (Term 4 Monday 330-6pm)bull West Wave Recreation Centre ndash

Henderson (Term 4)bull Rutherford College ndash Te Atatu (Term 4)bull Adult Leaguesbull Lunchtime Business House Futsal

League ndash Massey University Recreation Centre Albany (STARTS Friday 1130-2pm 28 October)

bull Youth Senior Futsal League - Massey University Recreation Centre Albany

bull (STARTS Monday 6-8pm 31 October)bull Further Futsal leagues and

programmes will be offered throughout the NFF region

To register your interest in futsal for your club or for more information on the above please contact

Sarah PayneE sarahpaynenfforgnz M 021 795 045or visit our website wwwnfforgnz

Hibiscus Coast Pilot ProgrammeThe Leisure Centre Stanmore BayWednesdays 7-10 years 31 August - 5 October (Late registrations will be accepted Please contact Sarah for cost)Session one 330 - 445pm Session two 445 - 6pm

Thursdays 11-14 years 1 September - 6 October (Late registrations will be accepted Please contact Sarah for cost)Session one 600 - 715pm

The idea of the Pilot Futsal Programme is to provide skills based coaching suitable for your players age group in a 40 minute block followed by a 35 minute block of quick rotation games roll on roll off first to a goal etc It is a great introduction to futsal and a way for players to improve their football skills and also have some fun at the same time

You may wish to encourage as many of your outdoor team as possible as this is an excellent way for your team to remain together as the winter season comes to a close and helps their football skills to stay strong and continue to work as a team in preparation for next season

You will need shin pads and non marking sneakers or futsal shoes

AFF Futsal

AVONDALEbull An Auckland Football Federation Senior

Menrsquos Futsal league is launching on September 27 at Avondale College

What Senior Menrsquos League (players 16 years old or over)When Starts Tuesday 13 SeptemberWhere Avondale College (2 court venue)Cost $330 per teamContact Yonas bull Game times - 530pm-645pmbull 12 players per squadbull League limited to 10 teamsbull 11-week season (including finals)

To register for AFF-Futsal Avondale League contact Centre Officer - yonas Gebre at playbeautiful10gmailcom

MANUKAUOtara Leisure AFF-Futsal and Counties Manukau Sport have teamed up to deliver the KiwiSport funded Primary Futsal in Schools Programme

bull Futsal lsquoGive it a Gorsquo sessions delivered to 960 7-9 year olds

bull 10 week school programme delivered throughout Manukau between October-February

bull Primary League established between February-April

bull lsquoFutsal in Schoolsrsquo Programme Coach Education delivered to 70 Manukau Institute of Technology students

bull Teachers trained to deliver basic coaching

EAST CITyEast City Futsal based at the ASB Stadium in Kohimarama Auckland runs a premier league on Monday nights (comprised of ten teams) which is played on an international size court with two referee officials per game

The competition this season has been exceptional all games have been close with some upsets along the way

The East City Youth Development Squad took advantage of East City National League training finishing in the top four - a huge accomplishment The final night was a no-holds barred night both semi-finals and finals Arabian Knights and KBT went head to head in the finalrsquos and after a very intense game with some amazing futsal skills by both teams KBT took out the Premier Winter League now winning back to back seasons -Barbara Gwilliam

East City took a squad of 8 players to the U14s 2011 NZ Football Futsal National Junior Youth Championship held at Pettigrew Green Arena Napier on 23-24 July The team was drawn from participants in our in-house Summer 2011 competition The team was coached by Dennis Dow the older brother of one of our players who plays in the clubrsquos premier league with our youth development squad

The boys got off to a flying start with a convincing 9-0 win over Nelson Bays The highlight of the game was a 6-goal haul by midfielder Matthew Bouzaid who went on to repeat this achievement in the games against Wellington Team Awesome and Auckland Futsal Rio In total Matthew scored 19 goals only one short of winning the Golden Boot Award

The highlight of our tournament was the quarter-final against Auckland Futsal Rio

a team which included a large contingent of Auckland representative players East City made a tremendous start going 4-0 up within the first five minutes before Rio staged a strong comeback to level by half time and then to lead 7-5 early in the second half The East City boys kept their composure and put the Rio defence under such pressure that they conceded a number of fouls in and around their own goal box with two of the resulting free kicks being coolly converted to bring the scores level The boys snatched the lead with less than two minutes to play and displayed great maturity to hold Rio at bayIn the semi final the boys were again given a futsal lesson by an extremely skilful and well drilled Mainland Futsal team who went on to lose an extra-time thriller in the final against Auckland Futsal Sampa

The East City boys can be very proud of the fact that their only two losses during the tournament came to the teams which finished first and second As the competition progressed their confidence and awareness improved markedly and will stand them in good stead in future years

- Derek Dow

ContactEmail futsalmandataconz East City Administration Line 579-0652

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East City Winter Premier League Winners 2011 KBTPHOTO EAST CITY

HB Futsal

After hosting the third annual National Junior and Youth Championships at the Pettigrew Green Arena we have turned our attention to the Term 4 Leagues which commence on October 25 Enrolments are underway with over fifty teams (JuniorIntermediateYouthSocialPremier) expected to take part in our Tuesday night leagues

Recent discussions with the Arena have highlighted the high demand for court space from the other sporting codes who currently use the facility Basketball volleyball and netball are all experiencing huge growth due in particular to the college programmes in operation The challenge for futsal in Hawkersquos Bay is finding enough courts to enable the heavily subscribed leagues to expand further as we are in the unfortunate position at the moment of having to turn teams away

A major highlight of the last quarter was the success of the HB Stormers who picked up the 16s championship trophy at the recent Nationals after beating Capital Futsal 6-0 in the final

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AUCKLAND FUTSAL2011 NZF FUTSAL CHAMPIONS 10 12 14 Boys Grades

Auckland Futsalrsquos representatives 1012 amp 14 Boys swept all aside to win a record three national titles at the 2011 NZ Futsal Championships held in Napier in July

Auckland Futsalrsquos Brazilian coaches Felipe Bernardi amp Juliano Schmeling prepared our representative teams to play an authentic Brazilian style of futsal - highly technical constant rhythmic movements and fast intricate passing

Auckland Rio - NZ Champion - 10 Boys1 Finn Ambridge2 Gene Toohey3 Josh Coe4 Theo Hardy5 Sidney Boyd6 Joel Clissold7 Harrison Chadwick8 Oscar Browne

Auckland SAMPA - NZ Champion - 12 Boys1 Ahmed Mohammadi2 Ethan Amey3 Jack Vaughan4 Nicholas Milne (K)5 Sean Green6 Matthew Hunter

Auckland SAMPA - NZ Champion - 14 Boys1 Dylan Burns2 Harry Bell3 Phillip Paul4 Reese Cox5 Sean Clark6 Tinashe Marowa7 Emman Rahimi8 Charlie Thomas9 Corey Walters (K)

10 David Masters (K)

Junior Leagues starting in September 20117 - 19 yrsHarbour - WednesdaysAuckland Central - Mondays Thursdays Fridays SundaysAuckland East - Mondays TuesdaysBrazil Futsal AcademyAuthentic Brazilian Futsal skills techniques movement creativity amp learning to lsquoPlay Like a Brazilianrsquo Let our Brazilian coaches help you become an exciting playerAges 5 - 13 yrs

Harbour - SundaysAuckland Central Mondays Sundays

Contact Craig Empsonplayaucklandfutsalorgwwwaucklandfutsalorg

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Many of these 1996 born players started with us back in the original leagues of 2006 and under the watchful eye of coach Mark Cozens have blossomed into a well organised and dedicated outifit with a bit of an lsquox-factorrsquo We fully expect many of these players to continue on the futsal pathway being offered by NZF Futsal with all the boys hoping to play in the National League in the near future

wwwhbfutsalorgnz

Capital Futsal

Futsalrsquos future in Wellington looks bright if the success of ASB Sport Centrersquos grand opening in August is anything to go by

As one of many sports which will call the 12 court $475 million venue in Kilbirnie home futsal was exposed to a large new audience with around 15000 visiting during the open day

Futsal activities held throughout the day included the national team the Futsal Whites competing in a cup of nations against ethnic-based local sides

The Futsal Whites predictably prevailed beating an Africa United team led by Team Wellington striker Hicham Kamri 7-1 in the final

There were also womens and youth tournaments held and one court was also set aside for people to try futsal in different gender and age groups with Futsal Whites players mixing with locals game enough to step on court

ldquoIt was a great chance to get in front of people who may not have played much futsal if at allrdquo said NZF Futsal Development Manager Dave Payne

ldquoThe interest from kids was particularly pleasing and I think they really enjoyed the sport as well as the opportunity to play against national team players and get their autographs while they were there

ldquoSome turned up after winter football some had played other sports but were taken by the skill of the game and the fact that anyone can play

NZF Futsal 16s Champions 2011 - HB StormersPHOTO ALPHAPIX

Action from the Cup of Nations at ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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ldquoCapital Futsal has experienced a boost in registrations and the success of the open day and the quality of the venue bodes well for continued growth of futsal in Wellington

Up to six futsal courts will be in action every Monday Tuesday and Friday night beginning in October and a range of tournaments will run during the October school holidays Close to 300 futsal teams will play in leagues and tournaments at the ASB Sports Centre between October and December

Contactmattfutsalnetnz021 971 798wwwfutsalnetnz

Mainland Futsal

All systems are go in the Mainland region with over 50 teams now playing every week in our various leagues This means we can start to build our other regions up over the next few months Our Christchurch leagues now run to 3 divisions of Senior Men 1 Womenrsquos division 2 Youth divisions 1 Junior a Mixed and a Masters

We had a fabulous trip to the Youth and Junior Nationals taking a team in each group and eventually (returning in the snow storm of the year) with two silver medals Special congratulations are due

Top Luke Tongue clears the ball in a 12s Nationalrsquos game in Napier Benji lapslie Sam Philip Ellis Hare-Reid (G) and Joe Bell (10) look on

Centre Mainland Canterbury 10s

Bottom left Stephen Livingstone pressures the keeper in a 14s Nationals game

Bottom right Avery Addei breaks in the 16s Nationals while Sam Lapslie Miguel Mitchell Hamish Mitchell (GK) and Sam Roger watch

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to Peter Livingstone for coaching the 14s to Silver and Matt Hoole doing the same for the 10s but all the teams coaches and support staff did themselves proud It was a great opportunity to play against all the regions of the country and the boys returned with growth and knowledge under their belt as well as great memories of a great event

September sees our ldquoFutsal Camprdquo run every Saturday Under 12s and 12-15s using the time to grow their game with expert coaches and players guidance Along with our schools competition starting next term and a very successful referees training day adding 10 refs to our roster we are growing in all areas and on all fronts

We look forward to catching up with the Futsal community at the Girls Nationals and the Masters where we will bring teams to both

Futsal South

Football South Futsal has recently changed its name to Futsal South Each centre within the Futsal South region will use the logos above with their centre name as per Futsal South ndash Dunedin logo

We now have centres in Dunedin Wanaka Queenstown Timaru and looking to start in Balclutha

Futsal South has held two selection tournaments in Dunedin to choose our National League squad from Teams from Queenstown Wanaka and Dunedin were involved over the 2 rounds with some great Futsal played by all involved

Queenstown Falcons took out the first tournament and Real Football winning the second tournament Luiz Uhera (Futsal South National League Coach) and Chris Button (Futsal South National League Manager) have selected an initial training squad of 30 players from those involved to train towards the 201112 National League

In September 2011 we are starting our summer Futsal leagues We have Senior leagues running on Monday and Wednesday nights Primary school leagues on Wednesday afternoons Intermediate and Junior High School leagues on Tuesday afternoons and Senior High School leagues on Thursday afternoons

With the introduction of our Primary School League we are also offering a futsal in Schools coaching program which involves a part time coach teaching basic Futsal skills in Primary and Intermediate School pupils We have had a very positive response to our pilot program that was run at Tahuna Intermediate with over 450 pupils being given Futsal instruction in their Physical Education classes for 2 weeks

We have signed up a number of schools for this program for terms 3 amp 4 of 2011 and also have schools signed up for next year We are also looking to take the program to the Central Otago and Clutha districts to help boost player numbers in those areas

This should give a real boost towards the future of Futsal in our region

Futsal South has been running referee courses over the region and now have 52 qualified referees and another course running shortly

NZF Futsal ContactsNorthern Football Futsal - NorthlandFar Northsarahpaynenfforgnzdavealabasternfforgnz

East City Futsal (Auckland)cosworthxtraconzeastcityfutsalmandataconz

Auckland Futsalplayaucklandfutsalorg

AFF Futsal - Avondale Playbeautiful10gmailcom

AFF Futsal - Manukau MikeibbertsonmanukauleisureconzMaraeaHoweaucklandcouncilgovtnz

WAIBOP Futsalpeterawaibopfootballconzsimonmwaibopfootballconz

Hawkes Bay Futsal ptooheyhbfutsalorgnz

Wairarapa Futsal petercoxsparcconzpaul_burnsxtraconz

Red Sox Manawatu Futsal (Palmerston North) bergie007vodafoneconz

Capital Futsal (Wellington)mattcapitalfootballorgnz

Marlborough Futsal (Blenheim) marlboroughfootballxtraconz

Nelson Bays Futsal sportsmallxtraconz

Mainland Futsal - Canterburyrichardmainlandfutsalconz

Mainland Futsal - West Coastsportgreyhighschoolnz

Futsal South - Dunedinkneepadsparadisenetnzfootballmikeihugconz

Futsal South - Wanaka cecisxtraconz

Futsal South - Queenstown infoqueenstownfootballcomkampmanqueenstownconzQueenstown Falcons Futsal marcosmelo1313hotmailcomraulharpyayahoocombr

Futsal South - Timarujcamesymcascorgnz

have a great team behind me with support in areas like accounts which allows me to spend more of my time planning the ASB Centre programme as well as getting out into even more schools How much coaching are you doingLast term I trialled ldquoCoach n Playrdquo leagues in both of our U13 leagues which went well At the moment I coach the St Pats U16 team on a weekly basis with the ambition of winning NZSSSC College Nationals hosted right next door at the ASB Centre in March 2012 Our U19 squad is a representative team and is going to Australia for the nationals in January We will be together playing and training three times a week from next month Our Island Bay Team Awesome U13s have been training once and playing once a week in preparation for Nationals in Australia too From next term Friday nights will be coaching nights for U11s and each age group up to 16s 19s and Men We see this as an important part of the programme to help educate futsal players which in turn will also produce better football players Whatrsquos a typical week for you Matt - Futsal every day Most eveningsAll day all night Yes As part of the Capital transition and with the new centre I am involving more people in running and refereeing the leagues so I can be more efficient in the overall management as opposed to being out ldquoon the groundrdquo at

Capital Futsalrsquos Development Officer is at the centre of the growing futsal scene in Wellington With four yearsrsquo experience as a player coach administrator and volunteer under his belt Fejos is a regular fixture at tournaments and events around the country POWER OF FIVE caught up with him in the days following the opening of the new state of the art twelve court ASB Community Centre - the new home for futsal in Wellington

Matt - how long have you been involved in futsalSince late 2007 coming back to Wellington for summer after Otago University and wanting to play indoor soccer - which is all I knew at the time A knock on Dave and Sarahrsquos Paynersquos door changed my life I guess Tell us a little bit about your role with Capital Futsal Capital City Futsal has recently been integrated into Capital Football hasnrsquot itYes we are currently going through the transition of Capital Football taking on the responsibility for delivering futsal as with other federations around the country My role up until now has been everything really running and promoting the leagues school visits with a focus on the Kiwisport College programme administering everything and overall organisingThis is now changing as things get bigger and with the transition to Capital - I now

leagues four nights a week The emails administration and practical running of things are endless so good thing I do it because I love it At times it seems there is too much interest It is a fantastic problem to have

Are you still finding time to playI sneak in a few social games a week which allows me to drop in on the leagues too and make sure everything is ok too I donrsquot have the time for much more than that and have made the decision that I have more to contribute off the court than on by way of contributing to the opportunities of others You guys are doing well on the referee development side of things How many qualified referees do you have now in WellingtonWe have about 25 from our last two courses in Wellington Most encouraging is the college students involved in what is traditionally seen as an lsquoold manrsquosrsquo thing There are also pathways within refereeing onto the National League and OFC Championships The new centre with twelve courts and a brand new meeting room will provide a professional venue to host referee and coach education sessions Capital Footballrsquos Jamie Cross has also officiated at the OFC Championships in the past so has a lot of experience And Adam Walker volunteers and develops referees which is a real asset to us

MATT FEJOSINTERVIEW

Capital Futsal

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ldquoI BELIEVE MORE CLUBS TEAMS OF ALL AGES WILL ADOPT FUTSAL AS ONE OF THEIR

TRAINING NIGHTS DURING THE FOOTBALL SEASON rdquo

Capital Futsal

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Can you tell us a little bit about the KiwiSport College Futsal initiative you are involved withCapital Futsal and myself personally would not be here without it so we owe a great deal of gratitude to KiwiSport College Sport Wellington and Sport Wellington It allowed me to leave a job in a bank fourteen months ago and get out into colleges to grow the game Over 2000 students from 16 different colleges have been involved from sessions in their school to local college leagues up to College Nationals and young Izaac OrsquoHara showing the pathways in the game being involved with the Futsal Whites What about the National League this year Capital were the top New Zealand side in 201011 Will you have pretty much the same outfit as last yearThings are always changing We lose two of our senior Futsal Whites overseas in Lucas da Silva and Tariq Assad We have some new Brazilians who have been training with the team I am hoping one or two of my promising U19 squad will squeeze in too but things are getting very competitive We have the same management and coaching team which provides some continuity to build on last season and catch those Aussies Our new competitive league will be played on our three international courts which will help too How did the Capital teams enjoy the JuniorYouth Nationals this year The 16s did particularly well and made the finalI think it was a real landmark event The standard went through the roof and centres now will have to send their best players selected from their leagues and

training together It was great to see My 16s were the St Patrickrsquos College team and performed amazingly with just six players from one school showing the benefit of futsal specific training to learn technically and tactically how to play the game Beating squads of eight and nine players selected from federations was quite an achievement They also played the first ever game of any sport at the Opening Day (of the new stadium)against the Futsal Whites and only lost 4-1 in 16 minutes of game time which speaks volumes for these boys I think I was happy with all the teams from the 10s up to 16s and come next year I can only imagine what our top teams will look like after playing and training in the best facility in the country

Capital have always been pioneers - a few years ago Brian Blellock and others set up that great little futsal club in Hataitai Now you have offices in the what is probably the best facility in the Southern Hemisphere What are long term plans for the game in Wellington I think even medium term the transition to Capital Football is the most important thing It is not going to be instant and we are still learning every day To integrate futsal into trainings have futsal specific days and host top tournaments Who knows maybe in a few years we might become a lsquomajorrsquo sport In just four years since that league in Hataitai we have become a major stakeholder in the new centre with netball and basketball Four years ago you would have thought we were mad but it shows firstly the potential

ldquoI STILL HAVE MUCH I WANT TO ACHIEVE HERE IN WELLINGTON AND DREAM OF FUTSALrsquoS OWN lsquoBAHRAIN MOMENTrsquo IN 2015 - SO WHO KNOWS

WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDSrdquo

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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of this amazing game that is already proven around the world and secondly that with a team of volunteers willing to put in lots of work into something they believe in amazing things can happen

The new centre presents a great opportunity to get more players involved There is the potential for 200 teams in the new centre and with perfect timing of the outdoor season coming to a close The womens and college leagues are showing huge potential for growth As we build momentum over the summer and work through Capital Football I believe more clubs teams of all ages will adopt futsal as one of their training nights during the football season

What about the national scene Do you feel the game has come a long way in the last few years What are the top priorities for the next few years Can the Futsal Whites get close to the Solomon IslandsThat youth tournament in Napier in July as I said was a real landmark They are the future and to have our kids playing from a young age is how we will catch

the Solomons For the next World Cup campaign in four years time I hope some of our Capital 16-19 year olds might progress Longer term if we can be teaching our children from five years up and create a futsal culture with our facility Irsquod like to think we will catch the Aussies too And what about your own professional development in futsal It must be tremendous working in the game that you love Where would you like to be in a few yearsPeople have asked me this question and in all honesty I donrsquot know To do something you love and contribute something positive to your community as opposed to as opposed to measuring the money earned our hours worked is an honour Things have been so busy I just plan to keep my head down for another twelve months and then assess things then I am pretty happy with where I am at at the moment As things are still growing I am fortunate enough to develop a wide range of experience in marketing managing coaching dealing with key

stakeholders etc I have been forced to develop at the same pace as the sport here which is a great challenge so I am learning and growing every day in a broad set of skills I still have much I want to achieve here in Wellington and dream of futsalrsquos own ldquoBahrain momentrdquo in 2015 so who knows what the future holds

More action from the Cup of Nations as Futsal Whites target Micky Malivuk deals with an aerial ball gainst Africa UnitedPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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CALENDAR 201112

Sun 25 September 2011 NZF-Futsal Level One Refereeing Course PG Arena Napier

SatSun 2223 October 2011 National Girls and Womenrsquos Futsal Tournament ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 34 December 2011 National League Series 1 Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1112 February 2012 National League Series 2 ASB Stadium Auckland

SatSun 1112 February 2012 Futsal - NZ Masters Games Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1718 March 2012 National League Series 3 ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 2627 March 2012 NZF-Futsal Secondary Schools National Futsal Championships ASB Sports Centre Wellington

Calendar201112

Junior action from the opening of the ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington in AugustPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

SERIES ONEDUNEDIN

34 DECEMBER 2011

SERIES TWOAUCKLAND

1112 FEBRUARy 2012

SERIES THREEWELLINGTON1718 MARCH

2012

201112

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201112

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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Page 3: THE POWER OF FIVE #2 September 2011

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Welcome to the second edition of Power of Five NZF Futsalrsquos quarterly lsquoround uprsquo It has been a busy three months for futsal with national and international competitions new programmes new world class facilities more futsal dedicated staff and more centres

The Futsal Whites missed out on the FIFA Futsal World Cup 2012 in a heart-breaking semi final penalty shootout with Tahiti but spirits were quickly lifted when the country got a glimpse of the future at the NZF Futsal National JuniorYouth Championships With 36 teams and over 130 action packed games - the tournament was a showcase of incredible skill discipline and fun for all Teams from as far north as Whangarei and as far south as Christchurch converged on Hawkersquos Bay Futsalrsquos excellent facility - PettigrewGreen Arena

This is testament to the rapid growth of the game on our shores and from what was on show the future is very bright indeed

Meanwhile Capital Futsal will still be pinching themselves to make sure they are not dreaming with the new ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington

The Futsal Whites led the way at the 15000 attendance grand opening with a showcase game against a well structured St Patrickrsquos College representative futsal team in front of Wellington and national dignitaries This was followed by a number of tournaments for all age groups and abilities and a chance for the local community to challenge the Futsal Whites to a game

We now have seven dedicated Futsal Development Managers and Futsal Development Officers working nationally in our federations and the numbers will continue to rise as we near the end of 2011 There are now over 120 qualified futsal referees officiating up to 700 games of futsal a week

Futsal now has its place in the sporting landscape of New Zealand but as always in sport a big thank you goes out to those dedicated volunteers who day in day outgo the extra mile for the development of futsal This issue is a tribute to these coaches team managers administrators and mentors You know who you are and the futsal community thanks you all

Dave PayneNZF Futsal Development Manager

A busy time for futsal

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OFC Championships MVP and Golden Boot winner Elliot Ragomo (top) Tahiti and Solomon Islands lineup before the classic final at Vodafone ArenaPHOTOS OFC

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

Solomon Islands will once again face the worldrsquos best futsal sides at the FIFA Futsal World Cup after a thrilling 6-4 victory over Tahiti in the OFC Futsal Championships Final at the Vodafone Arena in Suva in May

A massive shock looked on the cards after the impressive Tahiti side lead the favourites 4-1 early in the second half of a pulsating final But the Solomons Islands comeback led by captain and tournament MVP Elliot Ragomo swept the Tahitians aside and the lsquoKurukurursquo booked their place in Thailand 2012 much to the delight of a packed stadium and their fans back home

The Futsal Whites meanwhile will have to wait another four years for their shot at futsal glory following a heartbreaking penalty shootout loss in the semi-final after a 3-3 extra time draw with Tahiti

Earlier the Futsal Whites had finished top of Group A following a draw against Fiji and victories over Vanuatu and tournament newcomers Kiribati

NEW ZEALAND 4 FIJI 4On the opening night a well-prepared Futsal Whites got off to a hesitant start going down 1-0 early to a fired up local side Skipper Marvin Eakins equalized five minutes before half time and notched a second after the break before goals from

SOLOMONS ISLANDS WILL REPRESENT OCEANIA AT THE 2012 FIFA FUTSAL WORLD CUP IN

THAILAND FUTSALWHITES FINISH THIRD AFTER A SHOOTOUT LOSS IN THEIR SEMI-FINAL

AGAINST TAHITILucas da Silva and Dylan Manickum saw New Zealand cruising at 4-1 Fiji brought it back to 4-3 late in the game and then stunned Matt Chandlerrsquos men with a controversial equalizer from a sideline kick-in in the last seconds of the game following a Futsal Whites defensive mix-up

NEW ZEALAND 21 KIRIBATI 1The Futsal Whites opened Day Two of the championships by dismantling Kiribati with a controlled display of possession futsal It was a lsquolsquogoalfestrsquorsquo from start to finish - with East Cityrsquos Nathan Robertson and Dylan Manickum leading the way with five and four respectively Marvin Eakins claimed a hat-trick while Jakub Sinkora Miro Major and Micky Malivuk claimed two each Goals from Tariq Assad Lucas da Silva and Daniel Koprivcic completed the rout and the Futsal Whites were on course for the semi-finals

NEW ZEALAND 6 VANUATU 4A fine solo effort from Jakub Sinkora followed by a clinical finish from Nathan Robertson gave the Futsal Whites the best possible start in this lsquomust winrsquo game for the Futsal Whites Vanuatu brought the game back to 2-2 just after halftime and soon after it was 3-3 after Robertson and Vanuatursquos influential Don Mansale traded blows Goals from Micky Malivuk and Dylan Manickum made it five for the Futsal Whites before Vanuatu scored again

to keep in touch at 5-4 Greg OrsquoConnor then came off the bench to score a fine sixth ensuring the Futsal Whites had not only made the semi-finals but avoided a match up with the rampant Solomon Islands

NEW ZEALAND (2)3 TAHITI (2)3 (TAHITI won 4-3 on penalties)The Futsal Whites made a hesitant start to their most important game for four years and the well organised Tahitians took control of the first half going into the break with a 2-0 lead Daniel Koprivcic got the Futsal Whites back on track after the restart turning home Dylan Manickumrsquos cross from close range before Nathan Robertson turned to slot a well-deserved equalizer following a sustained period of domination by the Kiwis The game finished all square at full time then in extra time Marvin Eakins looked to have sealed it for New Zealand with a back post finish following a killer ball from Miro Major before a late turnover gifted the Tahitians with the equalizer to set up a dramatic penalty shootout Manickum and Koprivcic saw their efforts saved by Tahiti custodian Atanui Tetihia and the Tahitians stunned the Futsal Whites to win the shootout 4-3 The New Zealanders were left to rue another slow start and their inability to hang on to a lead in the final stanza of the game The lsquodream finalrsquo against the Solomon Islands was not be and the World Cup dream was placed on

OFC CHAMPIONSHIPS

OFC Championships MVP and Golden Boot winner Elliot Ragomo (top) Tahiti and Solomon Islands lineup before the classic final at Vodafone ArenaPHOTOS OFC

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ice for another four years Instead the Futsal Whites would have to return to the arena the following night for the Bronze Medal Game

NEW ZEALAND 1 VANUATU 1 (NEW ZEALAND won 5-4 on penalties)An early goal from Micky Malivuk in an entertaining and tightly fought game looked like it was going to be enough for the Futsal Whites to claim 3rd place at the tournament But it was deja vu for New Zealand and Vanuatu equalized with the last kick of the game to take the game straight to the penalty shootout Keeper David Plowright emerged as the hero for the New Zealanders slotting his sudden death penalty before keeping out rival custodian Chickau Mansalersquos piledriver to send the New Zealanders and the crowd wild ensuring a consolation prize for the popular 2011 Futsal Whites squad

GROUP PHASE1 Tahiti (TAH) 6 Tuvalu (TUV) 02 Vanuatu (VAN) 9 Kiribati (KIR) 23 Solomon Islands (SOL) 13 New Caledonia (NCL) 54 Fiji (FIJ) 4 New Zealand (NZL) 45 Kiribati (KIR) 1 New Zealand (NZL) 216 Tuvalu (TUV) 1 New Caledonia (NCL) 117 Fiji (FIJ) 2 Vanuatu (VAN) 58 Solomon Islands 1 (SOL) v Tahiti (TAH) 09 New Caledonia (NCL) 2 v Tahiti (TAH) 210 Tuvalu (TUV) 0 v Solomon Islands (SOL) 1611 Fiji (FIJ) 22 v Kiribati (KIR) 312 New Zealand (NZL) 6 v Vanuatu (VAN) 4

GROUP STANDINGSGROUP A P W D L F A GD PtsNew Zealand (NZL) 3 2 1 0 31 9 22 7Vanuatu (VAN) 3 2 0 1 18 10 8 6Fiji (FIJ) 3 1 1 1 28 12 16 4Kiribati (KIR) 3 0 0 3 6 52 -46 0

GROUP B P W D L F A GD PtsSolomon Islands (SOL) 3 3 0 0 30 5 25 9Tahiti (TAH) 3 1 1 1 8 3 5 4New Caledonia (NCL) 3 1 1 1 18 16 2 4

Tuvalu (TUV) 3 0 0 3 1 33 -32 0

78 PLAyOFF13 Tuvalu (TUV) 2 v Kiribati (KIR) 3

56 PLAyOFF14 Fiji (FIJ) 8 v New Caledonia (NCL) 6

SEMI FINALS15 New Zealand (NZL) 23 v Tahiti (TAH) 23 AET Tahiti won 5-4 on penalties16Solomon Islands (SOL) 13 Vanuatu (VAN) 1

34 PLAyOFF17 New Zealand (NZL) v Vanuatu (VAN) 11 New Zealand won 5-4 on penalties

FINAL18 Tahiti (TAH) 4 Solomon Islands (SOL) 6

Player of the Tournament Elliot Ragomo (SOL)Golden Boot Elliot Ragomo (SOL) 19 goalsGolden Glove Atanui Tetihia (TAH)

New Zealand GoalscorersNathan ROBERTSON 8Marvin EAKINS 7Dylan MANICKUM 6Micky MALIVUK 5Jakub SINKORA 3Daniel KOPRIVCIC 2Miro MAJOR 2Greg OrsquoCONNOR 2Lucas SILVA 2David PLOWRIGHT 1Tariq ASSAD 1

Above New Zealandrsquos most experienced campaigner Nathan Robertson enjoyed another excellent tournament leading the golden boot stakes for the Futsal Whites with 8 strikes while proving to be a constant thorn in the side of opposition teams

Top Heartbreak for New Zealand as Tahiti emerge triumphant from the dramatic semi final shooutPHOTOS OFC

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PHOTO ALPHAPIX

ReportJUNIORYOUTH

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National JuniorYouth Championships

PHOTOS ALPHAPIX

ldquoIn previous years most teams were playing indoor football rather than futsal but the technical ability and movement of the more successful teams suggests we are entering a new phase of the game in this countryrdquo Toohey added

ldquoIt will be interesting to see how the individual centres progress over the next few years Those that are able to get coaching programmes and regular sessions for their players will definitely have the edge rdquo

The 14s final between Auckland Sampa and Mainland Canterbury proved to be an outstanding finale to the tournament with Auckland prevailing 7-6 in extra time after a titanic clash between two experienced and skilful sides

Toohey also paid tribute to the referees who despite a massive workload kept the standard high

ldquoFutsal is not the easiest game to referee We always knew the referees would be a key factor in the success of the tournament and the team Dave Payne and Ken Wallace assembled for the weekend did not let us down They were top notchrdquo he said

RESULTS10sAuckland Rio were winners in the youngest section of the nationals with a hard fought 5-2 win over an excellent Mainland Canterbury in front of a packed Saturday afternoon crowd Rio proved to be the

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Championships NAPIER

comeback kings of the tournament fighting back from 0-3 in the group phase against Mainland to draw 3-3 and then overturning a 0-3 deficit to prevail 5-3 against Capital Futsal in a thrilling semi-final

The teamsHB Futsal FireballsHB Futsal Unison VineyardCapital Futsal WS TitansHB Futsal Crazy HorsesMainland Futsal CanterburyAuckland RioHB Futsal GreendaleHB Futsal Bedpost Brazil

Final

Auckland Rio 5 Canterbury 2

12sA tightly contested grade with three evenly matched teams from Auckland plus excellent sides from Wellington and Christchurch The exciting Auckland Sampa who featured several players from the championship winning side at the Australian Futsal Nationals in Canberra in 2011 prevailed over last yearrsquos Junior grade champions with a hard fought victory

The teamsNelson Bays KnightsAuckland Futsal SantosCapital Futsal YellowAuckland Futsal RioCapital Futsal Petone BarcaHB Futsal Red SteelMainland Futsal CanterburyHB Futsal CHBHB Futsal CyclonesHB Futsal MacKirdyAuckland Futsal SampaCapital Futsal WS Rogerson

Final

Auckland Rio 5 Canterbury 2

Thirty six teams from around the country descended on Napier in the middle week of the July school holidays for the 3rd Annual NZ Football Futsal National Junioryouth Championships

The largest futsal event on the local calendar was played out over three action-packed days at the home of HB Futsal - the Pettigrew Green Arena in Taradale

Teams from Northland Auckland Futsal East City HB Futsal Capital Futsal Nelson Bays Futsal and Mainland Futsal Canterbury squared off in four grades while crowds of up to 500 flocked in over the weekend to witness outstanding displays of futsal from New Zealandrsquos finest young players

Well developed sides from Auckland Futsal took home the 10s 12s and 14s titles while home town boys HB Futsal were popular winners of the 16s grade on the Sunday afternoon Newcomers Mainland Futsal Canterbury made two finals and impressed everyone throughout the weekend with the quality of their futsal

Tournament Coordinator Paul Toohey was delighted with the event and said it showed how far junior and youth futsal had come in the last few years

ldquoIt felt like everybody stepped it up a few gears this year The teams were well prepared and it was obvious that many centres had put a lot of work inrdquo he said

AUCKLAND WIN 10s 12s and 14s - HAWKErsquoS BAY TRIUMPH IN THE 16s

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14sAnother tightly contested grade dominated by Auckland and Canterbury sides East City ousted last yearrsquos champion Auckland Rio side in a classic quarter final eoncounter and the tournament concluded with the unforgettable topsy-turvy final between the two best sides Auckland Sampa and Mainland Futsal Canterbury After a titanic battle Sampa had one hand on the trophy until a last second equalizer from the southerners took the game into extra time Reese Coxrsquos late thunderbolt was enough to steal the glory for the Brazilian coached Aucklanders

The teamsHB Futsal CHBHB Futsal MYIMainland Futsal CanterburyCapital Futsal Welllingtn YellowAuckland Futsal RioHB Futsal FuegoEast CityAuckland Futsal SampaCapital Futsal Team AwesomeNelson Bays Futsal Blues

FinalAuckland Rio (6)7 Canterbury (6)6 AET

16sSome high quality futsal was the hallmark of the 16s with an excellent Northland side unlucky not to make the final In the end the very experienced HB Futsal had too much class for allcomers on their home

court despatching Capital 6-0 in a one sided final after being taken to the wire by Northland and Canterbury in earlier games

The teamsHB Futsal BlueCapital Futsal WellingtonNFF Northland FutsalHB Futsal CHB 1HB Futsal StormersMainland Futsal Canterbury

Final HB Futsal Stormers 6 Capital Futsal 0

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PHOTO OFC

PHOTOS ALPHAPIX

Around theCentres12

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PHOTO OFCNFF Futsal

Northern Football Federation Futsal Launch 17 September 2011When Saturday 17 September 10-2pmWhere Massey University Recreation Centre ndash Albany

We will have two showcase games being played on a full sized futsal court against the Futsal Whitesbull 1030am Futsal Whites vs Football

Fernsbull 1200pm Futsal Whites vs Massey

University Champions

This is an opportunity for the community to come along and experience what futsal is join in have some fun and meet players from our national futsal team

NFF are running the following futsal programmes and leagues

Junioryouth Programmesbull Pilot Futsal Programme bull The Leisure Centre ndash Stanmore Bay

(Term 3 and 4)bull Massey University Recreation Centre ndash

Albany (Term 4 Monday 330-6pm)bull West Wave Recreation Centre ndash

Henderson (Term 4)bull Rutherford College ndash Te Atatu (Term 4)bull Adult Leaguesbull Lunchtime Business House Futsal

League ndash Massey University Recreation Centre Albany (STARTS Friday 1130-2pm 28 October)

bull Youth Senior Futsal League - Massey University Recreation Centre Albany

bull (STARTS Monday 6-8pm 31 October)bull Further Futsal leagues and

programmes will be offered throughout the NFF region

To register your interest in futsal for your club or for more information on the above please contact

Sarah PayneE sarahpaynenfforgnz M 021 795 045or visit our website wwwnfforgnz

Hibiscus Coast Pilot ProgrammeThe Leisure Centre Stanmore BayWednesdays 7-10 years 31 August - 5 October (Late registrations will be accepted Please contact Sarah for cost)Session one 330 - 445pm Session two 445 - 6pm

Thursdays 11-14 years 1 September - 6 October (Late registrations will be accepted Please contact Sarah for cost)Session one 600 - 715pm

The idea of the Pilot Futsal Programme is to provide skills based coaching suitable for your players age group in a 40 minute block followed by a 35 minute block of quick rotation games roll on roll off first to a goal etc It is a great introduction to futsal and a way for players to improve their football skills and also have some fun at the same time

You may wish to encourage as many of your outdoor team as possible as this is an excellent way for your team to remain together as the winter season comes to a close and helps their football skills to stay strong and continue to work as a team in preparation for next season

You will need shin pads and non marking sneakers or futsal shoes

AFF Futsal

AVONDALEbull An Auckland Football Federation Senior

Menrsquos Futsal league is launching on September 27 at Avondale College

What Senior Menrsquos League (players 16 years old or over)When Starts Tuesday 13 SeptemberWhere Avondale College (2 court venue)Cost $330 per teamContact Yonas bull Game times - 530pm-645pmbull 12 players per squadbull League limited to 10 teamsbull 11-week season (including finals)

To register for AFF-Futsal Avondale League contact Centre Officer - yonas Gebre at playbeautiful10gmailcom

MANUKAUOtara Leisure AFF-Futsal and Counties Manukau Sport have teamed up to deliver the KiwiSport funded Primary Futsal in Schools Programme

bull Futsal lsquoGive it a Gorsquo sessions delivered to 960 7-9 year olds

bull 10 week school programme delivered throughout Manukau between October-February

bull Primary League established between February-April

bull lsquoFutsal in Schoolsrsquo Programme Coach Education delivered to 70 Manukau Institute of Technology students

bull Teachers trained to deliver basic coaching

EAST CITyEast City Futsal based at the ASB Stadium in Kohimarama Auckland runs a premier league on Monday nights (comprised of ten teams) which is played on an international size court with two referee officials per game

The competition this season has been exceptional all games have been close with some upsets along the way

The East City Youth Development Squad took advantage of East City National League training finishing in the top four - a huge accomplishment The final night was a no-holds barred night both semi-finals and finals Arabian Knights and KBT went head to head in the finalrsquos and after a very intense game with some amazing futsal skills by both teams KBT took out the Premier Winter League now winning back to back seasons -Barbara Gwilliam

East City took a squad of 8 players to the U14s 2011 NZ Football Futsal National Junior Youth Championship held at Pettigrew Green Arena Napier on 23-24 July The team was drawn from participants in our in-house Summer 2011 competition The team was coached by Dennis Dow the older brother of one of our players who plays in the clubrsquos premier league with our youth development squad

The boys got off to a flying start with a convincing 9-0 win over Nelson Bays The highlight of the game was a 6-goal haul by midfielder Matthew Bouzaid who went on to repeat this achievement in the games against Wellington Team Awesome and Auckland Futsal Rio In total Matthew scored 19 goals only one short of winning the Golden Boot Award

The highlight of our tournament was the quarter-final against Auckland Futsal Rio

a team which included a large contingent of Auckland representative players East City made a tremendous start going 4-0 up within the first five minutes before Rio staged a strong comeback to level by half time and then to lead 7-5 early in the second half The East City boys kept their composure and put the Rio defence under such pressure that they conceded a number of fouls in and around their own goal box with two of the resulting free kicks being coolly converted to bring the scores level The boys snatched the lead with less than two minutes to play and displayed great maturity to hold Rio at bayIn the semi final the boys were again given a futsal lesson by an extremely skilful and well drilled Mainland Futsal team who went on to lose an extra-time thriller in the final against Auckland Futsal Sampa

The East City boys can be very proud of the fact that their only two losses during the tournament came to the teams which finished first and second As the competition progressed their confidence and awareness improved markedly and will stand them in good stead in future years

- Derek Dow

ContactEmail futsalmandataconz East City Administration Line 579-0652

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East City Winter Premier League Winners 2011 KBTPHOTO EAST CITY

HB Futsal

After hosting the third annual National Junior and Youth Championships at the Pettigrew Green Arena we have turned our attention to the Term 4 Leagues which commence on October 25 Enrolments are underway with over fifty teams (JuniorIntermediateYouthSocialPremier) expected to take part in our Tuesday night leagues

Recent discussions with the Arena have highlighted the high demand for court space from the other sporting codes who currently use the facility Basketball volleyball and netball are all experiencing huge growth due in particular to the college programmes in operation The challenge for futsal in Hawkersquos Bay is finding enough courts to enable the heavily subscribed leagues to expand further as we are in the unfortunate position at the moment of having to turn teams away

A major highlight of the last quarter was the success of the HB Stormers who picked up the 16s championship trophy at the recent Nationals after beating Capital Futsal 6-0 in the final

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

AUCKLAND FUTSAL2011 NZF FUTSAL CHAMPIONS 10 12 14 Boys Grades

Auckland Futsalrsquos representatives 1012 amp 14 Boys swept all aside to win a record three national titles at the 2011 NZ Futsal Championships held in Napier in July

Auckland Futsalrsquos Brazilian coaches Felipe Bernardi amp Juliano Schmeling prepared our representative teams to play an authentic Brazilian style of futsal - highly technical constant rhythmic movements and fast intricate passing

Auckland Rio - NZ Champion - 10 Boys1 Finn Ambridge2 Gene Toohey3 Josh Coe4 Theo Hardy5 Sidney Boyd6 Joel Clissold7 Harrison Chadwick8 Oscar Browne

Auckland SAMPA - NZ Champion - 12 Boys1 Ahmed Mohammadi2 Ethan Amey3 Jack Vaughan4 Nicholas Milne (K)5 Sean Green6 Matthew Hunter

Auckland SAMPA - NZ Champion - 14 Boys1 Dylan Burns2 Harry Bell3 Phillip Paul4 Reese Cox5 Sean Clark6 Tinashe Marowa7 Emman Rahimi8 Charlie Thomas9 Corey Walters (K)

10 David Masters (K)

Junior Leagues starting in September 20117 - 19 yrsHarbour - WednesdaysAuckland Central - Mondays Thursdays Fridays SundaysAuckland East - Mondays TuesdaysBrazil Futsal AcademyAuthentic Brazilian Futsal skills techniques movement creativity amp learning to lsquoPlay Like a Brazilianrsquo Let our Brazilian coaches help you become an exciting playerAges 5 - 13 yrs

Harbour - SundaysAuckland Central Mondays Sundays

Contact Craig Empsonplayaucklandfutsalorgwwwaucklandfutsalorg

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Many of these 1996 born players started with us back in the original leagues of 2006 and under the watchful eye of coach Mark Cozens have blossomed into a well organised and dedicated outifit with a bit of an lsquox-factorrsquo We fully expect many of these players to continue on the futsal pathway being offered by NZF Futsal with all the boys hoping to play in the National League in the near future

wwwhbfutsalorgnz

Capital Futsal

Futsalrsquos future in Wellington looks bright if the success of ASB Sport Centrersquos grand opening in August is anything to go by

As one of many sports which will call the 12 court $475 million venue in Kilbirnie home futsal was exposed to a large new audience with around 15000 visiting during the open day

Futsal activities held throughout the day included the national team the Futsal Whites competing in a cup of nations against ethnic-based local sides

The Futsal Whites predictably prevailed beating an Africa United team led by Team Wellington striker Hicham Kamri 7-1 in the final

There were also womens and youth tournaments held and one court was also set aside for people to try futsal in different gender and age groups with Futsal Whites players mixing with locals game enough to step on court

ldquoIt was a great chance to get in front of people who may not have played much futsal if at allrdquo said NZF Futsal Development Manager Dave Payne

ldquoThe interest from kids was particularly pleasing and I think they really enjoyed the sport as well as the opportunity to play against national team players and get their autographs while they were there

ldquoSome turned up after winter football some had played other sports but were taken by the skill of the game and the fact that anyone can play

NZF Futsal 16s Champions 2011 - HB StormersPHOTO ALPHAPIX

Action from the Cup of Nations at ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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ldquoCapital Futsal has experienced a boost in registrations and the success of the open day and the quality of the venue bodes well for continued growth of futsal in Wellington

Up to six futsal courts will be in action every Monday Tuesday and Friday night beginning in October and a range of tournaments will run during the October school holidays Close to 300 futsal teams will play in leagues and tournaments at the ASB Sports Centre between October and December

Contactmattfutsalnetnz021 971 798wwwfutsalnetnz

Mainland Futsal

All systems are go in the Mainland region with over 50 teams now playing every week in our various leagues This means we can start to build our other regions up over the next few months Our Christchurch leagues now run to 3 divisions of Senior Men 1 Womenrsquos division 2 Youth divisions 1 Junior a Mixed and a Masters

We had a fabulous trip to the Youth and Junior Nationals taking a team in each group and eventually (returning in the snow storm of the year) with two silver medals Special congratulations are due

Top Luke Tongue clears the ball in a 12s Nationalrsquos game in Napier Benji lapslie Sam Philip Ellis Hare-Reid (G) and Joe Bell (10) look on

Centre Mainland Canterbury 10s

Bottom left Stephen Livingstone pressures the keeper in a 14s Nationals game

Bottom right Avery Addei breaks in the 16s Nationals while Sam Lapslie Miguel Mitchell Hamish Mitchell (GK) and Sam Roger watch

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to Peter Livingstone for coaching the 14s to Silver and Matt Hoole doing the same for the 10s but all the teams coaches and support staff did themselves proud It was a great opportunity to play against all the regions of the country and the boys returned with growth and knowledge under their belt as well as great memories of a great event

September sees our ldquoFutsal Camprdquo run every Saturday Under 12s and 12-15s using the time to grow their game with expert coaches and players guidance Along with our schools competition starting next term and a very successful referees training day adding 10 refs to our roster we are growing in all areas and on all fronts

We look forward to catching up with the Futsal community at the Girls Nationals and the Masters where we will bring teams to both

Futsal South

Football South Futsal has recently changed its name to Futsal South Each centre within the Futsal South region will use the logos above with their centre name as per Futsal South ndash Dunedin logo

We now have centres in Dunedin Wanaka Queenstown Timaru and looking to start in Balclutha

Futsal South has held two selection tournaments in Dunedin to choose our National League squad from Teams from Queenstown Wanaka and Dunedin were involved over the 2 rounds with some great Futsal played by all involved

Queenstown Falcons took out the first tournament and Real Football winning the second tournament Luiz Uhera (Futsal South National League Coach) and Chris Button (Futsal South National League Manager) have selected an initial training squad of 30 players from those involved to train towards the 201112 National League

In September 2011 we are starting our summer Futsal leagues We have Senior leagues running on Monday and Wednesday nights Primary school leagues on Wednesday afternoons Intermediate and Junior High School leagues on Tuesday afternoons and Senior High School leagues on Thursday afternoons

With the introduction of our Primary School League we are also offering a futsal in Schools coaching program which involves a part time coach teaching basic Futsal skills in Primary and Intermediate School pupils We have had a very positive response to our pilot program that was run at Tahuna Intermediate with over 450 pupils being given Futsal instruction in their Physical Education classes for 2 weeks

We have signed up a number of schools for this program for terms 3 amp 4 of 2011 and also have schools signed up for next year We are also looking to take the program to the Central Otago and Clutha districts to help boost player numbers in those areas

This should give a real boost towards the future of Futsal in our region

Futsal South has been running referee courses over the region and now have 52 qualified referees and another course running shortly

NZF Futsal ContactsNorthern Football Futsal - NorthlandFar Northsarahpaynenfforgnzdavealabasternfforgnz

East City Futsal (Auckland)cosworthxtraconzeastcityfutsalmandataconz

Auckland Futsalplayaucklandfutsalorg

AFF Futsal - Avondale Playbeautiful10gmailcom

AFF Futsal - Manukau MikeibbertsonmanukauleisureconzMaraeaHoweaucklandcouncilgovtnz

WAIBOP Futsalpeterawaibopfootballconzsimonmwaibopfootballconz

Hawkes Bay Futsal ptooheyhbfutsalorgnz

Wairarapa Futsal petercoxsparcconzpaul_burnsxtraconz

Red Sox Manawatu Futsal (Palmerston North) bergie007vodafoneconz

Capital Futsal (Wellington)mattcapitalfootballorgnz

Marlborough Futsal (Blenheim) marlboroughfootballxtraconz

Nelson Bays Futsal sportsmallxtraconz

Mainland Futsal - Canterburyrichardmainlandfutsalconz

Mainland Futsal - West Coastsportgreyhighschoolnz

Futsal South - Dunedinkneepadsparadisenetnzfootballmikeihugconz

Futsal South - Wanaka cecisxtraconz

Futsal South - Queenstown infoqueenstownfootballcomkampmanqueenstownconzQueenstown Falcons Futsal marcosmelo1313hotmailcomraulharpyayahoocombr

Futsal South - Timarujcamesymcascorgnz

have a great team behind me with support in areas like accounts which allows me to spend more of my time planning the ASB Centre programme as well as getting out into even more schools How much coaching are you doingLast term I trialled ldquoCoach n Playrdquo leagues in both of our U13 leagues which went well At the moment I coach the St Pats U16 team on a weekly basis with the ambition of winning NZSSSC College Nationals hosted right next door at the ASB Centre in March 2012 Our U19 squad is a representative team and is going to Australia for the nationals in January We will be together playing and training three times a week from next month Our Island Bay Team Awesome U13s have been training once and playing once a week in preparation for Nationals in Australia too From next term Friday nights will be coaching nights for U11s and each age group up to 16s 19s and Men We see this as an important part of the programme to help educate futsal players which in turn will also produce better football players Whatrsquos a typical week for you Matt - Futsal every day Most eveningsAll day all night Yes As part of the Capital transition and with the new centre I am involving more people in running and refereeing the leagues so I can be more efficient in the overall management as opposed to being out ldquoon the groundrdquo at

Capital Futsalrsquos Development Officer is at the centre of the growing futsal scene in Wellington With four yearsrsquo experience as a player coach administrator and volunteer under his belt Fejos is a regular fixture at tournaments and events around the country POWER OF FIVE caught up with him in the days following the opening of the new state of the art twelve court ASB Community Centre - the new home for futsal in Wellington

Matt - how long have you been involved in futsalSince late 2007 coming back to Wellington for summer after Otago University and wanting to play indoor soccer - which is all I knew at the time A knock on Dave and Sarahrsquos Paynersquos door changed my life I guess Tell us a little bit about your role with Capital Futsal Capital City Futsal has recently been integrated into Capital Football hasnrsquot itYes we are currently going through the transition of Capital Football taking on the responsibility for delivering futsal as with other federations around the country My role up until now has been everything really running and promoting the leagues school visits with a focus on the Kiwisport College programme administering everything and overall organisingThis is now changing as things get bigger and with the transition to Capital - I now

leagues four nights a week The emails administration and practical running of things are endless so good thing I do it because I love it At times it seems there is too much interest It is a fantastic problem to have

Are you still finding time to playI sneak in a few social games a week which allows me to drop in on the leagues too and make sure everything is ok too I donrsquot have the time for much more than that and have made the decision that I have more to contribute off the court than on by way of contributing to the opportunities of others You guys are doing well on the referee development side of things How many qualified referees do you have now in WellingtonWe have about 25 from our last two courses in Wellington Most encouraging is the college students involved in what is traditionally seen as an lsquoold manrsquosrsquo thing There are also pathways within refereeing onto the National League and OFC Championships The new centre with twelve courts and a brand new meeting room will provide a professional venue to host referee and coach education sessions Capital Footballrsquos Jamie Cross has also officiated at the OFC Championships in the past so has a lot of experience And Adam Walker volunteers and develops referees which is a real asset to us

MATT FEJOSINTERVIEW

Capital Futsal

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PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

ldquoI BELIEVE MORE CLUBS TEAMS OF ALL AGES WILL ADOPT FUTSAL AS ONE OF THEIR

TRAINING NIGHTS DURING THE FOOTBALL SEASON rdquo

Capital Futsal

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Can you tell us a little bit about the KiwiSport College Futsal initiative you are involved withCapital Futsal and myself personally would not be here without it so we owe a great deal of gratitude to KiwiSport College Sport Wellington and Sport Wellington It allowed me to leave a job in a bank fourteen months ago and get out into colleges to grow the game Over 2000 students from 16 different colleges have been involved from sessions in their school to local college leagues up to College Nationals and young Izaac OrsquoHara showing the pathways in the game being involved with the Futsal Whites What about the National League this year Capital were the top New Zealand side in 201011 Will you have pretty much the same outfit as last yearThings are always changing We lose two of our senior Futsal Whites overseas in Lucas da Silva and Tariq Assad We have some new Brazilians who have been training with the team I am hoping one or two of my promising U19 squad will squeeze in too but things are getting very competitive We have the same management and coaching team which provides some continuity to build on last season and catch those Aussies Our new competitive league will be played on our three international courts which will help too How did the Capital teams enjoy the JuniorYouth Nationals this year The 16s did particularly well and made the finalI think it was a real landmark event The standard went through the roof and centres now will have to send their best players selected from their leagues and

training together It was great to see My 16s were the St Patrickrsquos College team and performed amazingly with just six players from one school showing the benefit of futsal specific training to learn technically and tactically how to play the game Beating squads of eight and nine players selected from federations was quite an achievement They also played the first ever game of any sport at the Opening Day (of the new stadium)against the Futsal Whites and only lost 4-1 in 16 minutes of game time which speaks volumes for these boys I think I was happy with all the teams from the 10s up to 16s and come next year I can only imagine what our top teams will look like after playing and training in the best facility in the country

Capital have always been pioneers - a few years ago Brian Blellock and others set up that great little futsal club in Hataitai Now you have offices in the what is probably the best facility in the Southern Hemisphere What are long term plans for the game in Wellington I think even medium term the transition to Capital Football is the most important thing It is not going to be instant and we are still learning every day To integrate futsal into trainings have futsal specific days and host top tournaments Who knows maybe in a few years we might become a lsquomajorrsquo sport In just four years since that league in Hataitai we have become a major stakeholder in the new centre with netball and basketball Four years ago you would have thought we were mad but it shows firstly the potential

ldquoI STILL HAVE MUCH I WANT TO ACHIEVE HERE IN WELLINGTON AND DREAM OF FUTSALrsquoS OWN lsquoBAHRAIN MOMENTrsquo IN 2015 - SO WHO KNOWS

WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDSrdquo

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of this amazing game that is already proven around the world and secondly that with a team of volunteers willing to put in lots of work into something they believe in amazing things can happen

The new centre presents a great opportunity to get more players involved There is the potential for 200 teams in the new centre and with perfect timing of the outdoor season coming to a close The womens and college leagues are showing huge potential for growth As we build momentum over the summer and work through Capital Football I believe more clubs teams of all ages will adopt futsal as one of their training nights during the football season

What about the national scene Do you feel the game has come a long way in the last few years What are the top priorities for the next few years Can the Futsal Whites get close to the Solomon IslandsThat youth tournament in Napier in July as I said was a real landmark They are the future and to have our kids playing from a young age is how we will catch

the Solomons For the next World Cup campaign in four years time I hope some of our Capital 16-19 year olds might progress Longer term if we can be teaching our children from five years up and create a futsal culture with our facility Irsquod like to think we will catch the Aussies too And what about your own professional development in futsal It must be tremendous working in the game that you love Where would you like to be in a few yearsPeople have asked me this question and in all honesty I donrsquot know To do something you love and contribute something positive to your community as opposed to as opposed to measuring the money earned our hours worked is an honour Things have been so busy I just plan to keep my head down for another twelve months and then assess things then I am pretty happy with where I am at at the moment As things are still growing I am fortunate enough to develop a wide range of experience in marketing managing coaching dealing with key

stakeholders etc I have been forced to develop at the same pace as the sport here which is a great challenge so I am learning and growing every day in a broad set of skills I still have much I want to achieve here in Wellington and dream of futsalrsquos own ldquoBahrain momentrdquo in 2015 so who knows what the future holds

More action from the Cup of Nations as Futsal Whites target Micky Malivuk deals with an aerial ball gainst Africa UnitedPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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CALENDAR 201112

Sun 25 September 2011 NZF-Futsal Level One Refereeing Course PG Arena Napier

SatSun 2223 October 2011 National Girls and Womenrsquos Futsal Tournament ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 34 December 2011 National League Series 1 Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1112 February 2012 National League Series 2 ASB Stadium Auckland

SatSun 1112 February 2012 Futsal - NZ Masters Games Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1718 March 2012 National League Series 3 ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 2627 March 2012 NZF-Futsal Secondary Schools National Futsal Championships ASB Sports Centre Wellington

Calendar201112

Junior action from the opening of the ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington in AugustPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

SERIES ONEDUNEDIN

34 DECEMBER 2011

SERIES TWOAUCKLAND

1112 FEBRUARy 2012

SERIES THREEWELLINGTON1718 MARCH

2012

201112

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201112

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Page 4: THE POWER OF FIVE #2 September 2011

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OFC Championships MVP and Golden Boot winner Elliot Ragomo (top) Tahiti and Solomon Islands lineup before the classic final at Vodafone ArenaPHOTOS OFC

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Solomon Islands will once again face the worldrsquos best futsal sides at the FIFA Futsal World Cup after a thrilling 6-4 victory over Tahiti in the OFC Futsal Championships Final at the Vodafone Arena in Suva in May

A massive shock looked on the cards after the impressive Tahiti side lead the favourites 4-1 early in the second half of a pulsating final But the Solomons Islands comeback led by captain and tournament MVP Elliot Ragomo swept the Tahitians aside and the lsquoKurukurursquo booked their place in Thailand 2012 much to the delight of a packed stadium and their fans back home

The Futsal Whites meanwhile will have to wait another four years for their shot at futsal glory following a heartbreaking penalty shootout loss in the semi-final after a 3-3 extra time draw with Tahiti

Earlier the Futsal Whites had finished top of Group A following a draw against Fiji and victories over Vanuatu and tournament newcomers Kiribati

NEW ZEALAND 4 FIJI 4On the opening night a well-prepared Futsal Whites got off to a hesitant start going down 1-0 early to a fired up local side Skipper Marvin Eakins equalized five minutes before half time and notched a second after the break before goals from

SOLOMONS ISLANDS WILL REPRESENT OCEANIA AT THE 2012 FIFA FUTSAL WORLD CUP IN

THAILAND FUTSALWHITES FINISH THIRD AFTER A SHOOTOUT LOSS IN THEIR SEMI-FINAL

AGAINST TAHITILucas da Silva and Dylan Manickum saw New Zealand cruising at 4-1 Fiji brought it back to 4-3 late in the game and then stunned Matt Chandlerrsquos men with a controversial equalizer from a sideline kick-in in the last seconds of the game following a Futsal Whites defensive mix-up

NEW ZEALAND 21 KIRIBATI 1The Futsal Whites opened Day Two of the championships by dismantling Kiribati with a controlled display of possession futsal It was a lsquolsquogoalfestrsquorsquo from start to finish - with East Cityrsquos Nathan Robertson and Dylan Manickum leading the way with five and four respectively Marvin Eakins claimed a hat-trick while Jakub Sinkora Miro Major and Micky Malivuk claimed two each Goals from Tariq Assad Lucas da Silva and Daniel Koprivcic completed the rout and the Futsal Whites were on course for the semi-finals

NEW ZEALAND 6 VANUATU 4A fine solo effort from Jakub Sinkora followed by a clinical finish from Nathan Robertson gave the Futsal Whites the best possible start in this lsquomust winrsquo game for the Futsal Whites Vanuatu brought the game back to 2-2 just after halftime and soon after it was 3-3 after Robertson and Vanuatursquos influential Don Mansale traded blows Goals from Micky Malivuk and Dylan Manickum made it five for the Futsal Whites before Vanuatu scored again

to keep in touch at 5-4 Greg OrsquoConnor then came off the bench to score a fine sixth ensuring the Futsal Whites had not only made the semi-finals but avoided a match up with the rampant Solomon Islands

NEW ZEALAND (2)3 TAHITI (2)3 (TAHITI won 4-3 on penalties)The Futsal Whites made a hesitant start to their most important game for four years and the well organised Tahitians took control of the first half going into the break with a 2-0 lead Daniel Koprivcic got the Futsal Whites back on track after the restart turning home Dylan Manickumrsquos cross from close range before Nathan Robertson turned to slot a well-deserved equalizer following a sustained period of domination by the Kiwis The game finished all square at full time then in extra time Marvin Eakins looked to have sealed it for New Zealand with a back post finish following a killer ball from Miro Major before a late turnover gifted the Tahitians with the equalizer to set up a dramatic penalty shootout Manickum and Koprivcic saw their efforts saved by Tahiti custodian Atanui Tetihia and the Tahitians stunned the Futsal Whites to win the shootout 4-3 The New Zealanders were left to rue another slow start and their inability to hang on to a lead in the final stanza of the game The lsquodream finalrsquo against the Solomon Islands was not be and the World Cup dream was placed on

OFC CHAMPIONSHIPS

OFC Championships MVP and Golden Boot winner Elliot Ragomo (top) Tahiti and Solomon Islands lineup before the classic final at Vodafone ArenaPHOTOS OFC

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ice for another four years Instead the Futsal Whites would have to return to the arena the following night for the Bronze Medal Game

NEW ZEALAND 1 VANUATU 1 (NEW ZEALAND won 5-4 on penalties)An early goal from Micky Malivuk in an entertaining and tightly fought game looked like it was going to be enough for the Futsal Whites to claim 3rd place at the tournament But it was deja vu for New Zealand and Vanuatu equalized with the last kick of the game to take the game straight to the penalty shootout Keeper David Plowright emerged as the hero for the New Zealanders slotting his sudden death penalty before keeping out rival custodian Chickau Mansalersquos piledriver to send the New Zealanders and the crowd wild ensuring a consolation prize for the popular 2011 Futsal Whites squad

GROUP PHASE1 Tahiti (TAH) 6 Tuvalu (TUV) 02 Vanuatu (VAN) 9 Kiribati (KIR) 23 Solomon Islands (SOL) 13 New Caledonia (NCL) 54 Fiji (FIJ) 4 New Zealand (NZL) 45 Kiribati (KIR) 1 New Zealand (NZL) 216 Tuvalu (TUV) 1 New Caledonia (NCL) 117 Fiji (FIJ) 2 Vanuatu (VAN) 58 Solomon Islands 1 (SOL) v Tahiti (TAH) 09 New Caledonia (NCL) 2 v Tahiti (TAH) 210 Tuvalu (TUV) 0 v Solomon Islands (SOL) 1611 Fiji (FIJ) 22 v Kiribati (KIR) 312 New Zealand (NZL) 6 v Vanuatu (VAN) 4

GROUP STANDINGSGROUP A P W D L F A GD PtsNew Zealand (NZL) 3 2 1 0 31 9 22 7Vanuatu (VAN) 3 2 0 1 18 10 8 6Fiji (FIJ) 3 1 1 1 28 12 16 4Kiribati (KIR) 3 0 0 3 6 52 -46 0

GROUP B P W D L F A GD PtsSolomon Islands (SOL) 3 3 0 0 30 5 25 9Tahiti (TAH) 3 1 1 1 8 3 5 4New Caledonia (NCL) 3 1 1 1 18 16 2 4

Tuvalu (TUV) 3 0 0 3 1 33 -32 0

78 PLAyOFF13 Tuvalu (TUV) 2 v Kiribati (KIR) 3

56 PLAyOFF14 Fiji (FIJ) 8 v New Caledonia (NCL) 6

SEMI FINALS15 New Zealand (NZL) 23 v Tahiti (TAH) 23 AET Tahiti won 5-4 on penalties16Solomon Islands (SOL) 13 Vanuatu (VAN) 1

34 PLAyOFF17 New Zealand (NZL) v Vanuatu (VAN) 11 New Zealand won 5-4 on penalties

FINAL18 Tahiti (TAH) 4 Solomon Islands (SOL) 6

Player of the Tournament Elliot Ragomo (SOL)Golden Boot Elliot Ragomo (SOL) 19 goalsGolden Glove Atanui Tetihia (TAH)

New Zealand GoalscorersNathan ROBERTSON 8Marvin EAKINS 7Dylan MANICKUM 6Micky MALIVUK 5Jakub SINKORA 3Daniel KOPRIVCIC 2Miro MAJOR 2Greg OrsquoCONNOR 2Lucas SILVA 2David PLOWRIGHT 1Tariq ASSAD 1

Above New Zealandrsquos most experienced campaigner Nathan Robertson enjoyed another excellent tournament leading the golden boot stakes for the Futsal Whites with 8 strikes while proving to be a constant thorn in the side of opposition teams

Top Heartbreak for New Zealand as Tahiti emerge triumphant from the dramatic semi final shooutPHOTOS OFC

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PHOTO ALPHAPIX

ReportJUNIORYOUTH

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National JuniorYouth Championships

PHOTOS ALPHAPIX

ldquoIn previous years most teams were playing indoor football rather than futsal but the technical ability and movement of the more successful teams suggests we are entering a new phase of the game in this countryrdquo Toohey added

ldquoIt will be interesting to see how the individual centres progress over the next few years Those that are able to get coaching programmes and regular sessions for their players will definitely have the edge rdquo

The 14s final between Auckland Sampa and Mainland Canterbury proved to be an outstanding finale to the tournament with Auckland prevailing 7-6 in extra time after a titanic clash between two experienced and skilful sides

Toohey also paid tribute to the referees who despite a massive workload kept the standard high

ldquoFutsal is not the easiest game to referee We always knew the referees would be a key factor in the success of the tournament and the team Dave Payne and Ken Wallace assembled for the weekend did not let us down They were top notchrdquo he said

RESULTS10sAuckland Rio were winners in the youngest section of the nationals with a hard fought 5-2 win over an excellent Mainland Canterbury in front of a packed Saturday afternoon crowd Rio proved to be the

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Championships NAPIER

comeback kings of the tournament fighting back from 0-3 in the group phase against Mainland to draw 3-3 and then overturning a 0-3 deficit to prevail 5-3 against Capital Futsal in a thrilling semi-final

The teamsHB Futsal FireballsHB Futsal Unison VineyardCapital Futsal WS TitansHB Futsal Crazy HorsesMainland Futsal CanterburyAuckland RioHB Futsal GreendaleHB Futsal Bedpost Brazil

Final

Auckland Rio 5 Canterbury 2

12sA tightly contested grade with three evenly matched teams from Auckland plus excellent sides from Wellington and Christchurch The exciting Auckland Sampa who featured several players from the championship winning side at the Australian Futsal Nationals in Canberra in 2011 prevailed over last yearrsquos Junior grade champions with a hard fought victory

The teamsNelson Bays KnightsAuckland Futsal SantosCapital Futsal YellowAuckland Futsal RioCapital Futsal Petone BarcaHB Futsal Red SteelMainland Futsal CanterburyHB Futsal CHBHB Futsal CyclonesHB Futsal MacKirdyAuckland Futsal SampaCapital Futsal WS Rogerson

Final

Auckland Rio 5 Canterbury 2

Thirty six teams from around the country descended on Napier in the middle week of the July school holidays for the 3rd Annual NZ Football Futsal National Junioryouth Championships

The largest futsal event on the local calendar was played out over three action-packed days at the home of HB Futsal - the Pettigrew Green Arena in Taradale

Teams from Northland Auckland Futsal East City HB Futsal Capital Futsal Nelson Bays Futsal and Mainland Futsal Canterbury squared off in four grades while crowds of up to 500 flocked in over the weekend to witness outstanding displays of futsal from New Zealandrsquos finest young players

Well developed sides from Auckland Futsal took home the 10s 12s and 14s titles while home town boys HB Futsal were popular winners of the 16s grade on the Sunday afternoon Newcomers Mainland Futsal Canterbury made two finals and impressed everyone throughout the weekend with the quality of their futsal

Tournament Coordinator Paul Toohey was delighted with the event and said it showed how far junior and youth futsal had come in the last few years

ldquoIt felt like everybody stepped it up a few gears this year The teams were well prepared and it was obvious that many centres had put a lot of work inrdquo he said

AUCKLAND WIN 10s 12s and 14s - HAWKErsquoS BAY TRIUMPH IN THE 16s

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14sAnother tightly contested grade dominated by Auckland and Canterbury sides East City ousted last yearrsquos champion Auckland Rio side in a classic quarter final eoncounter and the tournament concluded with the unforgettable topsy-turvy final between the two best sides Auckland Sampa and Mainland Futsal Canterbury After a titanic battle Sampa had one hand on the trophy until a last second equalizer from the southerners took the game into extra time Reese Coxrsquos late thunderbolt was enough to steal the glory for the Brazilian coached Aucklanders

The teamsHB Futsal CHBHB Futsal MYIMainland Futsal CanterburyCapital Futsal Welllingtn YellowAuckland Futsal RioHB Futsal FuegoEast CityAuckland Futsal SampaCapital Futsal Team AwesomeNelson Bays Futsal Blues

FinalAuckland Rio (6)7 Canterbury (6)6 AET

16sSome high quality futsal was the hallmark of the 16s with an excellent Northland side unlucky not to make the final In the end the very experienced HB Futsal had too much class for allcomers on their home

court despatching Capital 6-0 in a one sided final after being taken to the wire by Northland and Canterbury in earlier games

The teamsHB Futsal BlueCapital Futsal WellingtonNFF Northland FutsalHB Futsal CHB 1HB Futsal StormersMainland Futsal Canterbury

Final HB Futsal Stormers 6 Capital Futsal 0

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PHOTO OFC

PHOTOS ALPHAPIX

Around theCentres12

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PHOTO OFCNFF Futsal

Northern Football Federation Futsal Launch 17 September 2011When Saturday 17 September 10-2pmWhere Massey University Recreation Centre ndash Albany

We will have two showcase games being played on a full sized futsal court against the Futsal Whitesbull 1030am Futsal Whites vs Football

Fernsbull 1200pm Futsal Whites vs Massey

University Champions

This is an opportunity for the community to come along and experience what futsal is join in have some fun and meet players from our national futsal team

NFF are running the following futsal programmes and leagues

Junioryouth Programmesbull Pilot Futsal Programme bull The Leisure Centre ndash Stanmore Bay

(Term 3 and 4)bull Massey University Recreation Centre ndash

Albany (Term 4 Monday 330-6pm)bull West Wave Recreation Centre ndash

Henderson (Term 4)bull Rutherford College ndash Te Atatu (Term 4)bull Adult Leaguesbull Lunchtime Business House Futsal

League ndash Massey University Recreation Centre Albany (STARTS Friday 1130-2pm 28 October)

bull Youth Senior Futsal League - Massey University Recreation Centre Albany

bull (STARTS Monday 6-8pm 31 October)bull Further Futsal leagues and

programmes will be offered throughout the NFF region

To register your interest in futsal for your club or for more information on the above please contact

Sarah PayneE sarahpaynenfforgnz M 021 795 045or visit our website wwwnfforgnz

Hibiscus Coast Pilot ProgrammeThe Leisure Centre Stanmore BayWednesdays 7-10 years 31 August - 5 October (Late registrations will be accepted Please contact Sarah for cost)Session one 330 - 445pm Session two 445 - 6pm

Thursdays 11-14 years 1 September - 6 October (Late registrations will be accepted Please contact Sarah for cost)Session one 600 - 715pm

The idea of the Pilot Futsal Programme is to provide skills based coaching suitable for your players age group in a 40 minute block followed by a 35 minute block of quick rotation games roll on roll off first to a goal etc It is a great introduction to futsal and a way for players to improve their football skills and also have some fun at the same time

You may wish to encourage as many of your outdoor team as possible as this is an excellent way for your team to remain together as the winter season comes to a close and helps their football skills to stay strong and continue to work as a team in preparation for next season

You will need shin pads and non marking sneakers or futsal shoes

AFF Futsal

AVONDALEbull An Auckland Football Federation Senior

Menrsquos Futsal league is launching on September 27 at Avondale College

What Senior Menrsquos League (players 16 years old or over)When Starts Tuesday 13 SeptemberWhere Avondale College (2 court venue)Cost $330 per teamContact Yonas bull Game times - 530pm-645pmbull 12 players per squadbull League limited to 10 teamsbull 11-week season (including finals)

To register for AFF-Futsal Avondale League contact Centre Officer - yonas Gebre at playbeautiful10gmailcom

MANUKAUOtara Leisure AFF-Futsal and Counties Manukau Sport have teamed up to deliver the KiwiSport funded Primary Futsal in Schools Programme

bull Futsal lsquoGive it a Gorsquo sessions delivered to 960 7-9 year olds

bull 10 week school programme delivered throughout Manukau between October-February

bull Primary League established between February-April

bull lsquoFutsal in Schoolsrsquo Programme Coach Education delivered to 70 Manukau Institute of Technology students

bull Teachers trained to deliver basic coaching

EAST CITyEast City Futsal based at the ASB Stadium in Kohimarama Auckland runs a premier league on Monday nights (comprised of ten teams) which is played on an international size court with two referee officials per game

The competition this season has been exceptional all games have been close with some upsets along the way

The East City Youth Development Squad took advantage of East City National League training finishing in the top four - a huge accomplishment The final night was a no-holds barred night both semi-finals and finals Arabian Knights and KBT went head to head in the finalrsquos and after a very intense game with some amazing futsal skills by both teams KBT took out the Premier Winter League now winning back to back seasons -Barbara Gwilliam

East City took a squad of 8 players to the U14s 2011 NZ Football Futsal National Junior Youth Championship held at Pettigrew Green Arena Napier on 23-24 July The team was drawn from participants in our in-house Summer 2011 competition The team was coached by Dennis Dow the older brother of one of our players who plays in the clubrsquos premier league with our youth development squad

The boys got off to a flying start with a convincing 9-0 win over Nelson Bays The highlight of the game was a 6-goal haul by midfielder Matthew Bouzaid who went on to repeat this achievement in the games against Wellington Team Awesome and Auckland Futsal Rio In total Matthew scored 19 goals only one short of winning the Golden Boot Award

The highlight of our tournament was the quarter-final against Auckland Futsal Rio

a team which included a large contingent of Auckland representative players East City made a tremendous start going 4-0 up within the first five minutes before Rio staged a strong comeback to level by half time and then to lead 7-5 early in the second half The East City boys kept their composure and put the Rio defence under such pressure that they conceded a number of fouls in and around their own goal box with two of the resulting free kicks being coolly converted to bring the scores level The boys snatched the lead with less than two minutes to play and displayed great maturity to hold Rio at bayIn the semi final the boys were again given a futsal lesson by an extremely skilful and well drilled Mainland Futsal team who went on to lose an extra-time thriller in the final against Auckland Futsal Sampa

The East City boys can be very proud of the fact that their only two losses during the tournament came to the teams which finished first and second As the competition progressed their confidence and awareness improved markedly and will stand them in good stead in future years

- Derek Dow

ContactEmail futsalmandataconz East City Administration Line 579-0652

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East City Winter Premier League Winners 2011 KBTPHOTO EAST CITY

HB Futsal

After hosting the third annual National Junior and Youth Championships at the Pettigrew Green Arena we have turned our attention to the Term 4 Leagues which commence on October 25 Enrolments are underway with over fifty teams (JuniorIntermediateYouthSocialPremier) expected to take part in our Tuesday night leagues

Recent discussions with the Arena have highlighted the high demand for court space from the other sporting codes who currently use the facility Basketball volleyball and netball are all experiencing huge growth due in particular to the college programmes in operation The challenge for futsal in Hawkersquos Bay is finding enough courts to enable the heavily subscribed leagues to expand further as we are in the unfortunate position at the moment of having to turn teams away

A major highlight of the last quarter was the success of the HB Stormers who picked up the 16s championship trophy at the recent Nationals after beating Capital Futsal 6-0 in the final

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AUCKLAND FUTSAL2011 NZF FUTSAL CHAMPIONS 10 12 14 Boys Grades

Auckland Futsalrsquos representatives 1012 amp 14 Boys swept all aside to win a record three national titles at the 2011 NZ Futsal Championships held in Napier in July

Auckland Futsalrsquos Brazilian coaches Felipe Bernardi amp Juliano Schmeling prepared our representative teams to play an authentic Brazilian style of futsal - highly technical constant rhythmic movements and fast intricate passing

Auckland Rio - NZ Champion - 10 Boys1 Finn Ambridge2 Gene Toohey3 Josh Coe4 Theo Hardy5 Sidney Boyd6 Joel Clissold7 Harrison Chadwick8 Oscar Browne

Auckland SAMPA - NZ Champion - 12 Boys1 Ahmed Mohammadi2 Ethan Amey3 Jack Vaughan4 Nicholas Milne (K)5 Sean Green6 Matthew Hunter

Auckland SAMPA - NZ Champion - 14 Boys1 Dylan Burns2 Harry Bell3 Phillip Paul4 Reese Cox5 Sean Clark6 Tinashe Marowa7 Emman Rahimi8 Charlie Thomas9 Corey Walters (K)

10 David Masters (K)

Junior Leagues starting in September 20117 - 19 yrsHarbour - WednesdaysAuckland Central - Mondays Thursdays Fridays SundaysAuckland East - Mondays TuesdaysBrazil Futsal AcademyAuthentic Brazilian Futsal skills techniques movement creativity amp learning to lsquoPlay Like a Brazilianrsquo Let our Brazilian coaches help you become an exciting playerAges 5 - 13 yrs

Harbour - SundaysAuckland Central Mondays Sundays

Contact Craig Empsonplayaucklandfutsalorgwwwaucklandfutsalorg

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Many of these 1996 born players started with us back in the original leagues of 2006 and under the watchful eye of coach Mark Cozens have blossomed into a well organised and dedicated outifit with a bit of an lsquox-factorrsquo We fully expect many of these players to continue on the futsal pathway being offered by NZF Futsal with all the boys hoping to play in the National League in the near future

wwwhbfutsalorgnz

Capital Futsal

Futsalrsquos future in Wellington looks bright if the success of ASB Sport Centrersquos grand opening in August is anything to go by

As one of many sports which will call the 12 court $475 million venue in Kilbirnie home futsal was exposed to a large new audience with around 15000 visiting during the open day

Futsal activities held throughout the day included the national team the Futsal Whites competing in a cup of nations against ethnic-based local sides

The Futsal Whites predictably prevailed beating an Africa United team led by Team Wellington striker Hicham Kamri 7-1 in the final

There were also womens and youth tournaments held and one court was also set aside for people to try futsal in different gender and age groups with Futsal Whites players mixing with locals game enough to step on court

ldquoIt was a great chance to get in front of people who may not have played much futsal if at allrdquo said NZF Futsal Development Manager Dave Payne

ldquoThe interest from kids was particularly pleasing and I think they really enjoyed the sport as well as the opportunity to play against national team players and get their autographs while they were there

ldquoSome turned up after winter football some had played other sports but were taken by the skill of the game and the fact that anyone can play

NZF Futsal 16s Champions 2011 - HB StormersPHOTO ALPHAPIX

Action from the Cup of Nations at ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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ldquoCapital Futsal has experienced a boost in registrations and the success of the open day and the quality of the venue bodes well for continued growth of futsal in Wellington

Up to six futsal courts will be in action every Monday Tuesday and Friday night beginning in October and a range of tournaments will run during the October school holidays Close to 300 futsal teams will play in leagues and tournaments at the ASB Sports Centre between October and December

Contactmattfutsalnetnz021 971 798wwwfutsalnetnz

Mainland Futsal

All systems are go in the Mainland region with over 50 teams now playing every week in our various leagues This means we can start to build our other regions up over the next few months Our Christchurch leagues now run to 3 divisions of Senior Men 1 Womenrsquos division 2 Youth divisions 1 Junior a Mixed and a Masters

We had a fabulous trip to the Youth and Junior Nationals taking a team in each group and eventually (returning in the snow storm of the year) with two silver medals Special congratulations are due

Top Luke Tongue clears the ball in a 12s Nationalrsquos game in Napier Benji lapslie Sam Philip Ellis Hare-Reid (G) and Joe Bell (10) look on

Centre Mainland Canterbury 10s

Bottom left Stephen Livingstone pressures the keeper in a 14s Nationals game

Bottom right Avery Addei breaks in the 16s Nationals while Sam Lapslie Miguel Mitchell Hamish Mitchell (GK) and Sam Roger watch

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to Peter Livingstone for coaching the 14s to Silver and Matt Hoole doing the same for the 10s but all the teams coaches and support staff did themselves proud It was a great opportunity to play against all the regions of the country and the boys returned with growth and knowledge under their belt as well as great memories of a great event

September sees our ldquoFutsal Camprdquo run every Saturday Under 12s and 12-15s using the time to grow their game with expert coaches and players guidance Along with our schools competition starting next term and a very successful referees training day adding 10 refs to our roster we are growing in all areas and on all fronts

We look forward to catching up with the Futsal community at the Girls Nationals and the Masters where we will bring teams to both

Futsal South

Football South Futsal has recently changed its name to Futsal South Each centre within the Futsal South region will use the logos above with their centre name as per Futsal South ndash Dunedin logo

We now have centres in Dunedin Wanaka Queenstown Timaru and looking to start in Balclutha

Futsal South has held two selection tournaments in Dunedin to choose our National League squad from Teams from Queenstown Wanaka and Dunedin were involved over the 2 rounds with some great Futsal played by all involved

Queenstown Falcons took out the first tournament and Real Football winning the second tournament Luiz Uhera (Futsal South National League Coach) and Chris Button (Futsal South National League Manager) have selected an initial training squad of 30 players from those involved to train towards the 201112 National League

In September 2011 we are starting our summer Futsal leagues We have Senior leagues running on Monday and Wednesday nights Primary school leagues on Wednesday afternoons Intermediate and Junior High School leagues on Tuesday afternoons and Senior High School leagues on Thursday afternoons

With the introduction of our Primary School League we are also offering a futsal in Schools coaching program which involves a part time coach teaching basic Futsal skills in Primary and Intermediate School pupils We have had a very positive response to our pilot program that was run at Tahuna Intermediate with over 450 pupils being given Futsal instruction in their Physical Education classes for 2 weeks

We have signed up a number of schools for this program for terms 3 amp 4 of 2011 and also have schools signed up for next year We are also looking to take the program to the Central Otago and Clutha districts to help boost player numbers in those areas

This should give a real boost towards the future of Futsal in our region

Futsal South has been running referee courses over the region and now have 52 qualified referees and another course running shortly

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East City Futsal (Auckland)cosworthxtraconzeastcityfutsalmandataconz

Auckland Futsalplayaucklandfutsalorg

AFF Futsal - Avondale Playbeautiful10gmailcom

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WAIBOP Futsalpeterawaibopfootballconzsimonmwaibopfootballconz

Hawkes Bay Futsal ptooheyhbfutsalorgnz

Wairarapa Futsal petercoxsparcconzpaul_burnsxtraconz

Red Sox Manawatu Futsal (Palmerston North) bergie007vodafoneconz

Capital Futsal (Wellington)mattcapitalfootballorgnz

Marlborough Futsal (Blenheim) marlboroughfootballxtraconz

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Mainland Futsal - Canterburyrichardmainlandfutsalconz

Mainland Futsal - West Coastsportgreyhighschoolnz

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Futsal South - Wanaka cecisxtraconz

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Futsal South - Timarujcamesymcascorgnz

have a great team behind me with support in areas like accounts which allows me to spend more of my time planning the ASB Centre programme as well as getting out into even more schools How much coaching are you doingLast term I trialled ldquoCoach n Playrdquo leagues in both of our U13 leagues which went well At the moment I coach the St Pats U16 team on a weekly basis with the ambition of winning NZSSSC College Nationals hosted right next door at the ASB Centre in March 2012 Our U19 squad is a representative team and is going to Australia for the nationals in January We will be together playing and training three times a week from next month Our Island Bay Team Awesome U13s have been training once and playing once a week in preparation for Nationals in Australia too From next term Friday nights will be coaching nights for U11s and each age group up to 16s 19s and Men We see this as an important part of the programme to help educate futsal players which in turn will also produce better football players Whatrsquos a typical week for you Matt - Futsal every day Most eveningsAll day all night Yes As part of the Capital transition and with the new centre I am involving more people in running and refereeing the leagues so I can be more efficient in the overall management as opposed to being out ldquoon the groundrdquo at

Capital Futsalrsquos Development Officer is at the centre of the growing futsal scene in Wellington With four yearsrsquo experience as a player coach administrator and volunteer under his belt Fejos is a regular fixture at tournaments and events around the country POWER OF FIVE caught up with him in the days following the opening of the new state of the art twelve court ASB Community Centre - the new home for futsal in Wellington

Matt - how long have you been involved in futsalSince late 2007 coming back to Wellington for summer after Otago University and wanting to play indoor soccer - which is all I knew at the time A knock on Dave and Sarahrsquos Paynersquos door changed my life I guess Tell us a little bit about your role with Capital Futsal Capital City Futsal has recently been integrated into Capital Football hasnrsquot itYes we are currently going through the transition of Capital Football taking on the responsibility for delivering futsal as with other federations around the country My role up until now has been everything really running and promoting the leagues school visits with a focus on the Kiwisport College programme administering everything and overall organisingThis is now changing as things get bigger and with the transition to Capital - I now

leagues four nights a week The emails administration and practical running of things are endless so good thing I do it because I love it At times it seems there is too much interest It is a fantastic problem to have

Are you still finding time to playI sneak in a few social games a week which allows me to drop in on the leagues too and make sure everything is ok too I donrsquot have the time for much more than that and have made the decision that I have more to contribute off the court than on by way of contributing to the opportunities of others You guys are doing well on the referee development side of things How many qualified referees do you have now in WellingtonWe have about 25 from our last two courses in Wellington Most encouraging is the college students involved in what is traditionally seen as an lsquoold manrsquosrsquo thing There are also pathways within refereeing onto the National League and OFC Championships The new centre with twelve courts and a brand new meeting room will provide a professional venue to host referee and coach education sessions Capital Footballrsquos Jamie Cross has also officiated at the OFC Championships in the past so has a lot of experience And Adam Walker volunteers and develops referees which is a real asset to us

MATT FEJOSINTERVIEW

Capital Futsal

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ldquoI BELIEVE MORE CLUBS TEAMS OF ALL AGES WILL ADOPT FUTSAL AS ONE OF THEIR

TRAINING NIGHTS DURING THE FOOTBALL SEASON rdquo

Capital Futsal

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Can you tell us a little bit about the KiwiSport College Futsal initiative you are involved withCapital Futsal and myself personally would not be here without it so we owe a great deal of gratitude to KiwiSport College Sport Wellington and Sport Wellington It allowed me to leave a job in a bank fourteen months ago and get out into colleges to grow the game Over 2000 students from 16 different colleges have been involved from sessions in their school to local college leagues up to College Nationals and young Izaac OrsquoHara showing the pathways in the game being involved with the Futsal Whites What about the National League this year Capital were the top New Zealand side in 201011 Will you have pretty much the same outfit as last yearThings are always changing We lose two of our senior Futsal Whites overseas in Lucas da Silva and Tariq Assad We have some new Brazilians who have been training with the team I am hoping one or two of my promising U19 squad will squeeze in too but things are getting very competitive We have the same management and coaching team which provides some continuity to build on last season and catch those Aussies Our new competitive league will be played on our three international courts which will help too How did the Capital teams enjoy the JuniorYouth Nationals this year The 16s did particularly well and made the finalI think it was a real landmark event The standard went through the roof and centres now will have to send their best players selected from their leagues and

training together It was great to see My 16s were the St Patrickrsquos College team and performed amazingly with just six players from one school showing the benefit of futsal specific training to learn technically and tactically how to play the game Beating squads of eight and nine players selected from federations was quite an achievement They also played the first ever game of any sport at the Opening Day (of the new stadium)against the Futsal Whites and only lost 4-1 in 16 minutes of game time which speaks volumes for these boys I think I was happy with all the teams from the 10s up to 16s and come next year I can only imagine what our top teams will look like after playing and training in the best facility in the country

Capital have always been pioneers - a few years ago Brian Blellock and others set up that great little futsal club in Hataitai Now you have offices in the what is probably the best facility in the Southern Hemisphere What are long term plans for the game in Wellington I think even medium term the transition to Capital Football is the most important thing It is not going to be instant and we are still learning every day To integrate futsal into trainings have futsal specific days and host top tournaments Who knows maybe in a few years we might become a lsquomajorrsquo sport In just four years since that league in Hataitai we have become a major stakeholder in the new centre with netball and basketball Four years ago you would have thought we were mad but it shows firstly the potential

ldquoI STILL HAVE MUCH I WANT TO ACHIEVE HERE IN WELLINGTON AND DREAM OF FUTSALrsquoS OWN lsquoBAHRAIN MOMENTrsquo IN 2015 - SO WHO KNOWS

WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDSrdquo

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of this amazing game that is already proven around the world and secondly that with a team of volunteers willing to put in lots of work into something they believe in amazing things can happen

The new centre presents a great opportunity to get more players involved There is the potential for 200 teams in the new centre and with perfect timing of the outdoor season coming to a close The womens and college leagues are showing huge potential for growth As we build momentum over the summer and work through Capital Football I believe more clubs teams of all ages will adopt futsal as one of their training nights during the football season

What about the national scene Do you feel the game has come a long way in the last few years What are the top priorities for the next few years Can the Futsal Whites get close to the Solomon IslandsThat youth tournament in Napier in July as I said was a real landmark They are the future and to have our kids playing from a young age is how we will catch

the Solomons For the next World Cup campaign in four years time I hope some of our Capital 16-19 year olds might progress Longer term if we can be teaching our children from five years up and create a futsal culture with our facility Irsquod like to think we will catch the Aussies too And what about your own professional development in futsal It must be tremendous working in the game that you love Where would you like to be in a few yearsPeople have asked me this question and in all honesty I donrsquot know To do something you love and contribute something positive to your community as opposed to as opposed to measuring the money earned our hours worked is an honour Things have been so busy I just plan to keep my head down for another twelve months and then assess things then I am pretty happy with where I am at at the moment As things are still growing I am fortunate enough to develop a wide range of experience in marketing managing coaching dealing with key

stakeholders etc I have been forced to develop at the same pace as the sport here which is a great challenge so I am learning and growing every day in a broad set of skills I still have much I want to achieve here in Wellington and dream of futsalrsquos own ldquoBahrain momentrdquo in 2015 so who knows what the future holds

More action from the Cup of Nations as Futsal Whites target Micky Malivuk deals with an aerial ball gainst Africa UnitedPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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CALENDAR 201112

Sun 25 September 2011 NZF-Futsal Level One Refereeing Course PG Arena Napier

SatSun 2223 October 2011 National Girls and Womenrsquos Futsal Tournament ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 34 December 2011 National League Series 1 Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1112 February 2012 National League Series 2 ASB Stadium Auckland

SatSun 1112 February 2012 Futsal - NZ Masters Games Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1718 March 2012 National League Series 3 ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 2627 March 2012 NZF-Futsal Secondary Schools National Futsal Championships ASB Sports Centre Wellington

Calendar201112

Junior action from the opening of the ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington in AugustPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

SERIES ONEDUNEDIN

34 DECEMBER 2011

SERIES TWOAUCKLAND

1112 FEBRUARy 2012

SERIES THREEWELLINGTON1718 MARCH

2012

201112

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201112

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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Solomon Islands will once again face the worldrsquos best futsal sides at the FIFA Futsal World Cup after a thrilling 6-4 victory over Tahiti in the OFC Futsal Championships Final at the Vodafone Arena in Suva in May

A massive shock looked on the cards after the impressive Tahiti side lead the favourites 4-1 early in the second half of a pulsating final But the Solomons Islands comeback led by captain and tournament MVP Elliot Ragomo swept the Tahitians aside and the lsquoKurukurursquo booked their place in Thailand 2012 much to the delight of a packed stadium and their fans back home

The Futsal Whites meanwhile will have to wait another four years for their shot at futsal glory following a heartbreaking penalty shootout loss in the semi-final after a 3-3 extra time draw with Tahiti

Earlier the Futsal Whites had finished top of Group A following a draw against Fiji and victories over Vanuatu and tournament newcomers Kiribati

NEW ZEALAND 4 FIJI 4On the opening night a well-prepared Futsal Whites got off to a hesitant start going down 1-0 early to a fired up local side Skipper Marvin Eakins equalized five minutes before half time and notched a second after the break before goals from

SOLOMONS ISLANDS WILL REPRESENT OCEANIA AT THE 2012 FIFA FUTSAL WORLD CUP IN

THAILAND FUTSALWHITES FINISH THIRD AFTER A SHOOTOUT LOSS IN THEIR SEMI-FINAL

AGAINST TAHITILucas da Silva and Dylan Manickum saw New Zealand cruising at 4-1 Fiji brought it back to 4-3 late in the game and then stunned Matt Chandlerrsquos men with a controversial equalizer from a sideline kick-in in the last seconds of the game following a Futsal Whites defensive mix-up

NEW ZEALAND 21 KIRIBATI 1The Futsal Whites opened Day Two of the championships by dismantling Kiribati with a controlled display of possession futsal It was a lsquolsquogoalfestrsquorsquo from start to finish - with East Cityrsquos Nathan Robertson and Dylan Manickum leading the way with five and four respectively Marvin Eakins claimed a hat-trick while Jakub Sinkora Miro Major and Micky Malivuk claimed two each Goals from Tariq Assad Lucas da Silva and Daniel Koprivcic completed the rout and the Futsal Whites were on course for the semi-finals

NEW ZEALAND 6 VANUATU 4A fine solo effort from Jakub Sinkora followed by a clinical finish from Nathan Robertson gave the Futsal Whites the best possible start in this lsquomust winrsquo game for the Futsal Whites Vanuatu brought the game back to 2-2 just after halftime and soon after it was 3-3 after Robertson and Vanuatursquos influential Don Mansale traded blows Goals from Micky Malivuk and Dylan Manickum made it five for the Futsal Whites before Vanuatu scored again

to keep in touch at 5-4 Greg OrsquoConnor then came off the bench to score a fine sixth ensuring the Futsal Whites had not only made the semi-finals but avoided a match up with the rampant Solomon Islands

NEW ZEALAND (2)3 TAHITI (2)3 (TAHITI won 4-3 on penalties)The Futsal Whites made a hesitant start to their most important game for four years and the well organised Tahitians took control of the first half going into the break with a 2-0 lead Daniel Koprivcic got the Futsal Whites back on track after the restart turning home Dylan Manickumrsquos cross from close range before Nathan Robertson turned to slot a well-deserved equalizer following a sustained period of domination by the Kiwis The game finished all square at full time then in extra time Marvin Eakins looked to have sealed it for New Zealand with a back post finish following a killer ball from Miro Major before a late turnover gifted the Tahitians with the equalizer to set up a dramatic penalty shootout Manickum and Koprivcic saw their efforts saved by Tahiti custodian Atanui Tetihia and the Tahitians stunned the Futsal Whites to win the shootout 4-3 The New Zealanders were left to rue another slow start and their inability to hang on to a lead in the final stanza of the game The lsquodream finalrsquo against the Solomon Islands was not be and the World Cup dream was placed on

OFC CHAMPIONSHIPS

OFC Championships MVP and Golden Boot winner Elliot Ragomo (top) Tahiti and Solomon Islands lineup before the classic final at Vodafone ArenaPHOTOS OFC

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ice for another four years Instead the Futsal Whites would have to return to the arena the following night for the Bronze Medal Game

NEW ZEALAND 1 VANUATU 1 (NEW ZEALAND won 5-4 on penalties)An early goal from Micky Malivuk in an entertaining and tightly fought game looked like it was going to be enough for the Futsal Whites to claim 3rd place at the tournament But it was deja vu for New Zealand and Vanuatu equalized with the last kick of the game to take the game straight to the penalty shootout Keeper David Plowright emerged as the hero for the New Zealanders slotting his sudden death penalty before keeping out rival custodian Chickau Mansalersquos piledriver to send the New Zealanders and the crowd wild ensuring a consolation prize for the popular 2011 Futsal Whites squad

GROUP PHASE1 Tahiti (TAH) 6 Tuvalu (TUV) 02 Vanuatu (VAN) 9 Kiribati (KIR) 23 Solomon Islands (SOL) 13 New Caledonia (NCL) 54 Fiji (FIJ) 4 New Zealand (NZL) 45 Kiribati (KIR) 1 New Zealand (NZL) 216 Tuvalu (TUV) 1 New Caledonia (NCL) 117 Fiji (FIJ) 2 Vanuatu (VAN) 58 Solomon Islands 1 (SOL) v Tahiti (TAH) 09 New Caledonia (NCL) 2 v Tahiti (TAH) 210 Tuvalu (TUV) 0 v Solomon Islands (SOL) 1611 Fiji (FIJ) 22 v Kiribati (KIR) 312 New Zealand (NZL) 6 v Vanuatu (VAN) 4

GROUP STANDINGSGROUP A P W D L F A GD PtsNew Zealand (NZL) 3 2 1 0 31 9 22 7Vanuatu (VAN) 3 2 0 1 18 10 8 6Fiji (FIJ) 3 1 1 1 28 12 16 4Kiribati (KIR) 3 0 0 3 6 52 -46 0

GROUP B P W D L F A GD PtsSolomon Islands (SOL) 3 3 0 0 30 5 25 9Tahiti (TAH) 3 1 1 1 8 3 5 4New Caledonia (NCL) 3 1 1 1 18 16 2 4

Tuvalu (TUV) 3 0 0 3 1 33 -32 0

78 PLAyOFF13 Tuvalu (TUV) 2 v Kiribati (KIR) 3

56 PLAyOFF14 Fiji (FIJ) 8 v New Caledonia (NCL) 6

SEMI FINALS15 New Zealand (NZL) 23 v Tahiti (TAH) 23 AET Tahiti won 5-4 on penalties16Solomon Islands (SOL) 13 Vanuatu (VAN) 1

34 PLAyOFF17 New Zealand (NZL) v Vanuatu (VAN) 11 New Zealand won 5-4 on penalties

FINAL18 Tahiti (TAH) 4 Solomon Islands (SOL) 6

Player of the Tournament Elliot Ragomo (SOL)Golden Boot Elliot Ragomo (SOL) 19 goalsGolden Glove Atanui Tetihia (TAH)

New Zealand GoalscorersNathan ROBERTSON 8Marvin EAKINS 7Dylan MANICKUM 6Micky MALIVUK 5Jakub SINKORA 3Daniel KOPRIVCIC 2Miro MAJOR 2Greg OrsquoCONNOR 2Lucas SILVA 2David PLOWRIGHT 1Tariq ASSAD 1

Above New Zealandrsquos most experienced campaigner Nathan Robertson enjoyed another excellent tournament leading the golden boot stakes for the Futsal Whites with 8 strikes while proving to be a constant thorn in the side of opposition teams

Top Heartbreak for New Zealand as Tahiti emerge triumphant from the dramatic semi final shooutPHOTOS OFC

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PHOTO ALPHAPIX

ReportJUNIORYOUTH

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National JuniorYouth Championships

PHOTOS ALPHAPIX

ldquoIn previous years most teams were playing indoor football rather than futsal but the technical ability and movement of the more successful teams suggests we are entering a new phase of the game in this countryrdquo Toohey added

ldquoIt will be interesting to see how the individual centres progress over the next few years Those that are able to get coaching programmes and regular sessions for their players will definitely have the edge rdquo

The 14s final between Auckland Sampa and Mainland Canterbury proved to be an outstanding finale to the tournament with Auckland prevailing 7-6 in extra time after a titanic clash between two experienced and skilful sides

Toohey also paid tribute to the referees who despite a massive workload kept the standard high

ldquoFutsal is not the easiest game to referee We always knew the referees would be a key factor in the success of the tournament and the team Dave Payne and Ken Wallace assembled for the weekend did not let us down They were top notchrdquo he said

RESULTS10sAuckland Rio were winners in the youngest section of the nationals with a hard fought 5-2 win over an excellent Mainland Canterbury in front of a packed Saturday afternoon crowd Rio proved to be the

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Championships NAPIER

comeback kings of the tournament fighting back from 0-3 in the group phase against Mainland to draw 3-3 and then overturning a 0-3 deficit to prevail 5-3 against Capital Futsal in a thrilling semi-final

The teamsHB Futsal FireballsHB Futsal Unison VineyardCapital Futsal WS TitansHB Futsal Crazy HorsesMainland Futsal CanterburyAuckland RioHB Futsal GreendaleHB Futsal Bedpost Brazil

Final

Auckland Rio 5 Canterbury 2

12sA tightly contested grade with three evenly matched teams from Auckland plus excellent sides from Wellington and Christchurch The exciting Auckland Sampa who featured several players from the championship winning side at the Australian Futsal Nationals in Canberra in 2011 prevailed over last yearrsquos Junior grade champions with a hard fought victory

The teamsNelson Bays KnightsAuckland Futsal SantosCapital Futsal YellowAuckland Futsal RioCapital Futsal Petone BarcaHB Futsal Red SteelMainland Futsal CanterburyHB Futsal CHBHB Futsal CyclonesHB Futsal MacKirdyAuckland Futsal SampaCapital Futsal WS Rogerson

Final

Auckland Rio 5 Canterbury 2

Thirty six teams from around the country descended on Napier in the middle week of the July school holidays for the 3rd Annual NZ Football Futsal National Junioryouth Championships

The largest futsal event on the local calendar was played out over three action-packed days at the home of HB Futsal - the Pettigrew Green Arena in Taradale

Teams from Northland Auckland Futsal East City HB Futsal Capital Futsal Nelson Bays Futsal and Mainland Futsal Canterbury squared off in four grades while crowds of up to 500 flocked in over the weekend to witness outstanding displays of futsal from New Zealandrsquos finest young players

Well developed sides from Auckland Futsal took home the 10s 12s and 14s titles while home town boys HB Futsal were popular winners of the 16s grade on the Sunday afternoon Newcomers Mainland Futsal Canterbury made two finals and impressed everyone throughout the weekend with the quality of their futsal

Tournament Coordinator Paul Toohey was delighted with the event and said it showed how far junior and youth futsal had come in the last few years

ldquoIt felt like everybody stepped it up a few gears this year The teams were well prepared and it was obvious that many centres had put a lot of work inrdquo he said

AUCKLAND WIN 10s 12s and 14s - HAWKErsquoS BAY TRIUMPH IN THE 16s

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14sAnother tightly contested grade dominated by Auckland and Canterbury sides East City ousted last yearrsquos champion Auckland Rio side in a classic quarter final eoncounter and the tournament concluded with the unforgettable topsy-turvy final between the two best sides Auckland Sampa and Mainland Futsal Canterbury After a titanic battle Sampa had one hand on the trophy until a last second equalizer from the southerners took the game into extra time Reese Coxrsquos late thunderbolt was enough to steal the glory for the Brazilian coached Aucklanders

The teamsHB Futsal CHBHB Futsal MYIMainland Futsal CanterburyCapital Futsal Welllingtn YellowAuckland Futsal RioHB Futsal FuegoEast CityAuckland Futsal SampaCapital Futsal Team AwesomeNelson Bays Futsal Blues

FinalAuckland Rio (6)7 Canterbury (6)6 AET

16sSome high quality futsal was the hallmark of the 16s with an excellent Northland side unlucky not to make the final In the end the very experienced HB Futsal had too much class for allcomers on their home

court despatching Capital 6-0 in a one sided final after being taken to the wire by Northland and Canterbury in earlier games

The teamsHB Futsal BlueCapital Futsal WellingtonNFF Northland FutsalHB Futsal CHB 1HB Futsal StormersMainland Futsal Canterbury

Final HB Futsal Stormers 6 Capital Futsal 0

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PHOTO OFC

PHOTOS ALPHAPIX

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PHOTO OFCNFF Futsal

Northern Football Federation Futsal Launch 17 September 2011When Saturday 17 September 10-2pmWhere Massey University Recreation Centre ndash Albany

We will have two showcase games being played on a full sized futsal court against the Futsal Whitesbull 1030am Futsal Whites vs Football

Fernsbull 1200pm Futsal Whites vs Massey

University Champions

This is an opportunity for the community to come along and experience what futsal is join in have some fun and meet players from our national futsal team

NFF are running the following futsal programmes and leagues

Junioryouth Programmesbull Pilot Futsal Programme bull The Leisure Centre ndash Stanmore Bay

(Term 3 and 4)bull Massey University Recreation Centre ndash

Albany (Term 4 Monday 330-6pm)bull West Wave Recreation Centre ndash

Henderson (Term 4)bull Rutherford College ndash Te Atatu (Term 4)bull Adult Leaguesbull Lunchtime Business House Futsal

League ndash Massey University Recreation Centre Albany (STARTS Friday 1130-2pm 28 October)

bull Youth Senior Futsal League - Massey University Recreation Centre Albany

bull (STARTS Monday 6-8pm 31 October)bull Further Futsal leagues and

programmes will be offered throughout the NFF region

To register your interest in futsal for your club or for more information on the above please contact

Sarah PayneE sarahpaynenfforgnz M 021 795 045or visit our website wwwnfforgnz

Hibiscus Coast Pilot ProgrammeThe Leisure Centre Stanmore BayWednesdays 7-10 years 31 August - 5 October (Late registrations will be accepted Please contact Sarah for cost)Session one 330 - 445pm Session two 445 - 6pm

Thursdays 11-14 years 1 September - 6 October (Late registrations will be accepted Please contact Sarah for cost)Session one 600 - 715pm

The idea of the Pilot Futsal Programme is to provide skills based coaching suitable for your players age group in a 40 minute block followed by a 35 minute block of quick rotation games roll on roll off first to a goal etc It is a great introduction to futsal and a way for players to improve their football skills and also have some fun at the same time

You may wish to encourage as many of your outdoor team as possible as this is an excellent way for your team to remain together as the winter season comes to a close and helps their football skills to stay strong and continue to work as a team in preparation for next season

You will need shin pads and non marking sneakers or futsal shoes

AFF Futsal

AVONDALEbull An Auckland Football Federation Senior

Menrsquos Futsal league is launching on September 27 at Avondale College

What Senior Menrsquos League (players 16 years old or over)When Starts Tuesday 13 SeptemberWhere Avondale College (2 court venue)Cost $330 per teamContact Yonas bull Game times - 530pm-645pmbull 12 players per squadbull League limited to 10 teamsbull 11-week season (including finals)

To register for AFF-Futsal Avondale League contact Centre Officer - yonas Gebre at playbeautiful10gmailcom

MANUKAUOtara Leisure AFF-Futsal and Counties Manukau Sport have teamed up to deliver the KiwiSport funded Primary Futsal in Schools Programme

bull Futsal lsquoGive it a Gorsquo sessions delivered to 960 7-9 year olds

bull 10 week school programme delivered throughout Manukau between October-February

bull Primary League established between February-April

bull lsquoFutsal in Schoolsrsquo Programme Coach Education delivered to 70 Manukau Institute of Technology students

bull Teachers trained to deliver basic coaching

EAST CITyEast City Futsal based at the ASB Stadium in Kohimarama Auckland runs a premier league on Monday nights (comprised of ten teams) which is played on an international size court with two referee officials per game

The competition this season has been exceptional all games have been close with some upsets along the way

The East City Youth Development Squad took advantage of East City National League training finishing in the top four - a huge accomplishment The final night was a no-holds barred night both semi-finals and finals Arabian Knights and KBT went head to head in the finalrsquos and after a very intense game with some amazing futsal skills by both teams KBT took out the Premier Winter League now winning back to back seasons -Barbara Gwilliam

East City took a squad of 8 players to the U14s 2011 NZ Football Futsal National Junior Youth Championship held at Pettigrew Green Arena Napier on 23-24 July The team was drawn from participants in our in-house Summer 2011 competition The team was coached by Dennis Dow the older brother of one of our players who plays in the clubrsquos premier league with our youth development squad

The boys got off to a flying start with a convincing 9-0 win over Nelson Bays The highlight of the game was a 6-goal haul by midfielder Matthew Bouzaid who went on to repeat this achievement in the games against Wellington Team Awesome and Auckland Futsal Rio In total Matthew scored 19 goals only one short of winning the Golden Boot Award

The highlight of our tournament was the quarter-final against Auckland Futsal Rio

a team which included a large contingent of Auckland representative players East City made a tremendous start going 4-0 up within the first five minutes before Rio staged a strong comeback to level by half time and then to lead 7-5 early in the second half The East City boys kept their composure and put the Rio defence under such pressure that they conceded a number of fouls in and around their own goal box with two of the resulting free kicks being coolly converted to bring the scores level The boys snatched the lead with less than two minutes to play and displayed great maturity to hold Rio at bayIn the semi final the boys were again given a futsal lesson by an extremely skilful and well drilled Mainland Futsal team who went on to lose an extra-time thriller in the final against Auckland Futsal Sampa

The East City boys can be very proud of the fact that their only two losses during the tournament came to the teams which finished first and second As the competition progressed their confidence and awareness improved markedly and will stand them in good stead in future years

- Derek Dow

ContactEmail futsalmandataconz East City Administration Line 579-0652

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East City Winter Premier League Winners 2011 KBTPHOTO EAST CITY

HB Futsal

After hosting the third annual National Junior and Youth Championships at the Pettigrew Green Arena we have turned our attention to the Term 4 Leagues which commence on October 25 Enrolments are underway with over fifty teams (JuniorIntermediateYouthSocialPremier) expected to take part in our Tuesday night leagues

Recent discussions with the Arena have highlighted the high demand for court space from the other sporting codes who currently use the facility Basketball volleyball and netball are all experiencing huge growth due in particular to the college programmes in operation The challenge for futsal in Hawkersquos Bay is finding enough courts to enable the heavily subscribed leagues to expand further as we are in the unfortunate position at the moment of having to turn teams away

A major highlight of the last quarter was the success of the HB Stormers who picked up the 16s championship trophy at the recent Nationals after beating Capital Futsal 6-0 in the final

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

AUCKLAND FUTSAL2011 NZF FUTSAL CHAMPIONS 10 12 14 Boys Grades

Auckland Futsalrsquos representatives 1012 amp 14 Boys swept all aside to win a record three national titles at the 2011 NZ Futsal Championships held in Napier in July

Auckland Futsalrsquos Brazilian coaches Felipe Bernardi amp Juliano Schmeling prepared our representative teams to play an authentic Brazilian style of futsal - highly technical constant rhythmic movements and fast intricate passing

Auckland Rio - NZ Champion - 10 Boys1 Finn Ambridge2 Gene Toohey3 Josh Coe4 Theo Hardy5 Sidney Boyd6 Joel Clissold7 Harrison Chadwick8 Oscar Browne

Auckland SAMPA - NZ Champion - 12 Boys1 Ahmed Mohammadi2 Ethan Amey3 Jack Vaughan4 Nicholas Milne (K)5 Sean Green6 Matthew Hunter

Auckland SAMPA - NZ Champion - 14 Boys1 Dylan Burns2 Harry Bell3 Phillip Paul4 Reese Cox5 Sean Clark6 Tinashe Marowa7 Emman Rahimi8 Charlie Thomas9 Corey Walters (K)

10 David Masters (K)

Junior Leagues starting in September 20117 - 19 yrsHarbour - WednesdaysAuckland Central - Mondays Thursdays Fridays SundaysAuckland East - Mondays TuesdaysBrazil Futsal AcademyAuthentic Brazilian Futsal skills techniques movement creativity amp learning to lsquoPlay Like a Brazilianrsquo Let our Brazilian coaches help you become an exciting playerAges 5 - 13 yrs

Harbour - SundaysAuckland Central Mondays Sundays

Contact Craig Empsonplayaucklandfutsalorgwwwaucklandfutsalorg

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Many of these 1996 born players started with us back in the original leagues of 2006 and under the watchful eye of coach Mark Cozens have blossomed into a well organised and dedicated outifit with a bit of an lsquox-factorrsquo We fully expect many of these players to continue on the futsal pathway being offered by NZF Futsal with all the boys hoping to play in the National League in the near future

wwwhbfutsalorgnz

Capital Futsal

Futsalrsquos future in Wellington looks bright if the success of ASB Sport Centrersquos grand opening in August is anything to go by

As one of many sports which will call the 12 court $475 million venue in Kilbirnie home futsal was exposed to a large new audience with around 15000 visiting during the open day

Futsal activities held throughout the day included the national team the Futsal Whites competing in a cup of nations against ethnic-based local sides

The Futsal Whites predictably prevailed beating an Africa United team led by Team Wellington striker Hicham Kamri 7-1 in the final

There were also womens and youth tournaments held and one court was also set aside for people to try futsal in different gender and age groups with Futsal Whites players mixing with locals game enough to step on court

ldquoIt was a great chance to get in front of people who may not have played much futsal if at allrdquo said NZF Futsal Development Manager Dave Payne

ldquoThe interest from kids was particularly pleasing and I think they really enjoyed the sport as well as the opportunity to play against national team players and get their autographs while they were there

ldquoSome turned up after winter football some had played other sports but were taken by the skill of the game and the fact that anyone can play

NZF Futsal 16s Champions 2011 - HB StormersPHOTO ALPHAPIX

Action from the Cup of Nations at ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

ldquoCapital Futsal has experienced a boost in registrations and the success of the open day and the quality of the venue bodes well for continued growth of futsal in Wellington

Up to six futsal courts will be in action every Monday Tuesday and Friday night beginning in October and a range of tournaments will run during the October school holidays Close to 300 futsal teams will play in leagues and tournaments at the ASB Sports Centre between October and December

Contactmattfutsalnetnz021 971 798wwwfutsalnetnz

Mainland Futsal

All systems are go in the Mainland region with over 50 teams now playing every week in our various leagues This means we can start to build our other regions up over the next few months Our Christchurch leagues now run to 3 divisions of Senior Men 1 Womenrsquos division 2 Youth divisions 1 Junior a Mixed and a Masters

We had a fabulous trip to the Youth and Junior Nationals taking a team in each group and eventually (returning in the snow storm of the year) with two silver medals Special congratulations are due

Top Luke Tongue clears the ball in a 12s Nationalrsquos game in Napier Benji lapslie Sam Philip Ellis Hare-Reid (G) and Joe Bell (10) look on

Centre Mainland Canterbury 10s

Bottom left Stephen Livingstone pressures the keeper in a 14s Nationals game

Bottom right Avery Addei breaks in the 16s Nationals while Sam Lapslie Miguel Mitchell Hamish Mitchell (GK) and Sam Roger watch

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

to Peter Livingstone for coaching the 14s to Silver and Matt Hoole doing the same for the 10s but all the teams coaches and support staff did themselves proud It was a great opportunity to play against all the regions of the country and the boys returned with growth and knowledge under their belt as well as great memories of a great event

September sees our ldquoFutsal Camprdquo run every Saturday Under 12s and 12-15s using the time to grow their game with expert coaches and players guidance Along with our schools competition starting next term and a very successful referees training day adding 10 refs to our roster we are growing in all areas and on all fronts

We look forward to catching up with the Futsal community at the Girls Nationals and the Masters where we will bring teams to both

Futsal South

Football South Futsal has recently changed its name to Futsal South Each centre within the Futsal South region will use the logos above with their centre name as per Futsal South ndash Dunedin logo

We now have centres in Dunedin Wanaka Queenstown Timaru and looking to start in Balclutha

Futsal South has held two selection tournaments in Dunedin to choose our National League squad from Teams from Queenstown Wanaka and Dunedin were involved over the 2 rounds with some great Futsal played by all involved

Queenstown Falcons took out the first tournament and Real Football winning the second tournament Luiz Uhera (Futsal South National League Coach) and Chris Button (Futsal South National League Manager) have selected an initial training squad of 30 players from those involved to train towards the 201112 National League

In September 2011 we are starting our summer Futsal leagues We have Senior leagues running on Monday and Wednesday nights Primary school leagues on Wednesday afternoons Intermediate and Junior High School leagues on Tuesday afternoons and Senior High School leagues on Thursday afternoons

With the introduction of our Primary School League we are also offering a futsal in Schools coaching program which involves a part time coach teaching basic Futsal skills in Primary and Intermediate School pupils We have had a very positive response to our pilot program that was run at Tahuna Intermediate with over 450 pupils being given Futsal instruction in their Physical Education classes for 2 weeks

We have signed up a number of schools for this program for terms 3 amp 4 of 2011 and also have schools signed up for next year We are also looking to take the program to the Central Otago and Clutha districts to help boost player numbers in those areas

This should give a real boost towards the future of Futsal in our region

Futsal South has been running referee courses over the region and now have 52 qualified referees and another course running shortly

NZF Futsal ContactsNorthern Football Futsal - NorthlandFar Northsarahpaynenfforgnzdavealabasternfforgnz

East City Futsal (Auckland)cosworthxtraconzeastcityfutsalmandataconz

Auckland Futsalplayaucklandfutsalorg

AFF Futsal - Avondale Playbeautiful10gmailcom

AFF Futsal - Manukau MikeibbertsonmanukauleisureconzMaraeaHoweaucklandcouncilgovtnz

WAIBOP Futsalpeterawaibopfootballconzsimonmwaibopfootballconz

Hawkes Bay Futsal ptooheyhbfutsalorgnz

Wairarapa Futsal petercoxsparcconzpaul_burnsxtraconz

Red Sox Manawatu Futsal (Palmerston North) bergie007vodafoneconz

Capital Futsal (Wellington)mattcapitalfootballorgnz

Marlborough Futsal (Blenheim) marlboroughfootballxtraconz

Nelson Bays Futsal sportsmallxtraconz

Mainland Futsal - Canterburyrichardmainlandfutsalconz

Mainland Futsal - West Coastsportgreyhighschoolnz

Futsal South - Dunedinkneepadsparadisenetnzfootballmikeihugconz

Futsal South - Wanaka cecisxtraconz

Futsal South - Queenstown infoqueenstownfootballcomkampmanqueenstownconzQueenstown Falcons Futsal marcosmelo1313hotmailcomraulharpyayahoocombr

Futsal South - Timarujcamesymcascorgnz

have a great team behind me with support in areas like accounts which allows me to spend more of my time planning the ASB Centre programme as well as getting out into even more schools How much coaching are you doingLast term I trialled ldquoCoach n Playrdquo leagues in both of our U13 leagues which went well At the moment I coach the St Pats U16 team on a weekly basis with the ambition of winning NZSSSC College Nationals hosted right next door at the ASB Centre in March 2012 Our U19 squad is a representative team and is going to Australia for the nationals in January We will be together playing and training three times a week from next month Our Island Bay Team Awesome U13s have been training once and playing once a week in preparation for Nationals in Australia too From next term Friday nights will be coaching nights for U11s and each age group up to 16s 19s and Men We see this as an important part of the programme to help educate futsal players which in turn will also produce better football players Whatrsquos a typical week for you Matt - Futsal every day Most eveningsAll day all night Yes As part of the Capital transition and with the new centre I am involving more people in running and refereeing the leagues so I can be more efficient in the overall management as opposed to being out ldquoon the groundrdquo at

Capital Futsalrsquos Development Officer is at the centre of the growing futsal scene in Wellington With four yearsrsquo experience as a player coach administrator and volunteer under his belt Fejos is a regular fixture at tournaments and events around the country POWER OF FIVE caught up with him in the days following the opening of the new state of the art twelve court ASB Community Centre - the new home for futsal in Wellington

Matt - how long have you been involved in futsalSince late 2007 coming back to Wellington for summer after Otago University and wanting to play indoor soccer - which is all I knew at the time A knock on Dave and Sarahrsquos Paynersquos door changed my life I guess Tell us a little bit about your role with Capital Futsal Capital City Futsal has recently been integrated into Capital Football hasnrsquot itYes we are currently going through the transition of Capital Football taking on the responsibility for delivering futsal as with other federations around the country My role up until now has been everything really running and promoting the leagues school visits with a focus on the Kiwisport College programme administering everything and overall organisingThis is now changing as things get bigger and with the transition to Capital - I now

leagues four nights a week The emails administration and practical running of things are endless so good thing I do it because I love it At times it seems there is too much interest It is a fantastic problem to have

Are you still finding time to playI sneak in a few social games a week which allows me to drop in on the leagues too and make sure everything is ok too I donrsquot have the time for much more than that and have made the decision that I have more to contribute off the court than on by way of contributing to the opportunities of others You guys are doing well on the referee development side of things How many qualified referees do you have now in WellingtonWe have about 25 from our last two courses in Wellington Most encouraging is the college students involved in what is traditionally seen as an lsquoold manrsquosrsquo thing There are also pathways within refereeing onto the National League and OFC Championships The new centre with twelve courts and a brand new meeting room will provide a professional venue to host referee and coach education sessions Capital Footballrsquos Jamie Cross has also officiated at the OFC Championships in the past so has a lot of experience And Adam Walker volunteers and develops referees which is a real asset to us

MATT FEJOSINTERVIEW

Capital Futsal

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ldquoI BELIEVE MORE CLUBS TEAMS OF ALL AGES WILL ADOPT FUTSAL AS ONE OF THEIR

TRAINING NIGHTS DURING THE FOOTBALL SEASON rdquo

Capital Futsal

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

Can you tell us a little bit about the KiwiSport College Futsal initiative you are involved withCapital Futsal and myself personally would not be here without it so we owe a great deal of gratitude to KiwiSport College Sport Wellington and Sport Wellington It allowed me to leave a job in a bank fourteen months ago and get out into colleges to grow the game Over 2000 students from 16 different colleges have been involved from sessions in their school to local college leagues up to College Nationals and young Izaac OrsquoHara showing the pathways in the game being involved with the Futsal Whites What about the National League this year Capital were the top New Zealand side in 201011 Will you have pretty much the same outfit as last yearThings are always changing We lose two of our senior Futsal Whites overseas in Lucas da Silva and Tariq Assad We have some new Brazilians who have been training with the team I am hoping one or two of my promising U19 squad will squeeze in too but things are getting very competitive We have the same management and coaching team which provides some continuity to build on last season and catch those Aussies Our new competitive league will be played on our three international courts which will help too How did the Capital teams enjoy the JuniorYouth Nationals this year The 16s did particularly well and made the finalI think it was a real landmark event The standard went through the roof and centres now will have to send their best players selected from their leagues and

training together It was great to see My 16s were the St Patrickrsquos College team and performed amazingly with just six players from one school showing the benefit of futsal specific training to learn technically and tactically how to play the game Beating squads of eight and nine players selected from federations was quite an achievement They also played the first ever game of any sport at the Opening Day (of the new stadium)against the Futsal Whites and only lost 4-1 in 16 minutes of game time which speaks volumes for these boys I think I was happy with all the teams from the 10s up to 16s and come next year I can only imagine what our top teams will look like after playing and training in the best facility in the country

Capital have always been pioneers - a few years ago Brian Blellock and others set up that great little futsal club in Hataitai Now you have offices in the what is probably the best facility in the Southern Hemisphere What are long term plans for the game in Wellington I think even medium term the transition to Capital Football is the most important thing It is not going to be instant and we are still learning every day To integrate futsal into trainings have futsal specific days and host top tournaments Who knows maybe in a few years we might become a lsquomajorrsquo sport In just four years since that league in Hataitai we have become a major stakeholder in the new centre with netball and basketball Four years ago you would have thought we were mad but it shows firstly the potential

ldquoI STILL HAVE MUCH I WANT TO ACHIEVE HERE IN WELLINGTON AND DREAM OF FUTSALrsquoS OWN lsquoBAHRAIN MOMENTrsquo IN 2015 - SO WHO KNOWS

WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDSrdquo

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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of this amazing game that is already proven around the world and secondly that with a team of volunteers willing to put in lots of work into something they believe in amazing things can happen

The new centre presents a great opportunity to get more players involved There is the potential for 200 teams in the new centre and with perfect timing of the outdoor season coming to a close The womens and college leagues are showing huge potential for growth As we build momentum over the summer and work through Capital Football I believe more clubs teams of all ages will adopt futsal as one of their training nights during the football season

What about the national scene Do you feel the game has come a long way in the last few years What are the top priorities for the next few years Can the Futsal Whites get close to the Solomon IslandsThat youth tournament in Napier in July as I said was a real landmark They are the future and to have our kids playing from a young age is how we will catch

the Solomons For the next World Cup campaign in four years time I hope some of our Capital 16-19 year olds might progress Longer term if we can be teaching our children from five years up and create a futsal culture with our facility Irsquod like to think we will catch the Aussies too And what about your own professional development in futsal It must be tremendous working in the game that you love Where would you like to be in a few yearsPeople have asked me this question and in all honesty I donrsquot know To do something you love and contribute something positive to your community as opposed to as opposed to measuring the money earned our hours worked is an honour Things have been so busy I just plan to keep my head down for another twelve months and then assess things then I am pretty happy with where I am at at the moment As things are still growing I am fortunate enough to develop a wide range of experience in marketing managing coaching dealing with key

stakeholders etc I have been forced to develop at the same pace as the sport here which is a great challenge so I am learning and growing every day in a broad set of skills I still have much I want to achieve here in Wellington and dream of futsalrsquos own ldquoBahrain momentrdquo in 2015 so who knows what the future holds

More action from the Cup of Nations as Futsal Whites target Micky Malivuk deals with an aerial ball gainst Africa UnitedPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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CALENDAR 201112

Sun 25 September 2011 NZF-Futsal Level One Refereeing Course PG Arena Napier

SatSun 2223 October 2011 National Girls and Womenrsquos Futsal Tournament ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 34 December 2011 National League Series 1 Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1112 February 2012 National League Series 2 ASB Stadium Auckland

SatSun 1112 February 2012 Futsal - NZ Masters Games Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1718 March 2012 National League Series 3 ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 2627 March 2012 NZF-Futsal Secondary Schools National Futsal Championships ASB Sports Centre Wellington

Calendar201112

Junior action from the opening of the ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington in AugustPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

SERIES ONEDUNEDIN

34 DECEMBER 2011

SERIES TWOAUCKLAND

1112 FEBRUARy 2012

SERIES THREEWELLINGTON1718 MARCH

2012

201112

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201112

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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wwwnzfootballconz | wwwnzffutsalconz | Follow the Futsal Whites on Facebook

Page 6: THE POWER OF FIVE #2 September 2011

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ice for another four years Instead the Futsal Whites would have to return to the arena the following night for the Bronze Medal Game

NEW ZEALAND 1 VANUATU 1 (NEW ZEALAND won 5-4 on penalties)An early goal from Micky Malivuk in an entertaining and tightly fought game looked like it was going to be enough for the Futsal Whites to claim 3rd place at the tournament But it was deja vu for New Zealand and Vanuatu equalized with the last kick of the game to take the game straight to the penalty shootout Keeper David Plowright emerged as the hero for the New Zealanders slotting his sudden death penalty before keeping out rival custodian Chickau Mansalersquos piledriver to send the New Zealanders and the crowd wild ensuring a consolation prize for the popular 2011 Futsal Whites squad

GROUP PHASE1 Tahiti (TAH) 6 Tuvalu (TUV) 02 Vanuatu (VAN) 9 Kiribati (KIR) 23 Solomon Islands (SOL) 13 New Caledonia (NCL) 54 Fiji (FIJ) 4 New Zealand (NZL) 45 Kiribati (KIR) 1 New Zealand (NZL) 216 Tuvalu (TUV) 1 New Caledonia (NCL) 117 Fiji (FIJ) 2 Vanuatu (VAN) 58 Solomon Islands 1 (SOL) v Tahiti (TAH) 09 New Caledonia (NCL) 2 v Tahiti (TAH) 210 Tuvalu (TUV) 0 v Solomon Islands (SOL) 1611 Fiji (FIJ) 22 v Kiribati (KIR) 312 New Zealand (NZL) 6 v Vanuatu (VAN) 4

GROUP STANDINGSGROUP A P W D L F A GD PtsNew Zealand (NZL) 3 2 1 0 31 9 22 7Vanuatu (VAN) 3 2 0 1 18 10 8 6Fiji (FIJ) 3 1 1 1 28 12 16 4Kiribati (KIR) 3 0 0 3 6 52 -46 0

GROUP B P W D L F A GD PtsSolomon Islands (SOL) 3 3 0 0 30 5 25 9Tahiti (TAH) 3 1 1 1 8 3 5 4New Caledonia (NCL) 3 1 1 1 18 16 2 4

Tuvalu (TUV) 3 0 0 3 1 33 -32 0

78 PLAyOFF13 Tuvalu (TUV) 2 v Kiribati (KIR) 3

56 PLAyOFF14 Fiji (FIJ) 8 v New Caledonia (NCL) 6

SEMI FINALS15 New Zealand (NZL) 23 v Tahiti (TAH) 23 AET Tahiti won 5-4 on penalties16Solomon Islands (SOL) 13 Vanuatu (VAN) 1

34 PLAyOFF17 New Zealand (NZL) v Vanuatu (VAN) 11 New Zealand won 5-4 on penalties

FINAL18 Tahiti (TAH) 4 Solomon Islands (SOL) 6

Player of the Tournament Elliot Ragomo (SOL)Golden Boot Elliot Ragomo (SOL) 19 goalsGolden Glove Atanui Tetihia (TAH)

New Zealand GoalscorersNathan ROBERTSON 8Marvin EAKINS 7Dylan MANICKUM 6Micky MALIVUK 5Jakub SINKORA 3Daniel KOPRIVCIC 2Miro MAJOR 2Greg OrsquoCONNOR 2Lucas SILVA 2David PLOWRIGHT 1Tariq ASSAD 1

Above New Zealandrsquos most experienced campaigner Nathan Robertson enjoyed another excellent tournament leading the golden boot stakes for the Futsal Whites with 8 strikes while proving to be a constant thorn in the side of opposition teams

Top Heartbreak for New Zealand as Tahiti emerge triumphant from the dramatic semi final shooutPHOTOS OFC

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PHOTO ALPHAPIX

ReportJUNIORYOUTH

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National JuniorYouth Championships

PHOTOS ALPHAPIX

ldquoIn previous years most teams were playing indoor football rather than futsal but the technical ability and movement of the more successful teams suggests we are entering a new phase of the game in this countryrdquo Toohey added

ldquoIt will be interesting to see how the individual centres progress over the next few years Those that are able to get coaching programmes and regular sessions for their players will definitely have the edge rdquo

The 14s final between Auckland Sampa and Mainland Canterbury proved to be an outstanding finale to the tournament with Auckland prevailing 7-6 in extra time after a titanic clash between two experienced and skilful sides

Toohey also paid tribute to the referees who despite a massive workload kept the standard high

ldquoFutsal is not the easiest game to referee We always knew the referees would be a key factor in the success of the tournament and the team Dave Payne and Ken Wallace assembled for the weekend did not let us down They were top notchrdquo he said

RESULTS10sAuckland Rio were winners in the youngest section of the nationals with a hard fought 5-2 win over an excellent Mainland Canterbury in front of a packed Saturday afternoon crowd Rio proved to be the

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Championships NAPIER

comeback kings of the tournament fighting back from 0-3 in the group phase against Mainland to draw 3-3 and then overturning a 0-3 deficit to prevail 5-3 against Capital Futsal in a thrilling semi-final

The teamsHB Futsal FireballsHB Futsal Unison VineyardCapital Futsal WS TitansHB Futsal Crazy HorsesMainland Futsal CanterburyAuckland RioHB Futsal GreendaleHB Futsal Bedpost Brazil

Final

Auckland Rio 5 Canterbury 2

12sA tightly contested grade with three evenly matched teams from Auckland plus excellent sides from Wellington and Christchurch The exciting Auckland Sampa who featured several players from the championship winning side at the Australian Futsal Nationals in Canberra in 2011 prevailed over last yearrsquos Junior grade champions with a hard fought victory

The teamsNelson Bays KnightsAuckland Futsal SantosCapital Futsal YellowAuckland Futsal RioCapital Futsal Petone BarcaHB Futsal Red SteelMainland Futsal CanterburyHB Futsal CHBHB Futsal CyclonesHB Futsal MacKirdyAuckland Futsal SampaCapital Futsal WS Rogerson

Final

Auckland Rio 5 Canterbury 2

Thirty six teams from around the country descended on Napier in the middle week of the July school holidays for the 3rd Annual NZ Football Futsal National Junioryouth Championships

The largest futsal event on the local calendar was played out over three action-packed days at the home of HB Futsal - the Pettigrew Green Arena in Taradale

Teams from Northland Auckland Futsal East City HB Futsal Capital Futsal Nelson Bays Futsal and Mainland Futsal Canterbury squared off in four grades while crowds of up to 500 flocked in over the weekend to witness outstanding displays of futsal from New Zealandrsquos finest young players

Well developed sides from Auckland Futsal took home the 10s 12s and 14s titles while home town boys HB Futsal were popular winners of the 16s grade on the Sunday afternoon Newcomers Mainland Futsal Canterbury made two finals and impressed everyone throughout the weekend with the quality of their futsal

Tournament Coordinator Paul Toohey was delighted with the event and said it showed how far junior and youth futsal had come in the last few years

ldquoIt felt like everybody stepped it up a few gears this year The teams were well prepared and it was obvious that many centres had put a lot of work inrdquo he said

AUCKLAND WIN 10s 12s and 14s - HAWKErsquoS BAY TRIUMPH IN THE 16s

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14sAnother tightly contested grade dominated by Auckland and Canterbury sides East City ousted last yearrsquos champion Auckland Rio side in a classic quarter final eoncounter and the tournament concluded with the unforgettable topsy-turvy final between the two best sides Auckland Sampa and Mainland Futsal Canterbury After a titanic battle Sampa had one hand on the trophy until a last second equalizer from the southerners took the game into extra time Reese Coxrsquos late thunderbolt was enough to steal the glory for the Brazilian coached Aucklanders

The teamsHB Futsal CHBHB Futsal MYIMainland Futsal CanterburyCapital Futsal Welllingtn YellowAuckland Futsal RioHB Futsal FuegoEast CityAuckland Futsal SampaCapital Futsal Team AwesomeNelson Bays Futsal Blues

FinalAuckland Rio (6)7 Canterbury (6)6 AET

16sSome high quality futsal was the hallmark of the 16s with an excellent Northland side unlucky not to make the final In the end the very experienced HB Futsal had too much class for allcomers on their home

court despatching Capital 6-0 in a one sided final after being taken to the wire by Northland and Canterbury in earlier games

The teamsHB Futsal BlueCapital Futsal WellingtonNFF Northland FutsalHB Futsal CHB 1HB Futsal StormersMainland Futsal Canterbury

Final HB Futsal Stormers 6 Capital Futsal 0

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PHOTO OFC

PHOTOS ALPHAPIX

Around theCentres12

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PHOTO OFCNFF Futsal

Northern Football Federation Futsal Launch 17 September 2011When Saturday 17 September 10-2pmWhere Massey University Recreation Centre ndash Albany

We will have two showcase games being played on a full sized futsal court against the Futsal Whitesbull 1030am Futsal Whites vs Football

Fernsbull 1200pm Futsal Whites vs Massey

University Champions

This is an opportunity for the community to come along and experience what futsal is join in have some fun and meet players from our national futsal team

NFF are running the following futsal programmes and leagues

Junioryouth Programmesbull Pilot Futsal Programme bull The Leisure Centre ndash Stanmore Bay

(Term 3 and 4)bull Massey University Recreation Centre ndash

Albany (Term 4 Monday 330-6pm)bull West Wave Recreation Centre ndash

Henderson (Term 4)bull Rutherford College ndash Te Atatu (Term 4)bull Adult Leaguesbull Lunchtime Business House Futsal

League ndash Massey University Recreation Centre Albany (STARTS Friday 1130-2pm 28 October)

bull Youth Senior Futsal League - Massey University Recreation Centre Albany

bull (STARTS Monday 6-8pm 31 October)bull Further Futsal leagues and

programmes will be offered throughout the NFF region

To register your interest in futsal for your club or for more information on the above please contact

Sarah PayneE sarahpaynenfforgnz M 021 795 045or visit our website wwwnfforgnz

Hibiscus Coast Pilot ProgrammeThe Leisure Centre Stanmore BayWednesdays 7-10 years 31 August - 5 October (Late registrations will be accepted Please contact Sarah for cost)Session one 330 - 445pm Session two 445 - 6pm

Thursdays 11-14 years 1 September - 6 October (Late registrations will be accepted Please contact Sarah for cost)Session one 600 - 715pm

The idea of the Pilot Futsal Programme is to provide skills based coaching suitable for your players age group in a 40 minute block followed by a 35 minute block of quick rotation games roll on roll off first to a goal etc It is a great introduction to futsal and a way for players to improve their football skills and also have some fun at the same time

You may wish to encourage as many of your outdoor team as possible as this is an excellent way for your team to remain together as the winter season comes to a close and helps their football skills to stay strong and continue to work as a team in preparation for next season

You will need shin pads and non marking sneakers or futsal shoes

AFF Futsal

AVONDALEbull An Auckland Football Federation Senior

Menrsquos Futsal league is launching on September 27 at Avondale College

What Senior Menrsquos League (players 16 years old or over)When Starts Tuesday 13 SeptemberWhere Avondale College (2 court venue)Cost $330 per teamContact Yonas bull Game times - 530pm-645pmbull 12 players per squadbull League limited to 10 teamsbull 11-week season (including finals)

To register for AFF-Futsal Avondale League contact Centre Officer - yonas Gebre at playbeautiful10gmailcom

MANUKAUOtara Leisure AFF-Futsal and Counties Manukau Sport have teamed up to deliver the KiwiSport funded Primary Futsal in Schools Programme

bull Futsal lsquoGive it a Gorsquo sessions delivered to 960 7-9 year olds

bull 10 week school programme delivered throughout Manukau between October-February

bull Primary League established between February-April

bull lsquoFutsal in Schoolsrsquo Programme Coach Education delivered to 70 Manukau Institute of Technology students

bull Teachers trained to deliver basic coaching

EAST CITyEast City Futsal based at the ASB Stadium in Kohimarama Auckland runs a premier league on Monday nights (comprised of ten teams) which is played on an international size court with two referee officials per game

The competition this season has been exceptional all games have been close with some upsets along the way

The East City Youth Development Squad took advantage of East City National League training finishing in the top four - a huge accomplishment The final night was a no-holds barred night both semi-finals and finals Arabian Knights and KBT went head to head in the finalrsquos and after a very intense game with some amazing futsal skills by both teams KBT took out the Premier Winter League now winning back to back seasons -Barbara Gwilliam

East City took a squad of 8 players to the U14s 2011 NZ Football Futsal National Junior Youth Championship held at Pettigrew Green Arena Napier on 23-24 July The team was drawn from participants in our in-house Summer 2011 competition The team was coached by Dennis Dow the older brother of one of our players who plays in the clubrsquos premier league with our youth development squad

The boys got off to a flying start with a convincing 9-0 win over Nelson Bays The highlight of the game was a 6-goal haul by midfielder Matthew Bouzaid who went on to repeat this achievement in the games against Wellington Team Awesome and Auckland Futsal Rio In total Matthew scored 19 goals only one short of winning the Golden Boot Award

The highlight of our tournament was the quarter-final against Auckland Futsal Rio

a team which included a large contingent of Auckland representative players East City made a tremendous start going 4-0 up within the first five minutes before Rio staged a strong comeback to level by half time and then to lead 7-5 early in the second half The East City boys kept their composure and put the Rio defence under such pressure that they conceded a number of fouls in and around their own goal box with two of the resulting free kicks being coolly converted to bring the scores level The boys snatched the lead with less than two minutes to play and displayed great maturity to hold Rio at bayIn the semi final the boys were again given a futsal lesson by an extremely skilful and well drilled Mainland Futsal team who went on to lose an extra-time thriller in the final against Auckland Futsal Sampa

The East City boys can be very proud of the fact that their only two losses during the tournament came to the teams which finished first and second As the competition progressed their confidence and awareness improved markedly and will stand them in good stead in future years

- Derek Dow

ContactEmail futsalmandataconz East City Administration Line 579-0652

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East City Winter Premier League Winners 2011 KBTPHOTO EAST CITY

HB Futsal

After hosting the third annual National Junior and Youth Championships at the Pettigrew Green Arena we have turned our attention to the Term 4 Leagues which commence on October 25 Enrolments are underway with over fifty teams (JuniorIntermediateYouthSocialPremier) expected to take part in our Tuesday night leagues

Recent discussions with the Arena have highlighted the high demand for court space from the other sporting codes who currently use the facility Basketball volleyball and netball are all experiencing huge growth due in particular to the college programmes in operation The challenge for futsal in Hawkersquos Bay is finding enough courts to enable the heavily subscribed leagues to expand further as we are in the unfortunate position at the moment of having to turn teams away

A major highlight of the last quarter was the success of the HB Stormers who picked up the 16s championship trophy at the recent Nationals after beating Capital Futsal 6-0 in the final

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

AUCKLAND FUTSAL2011 NZF FUTSAL CHAMPIONS 10 12 14 Boys Grades

Auckland Futsalrsquos representatives 1012 amp 14 Boys swept all aside to win a record three national titles at the 2011 NZ Futsal Championships held in Napier in July

Auckland Futsalrsquos Brazilian coaches Felipe Bernardi amp Juliano Schmeling prepared our representative teams to play an authentic Brazilian style of futsal - highly technical constant rhythmic movements and fast intricate passing

Auckland Rio - NZ Champion - 10 Boys1 Finn Ambridge2 Gene Toohey3 Josh Coe4 Theo Hardy5 Sidney Boyd6 Joel Clissold7 Harrison Chadwick8 Oscar Browne

Auckland SAMPA - NZ Champion - 12 Boys1 Ahmed Mohammadi2 Ethan Amey3 Jack Vaughan4 Nicholas Milne (K)5 Sean Green6 Matthew Hunter

Auckland SAMPA - NZ Champion - 14 Boys1 Dylan Burns2 Harry Bell3 Phillip Paul4 Reese Cox5 Sean Clark6 Tinashe Marowa7 Emman Rahimi8 Charlie Thomas9 Corey Walters (K)

10 David Masters (K)

Junior Leagues starting in September 20117 - 19 yrsHarbour - WednesdaysAuckland Central - Mondays Thursdays Fridays SundaysAuckland East - Mondays TuesdaysBrazil Futsal AcademyAuthentic Brazilian Futsal skills techniques movement creativity amp learning to lsquoPlay Like a Brazilianrsquo Let our Brazilian coaches help you become an exciting playerAges 5 - 13 yrs

Harbour - SundaysAuckland Central Mondays Sundays

Contact Craig Empsonplayaucklandfutsalorgwwwaucklandfutsalorg

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Many of these 1996 born players started with us back in the original leagues of 2006 and under the watchful eye of coach Mark Cozens have blossomed into a well organised and dedicated outifit with a bit of an lsquox-factorrsquo We fully expect many of these players to continue on the futsal pathway being offered by NZF Futsal with all the boys hoping to play in the National League in the near future

wwwhbfutsalorgnz

Capital Futsal

Futsalrsquos future in Wellington looks bright if the success of ASB Sport Centrersquos grand opening in August is anything to go by

As one of many sports which will call the 12 court $475 million venue in Kilbirnie home futsal was exposed to a large new audience with around 15000 visiting during the open day

Futsal activities held throughout the day included the national team the Futsal Whites competing in a cup of nations against ethnic-based local sides

The Futsal Whites predictably prevailed beating an Africa United team led by Team Wellington striker Hicham Kamri 7-1 in the final

There were also womens and youth tournaments held and one court was also set aside for people to try futsal in different gender and age groups with Futsal Whites players mixing with locals game enough to step on court

ldquoIt was a great chance to get in front of people who may not have played much futsal if at allrdquo said NZF Futsal Development Manager Dave Payne

ldquoThe interest from kids was particularly pleasing and I think they really enjoyed the sport as well as the opportunity to play against national team players and get their autographs while they were there

ldquoSome turned up after winter football some had played other sports but were taken by the skill of the game and the fact that anyone can play

NZF Futsal 16s Champions 2011 - HB StormersPHOTO ALPHAPIX

Action from the Cup of Nations at ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

ldquoCapital Futsal has experienced a boost in registrations and the success of the open day and the quality of the venue bodes well for continued growth of futsal in Wellington

Up to six futsal courts will be in action every Monday Tuesday and Friday night beginning in October and a range of tournaments will run during the October school holidays Close to 300 futsal teams will play in leagues and tournaments at the ASB Sports Centre between October and December

Contactmattfutsalnetnz021 971 798wwwfutsalnetnz

Mainland Futsal

All systems are go in the Mainland region with over 50 teams now playing every week in our various leagues This means we can start to build our other regions up over the next few months Our Christchurch leagues now run to 3 divisions of Senior Men 1 Womenrsquos division 2 Youth divisions 1 Junior a Mixed and a Masters

We had a fabulous trip to the Youth and Junior Nationals taking a team in each group and eventually (returning in the snow storm of the year) with two silver medals Special congratulations are due

Top Luke Tongue clears the ball in a 12s Nationalrsquos game in Napier Benji lapslie Sam Philip Ellis Hare-Reid (G) and Joe Bell (10) look on

Centre Mainland Canterbury 10s

Bottom left Stephen Livingstone pressures the keeper in a 14s Nationals game

Bottom right Avery Addei breaks in the 16s Nationals while Sam Lapslie Miguel Mitchell Hamish Mitchell (GK) and Sam Roger watch

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

to Peter Livingstone for coaching the 14s to Silver and Matt Hoole doing the same for the 10s but all the teams coaches and support staff did themselves proud It was a great opportunity to play against all the regions of the country and the boys returned with growth and knowledge under their belt as well as great memories of a great event

September sees our ldquoFutsal Camprdquo run every Saturday Under 12s and 12-15s using the time to grow their game with expert coaches and players guidance Along with our schools competition starting next term and a very successful referees training day adding 10 refs to our roster we are growing in all areas and on all fronts

We look forward to catching up with the Futsal community at the Girls Nationals and the Masters where we will bring teams to both

Futsal South

Football South Futsal has recently changed its name to Futsal South Each centre within the Futsal South region will use the logos above with their centre name as per Futsal South ndash Dunedin logo

We now have centres in Dunedin Wanaka Queenstown Timaru and looking to start in Balclutha

Futsal South has held two selection tournaments in Dunedin to choose our National League squad from Teams from Queenstown Wanaka and Dunedin were involved over the 2 rounds with some great Futsal played by all involved

Queenstown Falcons took out the first tournament and Real Football winning the second tournament Luiz Uhera (Futsal South National League Coach) and Chris Button (Futsal South National League Manager) have selected an initial training squad of 30 players from those involved to train towards the 201112 National League

In September 2011 we are starting our summer Futsal leagues We have Senior leagues running on Monday and Wednesday nights Primary school leagues on Wednesday afternoons Intermediate and Junior High School leagues on Tuesday afternoons and Senior High School leagues on Thursday afternoons

With the introduction of our Primary School League we are also offering a futsal in Schools coaching program which involves a part time coach teaching basic Futsal skills in Primary and Intermediate School pupils We have had a very positive response to our pilot program that was run at Tahuna Intermediate with over 450 pupils being given Futsal instruction in their Physical Education classes for 2 weeks

We have signed up a number of schools for this program for terms 3 amp 4 of 2011 and also have schools signed up for next year We are also looking to take the program to the Central Otago and Clutha districts to help boost player numbers in those areas

This should give a real boost towards the future of Futsal in our region

Futsal South has been running referee courses over the region and now have 52 qualified referees and another course running shortly

NZF Futsal ContactsNorthern Football Futsal - NorthlandFar Northsarahpaynenfforgnzdavealabasternfforgnz

East City Futsal (Auckland)cosworthxtraconzeastcityfutsalmandataconz

Auckland Futsalplayaucklandfutsalorg

AFF Futsal - Avondale Playbeautiful10gmailcom

AFF Futsal - Manukau MikeibbertsonmanukauleisureconzMaraeaHoweaucklandcouncilgovtnz

WAIBOP Futsalpeterawaibopfootballconzsimonmwaibopfootballconz

Hawkes Bay Futsal ptooheyhbfutsalorgnz

Wairarapa Futsal petercoxsparcconzpaul_burnsxtraconz

Red Sox Manawatu Futsal (Palmerston North) bergie007vodafoneconz

Capital Futsal (Wellington)mattcapitalfootballorgnz

Marlborough Futsal (Blenheim) marlboroughfootballxtraconz

Nelson Bays Futsal sportsmallxtraconz

Mainland Futsal - Canterburyrichardmainlandfutsalconz

Mainland Futsal - West Coastsportgreyhighschoolnz

Futsal South - Dunedinkneepadsparadisenetnzfootballmikeihugconz

Futsal South - Wanaka cecisxtraconz

Futsal South - Queenstown infoqueenstownfootballcomkampmanqueenstownconzQueenstown Falcons Futsal marcosmelo1313hotmailcomraulharpyayahoocombr

Futsal South - Timarujcamesymcascorgnz

have a great team behind me with support in areas like accounts which allows me to spend more of my time planning the ASB Centre programme as well as getting out into even more schools How much coaching are you doingLast term I trialled ldquoCoach n Playrdquo leagues in both of our U13 leagues which went well At the moment I coach the St Pats U16 team on a weekly basis with the ambition of winning NZSSSC College Nationals hosted right next door at the ASB Centre in March 2012 Our U19 squad is a representative team and is going to Australia for the nationals in January We will be together playing and training three times a week from next month Our Island Bay Team Awesome U13s have been training once and playing once a week in preparation for Nationals in Australia too From next term Friday nights will be coaching nights for U11s and each age group up to 16s 19s and Men We see this as an important part of the programme to help educate futsal players which in turn will also produce better football players Whatrsquos a typical week for you Matt - Futsal every day Most eveningsAll day all night Yes As part of the Capital transition and with the new centre I am involving more people in running and refereeing the leagues so I can be more efficient in the overall management as opposed to being out ldquoon the groundrdquo at

Capital Futsalrsquos Development Officer is at the centre of the growing futsal scene in Wellington With four yearsrsquo experience as a player coach administrator and volunteer under his belt Fejos is a regular fixture at tournaments and events around the country POWER OF FIVE caught up with him in the days following the opening of the new state of the art twelve court ASB Community Centre - the new home for futsal in Wellington

Matt - how long have you been involved in futsalSince late 2007 coming back to Wellington for summer after Otago University and wanting to play indoor soccer - which is all I knew at the time A knock on Dave and Sarahrsquos Paynersquos door changed my life I guess Tell us a little bit about your role with Capital Futsal Capital City Futsal has recently been integrated into Capital Football hasnrsquot itYes we are currently going through the transition of Capital Football taking on the responsibility for delivering futsal as with other federations around the country My role up until now has been everything really running and promoting the leagues school visits with a focus on the Kiwisport College programme administering everything and overall organisingThis is now changing as things get bigger and with the transition to Capital - I now

leagues four nights a week The emails administration and practical running of things are endless so good thing I do it because I love it At times it seems there is too much interest It is a fantastic problem to have

Are you still finding time to playI sneak in a few social games a week which allows me to drop in on the leagues too and make sure everything is ok too I donrsquot have the time for much more than that and have made the decision that I have more to contribute off the court than on by way of contributing to the opportunities of others You guys are doing well on the referee development side of things How many qualified referees do you have now in WellingtonWe have about 25 from our last two courses in Wellington Most encouraging is the college students involved in what is traditionally seen as an lsquoold manrsquosrsquo thing There are also pathways within refereeing onto the National League and OFC Championships The new centre with twelve courts and a brand new meeting room will provide a professional venue to host referee and coach education sessions Capital Footballrsquos Jamie Cross has also officiated at the OFC Championships in the past so has a lot of experience And Adam Walker volunteers and develops referees which is a real asset to us

MATT FEJOSINTERVIEW

Capital Futsal

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PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

ldquoI BELIEVE MORE CLUBS TEAMS OF ALL AGES WILL ADOPT FUTSAL AS ONE OF THEIR

TRAINING NIGHTS DURING THE FOOTBALL SEASON rdquo

Capital Futsal

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

Can you tell us a little bit about the KiwiSport College Futsal initiative you are involved withCapital Futsal and myself personally would not be here without it so we owe a great deal of gratitude to KiwiSport College Sport Wellington and Sport Wellington It allowed me to leave a job in a bank fourteen months ago and get out into colleges to grow the game Over 2000 students from 16 different colleges have been involved from sessions in their school to local college leagues up to College Nationals and young Izaac OrsquoHara showing the pathways in the game being involved with the Futsal Whites What about the National League this year Capital were the top New Zealand side in 201011 Will you have pretty much the same outfit as last yearThings are always changing We lose two of our senior Futsal Whites overseas in Lucas da Silva and Tariq Assad We have some new Brazilians who have been training with the team I am hoping one or two of my promising U19 squad will squeeze in too but things are getting very competitive We have the same management and coaching team which provides some continuity to build on last season and catch those Aussies Our new competitive league will be played on our three international courts which will help too How did the Capital teams enjoy the JuniorYouth Nationals this year The 16s did particularly well and made the finalI think it was a real landmark event The standard went through the roof and centres now will have to send their best players selected from their leagues and

training together It was great to see My 16s were the St Patrickrsquos College team and performed amazingly with just six players from one school showing the benefit of futsal specific training to learn technically and tactically how to play the game Beating squads of eight and nine players selected from federations was quite an achievement They also played the first ever game of any sport at the Opening Day (of the new stadium)against the Futsal Whites and only lost 4-1 in 16 minutes of game time which speaks volumes for these boys I think I was happy with all the teams from the 10s up to 16s and come next year I can only imagine what our top teams will look like after playing and training in the best facility in the country

Capital have always been pioneers - a few years ago Brian Blellock and others set up that great little futsal club in Hataitai Now you have offices in the what is probably the best facility in the Southern Hemisphere What are long term plans for the game in Wellington I think even medium term the transition to Capital Football is the most important thing It is not going to be instant and we are still learning every day To integrate futsal into trainings have futsal specific days and host top tournaments Who knows maybe in a few years we might become a lsquomajorrsquo sport In just four years since that league in Hataitai we have become a major stakeholder in the new centre with netball and basketball Four years ago you would have thought we were mad but it shows firstly the potential

ldquoI STILL HAVE MUCH I WANT TO ACHIEVE HERE IN WELLINGTON AND DREAM OF FUTSALrsquoS OWN lsquoBAHRAIN MOMENTrsquo IN 2015 - SO WHO KNOWS

WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDSrdquo

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

of this amazing game that is already proven around the world and secondly that with a team of volunteers willing to put in lots of work into something they believe in amazing things can happen

The new centre presents a great opportunity to get more players involved There is the potential for 200 teams in the new centre and with perfect timing of the outdoor season coming to a close The womens and college leagues are showing huge potential for growth As we build momentum over the summer and work through Capital Football I believe more clubs teams of all ages will adopt futsal as one of their training nights during the football season

What about the national scene Do you feel the game has come a long way in the last few years What are the top priorities for the next few years Can the Futsal Whites get close to the Solomon IslandsThat youth tournament in Napier in July as I said was a real landmark They are the future and to have our kids playing from a young age is how we will catch

the Solomons For the next World Cup campaign in four years time I hope some of our Capital 16-19 year olds might progress Longer term if we can be teaching our children from five years up and create a futsal culture with our facility Irsquod like to think we will catch the Aussies too And what about your own professional development in futsal It must be tremendous working in the game that you love Where would you like to be in a few yearsPeople have asked me this question and in all honesty I donrsquot know To do something you love and contribute something positive to your community as opposed to as opposed to measuring the money earned our hours worked is an honour Things have been so busy I just plan to keep my head down for another twelve months and then assess things then I am pretty happy with where I am at at the moment As things are still growing I am fortunate enough to develop a wide range of experience in marketing managing coaching dealing with key

stakeholders etc I have been forced to develop at the same pace as the sport here which is a great challenge so I am learning and growing every day in a broad set of skills I still have much I want to achieve here in Wellington and dream of futsalrsquos own ldquoBahrain momentrdquo in 2015 so who knows what the future holds

More action from the Cup of Nations as Futsal Whites target Micky Malivuk deals with an aerial ball gainst Africa UnitedPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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CALENDAR 201112

Sun 25 September 2011 NZF-Futsal Level One Refereeing Course PG Arena Napier

SatSun 2223 October 2011 National Girls and Womenrsquos Futsal Tournament ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 34 December 2011 National League Series 1 Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1112 February 2012 National League Series 2 ASB Stadium Auckland

SatSun 1112 February 2012 Futsal - NZ Masters Games Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1718 March 2012 National League Series 3 ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 2627 March 2012 NZF-Futsal Secondary Schools National Futsal Championships ASB Sports Centre Wellington

Calendar201112

Junior action from the opening of the ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington in AugustPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

SERIES ONEDUNEDIN

34 DECEMBER 2011

SERIES TWOAUCKLAND

1112 FEBRUARy 2012

SERIES THREEWELLINGTON1718 MARCH

2012

201112

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201112

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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wwwnzfootballconz | wwwnzffutsalconz | Follow the Futsal Whites on Facebook

Page 7: THE POWER OF FIVE #2 September 2011

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

PHOTO ALPHAPIX

ReportJUNIORYOUTH

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National JuniorYouth Championships

PHOTOS ALPHAPIX

ldquoIn previous years most teams were playing indoor football rather than futsal but the technical ability and movement of the more successful teams suggests we are entering a new phase of the game in this countryrdquo Toohey added

ldquoIt will be interesting to see how the individual centres progress over the next few years Those that are able to get coaching programmes and regular sessions for their players will definitely have the edge rdquo

The 14s final between Auckland Sampa and Mainland Canterbury proved to be an outstanding finale to the tournament with Auckland prevailing 7-6 in extra time after a titanic clash between two experienced and skilful sides

Toohey also paid tribute to the referees who despite a massive workload kept the standard high

ldquoFutsal is not the easiest game to referee We always knew the referees would be a key factor in the success of the tournament and the team Dave Payne and Ken Wallace assembled for the weekend did not let us down They were top notchrdquo he said

RESULTS10sAuckland Rio were winners in the youngest section of the nationals with a hard fought 5-2 win over an excellent Mainland Canterbury in front of a packed Saturday afternoon crowd Rio proved to be the

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Championships NAPIER

comeback kings of the tournament fighting back from 0-3 in the group phase against Mainland to draw 3-3 and then overturning a 0-3 deficit to prevail 5-3 against Capital Futsal in a thrilling semi-final

The teamsHB Futsal FireballsHB Futsal Unison VineyardCapital Futsal WS TitansHB Futsal Crazy HorsesMainland Futsal CanterburyAuckland RioHB Futsal GreendaleHB Futsal Bedpost Brazil

Final

Auckland Rio 5 Canterbury 2

12sA tightly contested grade with three evenly matched teams from Auckland plus excellent sides from Wellington and Christchurch The exciting Auckland Sampa who featured several players from the championship winning side at the Australian Futsal Nationals in Canberra in 2011 prevailed over last yearrsquos Junior grade champions with a hard fought victory

The teamsNelson Bays KnightsAuckland Futsal SantosCapital Futsal YellowAuckland Futsal RioCapital Futsal Petone BarcaHB Futsal Red SteelMainland Futsal CanterburyHB Futsal CHBHB Futsal CyclonesHB Futsal MacKirdyAuckland Futsal SampaCapital Futsal WS Rogerson

Final

Auckland Rio 5 Canterbury 2

Thirty six teams from around the country descended on Napier in the middle week of the July school holidays for the 3rd Annual NZ Football Futsal National Junioryouth Championships

The largest futsal event on the local calendar was played out over three action-packed days at the home of HB Futsal - the Pettigrew Green Arena in Taradale

Teams from Northland Auckland Futsal East City HB Futsal Capital Futsal Nelson Bays Futsal and Mainland Futsal Canterbury squared off in four grades while crowds of up to 500 flocked in over the weekend to witness outstanding displays of futsal from New Zealandrsquos finest young players

Well developed sides from Auckland Futsal took home the 10s 12s and 14s titles while home town boys HB Futsal were popular winners of the 16s grade on the Sunday afternoon Newcomers Mainland Futsal Canterbury made two finals and impressed everyone throughout the weekend with the quality of their futsal

Tournament Coordinator Paul Toohey was delighted with the event and said it showed how far junior and youth futsal had come in the last few years

ldquoIt felt like everybody stepped it up a few gears this year The teams were well prepared and it was obvious that many centres had put a lot of work inrdquo he said

AUCKLAND WIN 10s 12s and 14s - HAWKErsquoS BAY TRIUMPH IN THE 16s

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14sAnother tightly contested grade dominated by Auckland and Canterbury sides East City ousted last yearrsquos champion Auckland Rio side in a classic quarter final eoncounter and the tournament concluded with the unforgettable topsy-turvy final between the two best sides Auckland Sampa and Mainland Futsal Canterbury After a titanic battle Sampa had one hand on the trophy until a last second equalizer from the southerners took the game into extra time Reese Coxrsquos late thunderbolt was enough to steal the glory for the Brazilian coached Aucklanders

The teamsHB Futsal CHBHB Futsal MYIMainland Futsal CanterburyCapital Futsal Welllingtn YellowAuckland Futsal RioHB Futsal FuegoEast CityAuckland Futsal SampaCapital Futsal Team AwesomeNelson Bays Futsal Blues

FinalAuckland Rio (6)7 Canterbury (6)6 AET

16sSome high quality futsal was the hallmark of the 16s with an excellent Northland side unlucky not to make the final In the end the very experienced HB Futsal had too much class for allcomers on their home

court despatching Capital 6-0 in a one sided final after being taken to the wire by Northland and Canterbury in earlier games

The teamsHB Futsal BlueCapital Futsal WellingtonNFF Northland FutsalHB Futsal CHB 1HB Futsal StormersMainland Futsal Canterbury

Final HB Futsal Stormers 6 Capital Futsal 0

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

PHOTO OFC

PHOTOS ALPHAPIX

Around theCentres12

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

PHOTO OFCNFF Futsal

Northern Football Federation Futsal Launch 17 September 2011When Saturday 17 September 10-2pmWhere Massey University Recreation Centre ndash Albany

We will have two showcase games being played on a full sized futsal court against the Futsal Whitesbull 1030am Futsal Whites vs Football

Fernsbull 1200pm Futsal Whites vs Massey

University Champions

This is an opportunity for the community to come along and experience what futsal is join in have some fun and meet players from our national futsal team

NFF are running the following futsal programmes and leagues

Junioryouth Programmesbull Pilot Futsal Programme bull The Leisure Centre ndash Stanmore Bay

(Term 3 and 4)bull Massey University Recreation Centre ndash

Albany (Term 4 Monday 330-6pm)bull West Wave Recreation Centre ndash

Henderson (Term 4)bull Rutherford College ndash Te Atatu (Term 4)bull Adult Leaguesbull Lunchtime Business House Futsal

League ndash Massey University Recreation Centre Albany (STARTS Friday 1130-2pm 28 October)

bull Youth Senior Futsal League - Massey University Recreation Centre Albany

bull (STARTS Monday 6-8pm 31 October)bull Further Futsal leagues and

programmes will be offered throughout the NFF region

To register your interest in futsal for your club or for more information on the above please contact

Sarah PayneE sarahpaynenfforgnz M 021 795 045or visit our website wwwnfforgnz

Hibiscus Coast Pilot ProgrammeThe Leisure Centre Stanmore BayWednesdays 7-10 years 31 August - 5 October (Late registrations will be accepted Please contact Sarah for cost)Session one 330 - 445pm Session two 445 - 6pm

Thursdays 11-14 years 1 September - 6 October (Late registrations will be accepted Please contact Sarah for cost)Session one 600 - 715pm

The idea of the Pilot Futsal Programme is to provide skills based coaching suitable for your players age group in a 40 minute block followed by a 35 minute block of quick rotation games roll on roll off first to a goal etc It is a great introduction to futsal and a way for players to improve their football skills and also have some fun at the same time

You may wish to encourage as many of your outdoor team as possible as this is an excellent way for your team to remain together as the winter season comes to a close and helps their football skills to stay strong and continue to work as a team in preparation for next season

You will need shin pads and non marking sneakers or futsal shoes

AFF Futsal

AVONDALEbull An Auckland Football Federation Senior

Menrsquos Futsal league is launching on September 27 at Avondale College

What Senior Menrsquos League (players 16 years old or over)When Starts Tuesday 13 SeptemberWhere Avondale College (2 court venue)Cost $330 per teamContact Yonas bull Game times - 530pm-645pmbull 12 players per squadbull League limited to 10 teamsbull 11-week season (including finals)

To register for AFF-Futsal Avondale League contact Centre Officer - yonas Gebre at playbeautiful10gmailcom

MANUKAUOtara Leisure AFF-Futsal and Counties Manukau Sport have teamed up to deliver the KiwiSport funded Primary Futsal in Schools Programme

bull Futsal lsquoGive it a Gorsquo sessions delivered to 960 7-9 year olds

bull 10 week school programme delivered throughout Manukau between October-February

bull Primary League established between February-April

bull lsquoFutsal in Schoolsrsquo Programme Coach Education delivered to 70 Manukau Institute of Technology students

bull Teachers trained to deliver basic coaching

EAST CITyEast City Futsal based at the ASB Stadium in Kohimarama Auckland runs a premier league on Monday nights (comprised of ten teams) which is played on an international size court with two referee officials per game

The competition this season has been exceptional all games have been close with some upsets along the way

The East City Youth Development Squad took advantage of East City National League training finishing in the top four - a huge accomplishment The final night was a no-holds barred night both semi-finals and finals Arabian Knights and KBT went head to head in the finalrsquos and after a very intense game with some amazing futsal skills by both teams KBT took out the Premier Winter League now winning back to back seasons -Barbara Gwilliam

East City took a squad of 8 players to the U14s 2011 NZ Football Futsal National Junior Youth Championship held at Pettigrew Green Arena Napier on 23-24 July The team was drawn from participants in our in-house Summer 2011 competition The team was coached by Dennis Dow the older brother of one of our players who plays in the clubrsquos premier league with our youth development squad

The boys got off to a flying start with a convincing 9-0 win over Nelson Bays The highlight of the game was a 6-goal haul by midfielder Matthew Bouzaid who went on to repeat this achievement in the games against Wellington Team Awesome and Auckland Futsal Rio In total Matthew scored 19 goals only one short of winning the Golden Boot Award

The highlight of our tournament was the quarter-final against Auckland Futsal Rio

a team which included a large contingent of Auckland representative players East City made a tremendous start going 4-0 up within the first five minutes before Rio staged a strong comeback to level by half time and then to lead 7-5 early in the second half The East City boys kept their composure and put the Rio defence under such pressure that they conceded a number of fouls in and around their own goal box with two of the resulting free kicks being coolly converted to bring the scores level The boys snatched the lead with less than two minutes to play and displayed great maturity to hold Rio at bayIn the semi final the boys were again given a futsal lesson by an extremely skilful and well drilled Mainland Futsal team who went on to lose an extra-time thriller in the final against Auckland Futsal Sampa

The East City boys can be very proud of the fact that their only two losses during the tournament came to the teams which finished first and second As the competition progressed their confidence and awareness improved markedly and will stand them in good stead in future years

- Derek Dow

ContactEmail futsalmandataconz East City Administration Line 579-0652

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

East City Winter Premier League Winners 2011 KBTPHOTO EAST CITY

HB Futsal

After hosting the third annual National Junior and Youth Championships at the Pettigrew Green Arena we have turned our attention to the Term 4 Leagues which commence on October 25 Enrolments are underway with over fifty teams (JuniorIntermediateYouthSocialPremier) expected to take part in our Tuesday night leagues

Recent discussions with the Arena have highlighted the high demand for court space from the other sporting codes who currently use the facility Basketball volleyball and netball are all experiencing huge growth due in particular to the college programmes in operation The challenge for futsal in Hawkersquos Bay is finding enough courts to enable the heavily subscribed leagues to expand further as we are in the unfortunate position at the moment of having to turn teams away

A major highlight of the last quarter was the success of the HB Stormers who picked up the 16s championship trophy at the recent Nationals after beating Capital Futsal 6-0 in the final

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

AUCKLAND FUTSAL2011 NZF FUTSAL CHAMPIONS 10 12 14 Boys Grades

Auckland Futsalrsquos representatives 1012 amp 14 Boys swept all aside to win a record three national titles at the 2011 NZ Futsal Championships held in Napier in July

Auckland Futsalrsquos Brazilian coaches Felipe Bernardi amp Juliano Schmeling prepared our representative teams to play an authentic Brazilian style of futsal - highly technical constant rhythmic movements and fast intricate passing

Auckland Rio - NZ Champion - 10 Boys1 Finn Ambridge2 Gene Toohey3 Josh Coe4 Theo Hardy5 Sidney Boyd6 Joel Clissold7 Harrison Chadwick8 Oscar Browne

Auckland SAMPA - NZ Champion - 12 Boys1 Ahmed Mohammadi2 Ethan Amey3 Jack Vaughan4 Nicholas Milne (K)5 Sean Green6 Matthew Hunter

Auckland SAMPA - NZ Champion - 14 Boys1 Dylan Burns2 Harry Bell3 Phillip Paul4 Reese Cox5 Sean Clark6 Tinashe Marowa7 Emman Rahimi8 Charlie Thomas9 Corey Walters (K)

10 David Masters (K)

Junior Leagues starting in September 20117 - 19 yrsHarbour - WednesdaysAuckland Central - Mondays Thursdays Fridays SundaysAuckland East - Mondays TuesdaysBrazil Futsal AcademyAuthentic Brazilian Futsal skills techniques movement creativity amp learning to lsquoPlay Like a Brazilianrsquo Let our Brazilian coaches help you become an exciting playerAges 5 - 13 yrs

Harbour - SundaysAuckland Central Mondays Sundays

Contact Craig Empsonplayaucklandfutsalorgwwwaucklandfutsalorg

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

Many of these 1996 born players started with us back in the original leagues of 2006 and under the watchful eye of coach Mark Cozens have blossomed into a well organised and dedicated outifit with a bit of an lsquox-factorrsquo We fully expect many of these players to continue on the futsal pathway being offered by NZF Futsal with all the boys hoping to play in the National League in the near future

wwwhbfutsalorgnz

Capital Futsal

Futsalrsquos future in Wellington looks bright if the success of ASB Sport Centrersquos grand opening in August is anything to go by

As one of many sports which will call the 12 court $475 million venue in Kilbirnie home futsal was exposed to a large new audience with around 15000 visiting during the open day

Futsal activities held throughout the day included the national team the Futsal Whites competing in a cup of nations against ethnic-based local sides

The Futsal Whites predictably prevailed beating an Africa United team led by Team Wellington striker Hicham Kamri 7-1 in the final

There were also womens and youth tournaments held and one court was also set aside for people to try futsal in different gender and age groups with Futsal Whites players mixing with locals game enough to step on court

ldquoIt was a great chance to get in front of people who may not have played much futsal if at allrdquo said NZF Futsal Development Manager Dave Payne

ldquoThe interest from kids was particularly pleasing and I think they really enjoyed the sport as well as the opportunity to play against national team players and get their autographs while they were there

ldquoSome turned up after winter football some had played other sports but were taken by the skill of the game and the fact that anyone can play

NZF Futsal 16s Champions 2011 - HB StormersPHOTO ALPHAPIX

Action from the Cup of Nations at ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

ldquoCapital Futsal has experienced a boost in registrations and the success of the open day and the quality of the venue bodes well for continued growth of futsal in Wellington

Up to six futsal courts will be in action every Monday Tuesday and Friday night beginning in October and a range of tournaments will run during the October school holidays Close to 300 futsal teams will play in leagues and tournaments at the ASB Sports Centre between October and December

Contactmattfutsalnetnz021 971 798wwwfutsalnetnz

Mainland Futsal

All systems are go in the Mainland region with over 50 teams now playing every week in our various leagues This means we can start to build our other regions up over the next few months Our Christchurch leagues now run to 3 divisions of Senior Men 1 Womenrsquos division 2 Youth divisions 1 Junior a Mixed and a Masters

We had a fabulous trip to the Youth and Junior Nationals taking a team in each group and eventually (returning in the snow storm of the year) with two silver medals Special congratulations are due

Top Luke Tongue clears the ball in a 12s Nationalrsquos game in Napier Benji lapslie Sam Philip Ellis Hare-Reid (G) and Joe Bell (10) look on

Centre Mainland Canterbury 10s

Bottom left Stephen Livingstone pressures the keeper in a 14s Nationals game

Bottom right Avery Addei breaks in the 16s Nationals while Sam Lapslie Miguel Mitchell Hamish Mitchell (GK) and Sam Roger watch

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

to Peter Livingstone for coaching the 14s to Silver and Matt Hoole doing the same for the 10s but all the teams coaches and support staff did themselves proud It was a great opportunity to play against all the regions of the country and the boys returned with growth and knowledge under their belt as well as great memories of a great event

September sees our ldquoFutsal Camprdquo run every Saturday Under 12s and 12-15s using the time to grow their game with expert coaches and players guidance Along with our schools competition starting next term and a very successful referees training day adding 10 refs to our roster we are growing in all areas and on all fronts

We look forward to catching up with the Futsal community at the Girls Nationals and the Masters where we will bring teams to both

Futsal South

Football South Futsal has recently changed its name to Futsal South Each centre within the Futsal South region will use the logos above with their centre name as per Futsal South ndash Dunedin logo

We now have centres in Dunedin Wanaka Queenstown Timaru and looking to start in Balclutha

Futsal South has held two selection tournaments in Dunedin to choose our National League squad from Teams from Queenstown Wanaka and Dunedin were involved over the 2 rounds with some great Futsal played by all involved

Queenstown Falcons took out the first tournament and Real Football winning the second tournament Luiz Uhera (Futsal South National League Coach) and Chris Button (Futsal South National League Manager) have selected an initial training squad of 30 players from those involved to train towards the 201112 National League

In September 2011 we are starting our summer Futsal leagues We have Senior leagues running on Monday and Wednesday nights Primary school leagues on Wednesday afternoons Intermediate and Junior High School leagues on Tuesday afternoons and Senior High School leagues on Thursday afternoons

With the introduction of our Primary School League we are also offering a futsal in Schools coaching program which involves a part time coach teaching basic Futsal skills in Primary and Intermediate School pupils We have had a very positive response to our pilot program that was run at Tahuna Intermediate with over 450 pupils being given Futsal instruction in their Physical Education classes for 2 weeks

We have signed up a number of schools for this program for terms 3 amp 4 of 2011 and also have schools signed up for next year We are also looking to take the program to the Central Otago and Clutha districts to help boost player numbers in those areas

This should give a real boost towards the future of Futsal in our region

Futsal South has been running referee courses over the region and now have 52 qualified referees and another course running shortly

NZF Futsal ContactsNorthern Football Futsal - NorthlandFar Northsarahpaynenfforgnzdavealabasternfforgnz

East City Futsal (Auckland)cosworthxtraconzeastcityfutsalmandataconz

Auckland Futsalplayaucklandfutsalorg

AFF Futsal - Avondale Playbeautiful10gmailcom

AFF Futsal - Manukau MikeibbertsonmanukauleisureconzMaraeaHoweaucklandcouncilgovtnz

WAIBOP Futsalpeterawaibopfootballconzsimonmwaibopfootballconz

Hawkes Bay Futsal ptooheyhbfutsalorgnz

Wairarapa Futsal petercoxsparcconzpaul_burnsxtraconz

Red Sox Manawatu Futsal (Palmerston North) bergie007vodafoneconz

Capital Futsal (Wellington)mattcapitalfootballorgnz

Marlborough Futsal (Blenheim) marlboroughfootballxtraconz

Nelson Bays Futsal sportsmallxtraconz

Mainland Futsal - Canterburyrichardmainlandfutsalconz

Mainland Futsal - West Coastsportgreyhighschoolnz

Futsal South - Dunedinkneepadsparadisenetnzfootballmikeihugconz

Futsal South - Wanaka cecisxtraconz

Futsal South - Queenstown infoqueenstownfootballcomkampmanqueenstownconzQueenstown Falcons Futsal marcosmelo1313hotmailcomraulharpyayahoocombr

Futsal South - Timarujcamesymcascorgnz

have a great team behind me with support in areas like accounts which allows me to spend more of my time planning the ASB Centre programme as well as getting out into even more schools How much coaching are you doingLast term I trialled ldquoCoach n Playrdquo leagues in both of our U13 leagues which went well At the moment I coach the St Pats U16 team on a weekly basis with the ambition of winning NZSSSC College Nationals hosted right next door at the ASB Centre in March 2012 Our U19 squad is a representative team and is going to Australia for the nationals in January We will be together playing and training three times a week from next month Our Island Bay Team Awesome U13s have been training once and playing once a week in preparation for Nationals in Australia too From next term Friday nights will be coaching nights for U11s and each age group up to 16s 19s and Men We see this as an important part of the programme to help educate futsal players which in turn will also produce better football players Whatrsquos a typical week for you Matt - Futsal every day Most eveningsAll day all night Yes As part of the Capital transition and with the new centre I am involving more people in running and refereeing the leagues so I can be more efficient in the overall management as opposed to being out ldquoon the groundrdquo at

Capital Futsalrsquos Development Officer is at the centre of the growing futsal scene in Wellington With four yearsrsquo experience as a player coach administrator and volunteer under his belt Fejos is a regular fixture at tournaments and events around the country POWER OF FIVE caught up with him in the days following the opening of the new state of the art twelve court ASB Community Centre - the new home for futsal in Wellington

Matt - how long have you been involved in futsalSince late 2007 coming back to Wellington for summer after Otago University and wanting to play indoor soccer - which is all I knew at the time A knock on Dave and Sarahrsquos Paynersquos door changed my life I guess Tell us a little bit about your role with Capital Futsal Capital City Futsal has recently been integrated into Capital Football hasnrsquot itYes we are currently going through the transition of Capital Football taking on the responsibility for delivering futsal as with other federations around the country My role up until now has been everything really running and promoting the leagues school visits with a focus on the Kiwisport College programme administering everything and overall organisingThis is now changing as things get bigger and with the transition to Capital - I now

leagues four nights a week The emails administration and practical running of things are endless so good thing I do it because I love it At times it seems there is too much interest It is a fantastic problem to have

Are you still finding time to playI sneak in a few social games a week which allows me to drop in on the leagues too and make sure everything is ok too I donrsquot have the time for much more than that and have made the decision that I have more to contribute off the court than on by way of contributing to the opportunities of others You guys are doing well on the referee development side of things How many qualified referees do you have now in WellingtonWe have about 25 from our last two courses in Wellington Most encouraging is the college students involved in what is traditionally seen as an lsquoold manrsquosrsquo thing There are also pathways within refereeing onto the National League and OFC Championships The new centre with twelve courts and a brand new meeting room will provide a professional venue to host referee and coach education sessions Capital Footballrsquos Jamie Cross has also officiated at the OFC Championships in the past so has a lot of experience And Adam Walker volunteers and develops referees which is a real asset to us

MATT FEJOSINTERVIEW

Capital Futsal

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

ldquoI BELIEVE MORE CLUBS TEAMS OF ALL AGES WILL ADOPT FUTSAL AS ONE OF THEIR

TRAINING NIGHTS DURING THE FOOTBALL SEASON rdquo

Capital Futsal

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

Can you tell us a little bit about the KiwiSport College Futsal initiative you are involved withCapital Futsal and myself personally would not be here without it so we owe a great deal of gratitude to KiwiSport College Sport Wellington and Sport Wellington It allowed me to leave a job in a bank fourteen months ago and get out into colleges to grow the game Over 2000 students from 16 different colleges have been involved from sessions in their school to local college leagues up to College Nationals and young Izaac OrsquoHara showing the pathways in the game being involved with the Futsal Whites What about the National League this year Capital were the top New Zealand side in 201011 Will you have pretty much the same outfit as last yearThings are always changing We lose two of our senior Futsal Whites overseas in Lucas da Silva and Tariq Assad We have some new Brazilians who have been training with the team I am hoping one or two of my promising U19 squad will squeeze in too but things are getting very competitive We have the same management and coaching team which provides some continuity to build on last season and catch those Aussies Our new competitive league will be played on our three international courts which will help too How did the Capital teams enjoy the JuniorYouth Nationals this year The 16s did particularly well and made the finalI think it was a real landmark event The standard went through the roof and centres now will have to send their best players selected from their leagues and

training together It was great to see My 16s were the St Patrickrsquos College team and performed amazingly with just six players from one school showing the benefit of futsal specific training to learn technically and tactically how to play the game Beating squads of eight and nine players selected from federations was quite an achievement They also played the first ever game of any sport at the Opening Day (of the new stadium)against the Futsal Whites and only lost 4-1 in 16 minutes of game time which speaks volumes for these boys I think I was happy with all the teams from the 10s up to 16s and come next year I can only imagine what our top teams will look like after playing and training in the best facility in the country

Capital have always been pioneers - a few years ago Brian Blellock and others set up that great little futsal club in Hataitai Now you have offices in the what is probably the best facility in the Southern Hemisphere What are long term plans for the game in Wellington I think even medium term the transition to Capital Football is the most important thing It is not going to be instant and we are still learning every day To integrate futsal into trainings have futsal specific days and host top tournaments Who knows maybe in a few years we might become a lsquomajorrsquo sport In just four years since that league in Hataitai we have become a major stakeholder in the new centre with netball and basketball Four years ago you would have thought we were mad but it shows firstly the potential

ldquoI STILL HAVE MUCH I WANT TO ACHIEVE HERE IN WELLINGTON AND DREAM OF FUTSALrsquoS OWN lsquoBAHRAIN MOMENTrsquo IN 2015 - SO WHO KNOWS

WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDSrdquo

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

of this amazing game that is already proven around the world and secondly that with a team of volunteers willing to put in lots of work into something they believe in amazing things can happen

The new centre presents a great opportunity to get more players involved There is the potential for 200 teams in the new centre and with perfect timing of the outdoor season coming to a close The womens and college leagues are showing huge potential for growth As we build momentum over the summer and work through Capital Football I believe more clubs teams of all ages will adopt futsal as one of their training nights during the football season

What about the national scene Do you feel the game has come a long way in the last few years What are the top priorities for the next few years Can the Futsal Whites get close to the Solomon IslandsThat youth tournament in Napier in July as I said was a real landmark They are the future and to have our kids playing from a young age is how we will catch

the Solomons For the next World Cup campaign in four years time I hope some of our Capital 16-19 year olds might progress Longer term if we can be teaching our children from five years up and create a futsal culture with our facility Irsquod like to think we will catch the Aussies too And what about your own professional development in futsal It must be tremendous working in the game that you love Where would you like to be in a few yearsPeople have asked me this question and in all honesty I donrsquot know To do something you love and contribute something positive to your community as opposed to as opposed to measuring the money earned our hours worked is an honour Things have been so busy I just plan to keep my head down for another twelve months and then assess things then I am pretty happy with where I am at at the moment As things are still growing I am fortunate enough to develop a wide range of experience in marketing managing coaching dealing with key

stakeholders etc I have been forced to develop at the same pace as the sport here which is a great challenge so I am learning and growing every day in a broad set of skills I still have much I want to achieve here in Wellington and dream of futsalrsquos own ldquoBahrain momentrdquo in 2015 so who knows what the future holds

More action from the Cup of Nations as Futsal Whites target Micky Malivuk deals with an aerial ball gainst Africa UnitedPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

CALENDAR 201112

Sun 25 September 2011 NZF-Futsal Level One Refereeing Course PG Arena Napier

SatSun 2223 October 2011 National Girls and Womenrsquos Futsal Tournament ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 34 December 2011 National League Series 1 Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1112 February 2012 National League Series 2 ASB Stadium Auckland

SatSun 1112 February 2012 Futsal - NZ Masters Games Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1718 March 2012 National League Series 3 ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 2627 March 2012 NZF-Futsal Secondary Schools National Futsal Championships ASB Sports Centre Wellington

Calendar201112

Junior action from the opening of the ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington in AugustPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

SERIES ONEDUNEDIN

34 DECEMBER 2011

SERIES TWOAUCKLAND

1112 FEBRUARy 2012

SERIES THREEWELLINGTON1718 MARCH

2012

201112

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National JuniorYouth Championships

PHOTOS ALPHAPIX

ldquoIn previous years most teams were playing indoor football rather than futsal but the technical ability and movement of the more successful teams suggests we are entering a new phase of the game in this countryrdquo Toohey added

ldquoIt will be interesting to see how the individual centres progress over the next few years Those that are able to get coaching programmes and regular sessions for their players will definitely have the edge rdquo

The 14s final between Auckland Sampa and Mainland Canterbury proved to be an outstanding finale to the tournament with Auckland prevailing 7-6 in extra time after a titanic clash between two experienced and skilful sides

Toohey also paid tribute to the referees who despite a massive workload kept the standard high

ldquoFutsal is not the easiest game to referee We always knew the referees would be a key factor in the success of the tournament and the team Dave Payne and Ken Wallace assembled for the weekend did not let us down They were top notchrdquo he said

RESULTS10sAuckland Rio were winners in the youngest section of the nationals with a hard fought 5-2 win over an excellent Mainland Canterbury in front of a packed Saturday afternoon crowd Rio proved to be the

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Championships NAPIER

comeback kings of the tournament fighting back from 0-3 in the group phase against Mainland to draw 3-3 and then overturning a 0-3 deficit to prevail 5-3 against Capital Futsal in a thrilling semi-final

The teamsHB Futsal FireballsHB Futsal Unison VineyardCapital Futsal WS TitansHB Futsal Crazy HorsesMainland Futsal CanterburyAuckland RioHB Futsal GreendaleHB Futsal Bedpost Brazil

Final

Auckland Rio 5 Canterbury 2

12sA tightly contested grade with three evenly matched teams from Auckland plus excellent sides from Wellington and Christchurch The exciting Auckland Sampa who featured several players from the championship winning side at the Australian Futsal Nationals in Canberra in 2011 prevailed over last yearrsquos Junior grade champions with a hard fought victory

The teamsNelson Bays KnightsAuckland Futsal SantosCapital Futsal YellowAuckland Futsal RioCapital Futsal Petone BarcaHB Futsal Red SteelMainland Futsal CanterburyHB Futsal CHBHB Futsal CyclonesHB Futsal MacKirdyAuckland Futsal SampaCapital Futsal WS Rogerson

Final

Auckland Rio 5 Canterbury 2

Thirty six teams from around the country descended on Napier in the middle week of the July school holidays for the 3rd Annual NZ Football Futsal National Junioryouth Championships

The largest futsal event on the local calendar was played out over three action-packed days at the home of HB Futsal - the Pettigrew Green Arena in Taradale

Teams from Northland Auckland Futsal East City HB Futsal Capital Futsal Nelson Bays Futsal and Mainland Futsal Canterbury squared off in four grades while crowds of up to 500 flocked in over the weekend to witness outstanding displays of futsal from New Zealandrsquos finest young players

Well developed sides from Auckland Futsal took home the 10s 12s and 14s titles while home town boys HB Futsal were popular winners of the 16s grade on the Sunday afternoon Newcomers Mainland Futsal Canterbury made two finals and impressed everyone throughout the weekend with the quality of their futsal

Tournament Coordinator Paul Toohey was delighted with the event and said it showed how far junior and youth futsal had come in the last few years

ldquoIt felt like everybody stepped it up a few gears this year The teams were well prepared and it was obvious that many centres had put a lot of work inrdquo he said

AUCKLAND WIN 10s 12s and 14s - HAWKErsquoS BAY TRIUMPH IN THE 16s

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14sAnother tightly contested grade dominated by Auckland and Canterbury sides East City ousted last yearrsquos champion Auckland Rio side in a classic quarter final eoncounter and the tournament concluded with the unforgettable topsy-turvy final between the two best sides Auckland Sampa and Mainland Futsal Canterbury After a titanic battle Sampa had one hand on the trophy until a last second equalizer from the southerners took the game into extra time Reese Coxrsquos late thunderbolt was enough to steal the glory for the Brazilian coached Aucklanders

The teamsHB Futsal CHBHB Futsal MYIMainland Futsal CanterburyCapital Futsal Welllingtn YellowAuckland Futsal RioHB Futsal FuegoEast CityAuckland Futsal SampaCapital Futsal Team AwesomeNelson Bays Futsal Blues

FinalAuckland Rio (6)7 Canterbury (6)6 AET

16sSome high quality futsal was the hallmark of the 16s with an excellent Northland side unlucky not to make the final In the end the very experienced HB Futsal had too much class for allcomers on their home

court despatching Capital 6-0 in a one sided final after being taken to the wire by Northland and Canterbury in earlier games

The teamsHB Futsal BlueCapital Futsal WellingtonNFF Northland FutsalHB Futsal CHB 1HB Futsal StormersMainland Futsal Canterbury

Final HB Futsal Stormers 6 Capital Futsal 0

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PHOTO OFC

PHOTOS ALPHAPIX

Around theCentres12

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PHOTO OFCNFF Futsal

Northern Football Federation Futsal Launch 17 September 2011When Saturday 17 September 10-2pmWhere Massey University Recreation Centre ndash Albany

We will have two showcase games being played on a full sized futsal court against the Futsal Whitesbull 1030am Futsal Whites vs Football

Fernsbull 1200pm Futsal Whites vs Massey

University Champions

This is an opportunity for the community to come along and experience what futsal is join in have some fun and meet players from our national futsal team

NFF are running the following futsal programmes and leagues

Junioryouth Programmesbull Pilot Futsal Programme bull The Leisure Centre ndash Stanmore Bay

(Term 3 and 4)bull Massey University Recreation Centre ndash

Albany (Term 4 Monday 330-6pm)bull West Wave Recreation Centre ndash

Henderson (Term 4)bull Rutherford College ndash Te Atatu (Term 4)bull Adult Leaguesbull Lunchtime Business House Futsal

League ndash Massey University Recreation Centre Albany (STARTS Friday 1130-2pm 28 October)

bull Youth Senior Futsal League - Massey University Recreation Centre Albany

bull (STARTS Monday 6-8pm 31 October)bull Further Futsal leagues and

programmes will be offered throughout the NFF region

To register your interest in futsal for your club or for more information on the above please contact

Sarah PayneE sarahpaynenfforgnz M 021 795 045or visit our website wwwnfforgnz

Hibiscus Coast Pilot ProgrammeThe Leisure Centre Stanmore BayWednesdays 7-10 years 31 August - 5 October (Late registrations will be accepted Please contact Sarah for cost)Session one 330 - 445pm Session two 445 - 6pm

Thursdays 11-14 years 1 September - 6 October (Late registrations will be accepted Please contact Sarah for cost)Session one 600 - 715pm

The idea of the Pilot Futsal Programme is to provide skills based coaching suitable for your players age group in a 40 minute block followed by a 35 minute block of quick rotation games roll on roll off first to a goal etc It is a great introduction to futsal and a way for players to improve their football skills and also have some fun at the same time

You may wish to encourage as many of your outdoor team as possible as this is an excellent way for your team to remain together as the winter season comes to a close and helps their football skills to stay strong and continue to work as a team in preparation for next season

You will need shin pads and non marking sneakers or futsal shoes

AFF Futsal

AVONDALEbull An Auckland Football Federation Senior

Menrsquos Futsal league is launching on September 27 at Avondale College

What Senior Menrsquos League (players 16 years old or over)When Starts Tuesday 13 SeptemberWhere Avondale College (2 court venue)Cost $330 per teamContact Yonas bull Game times - 530pm-645pmbull 12 players per squadbull League limited to 10 teamsbull 11-week season (including finals)

To register for AFF-Futsal Avondale League contact Centre Officer - yonas Gebre at playbeautiful10gmailcom

MANUKAUOtara Leisure AFF-Futsal and Counties Manukau Sport have teamed up to deliver the KiwiSport funded Primary Futsal in Schools Programme

bull Futsal lsquoGive it a Gorsquo sessions delivered to 960 7-9 year olds

bull 10 week school programme delivered throughout Manukau between October-February

bull Primary League established between February-April

bull lsquoFutsal in Schoolsrsquo Programme Coach Education delivered to 70 Manukau Institute of Technology students

bull Teachers trained to deliver basic coaching

EAST CITyEast City Futsal based at the ASB Stadium in Kohimarama Auckland runs a premier league on Monday nights (comprised of ten teams) which is played on an international size court with two referee officials per game

The competition this season has been exceptional all games have been close with some upsets along the way

The East City Youth Development Squad took advantage of East City National League training finishing in the top four - a huge accomplishment The final night was a no-holds barred night both semi-finals and finals Arabian Knights and KBT went head to head in the finalrsquos and after a very intense game with some amazing futsal skills by both teams KBT took out the Premier Winter League now winning back to back seasons -Barbara Gwilliam

East City took a squad of 8 players to the U14s 2011 NZ Football Futsal National Junior Youth Championship held at Pettigrew Green Arena Napier on 23-24 July The team was drawn from participants in our in-house Summer 2011 competition The team was coached by Dennis Dow the older brother of one of our players who plays in the clubrsquos premier league with our youth development squad

The boys got off to a flying start with a convincing 9-0 win over Nelson Bays The highlight of the game was a 6-goal haul by midfielder Matthew Bouzaid who went on to repeat this achievement in the games against Wellington Team Awesome and Auckland Futsal Rio In total Matthew scored 19 goals only one short of winning the Golden Boot Award

The highlight of our tournament was the quarter-final against Auckland Futsal Rio

a team which included a large contingent of Auckland representative players East City made a tremendous start going 4-0 up within the first five minutes before Rio staged a strong comeback to level by half time and then to lead 7-5 early in the second half The East City boys kept their composure and put the Rio defence under such pressure that they conceded a number of fouls in and around their own goal box with two of the resulting free kicks being coolly converted to bring the scores level The boys snatched the lead with less than two minutes to play and displayed great maturity to hold Rio at bayIn the semi final the boys were again given a futsal lesson by an extremely skilful and well drilled Mainland Futsal team who went on to lose an extra-time thriller in the final against Auckland Futsal Sampa

The East City boys can be very proud of the fact that their only two losses during the tournament came to the teams which finished first and second As the competition progressed their confidence and awareness improved markedly and will stand them in good stead in future years

- Derek Dow

ContactEmail futsalmandataconz East City Administration Line 579-0652

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East City Winter Premier League Winners 2011 KBTPHOTO EAST CITY

HB Futsal

After hosting the third annual National Junior and Youth Championships at the Pettigrew Green Arena we have turned our attention to the Term 4 Leagues which commence on October 25 Enrolments are underway with over fifty teams (JuniorIntermediateYouthSocialPremier) expected to take part in our Tuesday night leagues

Recent discussions with the Arena have highlighted the high demand for court space from the other sporting codes who currently use the facility Basketball volleyball and netball are all experiencing huge growth due in particular to the college programmes in operation The challenge for futsal in Hawkersquos Bay is finding enough courts to enable the heavily subscribed leagues to expand further as we are in the unfortunate position at the moment of having to turn teams away

A major highlight of the last quarter was the success of the HB Stormers who picked up the 16s championship trophy at the recent Nationals after beating Capital Futsal 6-0 in the final

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AUCKLAND FUTSAL2011 NZF FUTSAL CHAMPIONS 10 12 14 Boys Grades

Auckland Futsalrsquos representatives 1012 amp 14 Boys swept all aside to win a record three national titles at the 2011 NZ Futsal Championships held in Napier in July

Auckland Futsalrsquos Brazilian coaches Felipe Bernardi amp Juliano Schmeling prepared our representative teams to play an authentic Brazilian style of futsal - highly technical constant rhythmic movements and fast intricate passing

Auckland Rio - NZ Champion - 10 Boys1 Finn Ambridge2 Gene Toohey3 Josh Coe4 Theo Hardy5 Sidney Boyd6 Joel Clissold7 Harrison Chadwick8 Oscar Browne

Auckland SAMPA - NZ Champion - 12 Boys1 Ahmed Mohammadi2 Ethan Amey3 Jack Vaughan4 Nicholas Milne (K)5 Sean Green6 Matthew Hunter

Auckland SAMPA - NZ Champion - 14 Boys1 Dylan Burns2 Harry Bell3 Phillip Paul4 Reese Cox5 Sean Clark6 Tinashe Marowa7 Emman Rahimi8 Charlie Thomas9 Corey Walters (K)

10 David Masters (K)

Junior Leagues starting in September 20117 - 19 yrsHarbour - WednesdaysAuckland Central - Mondays Thursdays Fridays SundaysAuckland East - Mondays TuesdaysBrazil Futsal AcademyAuthentic Brazilian Futsal skills techniques movement creativity amp learning to lsquoPlay Like a Brazilianrsquo Let our Brazilian coaches help you become an exciting playerAges 5 - 13 yrs

Harbour - SundaysAuckland Central Mondays Sundays

Contact Craig Empsonplayaucklandfutsalorgwwwaucklandfutsalorg

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Many of these 1996 born players started with us back in the original leagues of 2006 and under the watchful eye of coach Mark Cozens have blossomed into a well organised and dedicated outifit with a bit of an lsquox-factorrsquo We fully expect many of these players to continue on the futsal pathway being offered by NZF Futsal with all the boys hoping to play in the National League in the near future

wwwhbfutsalorgnz

Capital Futsal

Futsalrsquos future in Wellington looks bright if the success of ASB Sport Centrersquos grand opening in August is anything to go by

As one of many sports which will call the 12 court $475 million venue in Kilbirnie home futsal was exposed to a large new audience with around 15000 visiting during the open day

Futsal activities held throughout the day included the national team the Futsal Whites competing in a cup of nations against ethnic-based local sides

The Futsal Whites predictably prevailed beating an Africa United team led by Team Wellington striker Hicham Kamri 7-1 in the final

There were also womens and youth tournaments held and one court was also set aside for people to try futsal in different gender and age groups with Futsal Whites players mixing with locals game enough to step on court

ldquoIt was a great chance to get in front of people who may not have played much futsal if at allrdquo said NZF Futsal Development Manager Dave Payne

ldquoThe interest from kids was particularly pleasing and I think they really enjoyed the sport as well as the opportunity to play against national team players and get their autographs while they were there

ldquoSome turned up after winter football some had played other sports but were taken by the skill of the game and the fact that anyone can play

NZF Futsal 16s Champions 2011 - HB StormersPHOTO ALPHAPIX

Action from the Cup of Nations at ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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ldquoCapital Futsal has experienced a boost in registrations and the success of the open day and the quality of the venue bodes well for continued growth of futsal in Wellington

Up to six futsal courts will be in action every Monday Tuesday and Friday night beginning in October and a range of tournaments will run during the October school holidays Close to 300 futsal teams will play in leagues and tournaments at the ASB Sports Centre between October and December

Contactmattfutsalnetnz021 971 798wwwfutsalnetnz

Mainland Futsal

All systems are go in the Mainland region with over 50 teams now playing every week in our various leagues This means we can start to build our other regions up over the next few months Our Christchurch leagues now run to 3 divisions of Senior Men 1 Womenrsquos division 2 Youth divisions 1 Junior a Mixed and a Masters

We had a fabulous trip to the Youth and Junior Nationals taking a team in each group and eventually (returning in the snow storm of the year) with two silver medals Special congratulations are due

Top Luke Tongue clears the ball in a 12s Nationalrsquos game in Napier Benji lapslie Sam Philip Ellis Hare-Reid (G) and Joe Bell (10) look on

Centre Mainland Canterbury 10s

Bottom left Stephen Livingstone pressures the keeper in a 14s Nationals game

Bottom right Avery Addei breaks in the 16s Nationals while Sam Lapslie Miguel Mitchell Hamish Mitchell (GK) and Sam Roger watch

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to Peter Livingstone for coaching the 14s to Silver and Matt Hoole doing the same for the 10s but all the teams coaches and support staff did themselves proud It was a great opportunity to play against all the regions of the country and the boys returned with growth and knowledge under their belt as well as great memories of a great event

September sees our ldquoFutsal Camprdquo run every Saturday Under 12s and 12-15s using the time to grow their game with expert coaches and players guidance Along with our schools competition starting next term and a very successful referees training day adding 10 refs to our roster we are growing in all areas and on all fronts

We look forward to catching up with the Futsal community at the Girls Nationals and the Masters where we will bring teams to both

Futsal South

Football South Futsal has recently changed its name to Futsal South Each centre within the Futsal South region will use the logos above with their centre name as per Futsal South ndash Dunedin logo

We now have centres in Dunedin Wanaka Queenstown Timaru and looking to start in Balclutha

Futsal South has held two selection tournaments in Dunedin to choose our National League squad from Teams from Queenstown Wanaka and Dunedin were involved over the 2 rounds with some great Futsal played by all involved

Queenstown Falcons took out the first tournament and Real Football winning the second tournament Luiz Uhera (Futsal South National League Coach) and Chris Button (Futsal South National League Manager) have selected an initial training squad of 30 players from those involved to train towards the 201112 National League

In September 2011 we are starting our summer Futsal leagues We have Senior leagues running on Monday and Wednesday nights Primary school leagues on Wednesday afternoons Intermediate and Junior High School leagues on Tuesday afternoons and Senior High School leagues on Thursday afternoons

With the introduction of our Primary School League we are also offering a futsal in Schools coaching program which involves a part time coach teaching basic Futsal skills in Primary and Intermediate School pupils We have had a very positive response to our pilot program that was run at Tahuna Intermediate with over 450 pupils being given Futsal instruction in their Physical Education classes for 2 weeks

We have signed up a number of schools for this program for terms 3 amp 4 of 2011 and also have schools signed up for next year We are also looking to take the program to the Central Otago and Clutha districts to help boost player numbers in those areas

This should give a real boost towards the future of Futsal in our region

Futsal South has been running referee courses over the region and now have 52 qualified referees and another course running shortly

NZF Futsal ContactsNorthern Football Futsal - NorthlandFar Northsarahpaynenfforgnzdavealabasternfforgnz

East City Futsal (Auckland)cosworthxtraconzeastcityfutsalmandataconz

Auckland Futsalplayaucklandfutsalorg

AFF Futsal - Avondale Playbeautiful10gmailcom

AFF Futsal - Manukau MikeibbertsonmanukauleisureconzMaraeaHoweaucklandcouncilgovtnz

WAIBOP Futsalpeterawaibopfootballconzsimonmwaibopfootballconz

Hawkes Bay Futsal ptooheyhbfutsalorgnz

Wairarapa Futsal petercoxsparcconzpaul_burnsxtraconz

Red Sox Manawatu Futsal (Palmerston North) bergie007vodafoneconz

Capital Futsal (Wellington)mattcapitalfootballorgnz

Marlborough Futsal (Blenheim) marlboroughfootballxtraconz

Nelson Bays Futsal sportsmallxtraconz

Mainland Futsal - Canterburyrichardmainlandfutsalconz

Mainland Futsal - West Coastsportgreyhighschoolnz

Futsal South - Dunedinkneepadsparadisenetnzfootballmikeihugconz

Futsal South - Wanaka cecisxtraconz

Futsal South - Queenstown infoqueenstownfootballcomkampmanqueenstownconzQueenstown Falcons Futsal marcosmelo1313hotmailcomraulharpyayahoocombr

Futsal South - Timarujcamesymcascorgnz

have a great team behind me with support in areas like accounts which allows me to spend more of my time planning the ASB Centre programme as well as getting out into even more schools How much coaching are you doingLast term I trialled ldquoCoach n Playrdquo leagues in both of our U13 leagues which went well At the moment I coach the St Pats U16 team on a weekly basis with the ambition of winning NZSSSC College Nationals hosted right next door at the ASB Centre in March 2012 Our U19 squad is a representative team and is going to Australia for the nationals in January We will be together playing and training three times a week from next month Our Island Bay Team Awesome U13s have been training once and playing once a week in preparation for Nationals in Australia too From next term Friday nights will be coaching nights for U11s and each age group up to 16s 19s and Men We see this as an important part of the programme to help educate futsal players which in turn will also produce better football players Whatrsquos a typical week for you Matt - Futsal every day Most eveningsAll day all night Yes As part of the Capital transition and with the new centre I am involving more people in running and refereeing the leagues so I can be more efficient in the overall management as opposed to being out ldquoon the groundrdquo at

Capital Futsalrsquos Development Officer is at the centre of the growing futsal scene in Wellington With four yearsrsquo experience as a player coach administrator and volunteer under his belt Fejos is a regular fixture at tournaments and events around the country POWER OF FIVE caught up with him in the days following the opening of the new state of the art twelve court ASB Community Centre - the new home for futsal in Wellington

Matt - how long have you been involved in futsalSince late 2007 coming back to Wellington for summer after Otago University and wanting to play indoor soccer - which is all I knew at the time A knock on Dave and Sarahrsquos Paynersquos door changed my life I guess Tell us a little bit about your role with Capital Futsal Capital City Futsal has recently been integrated into Capital Football hasnrsquot itYes we are currently going through the transition of Capital Football taking on the responsibility for delivering futsal as with other federations around the country My role up until now has been everything really running and promoting the leagues school visits with a focus on the Kiwisport College programme administering everything and overall organisingThis is now changing as things get bigger and with the transition to Capital - I now

leagues four nights a week The emails administration and practical running of things are endless so good thing I do it because I love it At times it seems there is too much interest It is a fantastic problem to have

Are you still finding time to playI sneak in a few social games a week which allows me to drop in on the leagues too and make sure everything is ok too I donrsquot have the time for much more than that and have made the decision that I have more to contribute off the court than on by way of contributing to the opportunities of others You guys are doing well on the referee development side of things How many qualified referees do you have now in WellingtonWe have about 25 from our last two courses in Wellington Most encouraging is the college students involved in what is traditionally seen as an lsquoold manrsquosrsquo thing There are also pathways within refereeing onto the National League and OFC Championships The new centre with twelve courts and a brand new meeting room will provide a professional venue to host referee and coach education sessions Capital Footballrsquos Jamie Cross has also officiated at the OFC Championships in the past so has a lot of experience And Adam Walker volunteers and develops referees which is a real asset to us

MATT FEJOSINTERVIEW

Capital Futsal

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ldquoI BELIEVE MORE CLUBS TEAMS OF ALL AGES WILL ADOPT FUTSAL AS ONE OF THEIR

TRAINING NIGHTS DURING THE FOOTBALL SEASON rdquo

Capital Futsal

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Can you tell us a little bit about the KiwiSport College Futsal initiative you are involved withCapital Futsal and myself personally would not be here without it so we owe a great deal of gratitude to KiwiSport College Sport Wellington and Sport Wellington It allowed me to leave a job in a bank fourteen months ago and get out into colleges to grow the game Over 2000 students from 16 different colleges have been involved from sessions in their school to local college leagues up to College Nationals and young Izaac OrsquoHara showing the pathways in the game being involved with the Futsal Whites What about the National League this year Capital were the top New Zealand side in 201011 Will you have pretty much the same outfit as last yearThings are always changing We lose two of our senior Futsal Whites overseas in Lucas da Silva and Tariq Assad We have some new Brazilians who have been training with the team I am hoping one or two of my promising U19 squad will squeeze in too but things are getting very competitive We have the same management and coaching team which provides some continuity to build on last season and catch those Aussies Our new competitive league will be played on our three international courts which will help too How did the Capital teams enjoy the JuniorYouth Nationals this year The 16s did particularly well and made the finalI think it was a real landmark event The standard went through the roof and centres now will have to send their best players selected from their leagues and

training together It was great to see My 16s were the St Patrickrsquos College team and performed amazingly with just six players from one school showing the benefit of futsal specific training to learn technically and tactically how to play the game Beating squads of eight and nine players selected from federations was quite an achievement They also played the first ever game of any sport at the Opening Day (of the new stadium)against the Futsal Whites and only lost 4-1 in 16 minutes of game time which speaks volumes for these boys I think I was happy with all the teams from the 10s up to 16s and come next year I can only imagine what our top teams will look like after playing and training in the best facility in the country

Capital have always been pioneers - a few years ago Brian Blellock and others set up that great little futsal club in Hataitai Now you have offices in the what is probably the best facility in the Southern Hemisphere What are long term plans for the game in Wellington I think even medium term the transition to Capital Football is the most important thing It is not going to be instant and we are still learning every day To integrate futsal into trainings have futsal specific days and host top tournaments Who knows maybe in a few years we might become a lsquomajorrsquo sport In just four years since that league in Hataitai we have become a major stakeholder in the new centre with netball and basketball Four years ago you would have thought we were mad but it shows firstly the potential

ldquoI STILL HAVE MUCH I WANT TO ACHIEVE HERE IN WELLINGTON AND DREAM OF FUTSALrsquoS OWN lsquoBAHRAIN MOMENTrsquo IN 2015 - SO WHO KNOWS

WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDSrdquo

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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of this amazing game that is already proven around the world and secondly that with a team of volunteers willing to put in lots of work into something they believe in amazing things can happen

The new centre presents a great opportunity to get more players involved There is the potential for 200 teams in the new centre and with perfect timing of the outdoor season coming to a close The womens and college leagues are showing huge potential for growth As we build momentum over the summer and work through Capital Football I believe more clubs teams of all ages will adopt futsal as one of their training nights during the football season

What about the national scene Do you feel the game has come a long way in the last few years What are the top priorities for the next few years Can the Futsal Whites get close to the Solomon IslandsThat youth tournament in Napier in July as I said was a real landmark They are the future and to have our kids playing from a young age is how we will catch

the Solomons For the next World Cup campaign in four years time I hope some of our Capital 16-19 year olds might progress Longer term if we can be teaching our children from five years up and create a futsal culture with our facility Irsquod like to think we will catch the Aussies too And what about your own professional development in futsal It must be tremendous working in the game that you love Where would you like to be in a few yearsPeople have asked me this question and in all honesty I donrsquot know To do something you love and contribute something positive to your community as opposed to as opposed to measuring the money earned our hours worked is an honour Things have been so busy I just plan to keep my head down for another twelve months and then assess things then I am pretty happy with where I am at at the moment As things are still growing I am fortunate enough to develop a wide range of experience in marketing managing coaching dealing with key

stakeholders etc I have been forced to develop at the same pace as the sport here which is a great challenge so I am learning and growing every day in a broad set of skills I still have much I want to achieve here in Wellington and dream of futsalrsquos own ldquoBahrain momentrdquo in 2015 so who knows what the future holds

More action from the Cup of Nations as Futsal Whites target Micky Malivuk deals with an aerial ball gainst Africa UnitedPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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CALENDAR 201112

Sun 25 September 2011 NZF-Futsal Level One Refereeing Course PG Arena Napier

SatSun 2223 October 2011 National Girls and Womenrsquos Futsal Tournament ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 34 December 2011 National League Series 1 Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1112 February 2012 National League Series 2 ASB Stadium Auckland

SatSun 1112 February 2012 Futsal - NZ Masters Games Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1718 March 2012 National League Series 3 ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 2627 March 2012 NZF-Futsal Secondary Schools National Futsal Championships ASB Sports Centre Wellington

Calendar201112

Junior action from the opening of the ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington in AugustPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

SERIES ONEDUNEDIN

34 DECEMBER 2011

SERIES TWOAUCKLAND

1112 FEBRUARy 2012

SERIES THREEWELLINGTON1718 MARCH

2012

201112

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PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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wwwnzfootballconz | wwwnzffutsalconz | Follow the Futsal Whites on Facebook

Page 9: THE POWER OF FIVE #2 September 2011

ldquoIn previous years most teams were playing indoor football rather than futsal but the technical ability and movement of the more successful teams suggests we are entering a new phase of the game in this countryrdquo Toohey added

ldquoIt will be interesting to see how the individual centres progress over the next few years Those that are able to get coaching programmes and regular sessions for their players will definitely have the edge rdquo

The 14s final between Auckland Sampa and Mainland Canterbury proved to be an outstanding finale to the tournament with Auckland prevailing 7-6 in extra time after a titanic clash between two experienced and skilful sides

Toohey also paid tribute to the referees who despite a massive workload kept the standard high

ldquoFutsal is not the easiest game to referee We always knew the referees would be a key factor in the success of the tournament and the team Dave Payne and Ken Wallace assembled for the weekend did not let us down They were top notchrdquo he said

RESULTS10sAuckland Rio were winners in the youngest section of the nationals with a hard fought 5-2 win over an excellent Mainland Canterbury in front of a packed Saturday afternoon crowd Rio proved to be the

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Championships NAPIER

comeback kings of the tournament fighting back from 0-3 in the group phase against Mainland to draw 3-3 and then overturning a 0-3 deficit to prevail 5-3 against Capital Futsal in a thrilling semi-final

The teamsHB Futsal FireballsHB Futsal Unison VineyardCapital Futsal WS TitansHB Futsal Crazy HorsesMainland Futsal CanterburyAuckland RioHB Futsal GreendaleHB Futsal Bedpost Brazil

Final

Auckland Rio 5 Canterbury 2

12sA tightly contested grade with three evenly matched teams from Auckland plus excellent sides from Wellington and Christchurch The exciting Auckland Sampa who featured several players from the championship winning side at the Australian Futsal Nationals in Canberra in 2011 prevailed over last yearrsquos Junior grade champions with a hard fought victory

The teamsNelson Bays KnightsAuckland Futsal SantosCapital Futsal YellowAuckland Futsal RioCapital Futsal Petone BarcaHB Futsal Red SteelMainland Futsal CanterburyHB Futsal CHBHB Futsal CyclonesHB Futsal MacKirdyAuckland Futsal SampaCapital Futsal WS Rogerson

Final

Auckland Rio 5 Canterbury 2

Thirty six teams from around the country descended on Napier in the middle week of the July school holidays for the 3rd Annual NZ Football Futsal National Junioryouth Championships

The largest futsal event on the local calendar was played out over three action-packed days at the home of HB Futsal - the Pettigrew Green Arena in Taradale

Teams from Northland Auckland Futsal East City HB Futsal Capital Futsal Nelson Bays Futsal and Mainland Futsal Canterbury squared off in four grades while crowds of up to 500 flocked in over the weekend to witness outstanding displays of futsal from New Zealandrsquos finest young players

Well developed sides from Auckland Futsal took home the 10s 12s and 14s titles while home town boys HB Futsal were popular winners of the 16s grade on the Sunday afternoon Newcomers Mainland Futsal Canterbury made two finals and impressed everyone throughout the weekend with the quality of their futsal

Tournament Coordinator Paul Toohey was delighted with the event and said it showed how far junior and youth futsal had come in the last few years

ldquoIt felt like everybody stepped it up a few gears this year The teams were well prepared and it was obvious that many centres had put a lot of work inrdquo he said

AUCKLAND WIN 10s 12s and 14s - HAWKErsquoS BAY TRIUMPH IN THE 16s

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14sAnother tightly contested grade dominated by Auckland and Canterbury sides East City ousted last yearrsquos champion Auckland Rio side in a classic quarter final eoncounter and the tournament concluded with the unforgettable topsy-turvy final between the two best sides Auckland Sampa and Mainland Futsal Canterbury After a titanic battle Sampa had one hand on the trophy until a last second equalizer from the southerners took the game into extra time Reese Coxrsquos late thunderbolt was enough to steal the glory for the Brazilian coached Aucklanders

The teamsHB Futsal CHBHB Futsal MYIMainland Futsal CanterburyCapital Futsal Welllingtn YellowAuckland Futsal RioHB Futsal FuegoEast CityAuckland Futsal SampaCapital Futsal Team AwesomeNelson Bays Futsal Blues

FinalAuckland Rio (6)7 Canterbury (6)6 AET

16sSome high quality futsal was the hallmark of the 16s with an excellent Northland side unlucky not to make the final In the end the very experienced HB Futsal had too much class for allcomers on their home

court despatching Capital 6-0 in a one sided final after being taken to the wire by Northland and Canterbury in earlier games

The teamsHB Futsal BlueCapital Futsal WellingtonNFF Northland FutsalHB Futsal CHB 1HB Futsal StormersMainland Futsal Canterbury

Final HB Futsal Stormers 6 Capital Futsal 0

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PHOTO OFC

PHOTOS ALPHAPIX

Around theCentres12

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PHOTO OFCNFF Futsal

Northern Football Federation Futsal Launch 17 September 2011When Saturday 17 September 10-2pmWhere Massey University Recreation Centre ndash Albany

We will have two showcase games being played on a full sized futsal court against the Futsal Whitesbull 1030am Futsal Whites vs Football

Fernsbull 1200pm Futsal Whites vs Massey

University Champions

This is an opportunity for the community to come along and experience what futsal is join in have some fun and meet players from our national futsal team

NFF are running the following futsal programmes and leagues

Junioryouth Programmesbull Pilot Futsal Programme bull The Leisure Centre ndash Stanmore Bay

(Term 3 and 4)bull Massey University Recreation Centre ndash

Albany (Term 4 Monday 330-6pm)bull West Wave Recreation Centre ndash

Henderson (Term 4)bull Rutherford College ndash Te Atatu (Term 4)bull Adult Leaguesbull Lunchtime Business House Futsal

League ndash Massey University Recreation Centre Albany (STARTS Friday 1130-2pm 28 October)

bull Youth Senior Futsal League - Massey University Recreation Centre Albany

bull (STARTS Monday 6-8pm 31 October)bull Further Futsal leagues and

programmes will be offered throughout the NFF region

To register your interest in futsal for your club or for more information on the above please contact

Sarah PayneE sarahpaynenfforgnz M 021 795 045or visit our website wwwnfforgnz

Hibiscus Coast Pilot ProgrammeThe Leisure Centre Stanmore BayWednesdays 7-10 years 31 August - 5 October (Late registrations will be accepted Please contact Sarah for cost)Session one 330 - 445pm Session two 445 - 6pm

Thursdays 11-14 years 1 September - 6 October (Late registrations will be accepted Please contact Sarah for cost)Session one 600 - 715pm

The idea of the Pilot Futsal Programme is to provide skills based coaching suitable for your players age group in a 40 minute block followed by a 35 minute block of quick rotation games roll on roll off first to a goal etc It is a great introduction to futsal and a way for players to improve their football skills and also have some fun at the same time

You may wish to encourage as many of your outdoor team as possible as this is an excellent way for your team to remain together as the winter season comes to a close and helps their football skills to stay strong and continue to work as a team in preparation for next season

You will need shin pads and non marking sneakers or futsal shoes

AFF Futsal

AVONDALEbull An Auckland Football Federation Senior

Menrsquos Futsal league is launching on September 27 at Avondale College

What Senior Menrsquos League (players 16 years old or over)When Starts Tuesday 13 SeptemberWhere Avondale College (2 court venue)Cost $330 per teamContact Yonas bull Game times - 530pm-645pmbull 12 players per squadbull League limited to 10 teamsbull 11-week season (including finals)

To register for AFF-Futsal Avondale League contact Centre Officer - yonas Gebre at playbeautiful10gmailcom

MANUKAUOtara Leisure AFF-Futsal and Counties Manukau Sport have teamed up to deliver the KiwiSport funded Primary Futsal in Schools Programme

bull Futsal lsquoGive it a Gorsquo sessions delivered to 960 7-9 year olds

bull 10 week school programme delivered throughout Manukau between October-February

bull Primary League established between February-April

bull lsquoFutsal in Schoolsrsquo Programme Coach Education delivered to 70 Manukau Institute of Technology students

bull Teachers trained to deliver basic coaching

EAST CITyEast City Futsal based at the ASB Stadium in Kohimarama Auckland runs a premier league on Monday nights (comprised of ten teams) which is played on an international size court with two referee officials per game

The competition this season has been exceptional all games have been close with some upsets along the way

The East City Youth Development Squad took advantage of East City National League training finishing in the top four - a huge accomplishment The final night was a no-holds barred night both semi-finals and finals Arabian Knights and KBT went head to head in the finalrsquos and after a very intense game with some amazing futsal skills by both teams KBT took out the Premier Winter League now winning back to back seasons -Barbara Gwilliam

East City took a squad of 8 players to the U14s 2011 NZ Football Futsal National Junior Youth Championship held at Pettigrew Green Arena Napier on 23-24 July The team was drawn from participants in our in-house Summer 2011 competition The team was coached by Dennis Dow the older brother of one of our players who plays in the clubrsquos premier league with our youth development squad

The boys got off to a flying start with a convincing 9-0 win over Nelson Bays The highlight of the game was a 6-goal haul by midfielder Matthew Bouzaid who went on to repeat this achievement in the games against Wellington Team Awesome and Auckland Futsal Rio In total Matthew scored 19 goals only one short of winning the Golden Boot Award

The highlight of our tournament was the quarter-final against Auckland Futsal Rio

a team which included a large contingent of Auckland representative players East City made a tremendous start going 4-0 up within the first five minutes before Rio staged a strong comeback to level by half time and then to lead 7-5 early in the second half The East City boys kept their composure and put the Rio defence under such pressure that they conceded a number of fouls in and around their own goal box with two of the resulting free kicks being coolly converted to bring the scores level The boys snatched the lead with less than two minutes to play and displayed great maturity to hold Rio at bayIn the semi final the boys were again given a futsal lesson by an extremely skilful and well drilled Mainland Futsal team who went on to lose an extra-time thriller in the final against Auckland Futsal Sampa

The East City boys can be very proud of the fact that their only two losses during the tournament came to the teams which finished first and second As the competition progressed their confidence and awareness improved markedly and will stand them in good stead in future years

- Derek Dow

ContactEmail futsalmandataconz East City Administration Line 579-0652

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East City Winter Premier League Winners 2011 KBTPHOTO EAST CITY

HB Futsal

After hosting the third annual National Junior and Youth Championships at the Pettigrew Green Arena we have turned our attention to the Term 4 Leagues which commence on October 25 Enrolments are underway with over fifty teams (JuniorIntermediateYouthSocialPremier) expected to take part in our Tuesday night leagues

Recent discussions with the Arena have highlighted the high demand for court space from the other sporting codes who currently use the facility Basketball volleyball and netball are all experiencing huge growth due in particular to the college programmes in operation The challenge for futsal in Hawkersquos Bay is finding enough courts to enable the heavily subscribed leagues to expand further as we are in the unfortunate position at the moment of having to turn teams away

A major highlight of the last quarter was the success of the HB Stormers who picked up the 16s championship trophy at the recent Nationals after beating Capital Futsal 6-0 in the final

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

AUCKLAND FUTSAL2011 NZF FUTSAL CHAMPIONS 10 12 14 Boys Grades

Auckland Futsalrsquos representatives 1012 amp 14 Boys swept all aside to win a record three national titles at the 2011 NZ Futsal Championships held in Napier in July

Auckland Futsalrsquos Brazilian coaches Felipe Bernardi amp Juliano Schmeling prepared our representative teams to play an authentic Brazilian style of futsal - highly technical constant rhythmic movements and fast intricate passing

Auckland Rio - NZ Champion - 10 Boys1 Finn Ambridge2 Gene Toohey3 Josh Coe4 Theo Hardy5 Sidney Boyd6 Joel Clissold7 Harrison Chadwick8 Oscar Browne

Auckland SAMPA - NZ Champion - 12 Boys1 Ahmed Mohammadi2 Ethan Amey3 Jack Vaughan4 Nicholas Milne (K)5 Sean Green6 Matthew Hunter

Auckland SAMPA - NZ Champion - 14 Boys1 Dylan Burns2 Harry Bell3 Phillip Paul4 Reese Cox5 Sean Clark6 Tinashe Marowa7 Emman Rahimi8 Charlie Thomas9 Corey Walters (K)

10 David Masters (K)

Junior Leagues starting in September 20117 - 19 yrsHarbour - WednesdaysAuckland Central - Mondays Thursdays Fridays SundaysAuckland East - Mondays TuesdaysBrazil Futsal AcademyAuthentic Brazilian Futsal skills techniques movement creativity amp learning to lsquoPlay Like a Brazilianrsquo Let our Brazilian coaches help you become an exciting playerAges 5 - 13 yrs

Harbour - SundaysAuckland Central Mondays Sundays

Contact Craig Empsonplayaucklandfutsalorgwwwaucklandfutsalorg

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Many of these 1996 born players started with us back in the original leagues of 2006 and under the watchful eye of coach Mark Cozens have blossomed into a well organised and dedicated outifit with a bit of an lsquox-factorrsquo We fully expect many of these players to continue on the futsal pathway being offered by NZF Futsal with all the boys hoping to play in the National League in the near future

wwwhbfutsalorgnz

Capital Futsal

Futsalrsquos future in Wellington looks bright if the success of ASB Sport Centrersquos grand opening in August is anything to go by

As one of many sports which will call the 12 court $475 million venue in Kilbirnie home futsal was exposed to a large new audience with around 15000 visiting during the open day

Futsal activities held throughout the day included the national team the Futsal Whites competing in a cup of nations against ethnic-based local sides

The Futsal Whites predictably prevailed beating an Africa United team led by Team Wellington striker Hicham Kamri 7-1 in the final

There were also womens and youth tournaments held and one court was also set aside for people to try futsal in different gender and age groups with Futsal Whites players mixing with locals game enough to step on court

ldquoIt was a great chance to get in front of people who may not have played much futsal if at allrdquo said NZF Futsal Development Manager Dave Payne

ldquoThe interest from kids was particularly pleasing and I think they really enjoyed the sport as well as the opportunity to play against national team players and get their autographs while they were there

ldquoSome turned up after winter football some had played other sports but were taken by the skill of the game and the fact that anyone can play

NZF Futsal 16s Champions 2011 - HB StormersPHOTO ALPHAPIX

Action from the Cup of Nations at ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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ldquoCapital Futsal has experienced a boost in registrations and the success of the open day and the quality of the venue bodes well for continued growth of futsal in Wellington

Up to six futsal courts will be in action every Monday Tuesday and Friday night beginning in October and a range of tournaments will run during the October school holidays Close to 300 futsal teams will play in leagues and tournaments at the ASB Sports Centre between October and December

Contactmattfutsalnetnz021 971 798wwwfutsalnetnz

Mainland Futsal

All systems are go in the Mainland region with over 50 teams now playing every week in our various leagues This means we can start to build our other regions up over the next few months Our Christchurch leagues now run to 3 divisions of Senior Men 1 Womenrsquos division 2 Youth divisions 1 Junior a Mixed and a Masters

We had a fabulous trip to the Youth and Junior Nationals taking a team in each group and eventually (returning in the snow storm of the year) with two silver medals Special congratulations are due

Top Luke Tongue clears the ball in a 12s Nationalrsquos game in Napier Benji lapslie Sam Philip Ellis Hare-Reid (G) and Joe Bell (10) look on

Centre Mainland Canterbury 10s

Bottom left Stephen Livingstone pressures the keeper in a 14s Nationals game

Bottom right Avery Addei breaks in the 16s Nationals while Sam Lapslie Miguel Mitchell Hamish Mitchell (GK) and Sam Roger watch

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

to Peter Livingstone for coaching the 14s to Silver and Matt Hoole doing the same for the 10s but all the teams coaches and support staff did themselves proud It was a great opportunity to play against all the regions of the country and the boys returned with growth and knowledge under their belt as well as great memories of a great event

September sees our ldquoFutsal Camprdquo run every Saturday Under 12s and 12-15s using the time to grow their game with expert coaches and players guidance Along with our schools competition starting next term and a very successful referees training day adding 10 refs to our roster we are growing in all areas and on all fronts

We look forward to catching up with the Futsal community at the Girls Nationals and the Masters where we will bring teams to both

Futsal South

Football South Futsal has recently changed its name to Futsal South Each centre within the Futsal South region will use the logos above with their centre name as per Futsal South ndash Dunedin logo

We now have centres in Dunedin Wanaka Queenstown Timaru and looking to start in Balclutha

Futsal South has held two selection tournaments in Dunedin to choose our National League squad from Teams from Queenstown Wanaka and Dunedin were involved over the 2 rounds with some great Futsal played by all involved

Queenstown Falcons took out the first tournament and Real Football winning the second tournament Luiz Uhera (Futsal South National League Coach) and Chris Button (Futsal South National League Manager) have selected an initial training squad of 30 players from those involved to train towards the 201112 National League

In September 2011 we are starting our summer Futsal leagues We have Senior leagues running on Monday and Wednesday nights Primary school leagues on Wednesday afternoons Intermediate and Junior High School leagues on Tuesday afternoons and Senior High School leagues on Thursday afternoons

With the introduction of our Primary School League we are also offering a futsal in Schools coaching program which involves a part time coach teaching basic Futsal skills in Primary and Intermediate School pupils We have had a very positive response to our pilot program that was run at Tahuna Intermediate with over 450 pupils being given Futsal instruction in their Physical Education classes for 2 weeks

We have signed up a number of schools for this program for terms 3 amp 4 of 2011 and also have schools signed up for next year We are also looking to take the program to the Central Otago and Clutha districts to help boost player numbers in those areas

This should give a real boost towards the future of Futsal in our region

Futsal South has been running referee courses over the region and now have 52 qualified referees and another course running shortly

NZF Futsal ContactsNorthern Football Futsal - NorthlandFar Northsarahpaynenfforgnzdavealabasternfforgnz

East City Futsal (Auckland)cosworthxtraconzeastcityfutsalmandataconz

Auckland Futsalplayaucklandfutsalorg

AFF Futsal - Avondale Playbeautiful10gmailcom

AFF Futsal - Manukau MikeibbertsonmanukauleisureconzMaraeaHoweaucklandcouncilgovtnz

WAIBOP Futsalpeterawaibopfootballconzsimonmwaibopfootballconz

Hawkes Bay Futsal ptooheyhbfutsalorgnz

Wairarapa Futsal petercoxsparcconzpaul_burnsxtraconz

Red Sox Manawatu Futsal (Palmerston North) bergie007vodafoneconz

Capital Futsal (Wellington)mattcapitalfootballorgnz

Marlborough Futsal (Blenheim) marlboroughfootballxtraconz

Nelson Bays Futsal sportsmallxtraconz

Mainland Futsal - Canterburyrichardmainlandfutsalconz

Mainland Futsal - West Coastsportgreyhighschoolnz

Futsal South - Dunedinkneepadsparadisenetnzfootballmikeihugconz

Futsal South - Wanaka cecisxtraconz

Futsal South - Queenstown infoqueenstownfootballcomkampmanqueenstownconzQueenstown Falcons Futsal marcosmelo1313hotmailcomraulharpyayahoocombr

Futsal South - Timarujcamesymcascorgnz

have a great team behind me with support in areas like accounts which allows me to spend more of my time planning the ASB Centre programme as well as getting out into even more schools How much coaching are you doingLast term I trialled ldquoCoach n Playrdquo leagues in both of our U13 leagues which went well At the moment I coach the St Pats U16 team on a weekly basis with the ambition of winning NZSSSC College Nationals hosted right next door at the ASB Centre in March 2012 Our U19 squad is a representative team and is going to Australia for the nationals in January We will be together playing and training three times a week from next month Our Island Bay Team Awesome U13s have been training once and playing once a week in preparation for Nationals in Australia too From next term Friday nights will be coaching nights for U11s and each age group up to 16s 19s and Men We see this as an important part of the programme to help educate futsal players which in turn will also produce better football players Whatrsquos a typical week for you Matt - Futsal every day Most eveningsAll day all night Yes As part of the Capital transition and with the new centre I am involving more people in running and refereeing the leagues so I can be more efficient in the overall management as opposed to being out ldquoon the groundrdquo at

Capital Futsalrsquos Development Officer is at the centre of the growing futsal scene in Wellington With four yearsrsquo experience as a player coach administrator and volunteer under his belt Fejos is a regular fixture at tournaments and events around the country POWER OF FIVE caught up with him in the days following the opening of the new state of the art twelve court ASB Community Centre - the new home for futsal in Wellington

Matt - how long have you been involved in futsalSince late 2007 coming back to Wellington for summer after Otago University and wanting to play indoor soccer - which is all I knew at the time A knock on Dave and Sarahrsquos Paynersquos door changed my life I guess Tell us a little bit about your role with Capital Futsal Capital City Futsal has recently been integrated into Capital Football hasnrsquot itYes we are currently going through the transition of Capital Football taking on the responsibility for delivering futsal as with other federations around the country My role up until now has been everything really running and promoting the leagues school visits with a focus on the Kiwisport College programme administering everything and overall organisingThis is now changing as things get bigger and with the transition to Capital - I now

leagues four nights a week The emails administration and practical running of things are endless so good thing I do it because I love it At times it seems there is too much interest It is a fantastic problem to have

Are you still finding time to playI sneak in a few social games a week which allows me to drop in on the leagues too and make sure everything is ok too I donrsquot have the time for much more than that and have made the decision that I have more to contribute off the court than on by way of contributing to the opportunities of others You guys are doing well on the referee development side of things How many qualified referees do you have now in WellingtonWe have about 25 from our last two courses in Wellington Most encouraging is the college students involved in what is traditionally seen as an lsquoold manrsquosrsquo thing There are also pathways within refereeing onto the National League and OFC Championships The new centre with twelve courts and a brand new meeting room will provide a professional venue to host referee and coach education sessions Capital Footballrsquos Jamie Cross has also officiated at the OFC Championships in the past so has a lot of experience And Adam Walker volunteers and develops referees which is a real asset to us

MATT FEJOSINTERVIEW

Capital Futsal

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PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

ldquoI BELIEVE MORE CLUBS TEAMS OF ALL AGES WILL ADOPT FUTSAL AS ONE OF THEIR

TRAINING NIGHTS DURING THE FOOTBALL SEASON rdquo

Capital Futsal

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Can you tell us a little bit about the KiwiSport College Futsal initiative you are involved withCapital Futsal and myself personally would not be here without it so we owe a great deal of gratitude to KiwiSport College Sport Wellington and Sport Wellington It allowed me to leave a job in a bank fourteen months ago and get out into colleges to grow the game Over 2000 students from 16 different colleges have been involved from sessions in their school to local college leagues up to College Nationals and young Izaac OrsquoHara showing the pathways in the game being involved with the Futsal Whites What about the National League this year Capital were the top New Zealand side in 201011 Will you have pretty much the same outfit as last yearThings are always changing We lose two of our senior Futsal Whites overseas in Lucas da Silva and Tariq Assad We have some new Brazilians who have been training with the team I am hoping one or two of my promising U19 squad will squeeze in too but things are getting very competitive We have the same management and coaching team which provides some continuity to build on last season and catch those Aussies Our new competitive league will be played on our three international courts which will help too How did the Capital teams enjoy the JuniorYouth Nationals this year The 16s did particularly well and made the finalI think it was a real landmark event The standard went through the roof and centres now will have to send their best players selected from their leagues and

training together It was great to see My 16s were the St Patrickrsquos College team and performed amazingly with just six players from one school showing the benefit of futsal specific training to learn technically and tactically how to play the game Beating squads of eight and nine players selected from federations was quite an achievement They also played the first ever game of any sport at the Opening Day (of the new stadium)against the Futsal Whites and only lost 4-1 in 16 minutes of game time which speaks volumes for these boys I think I was happy with all the teams from the 10s up to 16s and come next year I can only imagine what our top teams will look like after playing and training in the best facility in the country

Capital have always been pioneers - a few years ago Brian Blellock and others set up that great little futsal club in Hataitai Now you have offices in the what is probably the best facility in the Southern Hemisphere What are long term plans for the game in Wellington I think even medium term the transition to Capital Football is the most important thing It is not going to be instant and we are still learning every day To integrate futsal into trainings have futsal specific days and host top tournaments Who knows maybe in a few years we might become a lsquomajorrsquo sport In just four years since that league in Hataitai we have become a major stakeholder in the new centre with netball and basketball Four years ago you would have thought we were mad but it shows firstly the potential

ldquoI STILL HAVE MUCH I WANT TO ACHIEVE HERE IN WELLINGTON AND DREAM OF FUTSALrsquoS OWN lsquoBAHRAIN MOMENTrsquo IN 2015 - SO WHO KNOWS

WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDSrdquo

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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of this amazing game that is already proven around the world and secondly that with a team of volunteers willing to put in lots of work into something they believe in amazing things can happen

The new centre presents a great opportunity to get more players involved There is the potential for 200 teams in the new centre and with perfect timing of the outdoor season coming to a close The womens and college leagues are showing huge potential for growth As we build momentum over the summer and work through Capital Football I believe more clubs teams of all ages will adopt futsal as one of their training nights during the football season

What about the national scene Do you feel the game has come a long way in the last few years What are the top priorities for the next few years Can the Futsal Whites get close to the Solomon IslandsThat youth tournament in Napier in July as I said was a real landmark They are the future and to have our kids playing from a young age is how we will catch

the Solomons For the next World Cup campaign in four years time I hope some of our Capital 16-19 year olds might progress Longer term if we can be teaching our children from five years up and create a futsal culture with our facility Irsquod like to think we will catch the Aussies too And what about your own professional development in futsal It must be tremendous working in the game that you love Where would you like to be in a few yearsPeople have asked me this question and in all honesty I donrsquot know To do something you love and contribute something positive to your community as opposed to as opposed to measuring the money earned our hours worked is an honour Things have been so busy I just plan to keep my head down for another twelve months and then assess things then I am pretty happy with where I am at at the moment As things are still growing I am fortunate enough to develop a wide range of experience in marketing managing coaching dealing with key

stakeholders etc I have been forced to develop at the same pace as the sport here which is a great challenge so I am learning and growing every day in a broad set of skills I still have much I want to achieve here in Wellington and dream of futsalrsquos own ldquoBahrain momentrdquo in 2015 so who knows what the future holds

More action from the Cup of Nations as Futsal Whites target Micky Malivuk deals with an aerial ball gainst Africa UnitedPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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CALENDAR 201112

Sun 25 September 2011 NZF-Futsal Level One Refereeing Course PG Arena Napier

SatSun 2223 October 2011 National Girls and Womenrsquos Futsal Tournament ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 34 December 2011 National League Series 1 Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1112 February 2012 National League Series 2 ASB Stadium Auckland

SatSun 1112 February 2012 Futsal - NZ Masters Games Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1718 March 2012 National League Series 3 ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 2627 March 2012 NZF-Futsal Secondary Schools National Futsal Championships ASB Sports Centre Wellington

Calendar201112

Junior action from the opening of the ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington in AugustPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

SERIES ONEDUNEDIN

34 DECEMBER 2011

SERIES TWOAUCKLAND

1112 FEBRUARy 2012

SERIES THREEWELLINGTON1718 MARCH

2012

201112

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201112

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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wwwnzfootballconz | wwwnzffutsalconz | Follow the Futsal Whites on Facebook

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14sAnother tightly contested grade dominated by Auckland and Canterbury sides East City ousted last yearrsquos champion Auckland Rio side in a classic quarter final eoncounter and the tournament concluded with the unforgettable topsy-turvy final between the two best sides Auckland Sampa and Mainland Futsal Canterbury After a titanic battle Sampa had one hand on the trophy until a last second equalizer from the southerners took the game into extra time Reese Coxrsquos late thunderbolt was enough to steal the glory for the Brazilian coached Aucklanders

The teamsHB Futsal CHBHB Futsal MYIMainland Futsal CanterburyCapital Futsal Welllingtn YellowAuckland Futsal RioHB Futsal FuegoEast CityAuckland Futsal SampaCapital Futsal Team AwesomeNelson Bays Futsal Blues

FinalAuckland Rio (6)7 Canterbury (6)6 AET

16sSome high quality futsal was the hallmark of the 16s with an excellent Northland side unlucky not to make the final In the end the very experienced HB Futsal had too much class for allcomers on their home

court despatching Capital 6-0 in a one sided final after being taken to the wire by Northland and Canterbury in earlier games

The teamsHB Futsal BlueCapital Futsal WellingtonNFF Northland FutsalHB Futsal CHB 1HB Futsal StormersMainland Futsal Canterbury

Final HB Futsal Stormers 6 Capital Futsal 0

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PHOTO OFC

PHOTOS ALPHAPIX

Around theCentres12

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PHOTO OFCNFF Futsal

Northern Football Federation Futsal Launch 17 September 2011When Saturday 17 September 10-2pmWhere Massey University Recreation Centre ndash Albany

We will have two showcase games being played on a full sized futsal court against the Futsal Whitesbull 1030am Futsal Whites vs Football

Fernsbull 1200pm Futsal Whites vs Massey

University Champions

This is an opportunity for the community to come along and experience what futsal is join in have some fun and meet players from our national futsal team

NFF are running the following futsal programmes and leagues

Junioryouth Programmesbull Pilot Futsal Programme bull The Leisure Centre ndash Stanmore Bay

(Term 3 and 4)bull Massey University Recreation Centre ndash

Albany (Term 4 Monday 330-6pm)bull West Wave Recreation Centre ndash

Henderson (Term 4)bull Rutherford College ndash Te Atatu (Term 4)bull Adult Leaguesbull Lunchtime Business House Futsal

League ndash Massey University Recreation Centre Albany (STARTS Friday 1130-2pm 28 October)

bull Youth Senior Futsal League - Massey University Recreation Centre Albany

bull (STARTS Monday 6-8pm 31 October)bull Further Futsal leagues and

programmes will be offered throughout the NFF region

To register your interest in futsal for your club or for more information on the above please contact

Sarah PayneE sarahpaynenfforgnz M 021 795 045or visit our website wwwnfforgnz

Hibiscus Coast Pilot ProgrammeThe Leisure Centre Stanmore BayWednesdays 7-10 years 31 August - 5 October (Late registrations will be accepted Please contact Sarah for cost)Session one 330 - 445pm Session two 445 - 6pm

Thursdays 11-14 years 1 September - 6 October (Late registrations will be accepted Please contact Sarah for cost)Session one 600 - 715pm

The idea of the Pilot Futsal Programme is to provide skills based coaching suitable for your players age group in a 40 minute block followed by a 35 minute block of quick rotation games roll on roll off first to a goal etc It is a great introduction to futsal and a way for players to improve their football skills and also have some fun at the same time

You may wish to encourage as many of your outdoor team as possible as this is an excellent way for your team to remain together as the winter season comes to a close and helps their football skills to stay strong and continue to work as a team in preparation for next season

You will need shin pads and non marking sneakers or futsal shoes

AFF Futsal

AVONDALEbull An Auckland Football Federation Senior

Menrsquos Futsal league is launching on September 27 at Avondale College

What Senior Menrsquos League (players 16 years old or over)When Starts Tuesday 13 SeptemberWhere Avondale College (2 court venue)Cost $330 per teamContact Yonas bull Game times - 530pm-645pmbull 12 players per squadbull League limited to 10 teamsbull 11-week season (including finals)

To register for AFF-Futsal Avondale League contact Centre Officer - yonas Gebre at playbeautiful10gmailcom

MANUKAUOtara Leisure AFF-Futsal and Counties Manukau Sport have teamed up to deliver the KiwiSport funded Primary Futsal in Schools Programme

bull Futsal lsquoGive it a Gorsquo sessions delivered to 960 7-9 year olds

bull 10 week school programme delivered throughout Manukau between October-February

bull Primary League established between February-April

bull lsquoFutsal in Schoolsrsquo Programme Coach Education delivered to 70 Manukau Institute of Technology students

bull Teachers trained to deliver basic coaching

EAST CITyEast City Futsal based at the ASB Stadium in Kohimarama Auckland runs a premier league on Monday nights (comprised of ten teams) which is played on an international size court with two referee officials per game

The competition this season has been exceptional all games have been close with some upsets along the way

The East City Youth Development Squad took advantage of East City National League training finishing in the top four - a huge accomplishment The final night was a no-holds barred night both semi-finals and finals Arabian Knights and KBT went head to head in the finalrsquos and after a very intense game with some amazing futsal skills by both teams KBT took out the Premier Winter League now winning back to back seasons -Barbara Gwilliam

East City took a squad of 8 players to the U14s 2011 NZ Football Futsal National Junior Youth Championship held at Pettigrew Green Arena Napier on 23-24 July The team was drawn from participants in our in-house Summer 2011 competition The team was coached by Dennis Dow the older brother of one of our players who plays in the clubrsquos premier league with our youth development squad

The boys got off to a flying start with a convincing 9-0 win over Nelson Bays The highlight of the game was a 6-goal haul by midfielder Matthew Bouzaid who went on to repeat this achievement in the games against Wellington Team Awesome and Auckland Futsal Rio In total Matthew scored 19 goals only one short of winning the Golden Boot Award

The highlight of our tournament was the quarter-final against Auckland Futsal Rio

a team which included a large contingent of Auckland representative players East City made a tremendous start going 4-0 up within the first five minutes before Rio staged a strong comeback to level by half time and then to lead 7-5 early in the second half The East City boys kept their composure and put the Rio defence under such pressure that they conceded a number of fouls in and around their own goal box with two of the resulting free kicks being coolly converted to bring the scores level The boys snatched the lead with less than two minutes to play and displayed great maturity to hold Rio at bayIn the semi final the boys were again given a futsal lesson by an extremely skilful and well drilled Mainland Futsal team who went on to lose an extra-time thriller in the final against Auckland Futsal Sampa

The East City boys can be very proud of the fact that their only two losses during the tournament came to the teams which finished first and second As the competition progressed their confidence and awareness improved markedly and will stand them in good stead in future years

- Derek Dow

ContactEmail futsalmandataconz East City Administration Line 579-0652

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East City Winter Premier League Winners 2011 KBTPHOTO EAST CITY

HB Futsal

After hosting the third annual National Junior and Youth Championships at the Pettigrew Green Arena we have turned our attention to the Term 4 Leagues which commence on October 25 Enrolments are underway with over fifty teams (JuniorIntermediateYouthSocialPremier) expected to take part in our Tuesday night leagues

Recent discussions with the Arena have highlighted the high demand for court space from the other sporting codes who currently use the facility Basketball volleyball and netball are all experiencing huge growth due in particular to the college programmes in operation The challenge for futsal in Hawkersquos Bay is finding enough courts to enable the heavily subscribed leagues to expand further as we are in the unfortunate position at the moment of having to turn teams away

A major highlight of the last quarter was the success of the HB Stormers who picked up the 16s championship trophy at the recent Nationals after beating Capital Futsal 6-0 in the final

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

AUCKLAND FUTSAL2011 NZF FUTSAL CHAMPIONS 10 12 14 Boys Grades

Auckland Futsalrsquos representatives 1012 amp 14 Boys swept all aside to win a record three national titles at the 2011 NZ Futsal Championships held in Napier in July

Auckland Futsalrsquos Brazilian coaches Felipe Bernardi amp Juliano Schmeling prepared our representative teams to play an authentic Brazilian style of futsal - highly technical constant rhythmic movements and fast intricate passing

Auckland Rio - NZ Champion - 10 Boys1 Finn Ambridge2 Gene Toohey3 Josh Coe4 Theo Hardy5 Sidney Boyd6 Joel Clissold7 Harrison Chadwick8 Oscar Browne

Auckland SAMPA - NZ Champion - 12 Boys1 Ahmed Mohammadi2 Ethan Amey3 Jack Vaughan4 Nicholas Milne (K)5 Sean Green6 Matthew Hunter

Auckland SAMPA - NZ Champion - 14 Boys1 Dylan Burns2 Harry Bell3 Phillip Paul4 Reese Cox5 Sean Clark6 Tinashe Marowa7 Emman Rahimi8 Charlie Thomas9 Corey Walters (K)

10 David Masters (K)

Junior Leagues starting in September 20117 - 19 yrsHarbour - WednesdaysAuckland Central - Mondays Thursdays Fridays SundaysAuckland East - Mondays TuesdaysBrazil Futsal AcademyAuthentic Brazilian Futsal skills techniques movement creativity amp learning to lsquoPlay Like a Brazilianrsquo Let our Brazilian coaches help you become an exciting playerAges 5 - 13 yrs

Harbour - SundaysAuckland Central Mondays Sundays

Contact Craig Empsonplayaucklandfutsalorgwwwaucklandfutsalorg

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Many of these 1996 born players started with us back in the original leagues of 2006 and under the watchful eye of coach Mark Cozens have blossomed into a well organised and dedicated outifit with a bit of an lsquox-factorrsquo We fully expect many of these players to continue on the futsal pathway being offered by NZF Futsal with all the boys hoping to play in the National League in the near future

wwwhbfutsalorgnz

Capital Futsal

Futsalrsquos future in Wellington looks bright if the success of ASB Sport Centrersquos grand opening in August is anything to go by

As one of many sports which will call the 12 court $475 million venue in Kilbirnie home futsal was exposed to a large new audience with around 15000 visiting during the open day

Futsal activities held throughout the day included the national team the Futsal Whites competing in a cup of nations against ethnic-based local sides

The Futsal Whites predictably prevailed beating an Africa United team led by Team Wellington striker Hicham Kamri 7-1 in the final

There were also womens and youth tournaments held and one court was also set aside for people to try futsal in different gender and age groups with Futsal Whites players mixing with locals game enough to step on court

ldquoIt was a great chance to get in front of people who may not have played much futsal if at allrdquo said NZF Futsal Development Manager Dave Payne

ldquoThe interest from kids was particularly pleasing and I think they really enjoyed the sport as well as the opportunity to play against national team players and get their autographs while they were there

ldquoSome turned up after winter football some had played other sports but were taken by the skill of the game and the fact that anyone can play

NZF Futsal 16s Champions 2011 - HB StormersPHOTO ALPHAPIX

Action from the Cup of Nations at ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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ldquoCapital Futsal has experienced a boost in registrations and the success of the open day and the quality of the venue bodes well for continued growth of futsal in Wellington

Up to six futsal courts will be in action every Monday Tuesday and Friday night beginning in October and a range of tournaments will run during the October school holidays Close to 300 futsal teams will play in leagues and tournaments at the ASB Sports Centre between October and December

Contactmattfutsalnetnz021 971 798wwwfutsalnetnz

Mainland Futsal

All systems are go in the Mainland region with over 50 teams now playing every week in our various leagues This means we can start to build our other regions up over the next few months Our Christchurch leagues now run to 3 divisions of Senior Men 1 Womenrsquos division 2 Youth divisions 1 Junior a Mixed and a Masters

We had a fabulous trip to the Youth and Junior Nationals taking a team in each group and eventually (returning in the snow storm of the year) with two silver medals Special congratulations are due

Top Luke Tongue clears the ball in a 12s Nationalrsquos game in Napier Benji lapslie Sam Philip Ellis Hare-Reid (G) and Joe Bell (10) look on

Centre Mainland Canterbury 10s

Bottom left Stephen Livingstone pressures the keeper in a 14s Nationals game

Bottom right Avery Addei breaks in the 16s Nationals while Sam Lapslie Miguel Mitchell Hamish Mitchell (GK) and Sam Roger watch

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

to Peter Livingstone for coaching the 14s to Silver and Matt Hoole doing the same for the 10s but all the teams coaches and support staff did themselves proud It was a great opportunity to play against all the regions of the country and the boys returned with growth and knowledge under their belt as well as great memories of a great event

September sees our ldquoFutsal Camprdquo run every Saturday Under 12s and 12-15s using the time to grow their game with expert coaches and players guidance Along with our schools competition starting next term and a very successful referees training day adding 10 refs to our roster we are growing in all areas and on all fronts

We look forward to catching up with the Futsal community at the Girls Nationals and the Masters where we will bring teams to both

Futsal South

Football South Futsal has recently changed its name to Futsal South Each centre within the Futsal South region will use the logos above with their centre name as per Futsal South ndash Dunedin logo

We now have centres in Dunedin Wanaka Queenstown Timaru and looking to start in Balclutha

Futsal South has held two selection tournaments in Dunedin to choose our National League squad from Teams from Queenstown Wanaka and Dunedin were involved over the 2 rounds with some great Futsal played by all involved

Queenstown Falcons took out the first tournament and Real Football winning the second tournament Luiz Uhera (Futsal South National League Coach) and Chris Button (Futsal South National League Manager) have selected an initial training squad of 30 players from those involved to train towards the 201112 National League

In September 2011 we are starting our summer Futsal leagues We have Senior leagues running on Monday and Wednesday nights Primary school leagues on Wednesday afternoons Intermediate and Junior High School leagues on Tuesday afternoons and Senior High School leagues on Thursday afternoons

With the introduction of our Primary School League we are also offering a futsal in Schools coaching program which involves a part time coach teaching basic Futsal skills in Primary and Intermediate School pupils We have had a very positive response to our pilot program that was run at Tahuna Intermediate with over 450 pupils being given Futsal instruction in their Physical Education classes for 2 weeks

We have signed up a number of schools for this program for terms 3 amp 4 of 2011 and also have schools signed up for next year We are also looking to take the program to the Central Otago and Clutha districts to help boost player numbers in those areas

This should give a real boost towards the future of Futsal in our region

Futsal South has been running referee courses over the region and now have 52 qualified referees and another course running shortly

NZF Futsal ContactsNorthern Football Futsal - NorthlandFar Northsarahpaynenfforgnzdavealabasternfforgnz

East City Futsal (Auckland)cosworthxtraconzeastcityfutsalmandataconz

Auckland Futsalplayaucklandfutsalorg

AFF Futsal - Avondale Playbeautiful10gmailcom

AFF Futsal - Manukau MikeibbertsonmanukauleisureconzMaraeaHoweaucklandcouncilgovtnz

WAIBOP Futsalpeterawaibopfootballconzsimonmwaibopfootballconz

Hawkes Bay Futsal ptooheyhbfutsalorgnz

Wairarapa Futsal petercoxsparcconzpaul_burnsxtraconz

Red Sox Manawatu Futsal (Palmerston North) bergie007vodafoneconz

Capital Futsal (Wellington)mattcapitalfootballorgnz

Marlborough Futsal (Blenheim) marlboroughfootballxtraconz

Nelson Bays Futsal sportsmallxtraconz

Mainland Futsal - Canterburyrichardmainlandfutsalconz

Mainland Futsal - West Coastsportgreyhighschoolnz

Futsal South - Dunedinkneepadsparadisenetnzfootballmikeihugconz

Futsal South - Wanaka cecisxtraconz

Futsal South - Queenstown infoqueenstownfootballcomkampmanqueenstownconzQueenstown Falcons Futsal marcosmelo1313hotmailcomraulharpyayahoocombr

Futsal South - Timarujcamesymcascorgnz

have a great team behind me with support in areas like accounts which allows me to spend more of my time planning the ASB Centre programme as well as getting out into even more schools How much coaching are you doingLast term I trialled ldquoCoach n Playrdquo leagues in both of our U13 leagues which went well At the moment I coach the St Pats U16 team on a weekly basis with the ambition of winning NZSSSC College Nationals hosted right next door at the ASB Centre in March 2012 Our U19 squad is a representative team and is going to Australia for the nationals in January We will be together playing and training three times a week from next month Our Island Bay Team Awesome U13s have been training once and playing once a week in preparation for Nationals in Australia too From next term Friday nights will be coaching nights for U11s and each age group up to 16s 19s and Men We see this as an important part of the programme to help educate futsal players which in turn will also produce better football players Whatrsquos a typical week for you Matt - Futsal every day Most eveningsAll day all night Yes As part of the Capital transition and with the new centre I am involving more people in running and refereeing the leagues so I can be more efficient in the overall management as opposed to being out ldquoon the groundrdquo at

Capital Futsalrsquos Development Officer is at the centre of the growing futsal scene in Wellington With four yearsrsquo experience as a player coach administrator and volunteer under his belt Fejos is a regular fixture at tournaments and events around the country POWER OF FIVE caught up with him in the days following the opening of the new state of the art twelve court ASB Community Centre - the new home for futsal in Wellington

Matt - how long have you been involved in futsalSince late 2007 coming back to Wellington for summer after Otago University and wanting to play indoor soccer - which is all I knew at the time A knock on Dave and Sarahrsquos Paynersquos door changed my life I guess Tell us a little bit about your role with Capital Futsal Capital City Futsal has recently been integrated into Capital Football hasnrsquot itYes we are currently going through the transition of Capital Football taking on the responsibility for delivering futsal as with other federations around the country My role up until now has been everything really running and promoting the leagues school visits with a focus on the Kiwisport College programme administering everything and overall organisingThis is now changing as things get bigger and with the transition to Capital - I now

leagues four nights a week The emails administration and practical running of things are endless so good thing I do it because I love it At times it seems there is too much interest It is a fantastic problem to have

Are you still finding time to playI sneak in a few social games a week which allows me to drop in on the leagues too and make sure everything is ok too I donrsquot have the time for much more than that and have made the decision that I have more to contribute off the court than on by way of contributing to the opportunities of others You guys are doing well on the referee development side of things How many qualified referees do you have now in WellingtonWe have about 25 from our last two courses in Wellington Most encouraging is the college students involved in what is traditionally seen as an lsquoold manrsquosrsquo thing There are also pathways within refereeing onto the National League and OFC Championships The new centre with twelve courts and a brand new meeting room will provide a professional venue to host referee and coach education sessions Capital Footballrsquos Jamie Cross has also officiated at the OFC Championships in the past so has a lot of experience And Adam Walker volunteers and develops referees which is a real asset to us

MATT FEJOSINTERVIEW

Capital Futsal

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ldquoI BELIEVE MORE CLUBS TEAMS OF ALL AGES WILL ADOPT FUTSAL AS ONE OF THEIR

TRAINING NIGHTS DURING THE FOOTBALL SEASON rdquo

Capital Futsal

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

Can you tell us a little bit about the KiwiSport College Futsal initiative you are involved withCapital Futsal and myself personally would not be here without it so we owe a great deal of gratitude to KiwiSport College Sport Wellington and Sport Wellington It allowed me to leave a job in a bank fourteen months ago and get out into colleges to grow the game Over 2000 students from 16 different colleges have been involved from sessions in their school to local college leagues up to College Nationals and young Izaac OrsquoHara showing the pathways in the game being involved with the Futsal Whites What about the National League this year Capital were the top New Zealand side in 201011 Will you have pretty much the same outfit as last yearThings are always changing We lose two of our senior Futsal Whites overseas in Lucas da Silva and Tariq Assad We have some new Brazilians who have been training with the team I am hoping one or two of my promising U19 squad will squeeze in too but things are getting very competitive We have the same management and coaching team which provides some continuity to build on last season and catch those Aussies Our new competitive league will be played on our three international courts which will help too How did the Capital teams enjoy the JuniorYouth Nationals this year The 16s did particularly well and made the finalI think it was a real landmark event The standard went through the roof and centres now will have to send their best players selected from their leagues and

training together It was great to see My 16s were the St Patrickrsquos College team and performed amazingly with just six players from one school showing the benefit of futsal specific training to learn technically and tactically how to play the game Beating squads of eight and nine players selected from federations was quite an achievement They also played the first ever game of any sport at the Opening Day (of the new stadium)against the Futsal Whites and only lost 4-1 in 16 minutes of game time which speaks volumes for these boys I think I was happy with all the teams from the 10s up to 16s and come next year I can only imagine what our top teams will look like after playing and training in the best facility in the country

Capital have always been pioneers - a few years ago Brian Blellock and others set up that great little futsal club in Hataitai Now you have offices in the what is probably the best facility in the Southern Hemisphere What are long term plans for the game in Wellington I think even medium term the transition to Capital Football is the most important thing It is not going to be instant and we are still learning every day To integrate futsal into trainings have futsal specific days and host top tournaments Who knows maybe in a few years we might become a lsquomajorrsquo sport In just four years since that league in Hataitai we have become a major stakeholder in the new centre with netball and basketball Four years ago you would have thought we were mad but it shows firstly the potential

ldquoI STILL HAVE MUCH I WANT TO ACHIEVE HERE IN WELLINGTON AND DREAM OF FUTSALrsquoS OWN lsquoBAHRAIN MOMENTrsquo IN 2015 - SO WHO KNOWS

WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDSrdquo

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of this amazing game that is already proven around the world and secondly that with a team of volunteers willing to put in lots of work into something they believe in amazing things can happen

The new centre presents a great opportunity to get more players involved There is the potential for 200 teams in the new centre and with perfect timing of the outdoor season coming to a close The womens and college leagues are showing huge potential for growth As we build momentum over the summer and work through Capital Football I believe more clubs teams of all ages will adopt futsal as one of their training nights during the football season

What about the national scene Do you feel the game has come a long way in the last few years What are the top priorities for the next few years Can the Futsal Whites get close to the Solomon IslandsThat youth tournament in Napier in July as I said was a real landmark They are the future and to have our kids playing from a young age is how we will catch

the Solomons For the next World Cup campaign in four years time I hope some of our Capital 16-19 year olds might progress Longer term if we can be teaching our children from five years up and create a futsal culture with our facility Irsquod like to think we will catch the Aussies too And what about your own professional development in futsal It must be tremendous working in the game that you love Where would you like to be in a few yearsPeople have asked me this question and in all honesty I donrsquot know To do something you love and contribute something positive to your community as opposed to as opposed to measuring the money earned our hours worked is an honour Things have been so busy I just plan to keep my head down for another twelve months and then assess things then I am pretty happy with where I am at at the moment As things are still growing I am fortunate enough to develop a wide range of experience in marketing managing coaching dealing with key

stakeholders etc I have been forced to develop at the same pace as the sport here which is a great challenge so I am learning and growing every day in a broad set of skills I still have much I want to achieve here in Wellington and dream of futsalrsquos own ldquoBahrain momentrdquo in 2015 so who knows what the future holds

More action from the Cup of Nations as Futsal Whites target Micky Malivuk deals with an aerial ball gainst Africa UnitedPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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CALENDAR 201112

Sun 25 September 2011 NZF-Futsal Level One Refereeing Course PG Arena Napier

SatSun 2223 October 2011 National Girls and Womenrsquos Futsal Tournament ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 34 December 2011 National League Series 1 Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1112 February 2012 National League Series 2 ASB Stadium Auckland

SatSun 1112 February 2012 Futsal - NZ Masters Games Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1718 March 2012 National League Series 3 ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 2627 March 2012 NZF-Futsal Secondary Schools National Futsal Championships ASB Sports Centre Wellington

Calendar201112

Junior action from the opening of the ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington in AugustPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

SERIES ONEDUNEDIN

34 DECEMBER 2011

SERIES TWOAUCKLAND

1112 FEBRUARy 2012

SERIES THREEWELLINGTON1718 MARCH

2012

201112

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201112

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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wwwnzfootballconz | wwwnzffutsalconz | Follow the Futsal Whites on Facebook

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

PHOTO OFC

PHOTOS ALPHAPIX

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

PHOTO OFCNFF Futsal

Northern Football Federation Futsal Launch 17 September 2011When Saturday 17 September 10-2pmWhere Massey University Recreation Centre ndash Albany

We will have two showcase games being played on a full sized futsal court against the Futsal Whitesbull 1030am Futsal Whites vs Football

Fernsbull 1200pm Futsal Whites vs Massey

University Champions

This is an opportunity for the community to come along and experience what futsal is join in have some fun and meet players from our national futsal team

NFF are running the following futsal programmes and leagues

Junioryouth Programmesbull Pilot Futsal Programme bull The Leisure Centre ndash Stanmore Bay

(Term 3 and 4)bull Massey University Recreation Centre ndash

Albany (Term 4 Monday 330-6pm)bull West Wave Recreation Centre ndash

Henderson (Term 4)bull Rutherford College ndash Te Atatu (Term 4)bull Adult Leaguesbull Lunchtime Business House Futsal

League ndash Massey University Recreation Centre Albany (STARTS Friday 1130-2pm 28 October)

bull Youth Senior Futsal League - Massey University Recreation Centre Albany

bull (STARTS Monday 6-8pm 31 October)bull Further Futsal leagues and

programmes will be offered throughout the NFF region

To register your interest in futsal for your club or for more information on the above please contact

Sarah PayneE sarahpaynenfforgnz M 021 795 045or visit our website wwwnfforgnz

Hibiscus Coast Pilot ProgrammeThe Leisure Centre Stanmore BayWednesdays 7-10 years 31 August - 5 October (Late registrations will be accepted Please contact Sarah for cost)Session one 330 - 445pm Session two 445 - 6pm

Thursdays 11-14 years 1 September - 6 October (Late registrations will be accepted Please contact Sarah for cost)Session one 600 - 715pm

The idea of the Pilot Futsal Programme is to provide skills based coaching suitable for your players age group in a 40 minute block followed by a 35 minute block of quick rotation games roll on roll off first to a goal etc It is a great introduction to futsal and a way for players to improve their football skills and also have some fun at the same time

You may wish to encourage as many of your outdoor team as possible as this is an excellent way for your team to remain together as the winter season comes to a close and helps their football skills to stay strong and continue to work as a team in preparation for next season

You will need shin pads and non marking sneakers or futsal shoes

AFF Futsal

AVONDALEbull An Auckland Football Federation Senior

Menrsquos Futsal league is launching on September 27 at Avondale College

What Senior Menrsquos League (players 16 years old or over)When Starts Tuesday 13 SeptemberWhere Avondale College (2 court venue)Cost $330 per teamContact Yonas bull Game times - 530pm-645pmbull 12 players per squadbull League limited to 10 teamsbull 11-week season (including finals)

To register for AFF-Futsal Avondale League contact Centre Officer - yonas Gebre at playbeautiful10gmailcom

MANUKAUOtara Leisure AFF-Futsal and Counties Manukau Sport have teamed up to deliver the KiwiSport funded Primary Futsal in Schools Programme

bull Futsal lsquoGive it a Gorsquo sessions delivered to 960 7-9 year olds

bull 10 week school programme delivered throughout Manukau between October-February

bull Primary League established between February-April

bull lsquoFutsal in Schoolsrsquo Programme Coach Education delivered to 70 Manukau Institute of Technology students

bull Teachers trained to deliver basic coaching

EAST CITyEast City Futsal based at the ASB Stadium in Kohimarama Auckland runs a premier league on Monday nights (comprised of ten teams) which is played on an international size court with two referee officials per game

The competition this season has been exceptional all games have been close with some upsets along the way

The East City Youth Development Squad took advantage of East City National League training finishing in the top four - a huge accomplishment The final night was a no-holds barred night both semi-finals and finals Arabian Knights and KBT went head to head in the finalrsquos and after a very intense game with some amazing futsal skills by both teams KBT took out the Premier Winter League now winning back to back seasons -Barbara Gwilliam

East City took a squad of 8 players to the U14s 2011 NZ Football Futsal National Junior Youth Championship held at Pettigrew Green Arena Napier on 23-24 July The team was drawn from participants in our in-house Summer 2011 competition The team was coached by Dennis Dow the older brother of one of our players who plays in the clubrsquos premier league with our youth development squad

The boys got off to a flying start with a convincing 9-0 win over Nelson Bays The highlight of the game was a 6-goal haul by midfielder Matthew Bouzaid who went on to repeat this achievement in the games against Wellington Team Awesome and Auckland Futsal Rio In total Matthew scored 19 goals only one short of winning the Golden Boot Award

The highlight of our tournament was the quarter-final against Auckland Futsal Rio

a team which included a large contingent of Auckland representative players East City made a tremendous start going 4-0 up within the first five minutes before Rio staged a strong comeback to level by half time and then to lead 7-5 early in the second half The East City boys kept their composure and put the Rio defence under such pressure that they conceded a number of fouls in and around their own goal box with two of the resulting free kicks being coolly converted to bring the scores level The boys snatched the lead with less than two minutes to play and displayed great maturity to hold Rio at bayIn the semi final the boys were again given a futsal lesson by an extremely skilful and well drilled Mainland Futsal team who went on to lose an extra-time thriller in the final against Auckland Futsal Sampa

The East City boys can be very proud of the fact that their only two losses during the tournament came to the teams which finished first and second As the competition progressed their confidence and awareness improved markedly and will stand them in good stead in future years

- Derek Dow

ContactEmail futsalmandataconz East City Administration Line 579-0652

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

East City Winter Premier League Winners 2011 KBTPHOTO EAST CITY

HB Futsal

After hosting the third annual National Junior and Youth Championships at the Pettigrew Green Arena we have turned our attention to the Term 4 Leagues which commence on October 25 Enrolments are underway with over fifty teams (JuniorIntermediateYouthSocialPremier) expected to take part in our Tuesday night leagues

Recent discussions with the Arena have highlighted the high demand for court space from the other sporting codes who currently use the facility Basketball volleyball and netball are all experiencing huge growth due in particular to the college programmes in operation The challenge for futsal in Hawkersquos Bay is finding enough courts to enable the heavily subscribed leagues to expand further as we are in the unfortunate position at the moment of having to turn teams away

A major highlight of the last quarter was the success of the HB Stormers who picked up the 16s championship trophy at the recent Nationals after beating Capital Futsal 6-0 in the final

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

AUCKLAND FUTSAL2011 NZF FUTSAL CHAMPIONS 10 12 14 Boys Grades

Auckland Futsalrsquos representatives 1012 amp 14 Boys swept all aside to win a record three national titles at the 2011 NZ Futsal Championships held in Napier in July

Auckland Futsalrsquos Brazilian coaches Felipe Bernardi amp Juliano Schmeling prepared our representative teams to play an authentic Brazilian style of futsal - highly technical constant rhythmic movements and fast intricate passing

Auckland Rio - NZ Champion - 10 Boys1 Finn Ambridge2 Gene Toohey3 Josh Coe4 Theo Hardy5 Sidney Boyd6 Joel Clissold7 Harrison Chadwick8 Oscar Browne

Auckland SAMPA - NZ Champion - 12 Boys1 Ahmed Mohammadi2 Ethan Amey3 Jack Vaughan4 Nicholas Milne (K)5 Sean Green6 Matthew Hunter

Auckland SAMPA - NZ Champion - 14 Boys1 Dylan Burns2 Harry Bell3 Phillip Paul4 Reese Cox5 Sean Clark6 Tinashe Marowa7 Emman Rahimi8 Charlie Thomas9 Corey Walters (K)

10 David Masters (K)

Junior Leagues starting in September 20117 - 19 yrsHarbour - WednesdaysAuckland Central - Mondays Thursdays Fridays SundaysAuckland East - Mondays TuesdaysBrazil Futsal AcademyAuthentic Brazilian Futsal skills techniques movement creativity amp learning to lsquoPlay Like a Brazilianrsquo Let our Brazilian coaches help you become an exciting playerAges 5 - 13 yrs

Harbour - SundaysAuckland Central Mondays Sundays

Contact Craig Empsonplayaucklandfutsalorgwwwaucklandfutsalorg

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

Many of these 1996 born players started with us back in the original leagues of 2006 and under the watchful eye of coach Mark Cozens have blossomed into a well organised and dedicated outifit with a bit of an lsquox-factorrsquo We fully expect many of these players to continue on the futsal pathway being offered by NZF Futsal with all the boys hoping to play in the National League in the near future

wwwhbfutsalorgnz

Capital Futsal

Futsalrsquos future in Wellington looks bright if the success of ASB Sport Centrersquos grand opening in August is anything to go by

As one of many sports which will call the 12 court $475 million venue in Kilbirnie home futsal was exposed to a large new audience with around 15000 visiting during the open day

Futsal activities held throughout the day included the national team the Futsal Whites competing in a cup of nations against ethnic-based local sides

The Futsal Whites predictably prevailed beating an Africa United team led by Team Wellington striker Hicham Kamri 7-1 in the final

There were also womens and youth tournaments held and one court was also set aside for people to try futsal in different gender and age groups with Futsal Whites players mixing with locals game enough to step on court

ldquoIt was a great chance to get in front of people who may not have played much futsal if at allrdquo said NZF Futsal Development Manager Dave Payne

ldquoThe interest from kids was particularly pleasing and I think they really enjoyed the sport as well as the opportunity to play against national team players and get their autographs while they were there

ldquoSome turned up after winter football some had played other sports but were taken by the skill of the game and the fact that anyone can play

NZF Futsal 16s Champions 2011 - HB StormersPHOTO ALPHAPIX

Action from the Cup of Nations at ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

ldquoCapital Futsal has experienced a boost in registrations and the success of the open day and the quality of the venue bodes well for continued growth of futsal in Wellington

Up to six futsal courts will be in action every Monday Tuesday and Friday night beginning in October and a range of tournaments will run during the October school holidays Close to 300 futsal teams will play in leagues and tournaments at the ASB Sports Centre between October and December

Contactmattfutsalnetnz021 971 798wwwfutsalnetnz

Mainland Futsal

All systems are go in the Mainland region with over 50 teams now playing every week in our various leagues This means we can start to build our other regions up over the next few months Our Christchurch leagues now run to 3 divisions of Senior Men 1 Womenrsquos division 2 Youth divisions 1 Junior a Mixed and a Masters

We had a fabulous trip to the Youth and Junior Nationals taking a team in each group and eventually (returning in the snow storm of the year) with two silver medals Special congratulations are due

Top Luke Tongue clears the ball in a 12s Nationalrsquos game in Napier Benji lapslie Sam Philip Ellis Hare-Reid (G) and Joe Bell (10) look on

Centre Mainland Canterbury 10s

Bottom left Stephen Livingstone pressures the keeper in a 14s Nationals game

Bottom right Avery Addei breaks in the 16s Nationals while Sam Lapslie Miguel Mitchell Hamish Mitchell (GK) and Sam Roger watch

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

to Peter Livingstone for coaching the 14s to Silver and Matt Hoole doing the same for the 10s but all the teams coaches and support staff did themselves proud It was a great opportunity to play against all the regions of the country and the boys returned with growth and knowledge under their belt as well as great memories of a great event

September sees our ldquoFutsal Camprdquo run every Saturday Under 12s and 12-15s using the time to grow their game with expert coaches and players guidance Along with our schools competition starting next term and a very successful referees training day adding 10 refs to our roster we are growing in all areas and on all fronts

We look forward to catching up with the Futsal community at the Girls Nationals and the Masters where we will bring teams to both

Futsal South

Football South Futsal has recently changed its name to Futsal South Each centre within the Futsal South region will use the logos above with their centre name as per Futsal South ndash Dunedin logo

We now have centres in Dunedin Wanaka Queenstown Timaru and looking to start in Balclutha

Futsal South has held two selection tournaments in Dunedin to choose our National League squad from Teams from Queenstown Wanaka and Dunedin were involved over the 2 rounds with some great Futsal played by all involved

Queenstown Falcons took out the first tournament and Real Football winning the second tournament Luiz Uhera (Futsal South National League Coach) and Chris Button (Futsal South National League Manager) have selected an initial training squad of 30 players from those involved to train towards the 201112 National League

In September 2011 we are starting our summer Futsal leagues We have Senior leagues running on Monday and Wednesday nights Primary school leagues on Wednesday afternoons Intermediate and Junior High School leagues on Tuesday afternoons and Senior High School leagues on Thursday afternoons

With the introduction of our Primary School League we are also offering a futsal in Schools coaching program which involves a part time coach teaching basic Futsal skills in Primary and Intermediate School pupils We have had a very positive response to our pilot program that was run at Tahuna Intermediate with over 450 pupils being given Futsal instruction in their Physical Education classes for 2 weeks

We have signed up a number of schools for this program for terms 3 amp 4 of 2011 and also have schools signed up for next year We are also looking to take the program to the Central Otago and Clutha districts to help boost player numbers in those areas

This should give a real boost towards the future of Futsal in our region

Futsal South has been running referee courses over the region and now have 52 qualified referees and another course running shortly

NZF Futsal ContactsNorthern Football Futsal - NorthlandFar Northsarahpaynenfforgnzdavealabasternfforgnz

East City Futsal (Auckland)cosworthxtraconzeastcityfutsalmandataconz

Auckland Futsalplayaucklandfutsalorg

AFF Futsal - Avondale Playbeautiful10gmailcom

AFF Futsal - Manukau MikeibbertsonmanukauleisureconzMaraeaHoweaucklandcouncilgovtnz

WAIBOP Futsalpeterawaibopfootballconzsimonmwaibopfootballconz

Hawkes Bay Futsal ptooheyhbfutsalorgnz

Wairarapa Futsal petercoxsparcconzpaul_burnsxtraconz

Red Sox Manawatu Futsal (Palmerston North) bergie007vodafoneconz

Capital Futsal (Wellington)mattcapitalfootballorgnz

Marlborough Futsal (Blenheim) marlboroughfootballxtraconz

Nelson Bays Futsal sportsmallxtraconz

Mainland Futsal - Canterburyrichardmainlandfutsalconz

Mainland Futsal - West Coastsportgreyhighschoolnz

Futsal South - Dunedinkneepadsparadisenetnzfootballmikeihugconz

Futsal South - Wanaka cecisxtraconz

Futsal South - Queenstown infoqueenstownfootballcomkampmanqueenstownconzQueenstown Falcons Futsal marcosmelo1313hotmailcomraulharpyayahoocombr

Futsal South - Timarujcamesymcascorgnz

have a great team behind me with support in areas like accounts which allows me to spend more of my time planning the ASB Centre programme as well as getting out into even more schools How much coaching are you doingLast term I trialled ldquoCoach n Playrdquo leagues in both of our U13 leagues which went well At the moment I coach the St Pats U16 team on a weekly basis with the ambition of winning NZSSSC College Nationals hosted right next door at the ASB Centre in March 2012 Our U19 squad is a representative team and is going to Australia for the nationals in January We will be together playing and training three times a week from next month Our Island Bay Team Awesome U13s have been training once and playing once a week in preparation for Nationals in Australia too From next term Friday nights will be coaching nights for U11s and each age group up to 16s 19s and Men We see this as an important part of the programme to help educate futsal players which in turn will also produce better football players Whatrsquos a typical week for you Matt - Futsal every day Most eveningsAll day all night Yes As part of the Capital transition and with the new centre I am involving more people in running and refereeing the leagues so I can be more efficient in the overall management as opposed to being out ldquoon the groundrdquo at

Capital Futsalrsquos Development Officer is at the centre of the growing futsal scene in Wellington With four yearsrsquo experience as a player coach administrator and volunteer under his belt Fejos is a regular fixture at tournaments and events around the country POWER OF FIVE caught up with him in the days following the opening of the new state of the art twelve court ASB Community Centre - the new home for futsal in Wellington

Matt - how long have you been involved in futsalSince late 2007 coming back to Wellington for summer after Otago University and wanting to play indoor soccer - which is all I knew at the time A knock on Dave and Sarahrsquos Paynersquos door changed my life I guess Tell us a little bit about your role with Capital Futsal Capital City Futsal has recently been integrated into Capital Football hasnrsquot itYes we are currently going through the transition of Capital Football taking on the responsibility for delivering futsal as with other federations around the country My role up until now has been everything really running and promoting the leagues school visits with a focus on the Kiwisport College programme administering everything and overall organisingThis is now changing as things get bigger and with the transition to Capital - I now

leagues four nights a week The emails administration and practical running of things are endless so good thing I do it because I love it At times it seems there is too much interest It is a fantastic problem to have

Are you still finding time to playI sneak in a few social games a week which allows me to drop in on the leagues too and make sure everything is ok too I donrsquot have the time for much more than that and have made the decision that I have more to contribute off the court than on by way of contributing to the opportunities of others You guys are doing well on the referee development side of things How many qualified referees do you have now in WellingtonWe have about 25 from our last two courses in Wellington Most encouraging is the college students involved in what is traditionally seen as an lsquoold manrsquosrsquo thing There are also pathways within refereeing onto the National League and OFC Championships The new centre with twelve courts and a brand new meeting room will provide a professional venue to host referee and coach education sessions Capital Footballrsquos Jamie Cross has also officiated at the OFC Championships in the past so has a lot of experience And Adam Walker volunteers and develops referees which is a real asset to us

MATT FEJOSINTERVIEW

Capital Futsal

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

ldquoI BELIEVE MORE CLUBS TEAMS OF ALL AGES WILL ADOPT FUTSAL AS ONE OF THEIR

TRAINING NIGHTS DURING THE FOOTBALL SEASON rdquo

Capital Futsal

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

Can you tell us a little bit about the KiwiSport College Futsal initiative you are involved withCapital Futsal and myself personally would not be here without it so we owe a great deal of gratitude to KiwiSport College Sport Wellington and Sport Wellington It allowed me to leave a job in a bank fourteen months ago and get out into colleges to grow the game Over 2000 students from 16 different colleges have been involved from sessions in their school to local college leagues up to College Nationals and young Izaac OrsquoHara showing the pathways in the game being involved with the Futsal Whites What about the National League this year Capital were the top New Zealand side in 201011 Will you have pretty much the same outfit as last yearThings are always changing We lose two of our senior Futsal Whites overseas in Lucas da Silva and Tariq Assad We have some new Brazilians who have been training with the team I am hoping one or two of my promising U19 squad will squeeze in too but things are getting very competitive We have the same management and coaching team which provides some continuity to build on last season and catch those Aussies Our new competitive league will be played on our three international courts which will help too How did the Capital teams enjoy the JuniorYouth Nationals this year The 16s did particularly well and made the finalI think it was a real landmark event The standard went through the roof and centres now will have to send their best players selected from their leagues and

training together It was great to see My 16s were the St Patrickrsquos College team and performed amazingly with just six players from one school showing the benefit of futsal specific training to learn technically and tactically how to play the game Beating squads of eight and nine players selected from federations was quite an achievement They also played the first ever game of any sport at the Opening Day (of the new stadium)against the Futsal Whites and only lost 4-1 in 16 minutes of game time which speaks volumes for these boys I think I was happy with all the teams from the 10s up to 16s and come next year I can only imagine what our top teams will look like after playing and training in the best facility in the country

Capital have always been pioneers - a few years ago Brian Blellock and others set up that great little futsal club in Hataitai Now you have offices in the what is probably the best facility in the Southern Hemisphere What are long term plans for the game in Wellington I think even medium term the transition to Capital Football is the most important thing It is not going to be instant and we are still learning every day To integrate futsal into trainings have futsal specific days and host top tournaments Who knows maybe in a few years we might become a lsquomajorrsquo sport In just four years since that league in Hataitai we have become a major stakeholder in the new centre with netball and basketball Four years ago you would have thought we were mad but it shows firstly the potential

ldquoI STILL HAVE MUCH I WANT TO ACHIEVE HERE IN WELLINGTON AND DREAM OF FUTSALrsquoS OWN lsquoBAHRAIN MOMENTrsquo IN 2015 - SO WHO KNOWS

WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDSrdquo

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

of this amazing game that is already proven around the world and secondly that with a team of volunteers willing to put in lots of work into something they believe in amazing things can happen

The new centre presents a great opportunity to get more players involved There is the potential for 200 teams in the new centre and with perfect timing of the outdoor season coming to a close The womens and college leagues are showing huge potential for growth As we build momentum over the summer and work through Capital Football I believe more clubs teams of all ages will adopt futsal as one of their training nights during the football season

What about the national scene Do you feel the game has come a long way in the last few years What are the top priorities for the next few years Can the Futsal Whites get close to the Solomon IslandsThat youth tournament in Napier in July as I said was a real landmark They are the future and to have our kids playing from a young age is how we will catch

the Solomons For the next World Cup campaign in four years time I hope some of our Capital 16-19 year olds might progress Longer term if we can be teaching our children from five years up and create a futsal culture with our facility Irsquod like to think we will catch the Aussies too And what about your own professional development in futsal It must be tremendous working in the game that you love Where would you like to be in a few yearsPeople have asked me this question and in all honesty I donrsquot know To do something you love and contribute something positive to your community as opposed to as opposed to measuring the money earned our hours worked is an honour Things have been so busy I just plan to keep my head down for another twelve months and then assess things then I am pretty happy with where I am at at the moment As things are still growing I am fortunate enough to develop a wide range of experience in marketing managing coaching dealing with key

stakeholders etc I have been forced to develop at the same pace as the sport here which is a great challenge so I am learning and growing every day in a broad set of skills I still have much I want to achieve here in Wellington and dream of futsalrsquos own ldquoBahrain momentrdquo in 2015 so who knows what the future holds

More action from the Cup of Nations as Futsal Whites target Micky Malivuk deals with an aerial ball gainst Africa UnitedPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

CALENDAR 201112

Sun 25 September 2011 NZF-Futsal Level One Refereeing Course PG Arena Napier

SatSun 2223 October 2011 National Girls and Womenrsquos Futsal Tournament ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 34 December 2011 National League Series 1 Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1112 February 2012 National League Series 2 ASB Stadium Auckland

SatSun 1112 February 2012 Futsal - NZ Masters Games Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1718 March 2012 National League Series 3 ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 2627 March 2012 NZF-Futsal Secondary Schools National Futsal Championships ASB Sports Centre Wellington

Calendar201112

Junior action from the opening of the ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington in AugustPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

SERIES ONEDUNEDIN

34 DECEMBER 2011

SERIES TWOAUCKLAND

1112 FEBRUARy 2012

SERIES THREEWELLINGTON1718 MARCH

2012

201112

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201112

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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wwwnzfootballconz | wwwnzffutsalconz | Follow the Futsal Whites on Facebook

Page 12: THE POWER OF FIVE #2 September 2011

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

PHOTO OFCNFF Futsal

Northern Football Federation Futsal Launch 17 September 2011When Saturday 17 September 10-2pmWhere Massey University Recreation Centre ndash Albany

We will have two showcase games being played on a full sized futsal court against the Futsal Whitesbull 1030am Futsal Whites vs Football

Fernsbull 1200pm Futsal Whites vs Massey

University Champions

This is an opportunity for the community to come along and experience what futsal is join in have some fun and meet players from our national futsal team

NFF are running the following futsal programmes and leagues

Junioryouth Programmesbull Pilot Futsal Programme bull The Leisure Centre ndash Stanmore Bay

(Term 3 and 4)bull Massey University Recreation Centre ndash

Albany (Term 4 Monday 330-6pm)bull West Wave Recreation Centre ndash

Henderson (Term 4)bull Rutherford College ndash Te Atatu (Term 4)bull Adult Leaguesbull Lunchtime Business House Futsal

League ndash Massey University Recreation Centre Albany (STARTS Friday 1130-2pm 28 October)

bull Youth Senior Futsal League - Massey University Recreation Centre Albany

bull (STARTS Monday 6-8pm 31 October)bull Further Futsal leagues and

programmes will be offered throughout the NFF region

To register your interest in futsal for your club or for more information on the above please contact

Sarah PayneE sarahpaynenfforgnz M 021 795 045or visit our website wwwnfforgnz

Hibiscus Coast Pilot ProgrammeThe Leisure Centre Stanmore BayWednesdays 7-10 years 31 August - 5 October (Late registrations will be accepted Please contact Sarah for cost)Session one 330 - 445pm Session two 445 - 6pm

Thursdays 11-14 years 1 September - 6 October (Late registrations will be accepted Please contact Sarah for cost)Session one 600 - 715pm

The idea of the Pilot Futsal Programme is to provide skills based coaching suitable for your players age group in a 40 minute block followed by a 35 minute block of quick rotation games roll on roll off first to a goal etc It is a great introduction to futsal and a way for players to improve their football skills and also have some fun at the same time

You may wish to encourage as many of your outdoor team as possible as this is an excellent way for your team to remain together as the winter season comes to a close and helps their football skills to stay strong and continue to work as a team in preparation for next season

You will need shin pads and non marking sneakers or futsal shoes

AFF Futsal

AVONDALEbull An Auckland Football Federation Senior

Menrsquos Futsal league is launching on September 27 at Avondale College

What Senior Menrsquos League (players 16 years old or over)When Starts Tuesday 13 SeptemberWhere Avondale College (2 court venue)Cost $330 per teamContact Yonas bull Game times - 530pm-645pmbull 12 players per squadbull League limited to 10 teamsbull 11-week season (including finals)

To register for AFF-Futsal Avondale League contact Centre Officer - yonas Gebre at playbeautiful10gmailcom

MANUKAUOtara Leisure AFF-Futsal and Counties Manukau Sport have teamed up to deliver the KiwiSport funded Primary Futsal in Schools Programme

bull Futsal lsquoGive it a Gorsquo sessions delivered to 960 7-9 year olds

bull 10 week school programme delivered throughout Manukau between October-February

bull Primary League established between February-April

bull lsquoFutsal in Schoolsrsquo Programme Coach Education delivered to 70 Manukau Institute of Technology students

bull Teachers trained to deliver basic coaching

EAST CITyEast City Futsal based at the ASB Stadium in Kohimarama Auckland runs a premier league on Monday nights (comprised of ten teams) which is played on an international size court with two referee officials per game

The competition this season has been exceptional all games have been close with some upsets along the way

The East City Youth Development Squad took advantage of East City National League training finishing in the top four - a huge accomplishment The final night was a no-holds barred night both semi-finals and finals Arabian Knights and KBT went head to head in the finalrsquos and after a very intense game with some amazing futsal skills by both teams KBT took out the Premier Winter League now winning back to back seasons -Barbara Gwilliam

East City took a squad of 8 players to the U14s 2011 NZ Football Futsal National Junior Youth Championship held at Pettigrew Green Arena Napier on 23-24 July The team was drawn from participants in our in-house Summer 2011 competition The team was coached by Dennis Dow the older brother of one of our players who plays in the clubrsquos premier league with our youth development squad

The boys got off to a flying start with a convincing 9-0 win over Nelson Bays The highlight of the game was a 6-goal haul by midfielder Matthew Bouzaid who went on to repeat this achievement in the games against Wellington Team Awesome and Auckland Futsal Rio In total Matthew scored 19 goals only one short of winning the Golden Boot Award

The highlight of our tournament was the quarter-final against Auckland Futsal Rio

a team which included a large contingent of Auckland representative players East City made a tremendous start going 4-0 up within the first five minutes before Rio staged a strong comeback to level by half time and then to lead 7-5 early in the second half The East City boys kept their composure and put the Rio defence under such pressure that they conceded a number of fouls in and around their own goal box with two of the resulting free kicks being coolly converted to bring the scores level The boys snatched the lead with less than two minutes to play and displayed great maturity to hold Rio at bayIn the semi final the boys were again given a futsal lesson by an extremely skilful and well drilled Mainland Futsal team who went on to lose an extra-time thriller in the final against Auckland Futsal Sampa

The East City boys can be very proud of the fact that their only two losses during the tournament came to the teams which finished first and second As the competition progressed their confidence and awareness improved markedly and will stand them in good stead in future years

- Derek Dow

ContactEmail futsalmandataconz East City Administration Line 579-0652

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

East City Winter Premier League Winners 2011 KBTPHOTO EAST CITY

HB Futsal

After hosting the third annual National Junior and Youth Championships at the Pettigrew Green Arena we have turned our attention to the Term 4 Leagues which commence on October 25 Enrolments are underway with over fifty teams (JuniorIntermediateYouthSocialPremier) expected to take part in our Tuesday night leagues

Recent discussions with the Arena have highlighted the high demand for court space from the other sporting codes who currently use the facility Basketball volleyball and netball are all experiencing huge growth due in particular to the college programmes in operation The challenge for futsal in Hawkersquos Bay is finding enough courts to enable the heavily subscribed leagues to expand further as we are in the unfortunate position at the moment of having to turn teams away

A major highlight of the last quarter was the success of the HB Stormers who picked up the 16s championship trophy at the recent Nationals after beating Capital Futsal 6-0 in the final

14

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

AUCKLAND FUTSAL2011 NZF FUTSAL CHAMPIONS 10 12 14 Boys Grades

Auckland Futsalrsquos representatives 1012 amp 14 Boys swept all aside to win a record three national titles at the 2011 NZ Futsal Championships held in Napier in July

Auckland Futsalrsquos Brazilian coaches Felipe Bernardi amp Juliano Schmeling prepared our representative teams to play an authentic Brazilian style of futsal - highly technical constant rhythmic movements and fast intricate passing

Auckland Rio - NZ Champion - 10 Boys1 Finn Ambridge2 Gene Toohey3 Josh Coe4 Theo Hardy5 Sidney Boyd6 Joel Clissold7 Harrison Chadwick8 Oscar Browne

Auckland SAMPA - NZ Champion - 12 Boys1 Ahmed Mohammadi2 Ethan Amey3 Jack Vaughan4 Nicholas Milne (K)5 Sean Green6 Matthew Hunter

Auckland SAMPA - NZ Champion - 14 Boys1 Dylan Burns2 Harry Bell3 Phillip Paul4 Reese Cox5 Sean Clark6 Tinashe Marowa7 Emman Rahimi8 Charlie Thomas9 Corey Walters (K)

10 David Masters (K)

Junior Leagues starting in September 20117 - 19 yrsHarbour - WednesdaysAuckland Central - Mondays Thursdays Fridays SundaysAuckland East - Mondays TuesdaysBrazil Futsal AcademyAuthentic Brazilian Futsal skills techniques movement creativity amp learning to lsquoPlay Like a Brazilianrsquo Let our Brazilian coaches help you become an exciting playerAges 5 - 13 yrs

Harbour - SundaysAuckland Central Mondays Sundays

Contact Craig Empsonplayaucklandfutsalorgwwwaucklandfutsalorg

15

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

Many of these 1996 born players started with us back in the original leagues of 2006 and under the watchful eye of coach Mark Cozens have blossomed into a well organised and dedicated outifit with a bit of an lsquox-factorrsquo We fully expect many of these players to continue on the futsal pathway being offered by NZF Futsal with all the boys hoping to play in the National League in the near future

wwwhbfutsalorgnz

Capital Futsal

Futsalrsquos future in Wellington looks bright if the success of ASB Sport Centrersquos grand opening in August is anything to go by

As one of many sports which will call the 12 court $475 million venue in Kilbirnie home futsal was exposed to a large new audience with around 15000 visiting during the open day

Futsal activities held throughout the day included the national team the Futsal Whites competing in a cup of nations against ethnic-based local sides

The Futsal Whites predictably prevailed beating an Africa United team led by Team Wellington striker Hicham Kamri 7-1 in the final

There were also womens and youth tournaments held and one court was also set aside for people to try futsal in different gender and age groups with Futsal Whites players mixing with locals game enough to step on court

ldquoIt was a great chance to get in front of people who may not have played much futsal if at allrdquo said NZF Futsal Development Manager Dave Payne

ldquoThe interest from kids was particularly pleasing and I think they really enjoyed the sport as well as the opportunity to play against national team players and get their autographs while they were there

ldquoSome turned up after winter football some had played other sports but were taken by the skill of the game and the fact that anyone can play

NZF Futsal 16s Champions 2011 - HB StormersPHOTO ALPHAPIX

Action from the Cup of Nations at ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

16

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

ldquoCapital Futsal has experienced a boost in registrations and the success of the open day and the quality of the venue bodes well for continued growth of futsal in Wellington

Up to six futsal courts will be in action every Monday Tuesday and Friday night beginning in October and a range of tournaments will run during the October school holidays Close to 300 futsal teams will play in leagues and tournaments at the ASB Sports Centre between October and December

Contactmattfutsalnetnz021 971 798wwwfutsalnetnz

Mainland Futsal

All systems are go in the Mainland region with over 50 teams now playing every week in our various leagues This means we can start to build our other regions up over the next few months Our Christchurch leagues now run to 3 divisions of Senior Men 1 Womenrsquos division 2 Youth divisions 1 Junior a Mixed and a Masters

We had a fabulous trip to the Youth and Junior Nationals taking a team in each group and eventually (returning in the snow storm of the year) with two silver medals Special congratulations are due

Top Luke Tongue clears the ball in a 12s Nationalrsquos game in Napier Benji lapslie Sam Philip Ellis Hare-Reid (G) and Joe Bell (10) look on

Centre Mainland Canterbury 10s

Bottom left Stephen Livingstone pressures the keeper in a 14s Nationals game

Bottom right Avery Addei breaks in the 16s Nationals while Sam Lapslie Miguel Mitchell Hamish Mitchell (GK) and Sam Roger watch

17

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

to Peter Livingstone for coaching the 14s to Silver and Matt Hoole doing the same for the 10s but all the teams coaches and support staff did themselves proud It was a great opportunity to play against all the regions of the country and the boys returned with growth and knowledge under their belt as well as great memories of a great event

September sees our ldquoFutsal Camprdquo run every Saturday Under 12s and 12-15s using the time to grow their game with expert coaches and players guidance Along with our schools competition starting next term and a very successful referees training day adding 10 refs to our roster we are growing in all areas and on all fronts

We look forward to catching up with the Futsal community at the Girls Nationals and the Masters where we will bring teams to both

Futsal South

Football South Futsal has recently changed its name to Futsal South Each centre within the Futsal South region will use the logos above with their centre name as per Futsal South ndash Dunedin logo

We now have centres in Dunedin Wanaka Queenstown Timaru and looking to start in Balclutha

Futsal South has held two selection tournaments in Dunedin to choose our National League squad from Teams from Queenstown Wanaka and Dunedin were involved over the 2 rounds with some great Futsal played by all involved

Queenstown Falcons took out the first tournament and Real Football winning the second tournament Luiz Uhera (Futsal South National League Coach) and Chris Button (Futsal South National League Manager) have selected an initial training squad of 30 players from those involved to train towards the 201112 National League

In September 2011 we are starting our summer Futsal leagues We have Senior leagues running on Monday and Wednesday nights Primary school leagues on Wednesday afternoons Intermediate and Junior High School leagues on Tuesday afternoons and Senior High School leagues on Thursday afternoons

With the introduction of our Primary School League we are also offering a futsal in Schools coaching program which involves a part time coach teaching basic Futsal skills in Primary and Intermediate School pupils We have had a very positive response to our pilot program that was run at Tahuna Intermediate with over 450 pupils being given Futsal instruction in their Physical Education classes for 2 weeks

We have signed up a number of schools for this program for terms 3 amp 4 of 2011 and also have schools signed up for next year We are also looking to take the program to the Central Otago and Clutha districts to help boost player numbers in those areas

This should give a real boost towards the future of Futsal in our region

Futsal South has been running referee courses over the region and now have 52 qualified referees and another course running shortly

NZF Futsal ContactsNorthern Football Futsal - NorthlandFar Northsarahpaynenfforgnzdavealabasternfforgnz

East City Futsal (Auckland)cosworthxtraconzeastcityfutsalmandataconz

Auckland Futsalplayaucklandfutsalorg

AFF Futsal - Avondale Playbeautiful10gmailcom

AFF Futsal - Manukau MikeibbertsonmanukauleisureconzMaraeaHoweaucklandcouncilgovtnz

WAIBOP Futsalpeterawaibopfootballconzsimonmwaibopfootballconz

Hawkes Bay Futsal ptooheyhbfutsalorgnz

Wairarapa Futsal petercoxsparcconzpaul_burnsxtraconz

Red Sox Manawatu Futsal (Palmerston North) bergie007vodafoneconz

Capital Futsal (Wellington)mattcapitalfootballorgnz

Marlborough Futsal (Blenheim) marlboroughfootballxtraconz

Nelson Bays Futsal sportsmallxtraconz

Mainland Futsal - Canterburyrichardmainlandfutsalconz

Mainland Futsal - West Coastsportgreyhighschoolnz

Futsal South - Dunedinkneepadsparadisenetnzfootballmikeihugconz

Futsal South - Wanaka cecisxtraconz

Futsal South - Queenstown infoqueenstownfootballcomkampmanqueenstownconzQueenstown Falcons Futsal marcosmelo1313hotmailcomraulharpyayahoocombr

Futsal South - Timarujcamesymcascorgnz

have a great team behind me with support in areas like accounts which allows me to spend more of my time planning the ASB Centre programme as well as getting out into even more schools How much coaching are you doingLast term I trialled ldquoCoach n Playrdquo leagues in both of our U13 leagues which went well At the moment I coach the St Pats U16 team on a weekly basis with the ambition of winning NZSSSC College Nationals hosted right next door at the ASB Centre in March 2012 Our U19 squad is a representative team and is going to Australia for the nationals in January We will be together playing and training three times a week from next month Our Island Bay Team Awesome U13s have been training once and playing once a week in preparation for Nationals in Australia too From next term Friday nights will be coaching nights for U11s and each age group up to 16s 19s and Men We see this as an important part of the programme to help educate futsal players which in turn will also produce better football players Whatrsquos a typical week for you Matt - Futsal every day Most eveningsAll day all night Yes As part of the Capital transition and with the new centre I am involving more people in running and refereeing the leagues so I can be more efficient in the overall management as opposed to being out ldquoon the groundrdquo at

Capital Futsalrsquos Development Officer is at the centre of the growing futsal scene in Wellington With four yearsrsquo experience as a player coach administrator and volunteer under his belt Fejos is a regular fixture at tournaments and events around the country POWER OF FIVE caught up with him in the days following the opening of the new state of the art twelve court ASB Community Centre - the new home for futsal in Wellington

Matt - how long have you been involved in futsalSince late 2007 coming back to Wellington for summer after Otago University and wanting to play indoor soccer - which is all I knew at the time A knock on Dave and Sarahrsquos Paynersquos door changed my life I guess Tell us a little bit about your role with Capital Futsal Capital City Futsal has recently been integrated into Capital Football hasnrsquot itYes we are currently going through the transition of Capital Football taking on the responsibility for delivering futsal as with other federations around the country My role up until now has been everything really running and promoting the leagues school visits with a focus on the Kiwisport College programme administering everything and overall organisingThis is now changing as things get bigger and with the transition to Capital - I now

leagues four nights a week The emails administration and practical running of things are endless so good thing I do it because I love it At times it seems there is too much interest It is a fantastic problem to have

Are you still finding time to playI sneak in a few social games a week which allows me to drop in on the leagues too and make sure everything is ok too I donrsquot have the time for much more than that and have made the decision that I have more to contribute off the court than on by way of contributing to the opportunities of others You guys are doing well on the referee development side of things How many qualified referees do you have now in WellingtonWe have about 25 from our last two courses in Wellington Most encouraging is the college students involved in what is traditionally seen as an lsquoold manrsquosrsquo thing There are also pathways within refereeing onto the National League and OFC Championships The new centre with twelve courts and a brand new meeting room will provide a professional venue to host referee and coach education sessions Capital Footballrsquos Jamie Cross has also officiated at the OFC Championships in the past so has a lot of experience And Adam Walker volunteers and develops referees which is a real asset to us

MATT FEJOSINTERVIEW

Capital Futsal

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PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

ldquoI BELIEVE MORE CLUBS TEAMS OF ALL AGES WILL ADOPT FUTSAL AS ONE OF THEIR

TRAINING NIGHTS DURING THE FOOTBALL SEASON rdquo

Capital Futsal

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

Can you tell us a little bit about the KiwiSport College Futsal initiative you are involved withCapital Futsal and myself personally would not be here without it so we owe a great deal of gratitude to KiwiSport College Sport Wellington and Sport Wellington It allowed me to leave a job in a bank fourteen months ago and get out into colleges to grow the game Over 2000 students from 16 different colleges have been involved from sessions in their school to local college leagues up to College Nationals and young Izaac OrsquoHara showing the pathways in the game being involved with the Futsal Whites What about the National League this year Capital were the top New Zealand side in 201011 Will you have pretty much the same outfit as last yearThings are always changing We lose two of our senior Futsal Whites overseas in Lucas da Silva and Tariq Assad We have some new Brazilians who have been training with the team I am hoping one or two of my promising U19 squad will squeeze in too but things are getting very competitive We have the same management and coaching team which provides some continuity to build on last season and catch those Aussies Our new competitive league will be played on our three international courts which will help too How did the Capital teams enjoy the JuniorYouth Nationals this year The 16s did particularly well and made the finalI think it was a real landmark event The standard went through the roof and centres now will have to send their best players selected from their leagues and

training together It was great to see My 16s were the St Patrickrsquos College team and performed amazingly with just six players from one school showing the benefit of futsal specific training to learn technically and tactically how to play the game Beating squads of eight and nine players selected from federations was quite an achievement They also played the first ever game of any sport at the Opening Day (of the new stadium)against the Futsal Whites and only lost 4-1 in 16 minutes of game time which speaks volumes for these boys I think I was happy with all the teams from the 10s up to 16s and come next year I can only imagine what our top teams will look like after playing and training in the best facility in the country

Capital have always been pioneers - a few years ago Brian Blellock and others set up that great little futsal club in Hataitai Now you have offices in the what is probably the best facility in the Southern Hemisphere What are long term plans for the game in Wellington I think even medium term the transition to Capital Football is the most important thing It is not going to be instant and we are still learning every day To integrate futsal into trainings have futsal specific days and host top tournaments Who knows maybe in a few years we might become a lsquomajorrsquo sport In just four years since that league in Hataitai we have become a major stakeholder in the new centre with netball and basketball Four years ago you would have thought we were mad but it shows firstly the potential

ldquoI STILL HAVE MUCH I WANT TO ACHIEVE HERE IN WELLINGTON AND DREAM OF FUTSALrsquoS OWN lsquoBAHRAIN MOMENTrsquo IN 2015 - SO WHO KNOWS

WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDSrdquo

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

of this amazing game that is already proven around the world and secondly that with a team of volunteers willing to put in lots of work into something they believe in amazing things can happen

The new centre presents a great opportunity to get more players involved There is the potential for 200 teams in the new centre and with perfect timing of the outdoor season coming to a close The womens and college leagues are showing huge potential for growth As we build momentum over the summer and work through Capital Football I believe more clubs teams of all ages will adopt futsal as one of their training nights during the football season

What about the national scene Do you feel the game has come a long way in the last few years What are the top priorities for the next few years Can the Futsal Whites get close to the Solomon IslandsThat youth tournament in Napier in July as I said was a real landmark They are the future and to have our kids playing from a young age is how we will catch

the Solomons For the next World Cup campaign in four years time I hope some of our Capital 16-19 year olds might progress Longer term if we can be teaching our children from five years up and create a futsal culture with our facility Irsquod like to think we will catch the Aussies too And what about your own professional development in futsal It must be tremendous working in the game that you love Where would you like to be in a few yearsPeople have asked me this question and in all honesty I donrsquot know To do something you love and contribute something positive to your community as opposed to as opposed to measuring the money earned our hours worked is an honour Things have been so busy I just plan to keep my head down for another twelve months and then assess things then I am pretty happy with where I am at at the moment As things are still growing I am fortunate enough to develop a wide range of experience in marketing managing coaching dealing with key

stakeholders etc I have been forced to develop at the same pace as the sport here which is a great challenge so I am learning and growing every day in a broad set of skills I still have much I want to achieve here in Wellington and dream of futsalrsquos own ldquoBahrain momentrdquo in 2015 so who knows what the future holds

More action from the Cup of Nations as Futsal Whites target Micky Malivuk deals with an aerial ball gainst Africa UnitedPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

CALENDAR 201112

Sun 25 September 2011 NZF-Futsal Level One Refereeing Course PG Arena Napier

SatSun 2223 October 2011 National Girls and Womenrsquos Futsal Tournament ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 34 December 2011 National League Series 1 Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1112 February 2012 National League Series 2 ASB Stadium Auckland

SatSun 1112 February 2012 Futsal - NZ Masters Games Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1718 March 2012 National League Series 3 ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 2627 March 2012 NZF-Futsal Secondary Schools National Futsal Championships ASB Sports Centre Wellington

Calendar201112

Junior action from the opening of the ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington in AugustPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

SERIES ONEDUNEDIN

34 DECEMBER 2011

SERIES TWOAUCKLAND

1112 FEBRUARy 2012

SERIES THREEWELLINGTON1718 MARCH

2012

201112

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

201112

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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wwwnzfootballconz | wwwnzffutsalconz | Follow the Futsal Whites on Facebook

Page 13: THE POWER OF FIVE #2 September 2011

EAST CITyEast City Futsal based at the ASB Stadium in Kohimarama Auckland runs a premier league on Monday nights (comprised of ten teams) which is played on an international size court with two referee officials per game

The competition this season has been exceptional all games have been close with some upsets along the way

The East City Youth Development Squad took advantage of East City National League training finishing in the top four - a huge accomplishment The final night was a no-holds barred night both semi-finals and finals Arabian Knights and KBT went head to head in the finalrsquos and after a very intense game with some amazing futsal skills by both teams KBT took out the Premier Winter League now winning back to back seasons -Barbara Gwilliam

East City took a squad of 8 players to the U14s 2011 NZ Football Futsal National Junior Youth Championship held at Pettigrew Green Arena Napier on 23-24 July The team was drawn from participants in our in-house Summer 2011 competition The team was coached by Dennis Dow the older brother of one of our players who plays in the clubrsquos premier league with our youth development squad

The boys got off to a flying start with a convincing 9-0 win over Nelson Bays The highlight of the game was a 6-goal haul by midfielder Matthew Bouzaid who went on to repeat this achievement in the games against Wellington Team Awesome and Auckland Futsal Rio In total Matthew scored 19 goals only one short of winning the Golden Boot Award

The highlight of our tournament was the quarter-final against Auckland Futsal Rio

a team which included a large contingent of Auckland representative players East City made a tremendous start going 4-0 up within the first five minutes before Rio staged a strong comeback to level by half time and then to lead 7-5 early in the second half The East City boys kept their composure and put the Rio defence under such pressure that they conceded a number of fouls in and around their own goal box with two of the resulting free kicks being coolly converted to bring the scores level The boys snatched the lead with less than two minutes to play and displayed great maturity to hold Rio at bayIn the semi final the boys were again given a futsal lesson by an extremely skilful and well drilled Mainland Futsal team who went on to lose an extra-time thriller in the final against Auckland Futsal Sampa

The East City boys can be very proud of the fact that their only two losses during the tournament came to the teams which finished first and second As the competition progressed their confidence and awareness improved markedly and will stand them in good stead in future years

- Derek Dow

ContactEmail futsalmandataconz East City Administration Line 579-0652

13

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

East City Winter Premier League Winners 2011 KBTPHOTO EAST CITY

HB Futsal

After hosting the third annual National Junior and Youth Championships at the Pettigrew Green Arena we have turned our attention to the Term 4 Leagues which commence on October 25 Enrolments are underway with over fifty teams (JuniorIntermediateYouthSocialPremier) expected to take part in our Tuesday night leagues

Recent discussions with the Arena have highlighted the high demand for court space from the other sporting codes who currently use the facility Basketball volleyball and netball are all experiencing huge growth due in particular to the college programmes in operation The challenge for futsal in Hawkersquos Bay is finding enough courts to enable the heavily subscribed leagues to expand further as we are in the unfortunate position at the moment of having to turn teams away

A major highlight of the last quarter was the success of the HB Stormers who picked up the 16s championship trophy at the recent Nationals after beating Capital Futsal 6-0 in the final

14

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

AUCKLAND FUTSAL2011 NZF FUTSAL CHAMPIONS 10 12 14 Boys Grades

Auckland Futsalrsquos representatives 1012 amp 14 Boys swept all aside to win a record three national titles at the 2011 NZ Futsal Championships held in Napier in July

Auckland Futsalrsquos Brazilian coaches Felipe Bernardi amp Juliano Schmeling prepared our representative teams to play an authentic Brazilian style of futsal - highly technical constant rhythmic movements and fast intricate passing

Auckland Rio - NZ Champion - 10 Boys1 Finn Ambridge2 Gene Toohey3 Josh Coe4 Theo Hardy5 Sidney Boyd6 Joel Clissold7 Harrison Chadwick8 Oscar Browne

Auckland SAMPA - NZ Champion - 12 Boys1 Ahmed Mohammadi2 Ethan Amey3 Jack Vaughan4 Nicholas Milne (K)5 Sean Green6 Matthew Hunter

Auckland SAMPA - NZ Champion - 14 Boys1 Dylan Burns2 Harry Bell3 Phillip Paul4 Reese Cox5 Sean Clark6 Tinashe Marowa7 Emman Rahimi8 Charlie Thomas9 Corey Walters (K)

10 David Masters (K)

Junior Leagues starting in September 20117 - 19 yrsHarbour - WednesdaysAuckland Central - Mondays Thursdays Fridays SundaysAuckland East - Mondays TuesdaysBrazil Futsal AcademyAuthentic Brazilian Futsal skills techniques movement creativity amp learning to lsquoPlay Like a Brazilianrsquo Let our Brazilian coaches help you become an exciting playerAges 5 - 13 yrs

Harbour - SundaysAuckland Central Mondays Sundays

Contact Craig Empsonplayaucklandfutsalorgwwwaucklandfutsalorg

15

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

Many of these 1996 born players started with us back in the original leagues of 2006 and under the watchful eye of coach Mark Cozens have blossomed into a well organised and dedicated outifit with a bit of an lsquox-factorrsquo We fully expect many of these players to continue on the futsal pathway being offered by NZF Futsal with all the boys hoping to play in the National League in the near future

wwwhbfutsalorgnz

Capital Futsal

Futsalrsquos future in Wellington looks bright if the success of ASB Sport Centrersquos grand opening in August is anything to go by

As one of many sports which will call the 12 court $475 million venue in Kilbirnie home futsal was exposed to a large new audience with around 15000 visiting during the open day

Futsal activities held throughout the day included the national team the Futsal Whites competing in a cup of nations against ethnic-based local sides

The Futsal Whites predictably prevailed beating an Africa United team led by Team Wellington striker Hicham Kamri 7-1 in the final

There were also womens and youth tournaments held and one court was also set aside for people to try futsal in different gender and age groups with Futsal Whites players mixing with locals game enough to step on court

ldquoIt was a great chance to get in front of people who may not have played much futsal if at allrdquo said NZF Futsal Development Manager Dave Payne

ldquoThe interest from kids was particularly pleasing and I think they really enjoyed the sport as well as the opportunity to play against national team players and get their autographs while they were there

ldquoSome turned up after winter football some had played other sports but were taken by the skill of the game and the fact that anyone can play

NZF Futsal 16s Champions 2011 - HB StormersPHOTO ALPHAPIX

Action from the Cup of Nations at ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

16

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

ldquoCapital Futsal has experienced a boost in registrations and the success of the open day and the quality of the venue bodes well for continued growth of futsal in Wellington

Up to six futsal courts will be in action every Monday Tuesday and Friday night beginning in October and a range of tournaments will run during the October school holidays Close to 300 futsal teams will play in leagues and tournaments at the ASB Sports Centre between October and December

Contactmattfutsalnetnz021 971 798wwwfutsalnetnz

Mainland Futsal

All systems are go in the Mainland region with over 50 teams now playing every week in our various leagues This means we can start to build our other regions up over the next few months Our Christchurch leagues now run to 3 divisions of Senior Men 1 Womenrsquos division 2 Youth divisions 1 Junior a Mixed and a Masters

We had a fabulous trip to the Youth and Junior Nationals taking a team in each group and eventually (returning in the snow storm of the year) with two silver medals Special congratulations are due

Top Luke Tongue clears the ball in a 12s Nationalrsquos game in Napier Benji lapslie Sam Philip Ellis Hare-Reid (G) and Joe Bell (10) look on

Centre Mainland Canterbury 10s

Bottom left Stephen Livingstone pressures the keeper in a 14s Nationals game

Bottom right Avery Addei breaks in the 16s Nationals while Sam Lapslie Miguel Mitchell Hamish Mitchell (GK) and Sam Roger watch

17

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

to Peter Livingstone for coaching the 14s to Silver and Matt Hoole doing the same for the 10s but all the teams coaches and support staff did themselves proud It was a great opportunity to play against all the regions of the country and the boys returned with growth and knowledge under their belt as well as great memories of a great event

September sees our ldquoFutsal Camprdquo run every Saturday Under 12s and 12-15s using the time to grow their game with expert coaches and players guidance Along with our schools competition starting next term and a very successful referees training day adding 10 refs to our roster we are growing in all areas and on all fronts

We look forward to catching up with the Futsal community at the Girls Nationals and the Masters where we will bring teams to both

Futsal South

Football South Futsal has recently changed its name to Futsal South Each centre within the Futsal South region will use the logos above with their centre name as per Futsal South ndash Dunedin logo

We now have centres in Dunedin Wanaka Queenstown Timaru and looking to start in Balclutha

Futsal South has held two selection tournaments in Dunedin to choose our National League squad from Teams from Queenstown Wanaka and Dunedin were involved over the 2 rounds with some great Futsal played by all involved

Queenstown Falcons took out the first tournament and Real Football winning the second tournament Luiz Uhera (Futsal South National League Coach) and Chris Button (Futsal South National League Manager) have selected an initial training squad of 30 players from those involved to train towards the 201112 National League

In September 2011 we are starting our summer Futsal leagues We have Senior leagues running on Monday and Wednesday nights Primary school leagues on Wednesday afternoons Intermediate and Junior High School leagues on Tuesday afternoons and Senior High School leagues on Thursday afternoons

With the introduction of our Primary School League we are also offering a futsal in Schools coaching program which involves a part time coach teaching basic Futsal skills in Primary and Intermediate School pupils We have had a very positive response to our pilot program that was run at Tahuna Intermediate with over 450 pupils being given Futsal instruction in their Physical Education classes for 2 weeks

We have signed up a number of schools for this program for terms 3 amp 4 of 2011 and also have schools signed up for next year We are also looking to take the program to the Central Otago and Clutha districts to help boost player numbers in those areas

This should give a real boost towards the future of Futsal in our region

Futsal South has been running referee courses over the region and now have 52 qualified referees and another course running shortly

NZF Futsal ContactsNorthern Football Futsal - NorthlandFar Northsarahpaynenfforgnzdavealabasternfforgnz

East City Futsal (Auckland)cosworthxtraconzeastcityfutsalmandataconz

Auckland Futsalplayaucklandfutsalorg

AFF Futsal - Avondale Playbeautiful10gmailcom

AFF Futsal - Manukau MikeibbertsonmanukauleisureconzMaraeaHoweaucklandcouncilgovtnz

WAIBOP Futsalpeterawaibopfootballconzsimonmwaibopfootballconz

Hawkes Bay Futsal ptooheyhbfutsalorgnz

Wairarapa Futsal petercoxsparcconzpaul_burnsxtraconz

Red Sox Manawatu Futsal (Palmerston North) bergie007vodafoneconz

Capital Futsal (Wellington)mattcapitalfootballorgnz

Marlborough Futsal (Blenheim) marlboroughfootballxtraconz

Nelson Bays Futsal sportsmallxtraconz

Mainland Futsal - Canterburyrichardmainlandfutsalconz

Mainland Futsal - West Coastsportgreyhighschoolnz

Futsal South - Dunedinkneepadsparadisenetnzfootballmikeihugconz

Futsal South - Wanaka cecisxtraconz

Futsal South - Queenstown infoqueenstownfootballcomkampmanqueenstownconzQueenstown Falcons Futsal marcosmelo1313hotmailcomraulharpyayahoocombr

Futsal South - Timarujcamesymcascorgnz

have a great team behind me with support in areas like accounts which allows me to spend more of my time planning the ASB Centre programme as well as getting out into even more schools How much coaching are you doingLast term I trialled ldquoCoach n Playrdquo leagues in both of our U13 leagues which went well At the moment I coach the St Pats U16 team on a weekly basis with the ambition of winning NZSSSC College Nationals hosted right next door at the ASB Centre in March 2012 Our U19 squad is a representative team and is going to Australia for the nationals in January We will be together playing and training three times a week from next month Our Island Bay Team Awesome U13s have been training once and playing once a week in preparation for Nationals in Australia too From next term Friday nights will be coaching nights for U11s and each age group up to 16s 19s and Men We see this as an important part of the programme to help educate futsal players which in turn will also produce better football players Whatrsquos a typical week for you Matt - Futsal every day Most eveningsAll day all night Yes As part of the Capital transition and with the new centre I am involving more people in running and refereeing the leagues so I can be more efficient in the overall management as opposed to being out ldquoon the groundrdquo at

Capital Futsalrsquos Development Officer is at the centre of the growing futsal scene in Wellington With four yearsrsquo experience as a player coach administrator and volunteer under his belt Fejos is a regular fixture at tournaments and events around the country POWER OF FIVE caught up with him in the days following the opening of the new state of the art twelve court ASB Community Centre - the new home for futsal in Wellington

Matt - how long have you been involved in futsalSince late 2007 coming back to Wellington for summer after Otago University and wanting to play indoor soccer - which is all I knew at the time A knock on Dave and Sarahrsquos Paynersquos door changed my life I guess Tell us a little bit about your role with Capital Futsal Capital City Futsal has recently been integrated into Capital Football hasnrsquot itYes we are currently going through the transition of Capital Football taking on the responsibility for delivering futsal as with other federations around the country My role up until now has been everything really running and promoting the leagues school visits with a focus on the Kiwisport College programme administering everything and overall organisingThis is now changing as things get bigger and with the transition to Capital - I now

leagues four nights a week The emails administration and practical running of things are endless so good thing I do it because I love it At times it seems there is too much interest It is a fantastic problem to have

Are you still finding time to playI sneak in a few social games a week which allows me to drop in on the leagues too and make sure everything is ok too I donrsquot have the time for much more than that and have made the decision that I have more to contribute off the court than on by way of contributing to the opportunities of others You guys are doing well on the referee development side of things How many qualified referees do you have now in WellingtonWe have about 25 from our last two courses in Wellington Most encouraging is the college students involved in what is traditionally seen as an lsquoold manrsquosrsquo thing There are also pathways within refereeing onto the National League and OFC Championships The new centre with twelve courts and a brand new meeting room will provide a professional venue to host referee and coach education sessions Capital Footballrsquos Jamie Cross has also officiated at the OFC Championships in the past so has a lot of experience And Adam Walker volunteers and develops referees which is a real asset to us

MATT FEJOSINTERVIEW

Capital Futsal

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PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

ldquoI BELIEVE MORE CLUBS TEAMS OF ALL AGES WILL ADOPT FUTSAL AS ONE OF THEIR

TRAINING NIGHTS DURING THE FOOTBALL SEASON rdquo

Capital Futsal

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

Can you tell us a little bit about the KiwiSport College Futsal initiative you are involved withCapital Futsal and myself personally would not be here without it so we owe a great deal of gratitude to KiwiSport College Sport Wellington and Sport Wellington It allowed me to leave a job in a bank fourteen months ago and get out into colleges to grow the game Over 2000 students from 16 different colleges have been involved from sessions in their school to local college leagues up to College Nationals and young Izaac OrsquoHara showing the pathways in the game being involved with the Futsal Whites What about the National League this year Capital were the top New Zealand side in 201011 Will you have pretty much the same outfit as last yearThings are always changing We lose two of our senior Futsal Whites overseas in Lucas da Silva and Tariq Assad We have some new Brazilians who have been training with the team I am hoping one or two of my promising U19 squad will squeeze in too but things are getting very competitive We have the same management and coaching team which provides some continuity to build on last season and catch those Aussies Our new competitive league will be played on our three international courts which will help too How did the Capital teams enjoy the JuniorYouth Nationals this year The 16s did particularly well and made the finalI think it was a real landmark event The standard went through the roof and centres now will have to send their best players selected from their leagues and

training together It was great to see My 16s were the St Patrickrsquos College team and performed amazingly with just six players from one school showing the benefit of futsal specific training to learn technically and tactically how to play the game Beating squads of eight and nine players selected from federations was quite an achievement They also played the first ever game of any sport at the Opening Day (of the new stadium)against the Futsal Whites and only lost 4-1 in 16 minutes of game time which speaks volumes for these boys I think I was happy with all the teams from the 10s up to 16s and come next year I can only imagine what our top teams will look like after playing and training in the best facility in the country

Capital have always been pioneers - a few years ago Brian Blellock and others set up that great little futsal club in Hataitai Now you have offices in the what is probably the best facility in the Southern Hemisphere What are long term plans for the game in Wellington I think even medium term the transition to Capital Football is the most important thing It is not going to be instant and we are still learning every day To integrate futsal into trainings have futsal specific days and host top tournaments Who knows maybe in a few years we might become a lsquomajorrsquo sport In just four years since that league in Hataitai we have become a major stakeholder in the new centre with netball and basketball Four years ago you would have thought we were mad but it shows firstly the potential

ldquoI STILL HAVE MUCH I WANT TO ACHIEVE HERE IN WELLINGTON AND DREAM OF FUTSALrsquoS OWN lsquoBAHRAIN MOMENTrsquo IN 2015 - SO WHO KNOWS

WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDSrdquo

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

21

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

of this amazing game that is already proven around the world and secondly that with a team of volunteers willing to put in lots of work into something they believe in amazing things can happen

The new centre presents a great opportunity to get more players involved There is the potential for 200 teams in the new centre and with perfect timing of the outdoor season coming to a close The womens and college leagues are showing huge potential for growth As we build momentum over the summer and work through Capital Football I believe more clubs teams of all ages will adopt futsal as one of their training nights during the football season

What about the national scene Do you feel the game has come a long way in the last few years What are the top priorities for the next few years Can the Futsal Whites get close to the Solomon IslandsThat youth tournament in Napier in July as I said was a real landmark They are the future and to have our kids playing from a young age is how we will catch

the Solomons For the next World Cup campaign in four years time I hope some of our Capital 16-19 year olds might progress Longer term if we can be teaching our children from five years up and create a futsal culture with our facility Irsquod like to think we will catch the Aussies too And what about your own professional development in futsal It must be tremendous working in the game that you love Where would you like to be in a few yearsPeople have asked me this question and in all honesty I donrsquot know To do something you love and contribute something positive to your community as opposed to as opposed to measuring the money earned our hours worked is an honour Things have been so busy I just plan to keep my head down for another twelve months and then assess things then I am pretty happy with where I am at at the moment As things are still growing I am fortunate enough to develop a wide range of experience in marketing managing coaching dealing with key

stakeholders etc I have been forced to develop at the same pace as the sport here which is a great challenge so I am learning and growing every day in a broad set of skills I still have much I want to achieve here in Wellington and dream of futsalrsquos own ldquoBahrain momentrdquo in 2015 so who knows what the future holds

More action from the Cup of Nations as Futsal Whites target Micky Malivuk deals with an aerial ball gainst Africa UnitedPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

22

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

CALENDAR 201112

Sun 25 September 2011 NZF-Futsal Level One Refereeing Course PG Arena Napier

SatSun 2223 October 2011 National Girls and Womenrsquos Futsal Tournament ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 34 December 2011 National League Series 1 Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1112 February 2012 National League Series 2 ASB Stadium Auckland

SatSun 1112 February 2012 Futsal - NZ Masters Games Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1718 March 2012 National League Series 3 ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 2627 March 2012 NZF-Futsal Secondary Schools National Futsal Championships ASB Sports Centre Wellington

Calendar201112

Junior action from the opening of the ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington in AugustPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

SERIES ONEDUNEDIN

34 DECEMBER 2011

SERIES TWOAUCKLAND

1112 FEBRUARy 2012

SERIES THREEWELLINGTON1718 MARCH

2012

201112

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

201112

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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wwwnzfootballconz | wwwnzffutsalconz | Follow the Futsal Whites on Facebook

Page 14: THE POWER OF FIVE #2 September 2011

HB Futsal

After hosting the third annual National Junior and Youth Championships at the Pettigrew Green Arena we have turned our attention to the Term 4 Leagues which commence on October 25 Enrolments are underway with over fifty teams (JuniorIntermediateYouthSocialPremier) expected to take part in our Tuesday night leagues

Recent discussions with the Arena have highlighted the high demand for court space from the other sporting codes who currently use the facility Basketball volleyball and netball are all experiencing huge growth due in particular to the college programmes in operation The challenge for futsal in Hawkersquos Bay is finding enough courts to enable the heavily subscribed leagues to expand further as we are in the unfortunate position at the moment of having to turn teams away

A major highlight of the last quarter was the success of the HB Stormers who picked up the 16s championship trophy at the recent Nationals after beating Capital Futsal 6-0 in the final

14

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

AUCKLAND FUTSAL2011 NZF FUTSAL CHAMPIONS 10 12 14 Boys Grades

Auckland Futsalrsquos representatives 1012 amp 14 Boys swept all aside to win a record three national titles at the 2011 NZ Futsal Championships held in Napier in July

Auckland Futsalrsquos Brazilian coaches Felipe Bernardi amp Juliano Schmeling prepared our representative teams to play an authentic Brazilian style of futsal - highly technical constant rhythmic movements and fast intricate passing

Auckland Rio - NZ Champion - 10 Boys1 Finn Ambridge2 Gene Toohey3 Josh Coe4 Theo Hardy5 Sidney Boyd6 Joel Clissold7 Harrison Chadwick8 Oscar Browne

Auckland SAMPA - NZ Champion - 12 Boys1 Ahmed Mohammadi2 Ethan Amey3 Jack Vaughan4 Nicholas Milne (K)5 Sean Green6 Matthew Hunter

Auckland SAMPA - NZ Champion - 14 Boys1 Dylan Burns2 Harry Bell3 Phillip Paul4 Reese Cox5 Sean Clark6 Tinashe Marowa7 Emman Rahimi8 Charlie Thomas9 Corey Walters (K)

10 David Masters (K)

Junior Leagues starting in September 20117 - 19 yrsHarbour - WednesdaysAuckland Central - Mondays Thursdays Fridays SundaysAuckland East - Mondays TuesdaysBrazil Futsal AcademyAuthentic Brazilian Futsal skills techniques movement creativity amp learning to lsquoPlay Like a Brazilianrsquo Let our Brazilian coaches help you become an exciting playerAges 5 - 13 yrs

Harbour - SundaysAuckland Central Mondays Sundays

Contact Craig Empsonplayaucklandfutsalorgwwwaucklandfutsalorg

15

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

Many of these 1996 born players started with us back in the original leagues of 2006 and under the watchful eye of coach Mark Cozens have blossomed into a well organised and dedicated outifit with a bit of an lsquox-factorrsquo We fully expect many of these players to continue on the futsal pathway being offered by NZF Futsal with all the boys hoping to play in the National League in the near future

wwwhbfutsalorgnz

Capital Futsal

Futsalrsquos future in Wellington looks bright if the success of ASB Sport Centrersquos grand opening in August is anything to go by

As one of many sports which will call the 12 court $475 million venue in Kilbirnie home futsal was exposed to a large new audience with around 15000 visiting during the open day

Futsal activities held throughout the day included the national team the Futsal Whites competing in a cup of nations against ethnic-based local sides

The Futsal Whites predictably prevailed beating an Africa United team led by Team Wellington striker Hicham Kamri 7-1 in the final

There were also womens and youth tournaments held and one court was also set aside for people to try futsal in different gender and age groups with Futsal Whites players mixing with locals game enough to step on court

ldquoIt was a great chance to get in front of people who may not have played much futsal if at allrdquo said NZF Futsal Development Manager Dave Payne

ldquoThe interest from kids was particularly pleasing and I think they really enjoyed the sport as well as the opportunity to play against national team players and get their autographs while they were there

ldquoSome turned up after winter football some had played other sports but were taken by the skill of the game and the fact that anyone can play

NZF Futsal 16s Champions 2011 - HB StormersPHOTO ALPHAPIX

Action from the Cup of Nations at ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

ldquoCapital Futsal has experienced a boost in registrations and the success of the open day and the quality of the venue bodes well for continued growth of futsal in Wellington

Up to six futsal courts will be in action every Monday Tuesday and Friday night beginning in October and a range of tournaments will run during the October school holidays Close to 300 futsal teams will play in leagues and tournaments at the ASB Sports Centre between October and December

Contactmattfutsalnetnz021 971 798wwwfutsalnetnz

Mainland Futsal

All systems are go in the Mainland region with over 50 teams now playing every week in our various leagues This means we can start to build our other regions up over the next few months Our Christchurch leagues now run to 3 divisions of Senior Men 1 Womenrsquos division 2 Youth divisions 1 Junior a Mixed and a Masters

We had a fabulous trip to the Youth and Junior Nationals taking a team in each group and eventually (returning in the snow storm of the year) with two silver medals Special congratulations are due

Top Luke Tongue clears the ball in a 12s Nationalrsquos game in Napier Benji lapslie Sam Philip Ellis Hare-Reid (G) and Joe Bell (10) look on

Centre Mainland Canterbury 10s

Bottom left Stephen Livingstone pressures the keeper in a 14s Nationals game

Bottom right Avery Addei breaks in the 16s Nationals while Sam Lapslie Miguel Mitchell Hamish Mitchell (GK) and Sam Roger watch

17

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

to Peter Livingstone for coaching the 14s to Silver and Matt Hoole doing the same for the 10s but all the teams coaches and support staff did themselves proud It was a great opportunity to play against all the regions of the country and the boys returned with growth and knowledge under their belt as well as great memories of a great event

September sees our ldquoFutsal Camprdquo run every Saturday Under 12s and 12-15s using the time to grow their game with expert coaches and players guidance Along with our schools competition starting next term and a very successful referees training day adding 10 refs to our roster we are growing in all areas and on all fronts

We look forward to catching up with the Futsal community at the Girls Nationals and the Masters where we will bring teams to both

Futsal South

Football South Futsal has recently changed its name to Futsal South Each centre within the Futsal South region will use the logos above with their centre name as per Futsal South ndash Dunedin logo

We now have centres in Dunedin Wanaka Queenstown Timaru and looking to start in Balclutha

Futsal South has held two selection tournaments in Dunedin to choose our National League squad from Teams from Queenstown Wanaka and Dunedin were involved over the 2 rounds with some great Futsal played by all involved

Queenstown Falcons took out the first tournament and Real Football winning the second tournament Luiz Uhera (Futsal South National League Coach) and Chris Button (Futsal South National League Manager) have selected an initial training squad of 30 players from those involved to train towards the 201112 National League

In September 2011 we are starting our summer Futsal leagues We have Senior leagues running on Monday and Wednesday nights Primary school leagues on Wednesday afternoons Intermediate and Junior High School leagues on Tuesday afternoons and Senior High School leagues on Thursday afternoons

With the introduction of our Primary School League we are also offering a futsal in Schools coaching program which involves a part time coach teaching basic Futsal skills in Primary and Intermediate School pupils We have had a very positive response to our pilot program that was run at Tahuna Intermediate with over 450 pupils being given Futsal instruction in their Physical Education classes for 2 weeks

We have signed up a number of schools for this program for terms 3 amp 4 of 2011 and also have schools signed up for next year We are also looking to take the program to the Central Otago and Clutha districts to help boost player numbers in those areas

This should give a real boost towards the future of Futsal in our region

Futsal South has been running referee courses over the region and now have 52 qualified referees and another course running shortly

NZF Futsal ContactsNorthern Football Futsal - NorthlandFar Northsarahpaynenfforgnzdavealabasternfforgnz

East City Futsal (Auckland)cosworthxtraconzeastcityfutsalmandataconz

Auckland Futsalplayaucklandfutsalorg

AFF Futsal - Avondale Playbeautiful10gmailcom

AFF Futsal - Manukau MikeibbertsonmanukauleisureconzMaraeaHoweaucklandcouncilgovtnz

WAIBOP Futsalpeterawaibopfootballconzsimonmwaibopfootballconz

Hawkes Bay Futsal ptooheyhbfutsalorgnz

Wairarapa Futsal petercoxsparcconzpaul_burnsxtraconz

Red Sox Manawatu Futsal (Palmerston North) bergie007vodafoneconz

Capital Futsal (Wellington)mattcapitalfootballorgnz

Marlborough Futsal (Blenheim) marlboroughfootballxtraconz

Nelson Bays Futsal sportsmallxtraconz

Mainland Futsal - Canterburyrichardmainlandfutsalconz

Mainland Futsal - West Coastsportgreyhighschoolnz

Futsal South - Dunedinkneepadsparadisenetnzfootballmikeihugconz

Futsal South - Wanaka cecisxtraconz

Futsal South - Queenstown infoqueenstownfootballcomkampmanqueenstownconzQueenstown Falcons Futsal marcosmelo1313hotmailcomraulharpyayahoocombr

Futsal South - Timarujcamesymcascorgnz

have a great team behind me with support in areas like accounts which allows me to spend more of my time planning the ASB Centre programme as well as getting out into even more schools How much coaching are you doingLast term I trialled ldquoCoach n Playrdquo leagues in both of our U13 leagues which went well At the moment I coach the St Pats U16 team on a weekly basis with the ambition of winning NZSSSC College Nationals hosted right next door at the ASB Centre in March 2012 Our U19 squad is a representative team and is going to Australia for the nationals in January We will be together playing and training three times a week from next month Our Island Bay Team Awesome U13s have been training once and playing once a week in preparation for Nationals in Australia too From next term Friday nights will be coaching nights for U11s and each age group up to 16s 19s and Men We see this as an important part of the programme to help educate futsal players which in turn will also produce better football players Whatrsquos a typical week for you Matt - Futsal every day Most eveningsAll day all night Yes As part of the Capital transition and with the new centre I am involving more people in running and refereeing the leagues so I can be more efficient in the overall management as opposed to being out ldquoon the groundrdquo at

Capital Futsalrsquos Development Officer is at the centre of the growing futsal scene in Wellington With four yearsrsquo experience as a player coach administrator and volunteer under his belt Fejos is a regular fixture at tournaments and events around the country POWER OF FIVE caught up with him in the days following the opening of the new state of the art twelve court ASB Community Centre - the new home for futsal in Wellington

Matt - how long have you been involved in futsalSince late 2007 coming back to Wellington for summer after Otago University and wanting to play indoor soccer - which is all I knew at the time A knock on Dave and Sarahrsquos Paynersquos door changed my life I guess Tell us a little bit about your role with Capital Futsal Capital City Futsal has recently been integrated into Capital Football hasnrsquot itYes we are currently going through the transition of Capital Football taking on the responsibility for delivering futsal as with other federations around the country My role up until now has been everything really running and promoting the leagues school visits with a focus on the Kiwisport College programme administering everything and overall organisingThis is now changing as things get bigger and with the transition to Capital - I now

leagues four nights a week The emails administration and practical running of things are endless so good thing I do it because I love it At times it seems there is too much interest It is a fantastic problem to have

Are you still finding time to playI sneak in a few social games a week which allows me to drop in on the leagues too and make sure everything is ok too I donrsquot have the time for much more than that and have made the decision that I have more to contribute off the court than on by way of contributing to the opportunities of others You guys are doing well on the referee development side of things How many qualified referees do you have now in WellingtonWe have about 25 from our last two courses in Wellington Most encouraging is the college students involved in what is traditionally seen as an lsquoold manrsquosrsquo thing There are also pathways within refereeing onto the National League and OFC Championships The new centre with twelve courts and a brand new meeting room will provide a professional venue to host referee and coach education sessions Capital Footballrsquos Jamie Cross has also officiated at the OFC Championships in the past so has a lot of experience And Adam Walker volunteers and develops referees which is a real asset to us

MATT FEJOSINTERVIEW

Capital Futsal

18

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

ldquoI BELIEVE MORE CLUBS TEAMS OF ALL AGES WILL ADOPT FUTSAL AS ONE OF THEIR

TRAINING NIGHTS DURING THE FOOTBALL SEASON rdquo

Capital Futsal

20

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

Can you tell us a little bit about the KiwiSport College Futsal initiative you are involved withCapital Futsal and myself personally would not be here without it so we owe a great deal of gratitude to KiwiSport College Sport Wellington and Sport Wellington It allowed me to leave a job in a bank fourteen months ago and get out into colleges to grow the game Over 2000 students from 16 different colleges have been involved from sessions in their school to local college leagues up to College Nationals and young Izaac OrsquoHara showing the pathways in the game being involved with the Futsal Whites What about the National League this year Capital were the top New Zealand side in 201011 Will you have pretty much the same outfit as last yearThings are always changing We lose two of our senior Futsal Whites overseas in Lucas da Silva and Tariq Assad We have some new Brazilians who have been training with the team I am hoping one or two of my promising U19 squad will squeeze in too but things are getting very competitive We have the same management and coaching team which provides some continuity to build on last season and catch those Aussies Our new competitive league will be played on our three international courts which will help too How did the Capital teams enjoy the JuniorYouth Nationals this year The 16s did particularly well and made the finalI think it was a real landmark event The standard went through the roof and centres now will have to send their best players selected from their leagues and

training together It was great to see My 16s were the St Patrickrsquos College team and performed amazingly with just six players from one school showing the benefit of futsal specific training to learn technically and tactically how to play the game Beating squads of eight and nine players selected from federations was quite an achievement They also played the first ever game of any sport at the Opening Day (of the new stadium)against the Futsal Whites and only lost 4-1 in 16 minutes of game time which speaks volumes for these boys I think I was happy with all the teams from the 10s up to 16s and come next year I can only imagine what our top teams will look like after playing and training in the best facility in the country

Capital have always been pioneers - a few years ago Brian Blellock and others set up that great little futsal club in Hataitai Now you have offices in the what is probably the best facility in the Southern Hemisphere What are long term plans for the game in Wellington I think even medium term the transition to Capital Football is the most important thing It is not going to be instant and we are still learning every day To integrate futsal into trainings have futsal specific days and host top tournaments Who knows maybe in a few years we might become a lsquomajorrsquo sport In just four years since that league in Hataitai we have become a major stakeholder in the new centre with netball and basketball Four years ago you would have thought we were mad but it shows firstly the potential

ldquoI STILL HAVE MUCH I WANT TO ACHIEVE HERE IN WELLINGTON AND DREAM OF FUTSALrsquoS OWN lsquoBAHRAIN MOMENTrsquo IN 2015 - SO WHO KNOWS

WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDSrdquo

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

21

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

of this amazing game that is already proven around the world and secondly that with a team of volunteers willing to put in lots of work into something they believe in amazing things can happen

The new centre presents a great opportunity to get more players involved There is the potential for 200 teams in the new centre and with perfect timing of the outdoor season coming to a close The womens and college leagues are showing huge potential for growth As we build momentum over the summer and work through Capital Football I believe more clubs teams of all ages will adopt futsal as one of their training nights during the football season

What about the national scene Do you feel the game has come a long way in the last few years What are the top priorities for the next few years Can the Futsal Whites get close to the Solomon IslandsThat youth tournament in Napier in July as I said was a real landmark They are the future and to have our kids playing from a young age is how we will catch

the Solomons For the next World Cup campaign in four years time I hope some of our Capital 16-19 year olds might progress Longer term if we can be teaching our children from five years up and create a futsal culture with our facility Irsquod like to think we will catch the Aussies too And what about your own professional development in futsal It must be tremendous working in the game that you love Where would you like to be in a few yearsPeople have asked me this question and in all honesty I donrsquot know To do something you love and contribute something positive to your community as opposed to as opposed to measuring the money earned our hours worked is an honour Things have been so busy I just plan to keep my head down for another twelve months and then assess things then I am pretty happy with where I am at at the moment As things are still growing I am fortunate enough to develop a wide range of experience in marketing managing coaching dealing with key

stakeholders etc I have been forced to develop at the same pace as the sport here which is a great challenge so I am learning and growing every day in a broad set of skills I still have much I want to achieve here in Wellington and dream of futsalrsquos own ldquoBahrain momentrdquo in 2015 so who knows what the future holds

More action from the Cup of Nations as Futsal Whites target Micky Malivuk deals with an aerial ball gainst Africa UnitedPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

22

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

CALENDAR 201112

Sun 25 September 2011 NZF-Futsal Level One Refereeing Course PG Arena Napier

SatSun 2223 October 2011 National Girls and Womenrsquos Futsal Tournament ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 34 December 2011 National League Series 1 Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1112 February 2012 National League Series 2 ASB Stadium Auckland

SatSun 1112 February 2012 Futsal - NZ Masters Games Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1718 March 2012 National League Series 3 ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 2627 March 2012 NZF-Futsal Secondary Schools National Futsal Championships ASB Sports Centre Wellington

Calendar201112

Junior action from the opening of the ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington in AugustPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

SERIES ONEDUNEDIN

34 DECEMBER 2011

SERIES TWOAUCKLAND

1112 FEBRUARy 2012

SERIES THREEWELLINGTON1718 MARCH

2012

201112

23

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

201112

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

wwwnzfootballconz | wwwnzffutsalconz | Follow the Futsal Whites on Facebook

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15

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

Many of these 1996 born players started with us back in the original leagues of 2006 and under the watchful eye of coach Mark Cozens have blossomed into a well organised and dedicated outifit with a bit of an lsquox-factorrsquo We fully expect many of these players to continue on the futsal pathway being offered by NZF Futsal with all the boys hoping to play in the National League in the near future

wwwhbfutsalorgnz

Capital Futsal

Futsalrsquos future in Wellington looks bright if the success of ASB Sport Centrersquos grand opening in August is anything to go by

As one of many sports which will call the 12 court $475 million venue in Kilbirnie home futsal was exposed to a large new audience with around 15000 visiting during the open day

Futsal activities held throughout the day included the national team the Futsal Whites competing in a cup of nations against ethnic-based local sides

The Futsal Whites predictably prevailed beating an Africa United team led by Team Wellington striker Hicham Kamri 7-1 in the final

There were also womens and youth tournaments held and one court was also set aside for people to try futsal in different gender and age groups with Futsal Whites players mixing with locals game enough to step on court

ldquoIt was a great chance to get in front of people who may not have played much futsal if at allrdquo said NZF Futsal Development Manager Dave Payne

ldquoThe interest from kids was particularly pleasing and I think they really enjoyed the sport as well as the opportunity to play against national team players and get their autographs while they were there

ldquoSome turned up after winter football some had played other sports but were taken by the skill of the game and the fact that anyone can play

NZF Futsal 16s Champions 2011 - HB StormersPHOTO ALPHAPIX

Action from the Cup of Nations at ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

16

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

ldquoCapital Futsal has experienced a boost in registrations and the success of the open day and the quality of the venue bodes well for continued growth of futsal in Wellington

Up to six futsal courts will be in action every Monday Tuesday and Friday night beginning in October and a range of tournaments will run during the October school holidays Close to 300 futsal teams will play in leagues and tournaments at the ASB Sports Centre between October and December

Contactmattfutsalnetnz021 971 798wwwfutsalnetnz

Mainland Futsal

All systems are go in the Mainland region with over 50 teams now playing every week in our various leagues This means we can start to build our other regions up over the next few months Our Christchurch leagues now run to 3 divisions of Senior Men 1 Womenrsquos division 2 Youth divisions 1 Junior a Mixed and a Masters

We had a fabulous trip to the Youth and Junior Nationals taking a team in each group and eventually (returning in the snow storm of the year) with two silver medals Special congratulations are due

Top Luke Tongue clears the ball in a 12s Nationalrsquos game in Napier Benji lapslie Sam Philip Ellis Hare-Reid (G) and Joe Bell (10) look on

Centre Mainland Canterbury 10s

Bottom left Stephen Livingstone pressures the keeper in a 14s Nationals game

Bottom right Avery Addei breaks in the 16s Nationals while Sam Lapslie Miguel Mitchell Hamish Mitchell (GK) and Sam Roger watch

17

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

to Peter Livingstone for coaching the 14s to Silver and Matt Hoole doing the same for the 10s but all the teams coaches and support staff did themselves proud It was a great opportunity to play against all the regions of the country and the boys returned with growth and knowledge under their belt as well as great memories of a great event

September sees our ldquoFutsal Camprdquo run every Saturday Under 12s and 12-15s using the time to grow their game with expert coaches and players guidance Along with our schools competition starting next term and a very successful referees training day adding 10 refs to our roster we are growing in all areas and on all fronts

We look forward to catching up with the Futsal community at the Girls Nationals and the Masters where we will bring teams to both

Futsal South

Football South Futsal has recently changed its name to Futsal South Each centre within the Futsal South region will use the logos above with their centre name as per Futsal South ndash Dunedin logo

We now have centres in Dunedin Wanaka Queenstown Timaru and looking to start in Balclutha

Futsal South has held two selection tournaments in Dunedin to choose our National League squad from Teams from Queenstown Wanaka and Dunedin were involved over the 2 rounds with some great Futsal played by all involved

Queenstown Falcons took out the first tournament and Real Football winning the second tournament Luiz Uhera (Futsal South National League Coach) and Chris Button (Futsal South National League Manager) have selected an initial training squad of 30 players from those involved to train towards the 201112 National League

In September 2011 we are starting our summer Futsal leagues We have Senior leagues running on Monday and Wednesday nights Primary school leagues on Wednesday afternoons Intermediate and Junior High School leagues on Tuesday afternoons and Senior High School leagues on Thursday afternoons

With the introduction of our Primary School League we are also offering a futsal in Schools coaching program which involves a part time coach teaching basic Futsal skills in Primary and Intermediate School pupils We have had a very positive response to our pilot program that was run at Tahuna Intermediate with over 450 pupils being given Futsal instruction in their Physical Education classes for 2 weeks

We have signed up a number of schools for this program for terms 3 amp 4 of 2011 and also have schools signed up for next year We are also looking to take the program to the Central Otago and Clutha districts to help boost player numbers in those areas

This should give a real boost towards the future of Futsal in our region

Futsal South has been running referee courses over the region and now have 52 qualified referees and another course running shortly

NZF Futsal ContactsNorthern Football Futsal - NorthlandFar Northsarahpaynenfforgnzdavealabasternfforgnz

East City Futsal (Auckland)cosworthxtraconzeastcityfutsalmandataconz

Auckland Futsalplayaucklandfutsalorg

AFF Futsal - Avondale Playbeautiful10gmailcom

AFF Futsal - Manukau MikeibbertsonmanukauleisureconzMaraeaHoweaucklandcouncilgovtnz

WAIBOP Futsalpeterawaibopfootballconzsimonmwaibopfootballconz

Hawkes Bay Futsal ptooheyhbfutsalorgnz

Wairarapa Futsal petercoxsparcconzpaul_burnsxtraconz

Red Sox Manawatu Futsal (Palmerston North) bergie007vodafoneconz

Capital Futsal (Wellington)mattcapitalfootballorgnz

Marlborough Futsal (Blenheim) marlboroughfootballxtraconz

Nelson Bays Futsal sportsmallxtraconz

Mainland Futsal - Canterburyrichardmainlandfutsalconz

Mainland Futsal - West Coastsportgreyhighschoolnz

Futsal South - Dunedinkneepadsparadisenetnzfootballmikeihugconz

Futsal South - Wanaka cecisxtraconz

Futsal South - Queenstown infoqueenstownfootballcomkampmanqueenstownconzQueenstown Falcons Futsal marcosmelo1313hotmailcomraulharpyayahoocombr

Futsal South - Timarujcamesymcascorgnz

have a great team behind me with support in areas like accounts which allows me to spend more of my time planning the ASB Centre programme as well as getting out into even more schools How much coaching are you doingLast term I trialled ldquoCoach n Playrdquo leagues in both of our U13 leagues which went well At the moment I coach the St Pats U16 team on a weekly basis with the ambition of winning NZSSSC College Nationals hosted right next door at the ASB Centre in March 2012 Our U19 squad is a representative team and is going to Australia for the nationals in January We will be together playing and training three times a week from next month Our Island Bay Team Awesome U13s have been training once and playing once a week in preparation for Nationals in Australia too From next term Friday nights will be coaching nights for U11s and each age group up to 16s 19s and Men We see this as an important part of the programme to help educate futsal players which in turn will also produce better football players Whatrsquos a typical week for you Matt - Futsal every day Most eveningsAll day all night Yes As part of the Capital transition and with the new centre I am involving more people in running and refereeing the leagues so I can be more efficient in the overall management as opposed to being out ldquoon the groundrdquo at

Capital Futsalrsquos Development Officer is at the centre of the growing futsal scene in Wellington With four yearsrsquo experience as a player coach administrator and volunteer under his belt Fejos is a regular fixture at tournaments and events around the country POWER OF FIVE caught up with him in the days following the opening of the new state of the art twelve court ASB Community Centre - the new home for futsal in Wellington

Matt - how long have you been involved in futsalSince late 2007 coming back to Wellington for summer after Otago University and wanting to play indoor soccer - which is all I knew at the time A knock on Dave and Sarahrsquos Paynersquos door changed my life I guess Tell us a little bit about your role with Capital Futsal Capital City Futsal has recently been integrated into Capital Football hasnrsquot itYes we are currently going through the transition of Capital Football taking on the responsibility for delivering futsal as with other federations around the country My role up until now has been everything really running and promoting the leagues school visits with a focus on the Kiwisport College programme administering everything and overall organisingThis is now changing as things get bigger and with the transition to Capital - I now

leagues four nights a week The emails administration and practical running of things are endless so good thing I do it because I love it At times it seems there is too much interest It is a fantastic problem to have

Are you still finding time to playI sneak in a few social games a week which allows me to drop in on the leagues too and make sure everything is ok too I donrsquot have the time for much more than that and have made the decision that I have more to contribute off the court than on by way of contributing to the opportunities of others You guys are doing well on the referee development side of things How many qualified referees do you have now in WellingtonWe have about 25 from our last two courses in Wellington Most encouraging is the college students involved in what is traditionally seen as an lsquoold manrsquosrsquo thing There are also pathways within refereeing onto the National League and OFC Championships The new centre with twelve courts and a brand new meeting room will provide a professional venue to host referee and coach education sessions Capital Footballrsquos Jamie Cross has also officiated at the OFC Championships in the past so has a lot of experience And Adam Walker volunteers and develops referees which is a real asset to us

MATT FEJOSINTERVIEW

Capital Futsal

18

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

ldquoI BELIEVE MORE CLUBS TEAMS OF ALL AGES WILL ADOPT FUTSAL AS ONE OF THEIR

TRAINING NIGHTS DURING THE FOOTBALL SEASON rdquo

Capital Futsal

20

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New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

Can you tell us a little bit about the KiwiSport College Futsal initiative you are involved withCapital Futsal and myself personally would not be here without it so we owe a great deal of gratitude to KiwiSport College Sport Wellington and Sport Wellington It allowed me to leave a job in a bank fourteen months ago and get out into colleges to grow the game Over 2000 students from 16 different colleges have been involved from sessions in their school to local college leagues up to College Nationals and young Izaac OrsquoHara showing the pathways in the game being involved with the Futsal Whites What about the National League this year Capital were the top New Zealand side in 201011 Will you have pretty much the same outfit as last yearThings are always changing We lose two of our senior Futsal Whites overseas in Lucas da Silva and Tariq Assad We have some new Brazilians who have been training with the team I am hoping one or two of my promising U19 squad will squeeze in too but things are getting very competitive We have the same management and coaching team which provides some continuity to build on last season and catch those Aussies Our new competitive league will be played on our three international courts which will help too How did the Capital teams enjoy the JuniorYouth Nationals this year The 16s did particularly well and made the finalI think it was a real landmark event The standard went through the roof and centres now will have to send their best players selected from their leagues and

training together It was great to see My 16s were the St Patrickrsquos College team and performed amazingly with just six players from one school showing the benefit of futsal specific training to learn technically and tactically how to play the game Beating squads of eight and nine players selected from federations was quite an achievement They also played the first ever game of any sport at the Opening Day (of the new stadium)against the Futsal Whites and only lost 4-1 in 16 minutes of game time which speaks volumes for these boys I think I was happy with all the teams from the 10s up to 16s and come next year I can only imagine what our top teams will look like after playing and training in the best facility in the country

Capital have always been pioneers - a few years ago Brian Blellock and others set up that great little futsal club in Hataitai Now you have offices in the what is probably the best facility in the Southern Hemisphere What are long term plans for the game in Wellington I think even medium term the transition to Capital Football is the most important thing It is not going to be instant and we are still learning every day To integrate futsal into trainings have futsal specific days and host top tournaments Who knows maybe in a few years we might become a lsquomajorrsquo sport In just four years since that league in Hataitai we have become a major stakeholder in the new centre with netball and basketball Four years ago you would have thought we were mad but it shows firstly the potential

ldquoI STILL HAVE MUCH I WANT TO ACHIEVE HERE IN WELLINGTON AND DREAM OF FUTSALrsquoS OWN lsquoBAHRAIN MOMENTrsquo IN 2015 - SO WHO KNOWS

WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDSrdquo

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

21

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

of this amazing game that is already proven around the world and secondly that with a team of volunteers willing to put in lots of work into something they believe in amazing things can happen

The new centre presents a great opportunity to get more players involved There is the potential for 200 teams in the new centre and with perfect timing of the outdoor season coming to a close The womens and college leagues are showing huge potential for growth As we build momentum over the summer and work through Capital Football I believe more clubs teams of all ages will adopt futsal as one of their training nights during the football season

What about the national scene Do you feel the game has come a long way in the last few years What are the top priorities for the next few years Can the Futsal Whites get close to the Solomon IslandsThat youth tournament in Napier in July as I said was a real landmark They are the future and to have our kids playing from a young age is how we will catch

the Solomons For the next World Cup campaign in four years time I hope some of our Capital 16-19 year olds might progress Longer term if we can be teaching our children from five years up and create a futsal culture with our facility Irsquod like to think we will catch the Aussies too And what about your own professional development in futsal It must be tremendous working in the game that you love Where would you like to be in a few yearsPeople have asked me this question and in all honesty I donrsquot know To do something you love and contribute something positive to your community as opposed to as opposed to measuring the money earned our hours worked is an honour Things have been so busy I just plan to keep my head down for another twelve months and then assess things then I am pretty happy with where I am at at the moment As things are still growing I am fortunate enough to develop a wide range of experience in marketing managing coaching dealing with key

stakeholders etc I have been forced to develop at the same pace as the sport here which is a great challenge so I am learning and growing every day in a broad set of skills I still have much I want to achieve here in Wellington and dream of futsalrsquos own ldquoBahrain momentrdquo in 2015 so who knows what the future holds

More action from the Cup of Nations as Futsal Whites target Micky Malivuk deals with an aerial ball gainst Africa UnitedPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

22

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

CALENDAR 201112

Sun 25 September 2011 NZF-Futsal Level One Refereeing Course PG Arena Napier

SatSun 2223 October 2011 National Girls and Womenrsquos Futsal Tournament ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 34 December 2011 National League Series 1 Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1112 February 2012 National League Series 2 ASB Stadium Auckland

SatSun 1112 February 2012 Futsal - NZ Masters Games Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1718 March 2012 National League Series 3 ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 2627 March 2012 NZF-Futsal Secondary Schools National Futsal Championships ASB Sports Centre Wellington

Calendar201112

Junior action from the opening of the ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington in AugustPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

SERIES ONEDUNEDIN

34 DECEMBER 2011

SERIES TWOAUCKLAND

1112 FEBRUARy 2012

SERIES THREEWELLINGTON1718 MARCH

2012

201112

23

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

201112

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

wwwnzfootballconz | wwwnzffutsalconz | Follow the Futsal Whites on Facebook

Page 16: THE POWER OF FIVE #2 September 2011

16

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

ldquoCapital Futsal has experienced a boost in registrations and the success of the open day and the quality of the venue bodes well for continued growth of futsal in Wellington

Up to six futsal courts will be in action every Monday Tuesday and Friday night beginning in October and a range of tournaments will run during the October school holidays Close to 300 futsal teams will play in leagues and tournaments at the ASB Sports Centre between October and December

Contactmattfutsalnetnz021 971 798wwwfutsalnetnz

Mainland Futsal

All systems are go in the Mainland region with over 50 teams now playing every week in our various leagues This means we can start to build our other regions up over the next few months Our Christchurch leagues now run to 3 divisions of Senior Men 1 Womenrsquos division 2 Youth divisions 1 Junior a Mixed and a Masters

We had a fabulous trip to the Youth and Junior Nationals taking a team in each group and eventually (returning in the snow storm of the year) with two silver medals Special congratulations are due

Top Luke Tongue clears the ball in a 12s Nationalrsquos game in Napier Benji lapslie Sam Philip Ellis Hare-Reid (G) and Joe Bell (10) look on

Centre Mainland Canterbury 10s

Bottom left Stephen Livingstone pressures the keeper in a 14s Nationals game

Bottom right Avery Addei breaks in the 16s Nationals while Sam Lapslie Miguel Mitchell Hamish Mitchell (GK) and Sam Roger watch

17

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

to Peter Livingstone for coaching the 14s to Silver and Matt Hoole doing the same for the 10s but all the teams coaches and support staff did themselves proud It was a great opportunity to play against all the regions of the country and the boys returned with growth and knowledge under their belt as well as great memories of a great event

September sees our ldquoFutsal Camprdquo run every Saturday Under 12s and 12-15s using the time to grow their game with expert coaches and players guidance Along with our schools competition starting next term and a very successful referees training day adding 10 refs to our roster we are growing in all areas and on all fronts

We look forward to catching up with the Futsal community at the Girls Nationals and the Masters where we will bring teams to both

Futsal South

Football South Futsal has recently changed its name to Futsal South Each centre within the Futsal South region will use the logos above with their centre name as per Futsal South ndash Dunedin logo

We now have centres in Dunedin Wanaka Queenstown Timaru and looking to start in Balclutha

Futsal South has held two selection tournaments in Dunedin to choose our National League squad from Teams from Queenstown Wanaka and Dunedin were involved over the 2 rounds with some great Futsal played by all involved

Queenstown Falcons took out the first tournament and Real Football winning the second tournament Luiz Uhera (Futsal South National League Coach) and Chris Button (Futsal South National League Manager) have selected an initial training squad of 30 players from those involved to train towards the 201112 National League

In September 2011 we are starting our summer Futsal leagues We have Senior leagues running on Monday and Wednesday nights Primary school leagues on Wednesday afternoons Intermediate and Junior High School leagues on Tuesday afternoons and Senior High School leagues on Thursday afternoons

With the introduction of our Primary School League we are also offering a futsal in Schools coaching program which involves a part time coach teaching basic Futsal skills in Primary and Intermediate School pupils We have had a very positive response to our pilot program that was run at Tahuna Intermediate with over 450 pupils being given Futsal instruction in their Physical Education classes for 2 weeks

We have signed up a number of schools for this program for terms 3 amp 4 of 2011 and also have schools signed up for next year We are also looking to take the program to the Central Otago and Clutha districts to help boost player numbers in those areas

This should give a real boost towards the future of Futsal in our region

Futsal South has been running referee courses over the region and now have 52 qualified referees and another course running shortly

NZF Futsal ContactsNorthern Football Futsal - NorthlandFar Northsarahpaynenfforgnzdavealabasternfforgnz

East City Futsal (Auckland)cosworthxtraconzeastcityfutsalmandataconz

Auckland Futsalplayaucklandfutsalorg

AFF Futsal - Avondale Playbeautiful10gmailcom

AFF Futsal - Manukau MikeibbertsonmanukauleisureconzMaraeaHoweaucklandcouncilgovtnz

WAIBOP Futsalpeterawaibopfootballconzsimonmwaibopfootballconz

Hawkes Bay Futsal ptooheyhbfutsalorgnz

Wairarapa Futsal petercoxsparcconzpaul_burnsxtraconz

Red Sox Manawatu Futsal (Palmerston North) bergie007vodafoneconz

Capital Futsal (Wellington)mattcapitalfootballorgnz

Marlborough Futsal (Blenheim) marlboroughfootballxtraconz

Nelson Bays Futsal sportsmallxtraconz

Mainland Futsal - Canterburyrichardmainlandfutsalconz

Mainland Futsal - West Coastsportgreyhighschoolnz

Futsal South - Dunedinkneepadsparadisenetnzfootballmikeihugconz

Futsal South - Wanaka cecisxtraconz

Futsal South - Queenstown infoqueenstownfootballcomkampmanqueenstownconzQueenstown Falcons Futsal marcosmelo1313hotmailcomraulharpyayahoocombr

Futsal South - Timarujcamesymcascorgnz

have a great team behind me with support in areas like accounts which allows me to spend more of my time planning the ASB Centre programme as well as getting out into even more schools How much coaching are you doingLast term I trialled ldquoCoach n Playrdquo leagues in both of our U13 leagues which went well At the moment I coach the St Pats U16 team on a weekly basis with the ambition of winning NZSSSC College Nationals hosted right next door at the ASB Centre in March 2012 Our U19 squad is a representative team and is going to Australia for the nationals in January We will be together playing and training three times a week from next month Our Island Bay Team Awesome U13s have been training once and playing once a week in preparation for Nationals in Australia too From next term Friday nights will be coaching nights for U11s and each age group up to 16s 19s and Men We see this as an important part of the programme to help educate futsal players which in turn will also produce better football players Whatrsquos a typical week for you Matt - Futsal every day Most eveningsAll day all night Yes As part of the Capital transition and with the new centre I am involving more people in running and refereeing the leagues so I can be more efficient in the overall management as opposed to being out ldquoon the groundrdquo at

Capital Futsalrsquos Development Officer is at the centre of the growing futsal scene in Wellington With four yearsrsquo experience as a player coach administrator and volunteer under his belt Fejos is a regular fixture at tournaments and events around the country POWER OF FIVE caught up with him in the days following the opening of the new state of the art twelve court ASB Community Centre - the new home for futsal in Wellington

Matt - how long have you been involved in futsalSince late 2007 coming back to Wellington for summer after Otago University and wanting to play indoor soccer - which is all I knew at the time A knock on Dave and Sarahrsquos Paynersquos door changed my life I guess Tell us a little bit about your role with Capital Futsal Capital City Futsal has recently been integrated into Capital Football hasnrsquot itYes we are currently going through the transition of Capital Football taking on the responsibility for delivering futsal as with other federations around the country My role up until now has been everything really running and promoting the leagues school visits with a focus on the Kiwisport College programme administering everything and overall organisingThis is now changing as things get bigger and with the transition to Capital - I now

leagues four nights a week The emails administration and practical running of things are endless so good thing I do it because I love it At times it seems there is too much interest It is a fantastic problem to have

Are you still finding time to playI sneak in a few social games a week which allows me to drop in on the leagues too and make sure everything is ok too I donrsquot have the time for much more than that and have made the decision that I have more to contribute off the court than on by way of contributing to the opportunities of others You guys are doing well on the referee development side of things How many qualified referees do you have now in WellingtonWe have about 25 from our last two courses in Wellington Most encouraging is the college students involved in what is traditionally seen as an lsquoold manrsquosrsquo thing There are also pathways within refereeing onto the National League and OFC Championships The new centre with twelve courts and a brand new meeting room will provide a professional venue to host referee and coach education sessions Capital Footballrsquos Jamie Cross has also officiated at the OFC Championships in the past so has a lot of experience And Adam Walker volunteers and develops referees which is a real asset to us

MATT FEJOSINTERVIEW

Capital Futsal

18

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

ldquoI BELIEVE MORE CLUBS TEAMS OF ALL AGES WILL ADOPT FUTSAL AS ONE OF THEIR

TRAINING NIGHTS DURING THE FOOTBALL SEASON rdquo

Capital Futsal

20

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

Can you tell us a little bit about the KiwiSport College Futsal initiative you are involved withCapital Futsal and myself personally would not be here without it so we owe a great deal of gratitude to KiwiSport College Sport Wellington and Sport Wellington It allowed me to leave a job in a bank fourteen months ago and get out into colleges to grow the game Over 2000 students from 16 different colleges have been involved from sessions in their school to local college leagues up to College Nationals and young Izaac OrsquoHara showing the pathways in the game being involved with the Futsal Whites What about the National League this year Capital were the top New Zealand side in 201011 Will you have pretty much the same outfit as last yearThings are always changing We lose two of our senior Futsal Whites overseas in Lucas da Silva and Tariq Assad We have some new Brazilians who have been training with the team I am hoping one or two of my promising U19 squad will squeeze in too but things are getting very competitive We have the same management and coaching team which provides some continuity to build on last season and catch those Aussies Our new competitive league will be played on our three international courts which will help too How did the Capital teams enjoy the JuniorYouth Nationals this year The 16s did particularly well and made the finalI think it was a real landmark event The standard went through the roof and centres now will have to send their best players selected from their leagues and

training together It was great to see My 16s were the St Patrickrsquos College team and performed amazingly with just six players from one school showing the benefit of futsal specific training to learn technically and tactically how to play the game Beating squads of eight and nine players selected from federations was quite an achievement They also played the first ever game of any sport at the Opening Day (of the new stadium)against the Futsal Whites and only lost 4-1 in 16 minutes of game time which speaks volumes for these boys I think I was happy with all the teams from the 10s up to 16s and come next year I can only imagine what our top teams will look like after playing and training in the best facility in the country

Capital have always been pioneers - a few years ago Brian Blellock and others set up that great little futsal club in Hataitai Now you have offices in the what is probably the best facility in the Southern Hemisphere What are long term plans for the game in Wellington I think even medium term the transition to Capital Football is the most important thing It is not going to be instant and we are still learning every day To integrate futsal into trainings have futsal specific days and host top tournaments Who knows maybe in a few years we might become a lsquomajorrsquo sport In just four years since that league in Hataitai we have become a major stakeholder in the new centre with netball and basketball Four years ago you would have thought we were mad but it shows firstly the potential

ldquoI STILL HAVE MUCH I WANT TO ACHIEVE HERE IN WELLINGTON AND DREAM OF FUTSALrsquoS OWN lsquoBAHRAIN MOMENTrsquo IN 2015 - SO WHO KNOWS

WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDSrdquo

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

21

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

of this amazing game that is already proven around the world and secondly that with a team of volunteers willing to put in lots of work into something they believe in amazing things can happen

The new centre presents a great opportunity to get more players involved There is the potential for 200 teams in the new centre and with perfect timing of the outdoor season coming to a close The womens and college leagues are showing huge potential for growth As we build momentum over the summer and work through Capital Football I believe more clubs teams of all ages will adopt futsal as one of their training nights during the football season

What about the national scene Do you feel the game has come a long way in the last few years What are the top priorities for the next few years Can the Futsal Whites get close to the Solomon IslandsThat youth tournament in Napier in July as I said was a real landmark They are the future and to have our kids playing from a young age is how we will catch

the Solomons For the next World Cup campaign in four years time I hope some of our Capital 16-19 year olds might progress Longer term if we can be teaching our children from five years up and create a futsal culture with our facility Irsquod like to think we will catch the Aussies too And what about your own professional development in futsal It must be tremendous working in the game that you love Where would you like to be in a few yearsPeople have asked me this question and in all honesty I donrsquot know To do something you love and contribute something positive to your community as opposed to as opposed to measuring the money earned our hours worked is an honour Things have been so busy I just plan to keep my head down for another twelve months and then assess things then I am pretty happy with where I am at at the moment As things are still growing I am fortunate enough to develop a wide range of experience in marketing managing coaching dealing with key

stakeholders etc I have been forced to develop at the same pace as the sport here which is a great challenge so I am learning and growing every day in a broad set of skills I still have much I want to achieve here in Wellington and dream of futsalrsquos own ldquoBahrain momentrdquo in 2015 so who knows what the future holds

More action from the Cup of Nations as Futsal Whites target Micky Malivuk deals with an aerial ball gainst Africa UnitedPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

22

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

CALENDAR 201112

Sun 25 September 2011 NZF-Futsal Level One Refereeing Course PG Arena Napier

SatSun 2223 October 2011 National Girls and Womenrsquos Futsal Tournament ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 34 December 2011 National League Series 1 Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1112 February 2012 National League Series 2 ASB Stadium Auckland

SatSun 1112 February 2012 Futsal - NZ Masters Games Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1718 March 2012 National League Series 3 ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 2627 March 2012 NZF-Futsal Secondary Schools National Futsal Championships ASB Sports Centre Wellington

Calendar201112

Junior action from the opening of the ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington in AugustPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

SERIES ONEDUNEDIN

34 DECEMBER 2011

SERIES TWOAUCKLAND

1112 FEBRUARy 2012

SERIES THREEWELLINGTON1718 MARCH

2012

201112

23

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

201112

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

wwwnzfootballconz | wwwnzffutsalconz | Follow the Futsal Whites on Facebook

Page 17: THE POWER OF FIVE #2 September 2011

17

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

to Peter Livingstone for coaching the 14s to Silver and Matt Hoole doing the same for the 10s but all the teams coaches and support staff did themselves proud It was a great opportunity to play against all the regions of the country and the boys returned with growth and knowledge under their belt as well as great memories of a great event

September sees our ldquoFutsal Camprdquo run every Saturday Under 12s and 12-15s using the time to grow their game with expert coaches and players guidance Along with our schools competition starting next term and a very successful referees training day adding 10 refs to our roster we are growing in all areas and on all fronts

We look forward to catching up with the Futsal community at the Girls Nationals and the Masters where we will bring teams to both

Futsal South

Football South Futsal has recently changed its name to Futsal South Each centre within the Futsal South region will use the logos above with their centre name as per Futsal South ndash Dunedin logo

We now have centres in Dunedin Wanaka Queenstown Timaru and looking to start in Balclutha

Futsal South has held two selection tournaments in Dunedin to choose our National League squad from Teams from Queenstown Wanaka and Dunedin were involved over the 2 rounds with some great Futsal played by all involved

Queenstown Falcons took out the first tournament and Real Football winning the second tournament Luiz Uhera (Futsal South National League Coach) and Chris Button (Futsal South National League Manager) have selected an initial training squad of 30 players from those involved to train towards the 201112 National League

In September 2011 we are starting our summer Futsal leagues We have Senior leagues running on Monday and Wednesday nights Primary school leagues on Wednesday afternoons Intermediate and Junior High School leagues on Tuesday afternoons and Senior High School leagues on Thursday afternoons

With the introduction of our Primary School League we are also offering a futsal in Schools coaching program which involves a part time coach teaching basic Futsal skills in Primary and Intermediate School pupils We have had a very positive response to our pilot program that was run at Tahuna Intermediate with over 450 pupils being given Futsal instruction in their Physical Education classes for 2 weeks

We have signed up a number of schools for this program for terms 3 amp 4 of 2011 and also have schools signed up for next year We are also looking to take the program to the Central Otago and Clutha districts to help boost player numbers in those areas

This should give a real boost towards the future of Futsal in our region

Futsal South has been running referee courses over the region and now have 52 qualified referees and another course running shortly

NZF Futsal ContactsNorthern Football Futsal - NorthlandFar Northsarahpaynenfforgnzdavealabasternfforgnz

East City Futsal (Auckland)cosworthxtraconzeastcityfutsalmandataconz

Auckland Futsalplayaucklandfutsalorg

AFF Futsal - Avondale Playbeautiful10gmailcom

AFF Futsal - Manukau MikeibbertsonmanukauleisureconzMaraeaHoweaucklandcouncilgovtnz

WAIBOP Futsalpeterawaibopfootballconzsimonmwaibopfootballconz

Hawkes Bay Futsal ptooheyhbfutsalorgnz

Wairarapa Futsal petercoxsparcconzpaul_burnsxtraconz

Red Sox Manawatu Futsal (Palmerston North) bergie007vodafoneconz

Capital Futsal (Wellington)mattcapitalfootballorgnz

Marlborough Futsal (Blenheim) marlboroughfootballxtraconz

Nelson Bays Futsal sportsmallxtraconz

Mainland Futsal - Canterburyrichardmainlandfutsalconz

Mainland Futsal - West Coastsportgreyhighschoolnz

Futsal South - Dunedinkneepadsparadisenetnzfootballmikeihugconz

Futsal South - Wanaka cecisxtraconz

Futsal South - Queenstown infoqueenstownfootballcomkampmanqueenstownconzQueenstown Falcons Futsal marcosmelo1313hotmailcomraulharpyayahoocombr

Futsal South - Timarujcamesymcascorgnz

have a great team behind me with support in areas like accounts which allows me to spend more of my time planning the ASB Centre programme as well as getting out into even more schools How much coaching are you doingLast term I trialled ldquoCoach n Playrdquo leagues in both of our U13 leagues which went well At the moment I coach the St Pats U16 team on a weekly basis with the ambition of winning NZSSSC College Nationals hosted right next door at the ASB Centre in March 2012 Our U19 squad is a representative team and is going to Australia for the nationals in January We will be together playing and training three times a week from next month Our Island Bay Team Awesome U13s have been training once and playing once a week in preparation for Nationals in Australia too From next term Friday nights will be coaching nights for U11s and each age group up to 16s 19s and Men We see this as an important part of the programme to help educate futsal players which in turn will also produce better football players Whatrsquos a typical week for you Matt - Futsal every day Most eveningsAll day all night Yes As part of the Capital transition and with the new centre I am involving more people in running and refereeing the leagues so I can be more efficient in the overall management as opposed to being out ldquoon the groundrdquo at

Capital Futsalrsquos Development Officer is at the centre of the growing futsal scene in Wellington With four yearsrsquo experience as a player coach administrator and volunteer under his belt Fejos is a regular fixture at tournaments and events around the country POWER OF FIVE caught up with him in the days following the opening of the new state of the art twelve court ASB Community Centre - the new home for futsal in Wellington

Matt - how long have you been involved in futsalSince late 2007 coming back to Wellington for summer after Otago University and wanting to play indoor soccer - which is all I knew at the time A knock on Dave and Sarahrsquos Paynersquos door changed my life I guess Tell us a little bit about your role with Capital Futsal Capital City Futsal has recently been integrated into Capital Football hasnrsquot itYes we are currently going through the transition of Capital Football taking on the responsibility for delivering futsal as with other federations around the country My role up until now has been everything really running and promoting the leagues school visits with a focus on the Kiwisport College programme administering everything and overall organisingThis is now changing as things get bigger and with the transition to Capital - I now

leagues four nights a week The emails administration and practical running of things are endless so good thing I do it because I love it At times it seems there is too much interest It is a fantastic problem to have

Are you still finding time to playI sneak in a few social games a week which allows me to drop in on the leagues too and make sure everything is ok too I donrsquot have the time for much more than that and have made the decision that I have more to contribute off the court than on by way of contributing to the opportunities of others You guys are doing well on the referee development side of things How many qualified referees do you have now in WellingtonWe have about 25 from our last two courses in Wellington Most encouraging is the college students involved in what is traditionally seen as an lsquoold manrsquosrsquo thing There are also pathways within refereeing onto the National League and OFC Championships The new centre with twelve courts and a brand new meeting room will provide a professional venue to host referee and coach education sessions Capital Footballrsquos Jamie Cross has also officiated at the OFC Championships in the past so has a lot of experience And Adam Walker volunteers and develops referees which is a real asset to us

MATT FEJOSINTERVIEW

Capital Futsal

18

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

ldquoI BELIEVE MORE CLUBS TEAMS OF ALL AGES WILL ADOPT FUTSAL AS ONE OF THEIR

TRAINING NIGHTS DURING THE FOOTBALL SEASON rdquo

Capital Futsal

20

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

Can you tell us a little bit about the KiwiSport College Futsal initiative you are involved withCapital Futsal and myself personally would not be here without it so we owe a great deal of gratitude to KiwiSport College Sport Wellington and Sport Wellington It allowed me to leave a job in a bank fourteen months ago and get out into colleges to grow the game Over 2000 students from 16 different colleges have been involved from sessions in their school to local college leagues up to College Nationals and young Izaac OrsquoHara showing the pathways in the game being involved with the Futsal Whites What about the National League this year Capital were the top New Zealand side in 201011 Will you have pretty much the same outfit as last yearThings are always changing We lose two of our senior Futsal Whites overseas in Lucas da Silva and Tariq Assad We have some new Brazilians who have been training with the team I am hoping one or two of my promising U19 squad will squeeze in too but things are getting very competitive We have the same management and coaching team which provides some continuity to build on last season and catch those Aussies Our new competitive league will be played on our three international courts which will help too How did the Capital teams enjoy the JuniorYouth Nationals this year The 16s did particularly well and made the finalI think it was a real landmark event The standard went through the roof and centres now will have to send their best players selected from their leagues and

training together It was great to see My 16s were the St Patrickrsquos College team and performed amazingly with just six players from one school showing the benefit of futsal specific training to learn technically and tactically how to play the game Beating squads of eight and nine players selected from federations was quite an achievement They also played the first ever game of any sport at the Opening Day (of the new stadium)against the Futsal Whites and only lost 4-1 in 16 minutes of game time which speaks volumes for these boys I think I was happy with all the teams from the 10s up to 16s and come next year I can only imagine what our top teams will look like after playing and training in the best facility in the country

Capital have always been pioneers - a few years ago Brian Blellock and others set up that great little futsal club in Hataitai Now you have offices in the what is probably the best facility in the Southern Hemisphere What are long term plans for the game in Wellington I think even medium term the transition to Capital Football is the most important thing It is not going to be instant and we are still learning every day To integrate futsal into trainings have futsal specific days and host top tournaments Who knows maybe in a few years we might become a lsquomajorrsquo sport In just four years since that league in Hataitai we have become a major stakeholder in the new centre with netball and basketball Four years ago you would have thought we were mad but it shows firstly the potential

ldquoI STILL HAVE MUCH I WANT TO ACHIEVE HERE IN WELLINGTON AND DREAM OF FUTSALrsquoS OWN lsquoBAHRAIN MOMENTrsquo IN 2015 - SO WHO KNOWS

WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDSrdquo

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

21

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

of this amazing game that is already proven around the world and secondly that with a team of volunteers willing to put in lots of work into something they believe in amazing things can happen

The new centre presents a great opportunity to get more players involved There is the potential for 200 teams in the new centre and with perfect timing of the outdoor season coming to a close The womens and college leagues are showing huge potential for growth As we build momentum over the summer and work through Capital Football I believe more clubs teams of all ages will adopt futsal as one of their training nights during the football season

What about the national scene Do you feel the game has come a long way in the last few years What are the top priorities for the next few years Can the Futsal Whites get close to the Solomon IslandsThat youth tournament in Napier in July as I said was a real landmark They are the future and to have our kids playing from a young age is how we will catch

the Solomons For the next World Cup campaign in four years time I hope some of our Capital 16-19 year olds might progress Longer term if we can be teaching our children from five years up and create a futsal culture with our facility Irsquod like to think we will catch the Aussies too And what about your own professional development in futsal It must be tremendous working in the game that you love Where would you like to be in a few yearsPeople have asked me this question and in all honesty I donrsquot know To do something you love and contribute something positive to your community as opposed to as opposed to measuring the money earned our hours worked is an honour Things have been so busy I just plan to keep my head down for another twelve months and then assess things then I am pretty happy with where I am at at the moment As things are still growing I am fortunate enough to develop a wide range of experience in marketing managing coaching dealing with key

stakeholders etc I have been forced to develop at the same pace as the sport here which is a great challenge so I am learning and growing every day in a broad set of skills I still have much I want to achieve here in Wellington and dream of futsalrsquos own ldquoBahrain momentrdquo in 2015 so who knows what the future holds

More action from the Cup of Nations as Futsal Whites target Micky Malivuk deals with an aerial ball gainst Africa UnitedPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

22

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

CALENDAR 201112

Sun 25 September 2011 NZF-Futsal Level One Refereeing Course PG Arena Napier

SatSun 2223 October 2011 National Girls and Womenrsquos Futsal Tournament ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 34 December 2011 National League Series 1 Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1112 February 2012 National League Series 2 ASB Stadium Auckland

SatSun 1112 February 2012 Futsal - NZ Masters Games Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1718 March 2012 National League Series 3 ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 2627 March 2012 NZF-Futsal Secondary Schools National Futsal Championships ASB Sports Centre Wellington

Calendar201112

Junior action from the opening of the ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington in AugustPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

SERIES ONEDUNEDIN

34 DECEMBER 2011

SERIES TWOAUCKLAND

1112 FEBRUARy 2012

SERIES THREEWELLINGTON1718 MARCH

2012

201112

23

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

201112

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

wwwnzfootballconz | wwwnzffutsalconz | Follow the Futsal Whites on Facebook

Page 18: THE POWER OF FIVE #2 September 2011

have a great team behind me with support in areas like accounts which allows me to spend more of my time planning the ASB Centre programme as well as getting out into even more schools How much coaching are you doingLast term I trialled ldquoCoach n Playrdquo leagues in both of our U13 leagues which went well At the moment I coach the St Pats U16 team on a weekly basis with the ambition of winning NZSSSC College Nationals hosted right next door at the ASB Centre in March 2012 Our U19 squad is a representative team and is going to Australia for the nationals in January We will be together playing and training three times a week from next month Our Island Bay Team Awesome U13s have been training once and playing once a week in preparation for Nationals in Australia too From next term Friday nights will be coaching nights for U11s and each age group up to 16s 19s and Men We see this as an important part of the programme to help educate futsal players which in turn will also produce better football players Whatrsquos a typical week for you Matt - Futsal every day Most eveningsAll day all night Yes As part of the Capital transition and with the new centre I am involving more people in running and refereeing the leagues so I can be more efficient in the overall management as opposed to being out ldquoon the groundrdquo at

Capital Futsalrsquos Development Officer is at the centre of the growing futsal scene in Wellington With four yearsrsquo experience as a player coach administrator and volunteer under his belt Fejos is a regular fixture at tournaments and events around the country POWER OF FIVE caught up with him in the days following the opening of the new state of the art twelve court ASB Community Centre - the new home for futsal in Wellington

Matt - how long have you been involved in futsalSince late 2007 coming back to Wellington for summer after Otago University and wanting to play indoor soccer - which is all I knew at the time A knock on Dave and Sarahrsquos Paynersquos door changed my life I guess Tell us a little bit about your role with Capital Futsal Capital City Futsal has recently been integrated into Capital Football hasnrsquot itYes we are currently going through the transition of Capital Football taking on the responsibility for delivering futsal as with other federations around the country My role up until now has been everything really running and promoting the leagues school visits with a focus on the Kiwisport College programme administering everything and overall organisingThis is now changing as things get bigger and with the transition to Capital - I now

leagues four nights a week The emails administration and practical running of things are endless so good thing I do it because I love it At times it seems there is too much interest It is a fantastic problem to have

Are you still finding time to playI sneak in a few social games a week which allows me to drop in on the leagues too and make sure everything is ok too I donrsquot have the time for much more than that and have made the decision that I have more to contribute off the court than on by way of contributing to the opportunities of others You guys are doing well on the referee development side of things How many qualified referees do you have now in WellingtonWe have about 25 from our last two courses in Wellington Most encouraging is the college students involved in what is traditionally seen as an lsquoold manrsquosrsquo thing There are also pathways within refereeing onto the National League and OFC Championships The new centre with twelve courts and a brand new meeting room will provide a professional venue to host referee and coach education sessions Capital Footballrsquos Jamie Cross has also officiated at the OFC Championships in the past so has a lot of experience And Adam Walker volunteers and develops referees which is a real asset to us

MATT FEJOSINTERVIEW

Capital Futsal

18

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

ldquoI BELIEVE MORE CLUBS TEAMS OF ALL AGES WILL ADOPT FUTSAL AS ONE OF THEIR

TRAINING NIGHTS DURING THE FOOTBALL SEASON rdquo

Capital Futsal

20

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

Can you tell us a little bit about the KiwiSport College Futsal initiative you are involved withCapital Futsal and myself personally would not be here without it so we owe a great deal of gratitude to KiwiSport College Sport Wellington and Sport Wellington It allowed me to leave a job in a bank fourteen months ago and get out into colleges to grow the game Over 2000 students from 16 different colleges have been involved from sessions in their school to local college leagues up to College Nationals and young Izaac OrsquoHara showing the pathways in the game being involved with the Futsal Whites What about the National League this year Capital were the top New Zealand side in 201011 Will you have pretty much the same outfit as last yearThings are always changing We lose two of our senior Futsal Whites overseas in Lucas da Silva and Tariq Assad We have some new Brazilians who have been training with the team I am hoping one or two of my promising U19 squad will squeeze in too but things are getting very competitive We have the same management and coaching team which provides some continuity to build on last season and catch those Aussies Our new competitive league will be played on our three international courts which will help too How did the Capital teams enjoy the JuniorYouth Nationals this year The 16s did particularly well and made the finalI think it was a real landmark event The standard went through the roof and centres now will have to send their best players selected from their leagues and

training together It was great to see My 16s were the St Patrickrsquos College team and performed amazingly with just six players from one school showing the benefit of futsal specific training to learn technically and tactically how to play the game Beating squads of eight and nine players selected from federations was quite an achievement They also played the first ever game of any sport at the Opening Day (of the new stadium)against the Futsal Whites and only lost 4-1 in 16 minutes of game time which speaks volumes for these boys I think I was happy with all the teams from the 10s up to 16s and come next year I can only imagine what our top teams will look like after playing and training in the best facility in the country

Capital have always been pioneers - a few years ago Brian Blellock and others set up that great little futsal club in Hataitai Now you have offices in the what is probably the best facility in the Southern Hemisphere What are long term plans for the game in Wellington I think even medium term the transition to Capital Football is the most important thing It is not going to be instant and we are still learning every day To integrate futsal into trainings have futsal specific days and host top tournaments Who knows maybe in a few years we might become a lsquomajorrsquo sport In just four years since that league in Hataitai we have become a major stakeholder in the new centre with netball and basketball Four years ago you would have thought we were mad but it shows firstly the potential

ldquoI STILL HAVE MUCH I WANT TO ACHIEVE HERE IN WELLINGTON AND DREAM OF FUTSALrsquoS OWN lsquoBAHRAIN MOMENTrsquo IN 2015 - SO WHO KNOWS

WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDSrdquo

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

21

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

of this amazing game that is already proven around the world and secondly that with a team of volunteers willing to put in lots of work into something they believe in amazing things can happen

The new centre presents a great opportunity to get more players involved There is the potential for 200 teams in the new centre and with perfect timing of the outdoor season coming to a close The womens and college leagues are showing huge potential for growth As we build momentum over the summer and work through Capital Football I believe more clubs teams of all ages will adopt futsal as one of their training nights during the football season

What about the national scene Do you feel the game has come a long way in the last few years What are the top priorities for the next few years Can the Futsal Whites get close to the Solomon IslandsThat youth tournament in Napier in July as I said was a real landmark They are the future and to have our kids playing from a young age is how we will catch

the Solomons For the next World Cup campaign in four years time I hope some of our Capital 16-19 year olds might progress Longer term if we can be teaching our children from five years up and create a futsal culture with our facility Irsquod like to think we will catch the Aussies too And what about your own professional development in futsal It must be tremendous working in the game that you love Where would you like to be in a few yearsPeople have asked me this question and in all honesty I donrsquot know To do something you love and contribute something positive to your community as opposed to as opposed to measuring the money earned our hours worked is an honour Things have been so busy I just plan to keep my head down for another twelve months and then assess things then I am pretty happy with where I am at at the moment As things are still growing I am fortunate enough to develop a wide range of experience in marketing managing coaching dealing with key

stakeholders etc I have been forced to develop at the same pace as the sport here which is a great challenge so I am learning and growing every day in a broad set of skills I still have much I want to achieve here in Wellington and dream of futsalrsquos own ldquoBahrain momentrdquo in 2015 so who knows what the future holds

More action from the Cup of Nations as Futsal Whites target Micky Malivuk deals with an aerial ball gainst Africa UnitedPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

22

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

CALENDAR 201112

Sun 25 September 2011 NZF-Futsal Level One Refereeing Course PG Arena Napier

SatSun 2223 October 2011 National Girls and Womenrsquos Futsal Tournament ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 34 December 2011 National League Series 1 Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1112 February 2012 National League Series 2 ASB Stadium Auckland

SatSun 1112 February 2012 Futsal - NZ Masters Games Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1718 March 2012 National League Series 3 ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 2627 March 2012 NZF-Futsal Secondary Schools National Futsal Championships ASB Sports Centre Wellington

Calendar201112

Junior action from the opening of the ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington in AugustPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

SERIES ONEDUNEDIN

34 DECEMBER 2011

SERIES TWOAUCKLAND

1112 FEBRUARy 2012

SERIES THREEWELLINGTON1718 MARCH

2012

201112

23

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

201112

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

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ldquoI BELIEVE MORE CLUBS TEAMS OF ALL AGES WILL ADOPT FUTSAL AS ONE OF THEIR

TRAINING NIGHTS DURING THE FOOTBALL SEASON rdquo

Capital Futsal

20

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

Can you tell us a little bit about the KiwiSport College Futsal initiative you are involved withCapital Futsal and myself personally would not be here without it so we owe a great deal of gratitude to KiwiSport College Sport Wellington and Sport Wellington It allowed me to leave a job in a bank fourteen months ago and get out into colleges to grow the game Over 2000 students from 16 different colleges have been involved from sessions in their school to local college leagues up to College Nationals and young Izaac OrsquoHara showing the pathways in the game being involved with the Futsal Whites What about the National League this year Capital were the top New Zealand side in 201011 Will you have pretty much the same outfit as last yearThings are always changing We lose two of our senior Futsal Whites overseas in Lucas da Silva and Tariq Assad We have some new Brazilians who have been training with the team I am hoping one or two of my promising U19 squad will squeeze in too but things are getting very competitive We have the same management and coaching team which provides some continuity to build on last season and catch those Aussies Our new competitive league will be played on our three international courts which will help too How did the Capital teams enjoy the JuniorYouth Nationals this year The 16s did particularly well and made the finalI think it was a real landmark event The standard went through the roof and centres now will have to send their best players selected from their leagues and

training together It was great to see My 16s were the St Patrickrsquos College team and performed amazingly with just six players from one school showing the benefit of futsal specific training to learn technically and tactically how to play the game Beating squads of eight and nine players selected from federations was quite an achievement They also played the first ever game of any sport at the Opening Day (of the new stadium)against the Futsal Whites and only lost 4-1 in 16 minutes of game time which speaks volumes for these boys I think I was happy with all the teams from the 10s up to 16s and come next year I can only imagine what our top teams will look like after playing and training in the best facility in the country

Capital have always been pioneers - a few years ago Brian Blellock and others set up that great little futsal club in Hataitai Now you have offices in the what is probably the best facility in the Southern Hemisphere What are long term plans for the game in Wellington I think even medium term the transition to Capital Football is the most important thing It is not going to be instant and we are still learning every day To integrate futsal into trainings have futsal specific days and host top tournaments Who knows maybe in a few years we might become a lsquomajorrsquo sport In just four years since that league in Hataitai we have become a major stakeholder in the new centre with netball and basketball Four years ago you would have thought we were mad but it shows firstly the potential

ldquoI STILL HAVE MUCH I WANT TO ACHIEVE HERE IN WELLINGTON AND DREAM OF FUTSALrsquoS OWN lsquoBAHRAIN MOMENTrsquo IN 2015 - SO WHO KNOWS

WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDSrdquo

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

21

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

of this amazing game that is already proven around the world and secondly that with a team of volunteers willing to put in lots of work into something they believe in amazing things can happen

The new centre presents a great opportunity to get more players involved There is the potential for 200 teams in the new centre and with perfect timing of the outdoor season coming to a close The womens and college leagues are showing huge potential for growth As we build momentum over the summer and work through Capital Football I believe more clubs teams of all ages will adopt futsal as one of their training nights during the football season

What about the national scene Do you feel the game has come a long way in the last few years What are the top priorities for the next few years Can the Futsal Whites get close to the Solomon IslandsThat youth tournament in Napier in July as I said was a real landmark They are the future and to have our kids playing from a young age is how we will catch

the Solomons For the next World Cup campaign in four years time I hope some of our Capital 16-19 year olds might progress Longer term if we can be teaching our children from five years up and create a futsal culture with our facility Irsquod like to think we will catch the Aussies too And what about your own professional development in futsal It must be tremendous working in the game that you love Where would you like to be in a few yearsPeople have asked me this question and in all honesty I donrsquot know To do something you love and contribute something positive to your community as opposed to as opposed to measuring the money earned our hours worked is an honour Things have been so busy I just plan to keep my head down for another twelve months and then assess things then I am pretty happy with where I am at at the moment As things are still growing I am fortunate enough to develop a wide range of experience in marketing managing coaching dealing with key

stakeholders etc I have been forced to develop at the same pace as the sport here which is a great challenge so I am learning and growing every day in a broad set of skills I still have much I want to achieve here in Wellington and dream of futsalrsquos own ldquoBahrain momentrdquo in 2015 so who knows what the future holds

More action from the Cup of Nations as Futsal Whites target Micky Malivuk deals with an aerial ball gainst Africa UnitedPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

22

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

CALENDAR 201112

Sun 25 September 2011 NZF-Futsal Level One Refereeing Course PG Arena Napier

SatSun 2223 October 2011 National Girls and Womenrsquos Futsal Tournament ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 34 December 2011 National League Series 1 Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1112 February 2012 National League Series 2 ASB Stadium Auckland

SatSun 1112 February 2012 Futsal - NZ Masters Games Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1718 March 2012 National League Series 3 ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 2627 March 2012 NZF-Futsal Secondary Schools National Futsal Championships ASB Sports Centre Wellington

Calendar201112

Junior action from the opening of the ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington in AugustPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

SERIES ONEDUNEDIN

34 DECEMBER 2011

SERIES TWOAUCKLAND

1112 FEBRUARy 2012

SERIES THREEWELLINGTON1718 MARCH

2012

201112

23

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

201112

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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Page 20: THE POWER OF FIVE #2 September 2011

20

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

Can you tell us a little bit about the KiwiSport College Futsal initiative you are involved withCapital Futsal and myself personally would not be here without it so we owe a great deal of gratitude to KiwiSport College Sport Wellington and Sport Wellington It allowed me to leave a job in a bank fourteen months ago and get out into colleges to grow the game Over 2000 students from 16 different colleges have been involved from sessions in their school to local college leagues up to College Nationals and young Izaac OrsquoHara showing the pathways in the game being involved with the Futsal Whites What about the National League this year Capital were the top New Zealand side in 201011 Will you have pretty much the same outfit as last yearThings are always changing We lose two of our senior Futsal Whites overseas in Lucas da Silva and Tariq Assad We have some new Brazilians who have been training with the team I am hoping one or two of my promising U19 squad will squeeze in too but things are getting very competitive We have the same management and coaching team which provides some continuity to build on last season and catch those Aussies Our new competitive league will be played on our three international courts which will help too How did the Capital teams enjoy the JuniorYouth Nationals this year The 16s did particularly well and made the finalI think it was a real landmark event The standard went through the roof and centres now will have to send their best players selected from their leagues and

training together It was great to see My 16s were the St Patrickrsquos College team and performed amazingly with just six players from one school showing the benefit of futsal specific training to learn technically and tactically how to play the game Beating squads of eight and nine players selected from federations was quite an achievement They also played the first ever game of any sport at the Opening Day (of the new stadium)against the Futsal Whites and only lost 4-1 in 16 minutes of game time which speaks volumes for these boys I think I was happy with all the teams from the 10s up to 16s and come next year I can only imagine what our top teams will look like after playing and training in the best facility in the country

Capital have always been pioneers - a few years ago Brian Blellock and others set up that great little futsal club in Hataitai Now you have offices in the what is probably the best facility in the Southern Hemisphere What are long term plans for the game in Wellington I think even medium term the transition to Capital Football is the most important thing It is not going to be instant and we are still learning every day To integrate futsal into trainings have futsal specific days and host top tournaments Who knows maybe in a few years we might become a lsquomajorrsquo sport In just four years since that league in Hataitai we have become a major stakeholder in the new centre with netball and basketball Four years ago you would have thought we were mad but it shows firstly the potential

ldquoI STILL HAVE MUCH I WANT TO ACHIEVE HERE IN WELLINGTON AND DREAM OF FUTSALrsquoS OWN lsquoBAHRAIN MOMENTrsquo IN 2015 - SO WHO KNOWS

WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDSrdquo

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

21

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

of this amazing game that is already proven around the world and secondly that with a team of volunteers willing to put in lots of work into something they believe in amazing things can happen

The new centre presents a great opportunity to get more players involved There is the potential for 200 teams in the new centre and with perfect timing of the outdoor season coming to a close The womens and college leagues are showing huge potential for growth As we build momentum over the summer and work through Capital Football I believe more clubs teams of all ages will adopt futsal as one of their training nights during the football season

What about the national scene Do you feel the game has come a long way in the last few years What are the top priorities for the next few years Can the Futsal Whites get close to the Solomon IslandsThat youth tournament in Napier in July as I said was a real landmark They are the future and to have our kids playing from a young age is how we will catch

the Solomons For the next World Cup campaign in four years time I hope some of our Capital 16-19 year olds might progress Longer term if we can be teaching our children from five years up and create a futsal culture with our facility Irsquod like to think we will catch the Aussies too And what about your own professional development in futsal It must be tremendous working in the game that you love Where would you like to be in a few yearsPeople have asked me this question and in all honesty I donrsquot know To do something you love and contribute something positive to your community as opposed to as opposed to measuring the money earned our hours worked is an honour Things have been so busy I just plan to keep my head down for another twelve months and then assess things then I am pretty happy with where I am at at the moment As things are still growing I am fortunate enough to develop a wide range of experience in marketing managing coaching dealing with key

stakeholders etc I have been forced to develop at the same pace as the sport here which is a great challenge so I am learning and growing every day in a broad set of skills I still have much I want to achieve here in Wellington and dream of futsalrsquos own ldquoBahrain momentrdquo in 2015 so who knows what the future holds

More action from the Cup of Nations as Futsal Whites target Micky Malivuk deals with an aerial ball gainst Africa UnitedPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

22

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

CALENDAR 201112

Sun 25 September 2011 NZF-Futsal Level One Refereeing Course PG Arena Napier

SatSun 2223 October 2011 National Girls and Womenrsquos Futsal Tournament ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 34 December 2011 National League Series 1 Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1112 February 2012 National League Series 2 ASB Stadium Auckland

SatSun 1112 February 2012 Futsal - NZ Masters Games Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1718 March 2012 National League Series 3 ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 2627 March 2012 NZF-Futsal Secondary Schools National Futsal Championships ASB Sports Centre Wellington

Calendar201112

Junior action from the opening of the ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington in AugustPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

SERIES ONEDUNEDIN

34 DECEMBER 2011

SERIES TWOAUCKLAND

1112 FEBRUARy 2012

SERIES THREEWELLINGTON1718 MARCH

2012

201112

23

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

201112

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

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Page 21: THE POWER OF FIVE #2 September 2011

21

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

of this amazing game that is already proven around the world and secondly that with a team of volunteers willing to put in lots of work into something they believe in amazing things can happen

The new centre presents a great opportunity to get more players involved There is the potential for 200 teams in the new centre and with perfect timing of the outdoor season coming to a close The womens and college leagues are showing huge potential for growth As we build momentum over the summer and work through Capital Football I believe more clubs teams of all ages will adopt futsal as one of their training nights during the football season

What about the national scene Do you feel the game has come a long way in the last few years What are the top priorities for the next few years Can the Futsal Whites get close to the Solomon IslandsThat youth tournament in Napier in July as I said was a real landmark They are the future and to have our kids playing from a young age is how we will catch

the Solomons For the next World Cup campaign in four years time I hope some of our Capital 16-19 year olds might progress Longer term if we can be teaching our children from five years up and create a futsal culture with our facility Irsquod like to think we will catch the Aussies too And what about your own professional development in futsal It must be tremendous working in the game that you love Where would you like to be in a few yearsPeople have asked me this question and in all honesty I donrsquot know To do something you love and contribute something positive to your community as opposed to as opposed to measuring the money earned our hours worked is an honour Things have been so busy I just plan to keep my head down for another twelve months and then assess things then I am pretty happy with where I am at at the moment As things are still growing I am fortunate enough to develop a wide range of experience in marketing managing coaching dealing with key

stakeholders etc I have been forced to develop at the same pace as the sport here which is a great challenge so I am learning and growing every day in a broad set of skills I still have much I want to achieve here in Wellington and dream of futsalrsquos own ldquoBahrain momentrdquo in 2015 so who knows what the future holds

More action from the Cup of Nations as Futsal Whites target Micky Malivuk deals with an aerial ball gainst Africa UnitedPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

22

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

CALENDAR 201112

Sun 25 September 2011 NZF-Futsal Level One Refereeing Course PG Arena Napier

SatSun 2223 October 2011 National Girls and Womenrsquos Futsal Tournament ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 34 December 2011 National League Series 1 Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1112 February 2012 National League Series 2 ASB Stadium Auckland

SatSun 1112 February 2012 Futsal - NZ Masters Games Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1718 March 2012 National League Series 3 ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 2627 March 2012 NZF-Futsal Secondary Schools National Futsal Championships ASB Sports Centre Wellington

Calendar201112

Junior action from the opening of the ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington in AugustPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

SERIES ONEDUNEDIN

34 DECEMBER 2011

SERIES TWOAUCKLAND

1112 FEBRUARy 2012

SERIES THREEWELLINGTON1718 MARCH

2012

201112

23

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

201112

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

wwwnzfootballconz | wwwnzffutsalconz | Follow the Futsal Whites on Facebook

Page 22: THE POWER OF FIVE #2 September 2011

22

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

CALENDAR 201112

Sun 25 September 2011 NZF-Futsal Level One Refereeing Course PG Arena Napier

SatSun 2223 October 2011 National Girls and Womenrsquos Futsal Tournament ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 34 December 2011 National League Series 1 Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1112 February 2012 National League Series 2 ASB Stadium Auckland

SatSun 1112 February 2012 Futsal - NZ Masters Games Edgar Centre Dunedin

SatSun 1718 March 2012 National League Series 3 ASB Sports Centre Wellington

SatSun 2627 March 2012 NZF-Futsal Secondary Schools National Futsal Championships ASB Sports Centre Wellington

Calendar201112

Junior action from the opening of the ASB Indoor Sports Centre in Wellington in AugustPHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

SERIES ONEDUNEDIN

34 DECEMBER 2011

SERIES TWOAUCKLAND

1112 FEBRUARy 2012

SERIES THREEWELLINGTON1718 MARCH

2012

201112

23

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

201112

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

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Page 23: THE POWER OF FIVE #2 September 2011

SERIES ONEDUNEDIN

34 DECEMBER 2011

SERIES TWOAUCKLAND

1112 FEBRUARy 2012

SERIES THREEWELLINGTON1718 MARCH

2012

201112

23

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

201112

PHOTO INSPIRE PHOTOGRAPHY

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

wwwnzfootballconz | wwwnzffutsalconz | Follow the Futsal Whites on Facebook

Page 24: THE POWER OF FIVE #2 September 2011

New Zealand Football | FUTSAL ldquoThe Power of Fiverdquo Black amp White copy CreativeBank 2010

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