Futsal
Why futsal can accelerate player development
- The Boot Room
- 22 November 2019
The England DNA wants coaches to work towards helping players develop outstanding technical ability, and futsal can help with that.
The Foundation Phase is the perfect time to introduce players to the benefits of playing futsal, with the constraints of the game helping to challenge the players, regardless of age. As the England DNA demands that a different kind of player is developed, futsal can have a very important role to play.
Futsal can benefit your players as:
- it’s played indoors, so you can play it in the winter
- they will have increased touches of the ball and will have more decisions to make (master the ball)
- they will have increased opportunities to accelerate, decelerate, change direction, stop and start, dodge and feint (master your body)
- they will be under constant pressure and have limited space to play in (seek creative solutions)
- they will have more tactical challenges to overcome (instinctive decision-making)
- there will be more opportunities to shoot, pass, move, dribble and play 1v1 (be exciting with the ball)
- they will have to react to transitions more often (instinctive decisions)
- they will have to defend as an individual and a team more often (intelligent defending).
If you’d like to find out more about futsal, or you’re looking to introduce your players to the game, you can learn all about it by accessing our futsal playlist, which is full of content for you to enjoy, or by booking onto one of our courses.
You can even take your learning further by getting tickets to the next FA Futsal Conference, which takes place on Saturday 9th May 2020. Click here to find out more and to enrol.
To learn more about Foundation Phase DNA, click here.
