Why can’t we play futsal: the practice

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In the second part of a series focusing on the benefits of playing futsal, particularly in winter, The Boot Room looks into how it will impact your players and coaching sessions.
Going indoors and playing futsal gives you the chance to provide different challenges for your players. It was mentioned in the previous article that the surface, the laws of the game and the ball will all challenge your players to adapt and change. As such, they will gain lots of development in all four corners due to the inclusion of futsal.

The game also includes plenty of transitions, so your practices and games should give lots of opportunities for your players to recognise and react to changes in possession.

Smaller-number games like futsal increase ball contacts and require different movements to feign and check to find individual space.

The amount of times players accelerate, decelerate and find themselves in contact with an opponent are also increased, something the young developing body and mind needs exposing to on a regular basis.

Another area young players need to develop further is decision-making under pressure. Futsal can help with this as it will provide very similar repetitions of game situations, without them ever being exactly the same. This is great for developing an adaptable and flexible approach when making decisions.

As well as this, the game is played to lines, so it fits perfectly with the notion of keeping the ball in play rather than putting it out of play, so the game really does support the England DNA in a variety of ways.

Watch the video below to see how you can introduce more challenges and how you can encourage creativity, by going inside to play futsal.

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Futsal practice

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