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STATE LEAGUE FINALS

The Futsal State League Finals were held today at Beenleigh centre. I was down there for a while, and it was good to see futsal supporters from all over getting together..there was probably around 600 people there.

Results were as follows:

12 YEAR BOYS
MT GRAVATT 8 TOOWOOMBA 1

14 YEAR BOYS
MT GRAVATT 5 SUNNY COAST 3

16 YEAR BOYS
LOGAN 9 TOOWOOMBA 3

OPEN MEN
LOGAN 4 LOGAN 18'S 3

12 YEAR GIRLS
MT GRAVATT 8 TOOWOOMBA 1

14 YEAR GIRLS
TOOWOOMBA 3 SUNNY COAST 2

16 YEAR GIRLS
MT GRAVATT 3 LOGAN 1

OPEN WOMEN
MT GRAVATT 3 LOGAN 1

Mount Gravatt womens teams continues where they left of at the nationals two weeks ago where they won the 14 girls and 16 girls and SHOULD HAVE won the open woen after winning the state womens series.

Thanks to Leo Tottenham for organising all the referees on the day, and thanks also to all the referees and officials.players of the tournament will be announced next week.

The next major tournament will be the Logan City Cup on the weekend of 16th and 17th February. Entry forms are available on the website or by ringing the office.


MAREEBA CUP

The Mareeba Cup was also being played this weekend in North Queensland .Twelve teams from Tully, Cairns, Townsville,Ayr and host club Mareeba attended. The final saw Townsville men defeat Townsville youth (plus an old age keeper) 9 goals to 2.

Thanks to Tony Cifuentes up there for again running a good competition. The next North Queensland tournament will be the weekend of the 16th February in Townsville.


VALE SHANE BOX

Our commiserations go out to the family of SHANE BOX , who died suddenly of a heart attack last Tuesday night. Shane has played futsal for years and this season was playing Tuesday night at Acacia Ridge, Sunday at Mt Gravatt and his son Dion was playing 16's Thursday night at Mt Gravatt. Shane had played last Tuesday night and died at home an hour later.

The service will be at Mt Gravatt Crematorium this Tuesday at 3.00 pm.


BUNDY BLAST SHOW FEELINGS

I forgot to mention last week, but special thanks to the BUNDY BLAST who wore black armbands throughout the national titles in remembrance of CHRIS FISCHER who died two weeks ago. DAVID FISCHER has played with the BLAST for three years and was sorely missed at the nationals. Thanks to John Kowtan and the boys for the display.


BIG THANKS TO RETRAVISION

A big thank you to LIAM OREILLY, manager of RETRAVISION, MYER CITY CENTRE. Liam has assisted us with purchasing a television and DVD for Queensland Ffutsal, by giving us an extremely good discount . Liam plays at Acacia Ridge Club on Tuesday nights.

So if you are looking for anything electrical, drop in to Level Two at the Myer Centre, and tell Liam how well he played this week !


SCHOOL TITLES ENTRY BOOKLETS

School titles entry booklets were all posted on Thursday and Friday, not only to all schools across Queensland but also to selected players at schools who have not entered before.

A reminder that the South Queensland Titles are 4th to 19th March and schools from Maryborough down to the NSW border and out to Stanthorpe attend.

The North Queensland Titles are in Townsville 12th and 13th March for schools from Mackay up to Cairns and out to Charters Towers.

In second term we will also have a number of regional competitions throughout May in locations such as Toowoomba, Roma, Hervey Bay, Caloundra, Rockhampton, Mackay, Emerald and Cairns.

If you would like an entry booklet for your school, email me and I'll send one out.

Teams that finish in the top 8 in South Queensland or win their regional tournament are invited back in October for the Champions of Champions tournament.


BAIRNSDALE CALLING


Talking of schools, Mark Leary the futsal coach at Nagle College, Bairnsdale emailed me this week looking to see if any other schools would like to visit them.Both Nagle College and Bairnsdale High, the two high schools in the town, are strong futsal schools.

Bairnsdale is a small town out on the south eastern coast of Victoria and I would certainly recommend it for a visit.It has mild summers and cold winters. The most scenic route is coming south from Canberra over the mountains and then heading west along the coast highway to Bairnsdale. Or you can be lazy and fly into Melbourne and bus it out to Bairnsdale in under 5 hours. I have been there many times with futsal and certainly would recommend it for a holiday. You can contact Mark as follows :

Website www.nagle.sale.catholic.edu.au

Email: mshadleary@hotmail.com

After Hours Phone: 03 51558777

School : 03 51526122 Fax: 03 51526220



HYUNDIA 5 A SIDE SOCCER TOURNAMENT

HYUNDAI ,the major motor dealer, this year are running an outdoor 5 A SIDE competition across the world, with the finals to be played as curtain raisers to world cup soccer games in Japan and Korea this year.

Queensland Futsal has been asked to run the Queensland section of the competition. The winners qualify for the Australian Finals in Sydney, and the winner of the Australian finals qualifies for the world finals in Japan. In both cases all accommodation and airfares are paid for by Hyundai. Hyundai will also be present on the Queensland finals day giving out giveaways etc. PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL CONTRACT SOCCER PLAYERS( THAT IS PAID ON A BLUE FORM) ARE INELIGIBLE.

The Queensland Finals Day will be Sunday 24th February in Brisbane, this stage most likely at Souths United. Team will be put into round robin groups of 4 teams then into knockout till awinner is found.

For an entry form contact Richard Littler at the office on 32199444.

REGIONAL TITLES

The names of coaches for Brisbane South and Logan City will be going on the website this week.Rob Morris has returned from England and will be taking over the organisation of the Gold Coast sides. Jan Christensen will be organising all the Moreton teams and Brisbane North will have a number of organisers.


HUMOUR

No more Liverpool jokes form now on. After United losing to both them and Middlesborough this week , I have to go into hiding , as I live with supporters of both.

TRUE GOLFING STORY

Our intrepid Coaching Director for Toowoomba, Lester Oliver is on two weeks holiday at the moment. He put in for holidays to go to the nationals a year ago, but after our friends at NSW futsal changed it , he was left stranded with holidays and no where to go.

When meeting with the Toowoomba committee last week, he informed me he wasn't enjoying his holidays as he was having to get up at 4.00 am each morning to play golf. When asked why he played at that time of the morning he told me because if you played then you didn't have to pay !!

I know wages at the Toowoomba Foundary are poor, but I think our next function should be a fundraiser for Lester's golfing career.


THIS WEEKS JOKE

It was Sunday in Manchester, and the whole United team were attending the 9.00 am Sunday service.

The priest was giving his sermon when suddenly from the roof, in a huge explosion of smoke SATAN appeared. He growled, he sneered and created explosions throughout the church sending the priest and the congregation running.

When the smoke cleared, the whole United team were still sitting in their seats, laughing and joking.

Satan upset, created more smoke and roared 'Are you not scared off me ? '

Roy Keane looked at him nonchantly ' Not really... your brother has been our fitness trainer for five years. '


THATS ALL FOLKS ...SEE YOU NEXT WEEK