Photo courtesy Raza Deportiva:
From left to right:
Mario Gandini ( Vice-president of the futsal committee of Uruguayan Football federation), Cesar Robido ( Uruguayan national team's coach), Miguel Rodrigo (coach and course teacher), Fernando Brusco( member of futsal committee), Jose Enrique Romero ( president of the futsal committee of Uruguayan Football federation).

Two interesting futsal courses and meeting were organized in Uruguay and Costarica.

Miguel Rodrigo in Uruguay

Since October 27th to November 3rd was hosted in Montevideo ( Uruguay) the "Primeras jornadas de futbol sala internacionales" in collaboration with the Ministry of Youth and Sports and the Superior Council of Sports, including the collaboration of the respectives football federations. This course is part of an ambitiuos project of futsal development in Uruguay after the disappointing missed qualification for the World Championship of Chinese Taipei 2004. And it should be the first of a future plan of invitations for famous futsal coaches in the next year. This appointment was organized with Miguel Rodrigo as only coach and teacher and the course's theme was "Aspectos tecnicos y tacticos de ataque y defensa.Concepcion actual del juego" (Tactical and technical aspects of attack and defence. In the list of auditor there were old legends of futsal like "El Chopo" (coach in Spain and Russia), "Choco"( played in Valencia), as well as many current national team players like Moliterno,Martin Hernandez,Aguirrezabala,D'Alessandro. In addition took part to the course a great number of coaches, so that the attendance of the futsal meeting reached the number of about 50 persons, an unexpected success! In the inaugural day there were members of the Youth and Sports Ministry, COI members, Uruguayan football federation delegates, members of futsal committee, international referees from Uruguay, a great level!
During the course there were theory sessions with videotapes of spanish and italian matches many practical sessions with the help of the national team Under 21 of Uruguay. The Chilean magazine "Raza deportiva" covered the event, thanks to its director Juan Painevilú.

Falcao, Vander Iacovino and Ricardo Trade in Costarica.

Another futsal meeting is currently being hosted in Costarica. FIFA invited the national team player Alessandro Rosa Vieira Falcao, the ex national team's coach Vander Iacovino and the Mkt Sports director Ricardo Trade (Mkt Sports is the company that organized many CBFS competitions) in San Josè (Costarica). The aim is to develop futsal in this country.
This futsal meeting is scheduled for November 10th and 11th. Vander Iacovino and Falcão will edit the teaching sessions for children and players of costarican league. Vander Iacovino already had this kind of experience in Japan, three years ago.

Ricardo Trade will be responsible of the marketing lessons, talking about his experience with Liga Futsal.