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Issue Date: Thursday 20th September 2007


THIS NEWSLETTER IS DEDICATED TO .....

Sadly in the last two weeks we have had two deaths in the futsal world.

Jordan Fowles died in a motorbike accident on Saturday 8th September. Jordan, 17, a student at Tully High School was an avid futsal player. our condolences to his family.

Tracey Cruse, mother of Mark, Lee and Jack died after a long illness this week. Mark and Lee represented Queensland many times at the National titles as juniors and Mark still plays premier league football in Brisbane. Personally i have known Tracey since 1988, when on arrival from England I sold them their first house in Australia, and I have to say she will be greatly missed.

RIP



LOZANO MOVES TO FOOTBALL

In what is seen as shock announcement, the Spanish National Futsal team coach Javier Lozano is leaving futsal in order to sign for the soccer side Real Madrid, as a general coordinator of the first team's plantilla. This is the end of 15 brilliant years spent leading Spain towards the greatest results, breaking the Brazilian dominance in futsal and introducing a new futsal era since Guatemala 2000.
There have been some occurences at this level of transfers across the sport, but not many have gone down as been particularly successful, so it will be interesting to see how he goes.



QUEENSLAND NEWS

Selections for the Queensland Men's City team are now down to the final 15 players. Final selections took place on Sunday with the following players successful.

Goalkeepers: Nic Papadatos, Nic Proudlock, Zayne Freiberg.
Field Players: David Fisher, Brett Richardson, Ben Hunt, Ray Mortenson, Chris Burley, Keenan Dumphies, Daniel Liddy, Jovan Gacesa, Matt Taylor, Dean Barnes, Renagi Ingam and Luke Haydon (at left).

The team is still extremely young, however I'm sure will impress.

An interesting statisitc is that of the 15 players , eight at some time have spent 6 months in Brazil training with either a Serie A club or Colegio Sant Antonio.

The team will be coached by Ewerton with Paul Mckarzel as assistant.

The womens squad is also down to final 15 and I'll put that list up next Newsletter.



SCHOOL CHAMPIONS OF CHAMPION FINALS

The Finalists for the Dal Ponte Schools Champions of Champions have been decided, after the August playoffs.

The finals will be played at the Runaway Super Sports Centre, Runaway Bay from 18th to 22nd October, where many of the players staying as well. These finals will determine the Dal Ponte Australasian Champions in each category. Follow www.vikingsfutsal.com for further details.



THE VIKINGS AUSTRALASIAN PACIFIC SCHOOL CHAMPIONSHIPS

The draw is now out for this years Vikings Australasian School Championships being held in Dandenong , Melbourne tuesday October 2nd to Thursday October 5th.
96 teams from Queensland, North NSW, Hunter Valley, NSW, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand will be competing.
Dandenong Basketball is a 15 court stadium, which means in a first the whole competition can be played under one roof.

Results will be hourly put up on www.vikingsfutsal.com during tournament.

A fully stocked futsal shop will be set up for the three days and any enquiries re this shop can be made to mobile 0414396211. Any enquires re the tournament can be made to school@vikingsfutsal.com


DAL PONTE FUTSAL ACADEMY

Dal Ponte Futsal Academys are now starting up all over Australia and New Zealand, with sister club in China CHENGDU VIKINGS also now starting up.

Starting at three years old for Kindy Futsal Kids and going up to 14 years, you can enrol your child at the nearest Academy. For further details email viking@vikingsfutsal.com or ring Gui Costa in Australia on 0409720788 on Paul Wadsworth in New Zealand on 021401991.

At left is Gui Costa with the Acacia Ridge Kindy Futsal Kids.

The academys will run all year round, allowing for players football committments in the summer if necessary with the focus being on trying to coach children how to play futsal properly.

For further details go to www.dalpacad.com


VIKINGS RUNNING TOUR TO THE FUTSAL WORLD CUP

We still don't have exact dates for the Futsal World Cup but organisation for the tour, led by Mauricio Marques, is still underway.

The Futsal World Cup will be held in Brazil,and in conjunction with EBF, the official education arm of CBF, we have a tour going.
It will be 21 days and will include 4 nights at the Grand Camary,Brazil Footballs (CBF)training centre, five nights at the Athletico Mineiro training Academy in Belo Horizonte, a week in Brasilia to watch the Brasilia group of the tournament and then 3 nights in Rio to see the final. Those who wish to stay longer can, and are welcome to use our beachhouse in Vitoria for some R and R.

As usual Mauricio will be our host for the tour.

For those who wish to do, the tour will include an EBF International Futsal Licence course, which will be run at all sectors of the tour. For those still young enough to play we are organising in different cities games against local opposition.

WANT MORE INFORMATION? Email Rachel at rachel@vikingsfutsal.com or go to www.vikingsfutsal.com


MAURICIO MARQUES APPOINTED FIFA INSTRUCTOR.

Ex Queensland Futsal Director of coaching Mauricio has been appointed a FIFA Football instructor in Brazil. Congratulations to Mauricio and you deserve it all.

As all are aware Mauricio organises all Vikings tours in Brazil and has run coaching courses in Australia and New Zealand for us. He will be guide and host on the 2008 Futsal World Cup Tour.

On top of working for EBF ( Brazil Football's education arm), Mauricio is also looking after the Grand Camary, CBF's training centre and now the ATHLETICO MINEIRO( Brazil Serie A club) training centre .

Congratulations, and we hope to see him in the new year.



TOUR IN CHINA

The youth boys and girls tour is in China this week and are home on Saturday. The tour led by Gary Kay and Nicola Zammit, have been lucky enough to get to see some of the women's World Cup games. Tonight( Thursday) they will be in the crowd for the Australia v Canada game, so if you get the chance tune into SBS to see if you can sport them in the crowd.



OUTDOOR FUTSAL GREAT SUCCESS

Similar to what has happened overseas,lack of indoor facilities has forced us to go outdoors.
Ennogerra Club in North Brisbane( at Ennogerra Bowls Club) has been at full capacity for 2 years at 138 teams and we have built at Moorooka Bowls Club another two court facility.
Two weeks ago in Hobart a sign up was held at Hobart Hockey Centre where we have set up 6 courts on an artificial surface and the night was a great success signing up around 140 teams, with more on the way. Corey Smith and Brian Keightley were excited by the turnout, and with Launceston signon still to come and a new club in Burnie, we are expecting 200 teams in Tasmania. See at left scenes from the sign on.

NOTE: Open Day and Come n Try at Moorooka Cub will be SUNDAY 14TH OCTOBER 12.00 PM to 4.00 PM . There will be a sausage sizzle, teams training and a chance to play on the new courts. Moorooka Bowls Club is one of the most advanced in Queensland with Bar,Restaurant,Poker Machines and mega size televisions. The restaurant is open for meals from 12 till 2 , and at 4.00 pm Karaoke will start for adults interested. Come on to Koala Street, Moorooka for a look at our latest court soccer centre.


FULL TIME DEVELOPMENT OFFICER FOR MACKAY

Vikings have appointed a fulltime Development Officer to Mackay, North Qld.
Alan MacNamara who previously worked in Head Office, has started there this week. Alan will be looking to get more clubs going in the region and also coordinate the selection of Whitsunday representative school and regional teams for the area.

You can contact Alan on alan@vikingsfutsal.com or mobile 0414655551.



Posted by Luca Ranocchiari --> luca.ranocchiari@futsalplanet.com