Before reading both reports, have a look at the video. Is quite sad to see the same grotesque and poor environment of soccer projected on a futsal pitch. Let's hope we can keep on beeing something different, not only in the pitch where futsal is definitely more spectacular than boring soccer, but also on other matters. As is correctly reported at the bottom of the first article... this sport didn't deserved that.





Courtesy: AOL Sports

Futsal might be a great way to help players improve their soccer skills, but as this video from last Tuesday shows, it's just as prone to get ruined by idiots as any other sport.

According to FourFourTwo, a group of torcidas organizadas -- basically, a gang of knuckleheads dressed as fans -- sparked a brawl at the São Paulo futsal championship in Brazil, throwing chairs, rushing the court and frightening families who just came to watch the big game. Police fought them off, but the second half will have to be replayed behind closed doors.

The video might remind some of the infamous Pistons-Pacers brawl, but this was worse, because it wasn't just one idiot throwing a beer at another one. It was an entire gang starting a riot because they could. It's more reminiscient of the English hooligan firms of the 80s than any actual futsal match. This sport didn't deserve that.




Courtesy: Sunday Mail


Futsal Flare-Up

Apr 6 2008

By Kevin Mcallion

VIOLENCE also erupted in Brazil last week in the unlikeliest of places - a futsal match.

The small-sided game is supposed to be about fun and fancy footwork.

But things got out of hand when Palmeiras and Corinthians clashed in the Sao Paulo state final.

Fans laid into each other with the score at 1-1. The barney spilled on to the pitch and police used pepper spray and weapons to stop the mayhem.

Nine punters were arrested and two officers injured before the match was abandoned. Maybe that's why the SPL won't bring back the Tennent's Sixes.



Courtesy: Four Four Two


Thugs fool futsal in biggest brawl of year

Wednesday 02 April 2008

April 1st, 2008. On the All Fool’s Day, Santos bamboozled Bolivia’s San Jose at Vila Belmiro in the Copa Libertadores, drawing chuckles from a tickled crowd.

The beautiful 7-0 trick came up just short of the record 1962 Santos 9-1 rout over Cerro Porteño, and showed there’s something really special with Mauricio “Mao” Molina’s left foot – the Colombian netted four beauties.

But less than 100 km from there, in São Bernardo, where Palmeiras and Corinthians futsal teams decided the São Paulo championship, their torcidas organizadas – a horde of thugs dressed as football fans – regrettable chose to fool sport by engaging in the ugliest brawl of the year so far in Brazil.

On the court, it was all going fine, despite the club’s historical rivalry. The game was tied at half time – Dengue opened the score for Corinthians and Ligeiro tied for Palmeiras – when the jackasses decided to steal the show. The full, raw 8 minute battle is here.

It was a fight of two halves – against the police, the real fans and themselves. At first, they fought the enforcers, bringing horror to the families who were there to watch the match, and entered the pitch, breaking the reserves’ bench and stealing all they could to use as weapons against the enemies.

Minutes later, the police sprayed tear gas against the bullies, and the situation seemed to have gone stable. Players and fans were leaving the building when another fight broke, this time between Palmeiras ultras on the court and Corinthians organizadas on the galleries.

Chairs and rocks started to fly over again, many of them threw by the policemen – who, unprepared for the situation, used tables as shields.

Most of the cops at the scene were from the Metropolitan Police, that don’t carry guns and use only sticks as weapons. When the elite troopers finally arrived, the brawlers were already gone. Believe it or not, no one was arrested.

Palmeiras and Corinthians now will play the second half of the decision in another venue yet to be determined. Only one thing is sure, according to Gilberto Rodrigues, vice-president of the State Futsal Federation: gates will be closed.

“Brazilian futsal didn’t deserve that.” Nor the fans, the biggest victims of the thugs’ bad joke.




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