Is Futsal the answer to creating a winning England team of the future?

Taken from Home Teams OnlineThe FA are finally starting to embrace the fast moving game of futsal as a way of developing football skills from a young age and clubs are now implementing it into their academies.To give you some idea of where we are starting from with this idea, The England adult’s futsal team was formed in 2003 and they have never qualified for the Uefa  Futsal Championship, add to that the fact that England are ranked 90th in the World in this sphere, which is even actually behind the footballing might of Tahiti.If you think this is a competition that is not taken seriously, consider that Spain are ranked in 1st place and you get an idea of how far England has fallen behind in developing footballing talent from its grass roots.Created in Uruguay in 1930, futsal is the ...
 

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