Basically speaking, so everyone can really understand what is meant
by this truth, I can put it this way.

Calling excellent off-the-wall players to play Futsal is like calling
excellent Checker players to play chess. The board or playing fields
look similar, but the rest is as far apart as the diagonally oposing
towers. I was a very good chess player myself in my youth, growing up
in Brazil, but was never called to play in the national checkers team
because of that... Sorry, we can only joke about the joke situation,
which has been a joke and a fake from the beginning. I was there in
the beginnng and have seen it improve only at the local levels and
only because people of all ages love it despite... How can the US
National Soccer Team be now one of the best in the world (#12 to be
exact) and its Futsal Team, after a "successful" beginning, always,
using excellent "checkers" players to fill the team, seem to be going
backwards?

--- In brazilianamericanfutsalclub@yahoogroups.com, "Tim Sheldon"
<timsheldon99@y...> wrote:
> U.S. Futsal Head Coach Keith Tozer is bringing a 16-player roster
to
> the Futsal Goal Cup Dec. 5-7 at the Anaheim, Calif., Convention
> Center. It's a capable group that has some international futsal
> experience, but none are professional futsal players.
>
> Dating back to the early 1980s when Minisoccer/Futsal was first
> organized in the U.S., there has never been a futsal league in the
> U.S. producing players for the U.S. Futsal Team. The U.S. had early
> success under the general formula of using wall game professionals
> under coach John Kowalski, but the rest of the world has since
passed
> them by. The U.S. is no longer dominant and is slipping further
> behind each year.
>
> "I've never played Futsal before, but I'm looking forward to it,"
one
> U.S. Futsal Team selection from the MISL told the Philadelphia
> Inquirer. "(U.S. Coach) Keith Tozer sent me a tape, and I'll learn
as
> I go along ... It's a good time for the players to take a break and
> get away from the (wall) game."
>
> This really isn't the way to assemble and prepare a team for an
> international futsal tournament.
>
> A professional futsal league was on the drawing board when the U.S.
> Minisoccer Federation began operating in the early 1980s under the
> leadership of President Osvaldo Garcia. There would first be
regional
> leagues sending representatives to a national championship, and
from
> that would evolve a professional league. U.S. futsal players would
> come from those leagues.
>
> But Garcia was shouldered out in the early going by the minisoccer
> secretary and paper-pusher, Alex Para, and under Para's stifling
> control the plan for development of a professional futsal league
> stopped dead in its tracks. We don't believe at this point that
Para
> or U.S. Futsal has any control at all over U.S. professional and
> international soccer. He may well have given that away to U.S.
Soccer
> when he cut a deal to affiliate. There were credible reports to
that
> effect. It has been virtually impossible to get any information out
> of U.S. Futsal under Para's regime, and their website is
essentially
> a facade.
>
> Despite these obstacles, there actually are senior men's futsal
clubs
> participating in an annual national futsal championship. The World
> United Futsal Club of the San Francisco Bay Area has produced
> national championship teams for years and has taken part in
> international competitions at its own expense, but these players
are
> essentially ignored by U.S. Soccer when it comes time to assemble a
> national team.
>
> The basic problem is that U.S. Soccer controls international futsal
> competition and stocks the U.S. selections with players from the
wall
> game who have no real experience playing futsal. There is no
> professional futsal league in sight, and it does not appear that
the
> system is going to change.