Not only are the results getting worse, but U.S.
Soccer seems to be paying less attention to
preparation for international futsal events.
International futsal is controlled by U.S. Soccer and
played by the wall-gamers, and it's all being done so
that they can keep real futsal organizers and players
out of the action.

--- robert_magellan <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>


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