Paul,

As always I feel unable to respond to your post because of having no
personal knowledge. It sounds strange to me that such an approach
would be rejected, unless the idea was that KSYSA would issue USYSA
player cards for futsal games. That does sound to me to go against
the agreement. However, to use the KSYSA registration facilities,
insurance programs and the like, while registering and issuing futsal
cards, is exactly what I thought the agreement was supposed to do.

Indeed, we know that North Texas and Minnesota futsal are both run
through a US Soccer state association. As I think my article makes
clear, this is the avenue that US Futsal should pursue for growth.
Dozens of independent groups, some with almost no connection to the
local youth soccer scene make widespread growth of the game unlikely.
If we could harvest the success of youth soccer, we could be on our way.

I encountered the opposite in South Texas when we first started.
South Texas YSA treated the then existing agreement as non-existent -
- and I am pretty well connected in youth soccer in the state. I do
think the close tie between indoor arena soccer operators and USYSA
state associations injures the growth of futsal, and that is the main
theme of my article.

Scott