Simply Sport: BAY AREA FUTSAL CLUB 2017 REVIEW

HISTORY

Bay Area Futsal Club was created in July 2017 to lead the development and growth of futsal in the Bay Area community and the whole United States. Bay Area Futsal Club aims to established itself as the leading futsal organisation in the state and the country by giving players the opportunity to have life enhanced experiences through this fantastic sport.

MISSION STATEMENT

The Bay Area Futsal Club’s mission is to boost futsal in our Bay Area community by providing players an opportunity to play futsal delivered by professional, top-level international coaches, play high level futsal and develop their full potential in a long-term plan regardless of their financial situation. Our main goal is to use futsal to educate players in values that will help them in their future as people and citizens.

PROGRAMMES

1. Youth Futsal Training Camps: Bay Area Futsal Club Training Camps are designed for players of all abilities, boys and girls, aged 7-23 years old. Bay Area Futsal Club run half day camps (9-12pm) or full day camps (9-4pm). We offer to travel to your club to deliver the Futsal Camp at your own facility.

2. Monday Night Drop-In Clinic: Every Monday for the remainder of 2017 join us at Burlingamer Sports Center for a drop in youth clinic.Any skill level welcome on Mondays for ages 6 years - 12 years. $10 each time you attend. 6pm-7pm - Recreational Level 7pm-8pm - Competitive level.

3. 1-on-1 Training: Our professional coaches organizer and run futsal specific training for beginning level to competitive level players. Contact our professional coaching team to set up your private training session

4. Futsal Coaching Clinic: Bay Area Futsal Club truly believe that ongoing coaching education and continuous professional development are key to develop players and citizens. One of our aims is provide top class futsal education accessible to every coach, parent, club or organization. Bay Area Futsal Club organize coaching clinics, workshops, seminars, courses, and mentoring programmes for coaches that are willing to learn more about futsal regardless their level or background. Bay Area Futsal Club organize these events all year round through the season but if your club or organization wish our services do not hesitate to contact us and we are more than happy to give you advice and a specific proposal for your organization.

5. Bay Area Futsal Club Youth League 2018: Bay Area Futsal Club will be hosting a Winter Youth Futsal League at our partner Burlingamer Sports Center from January - March 2018. We are looking for competitive level teams (Premier/Gold level) to make this the highest level youth futsal league in the Bay Area.

Important information:

- Start date, January 6th 2018

- 8 games in season - Top 2 go into championship after 8 weeks

- Cost - $650

- Ages: Boys and Girls U8, U10, U12

- Location: Burlingamer Sports Center, Burlingame CA 94010

6. Bay Area Futsal Club Winter Clinics 2018: Bay Area Futsal Club will be hosting a series of Winter Clinics at our partner Burlingamer Sports Center from January 7th - March 4th 2018. Sessions will be on Sundays at 3pm and 4pm. Please check the flyer below for more info and resgistration options.

PARTNERS

At Bay Area Futsal Club we are always looking for the right groups to partner with and continue our growth. We would like to thank all our partners below for getting involved and being a part of our clubs history.

1. CP Athletic Performance: Bay Area Futsal Club and CP Athletic Development have launched a Futsal development partnership. CPAD is a Bermuda based athletic development academy with a Futsal Academy program of over 60 members aged 6 to 27. This is an exciting alliance sprouting from two years of collaboration between respective head coaches Dr. Daniel Berdejo del Fresno and Peter Rickards. Spanish national, Coach Daniel is Head of Performance Futsal and men’s team Head Coach at BAFC. He delivered his Level 1 international Futsal certificate in Bermuda in 2016 and will return to the island in the fall of 2017 for the second phase.

The partnership will also includes:
- Coaching & curriculum exchanges
- Membership development opportunities
- Assessment and grading strategies
- Coaches certification

CP Athletic Development Academy is committed to the continued progression of their members. On the heels of the success of their Alevin team at the World Futsal Championships last month, this partnership meets the Academy’s strategic objectives include increased global exposure and elevated learning environments.

2. Ginga Sport: Gingasport.com has become the exclusive official provider of equipment to Bay Area Futsal Club. Gingasport.com and Bay Area Futsal Club have agreed that Gingasport.com will be the main provider of futsal equipment to all of our members in Bay Area Futsal Club. Gingasports.com was set up in August 2006, originally to provide equipment and help develop the sport of futsal in the United Kingdom. Since then we have seen many developments in futsal, and lots of people now embrace the exciting sport. In this time Gingasports.com has grown, as futsal has become more popular, to become the leading provider of futsal equipment in the United Kingdom.

In 2014, Gingasport.com were able to provide a range of quality futsal products at reasonable prices including futsal balls, futsal kits, futsal goals, scoreboards and futsal surfaces. Their futsal balls are age specific and therefore designed for all ages from four to sixteen to ensure that young people are able to develop their skills using the most suitable sized futsal balls. They aim to support the grassroots development of futsal and also support futsal clubs to create sport specific environments using our unique sports surfaces provided by SportsPartner International.

In 2015, Gingasport.com started to sell and deliver futsal product to the USA through Amazon where they have built strong relationships with clubs and organisations.

Gingasport.com are always on the lookout for opportunities to support and develop futsal, therefore they have decided to support a new team, with clear ideas and bright future, Bay Area Futsal Club.

3. Wallace Futsal Academy is the leading futsal Academy in El Puerto de Santa María (Cádiz, south of Spain) and have more than 100 kids playing futsal aged 8 to 14. Founded by Guillermo Wallace, a professional futsal player with more than 50 caps for the England National Futsal Team and currently playing in Italy, to give something back to his hometown community where he grew up and developed the futsal skills that made him to be the player that he is today.

4. Burlingamer Sports Centre is Bay Area Futsal Club's official training center and home court. We consider ourselves very lucky to be partnering with Burlingamer Sports Center, the only true futsal facility in the Bay Area.

This will be the location of all home games and training sessions throughout the season as well as the location of our Winter youth league.

Thank you Burlingamer Sports Center, we hope to bring much success to our new home location!

2107 REVIEW

When in July 2017 Lee Mitchell and Rob Morini explained their futsal proposal and offered me to be their Head of Performance and work with their adult team I could not reject it. Also, I could not imagine what we were going to achieve in just 6 months.

We had 3 tryouts in August where we recruited 17 players (3 goalkeepers and 14 outfields players) with an age average of 25 years old, 5 of them U23. One of our aims was to recruit young players to teach them the real futsal game as the future of futsal in this country will be on them very soon.

Bay Area Futsal Club vs. San Jose Legends Futsal at Burligamer on 16th December 2017. Last game of the year!!

Since September, when we started the training sessions Bay Area Futsal Club players have had 32 practices, 4 friendly games (Toros FC, Futsal Without Borders, San Jose Legends Futsal away and San Jose Legends Futsal home) and the Menlo College Futsal Tournament where we registered 2 teams. I have to admit that it has been difficult, some times even frustrating as some of the players never played futsal before, but now, after looking back I have to admit that I am very proud of this group of players. On Saturday night, 16th December 2017, they delivered the game plan against San Jose Legends Futsal perfectly (see picture below). Of course, we still have a long way to go, but the improvements showed on the court since we started back in July 2017 have been massive.

Pre-game plan delivered to the players in the morning of Saturday 16th December before the match against San Jose Legends Futsal.

Now, we will enjoy a small break for Xmas where staff and players will recharge our batteries ready for the challenges awaiting for us in 2018:

- US Futsal Northwest Regional Futsal Championship, March 2018 (San Jose, USA).

- Pacific Rim International Futsal Cup, June 2018 (Hawaii, USA).

- US Futsal National Championship, July 2018 (TBC, USA).

- National League of Professional Futsal, March to August 2018 (USA).

- An International Tournament most likely in Europe or Asia.

Thank you very much Adam Chazin-Gray, Adonis Tuman (GK), Alberto Millan, Andres Palomo, Enzo Cabili, German Ariel Lopez, Hugo Conchas, Joao Felipe Costa, Joel Castro (GK), Josue Eliseo "Joey" Galvez, Lee Mitchell (C), Michael Cordoba Chaves, Miguel Moran, Pablo Perez, Rob Morini (C), Sergio Rivera and Victor Miramontes for letting me coach you. You all are doing great and if you wish we will achieve great things in futsal!

Finally, I would like to thank to our main sponsor Ocean Honda of Burlingame for their help with our Club.