NOTE 1: Before even starting this post, I would like to acknowledge my co-author, English futsal pioneer and friend, Mr Kevin Bryant for all the help to put this document together. Also, I would like to give a million of thanks to Mr Mark Potter, another futsal friend and Scottish futsal pioneer for providing valuable information, pictures, chats with me and most importantly for connecting me with Mr Geoffrey Payton. Geoff is the another English futsal pioneer! Mr Geoffrey Payton (according to all the information collected) is the person who started futsal in Colne (Lancanshire) in 1988. A fantastic history behind that needs to be unveiled. Muchas gracias Geoff!!
INTRODUCTION
"Futsal" started on the 8th
of September of 1930 when Juan Carlos Ceriani, a teacher
in Montevideo (Uruguay) created a version of indoor football for
recreation in YMCAs. This new sport was originally developed for
playing on basketball courts, and a rule book was published in September
1933. Ceriani's goal was to create a team game that could be played indoor or
outdoor but that was similar to football. Ceriani, writing the rule book, took
as examples the principles of football (the possibility to
touch the ball with every part of the body except for the hands), and he took
rules from other sports too: from basketball the number of
team players (five) and the game duration (40 actual minutes); from waterpolo the
rules about the goalkeeper; from handball for the field and
goal sizes. Futsal, f煤tbol sala and futebol de sal茫o will be covered on
this project.
Most of the images on this timeline has been
hyperlinked on the PDF document to the original source of information. Click on them to
learn more about those events.
OBJECTIVES
The objective of this research has been three-fold:
a) to recognise and acknowledge the people that got involved and helped in
this process; b) to document the history and the steps of development
that futsal took in England and c) to know the history, to
understand the present and improve the future (very similar to Carl Sagan’s
quote).
Of course, when this type of studies are carried out, there
is the risk to miss out information or key point. We apologise in advance if
that has happened. It was not our intention. We would like to encourage
anyone that has more information to help us to fill in some of the gaps or
to send us documents that prove some key point of the futsal history in
England.
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CONCLUSIONS
One more time, and as I mentioned before when this type of studies are carried out, there is a huge risk to miss out information or key point. We truly apologise in advance if that has happened. It was not our intention. Therefore, if you have any piece of information that you think it should be included, we would like to encourage anyone to help us to fill in some of the gaps or to send us documents that prove some key point of the futsal history in England.
These last two months doing this personal project have been amazing . I only hope that you, readers, enjoy reading this document as much as I enjoyed researching, talking to Kevin, Mark, specially Geoff and others from all around the world. It has been an unforgettable experience.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Again, thanks Kevin, Mark and specially Geoffrey. I really think that English futsal has been very unfair with you and here are "my two cents" to the cause.
NOTE 2: One more note, remember that once you have downloaded the PDF document, the 90% of the pictures are hyperlinked to the original source of information. Follow the links for more deep information about it. Enjoy!
