Futsal Canada Since 1980 by Carlos Mateus

CARLOS MATEUS INTERVIEWS EDER POPIOLSKI JASC UNOCHAPECO FUTSAL CHAMPIONS 2009 - 2010 Eder Popiolski is making the women FIFA history In Brazil Futsal : Brazilian women futsal champions University Oeste Chapeco, coached by Eder Popiolski does it again- winning the Futsal Catarinense Games twice 2009/2010 Champions ...... Carlos Mateus with Coach Eder Popiolski, just before Unochapeco clinging gold at the 50th JASC in Brusque  - Brazil, to make FIFA History with the world best women team ever put together. The Futsal Chapeco team has a major sponsor in the Universidade do Oeste Catarinense, and all the team players are university student or graduated. The same team is the FIFA Women Brazilian Nacional League Champions as well. A team to beat in the World Women Futsal Arena. Eder is a full graduate university teacher with master in futsal,  getting professional coaching wage, to coach the best women futsal team ever put together . "These women are getting payed to play fu...

Futsal History By: Carlos Mateus , After reading what has been written about futsal history, I would like to pass along some of the information compiled in my research. Believe me; it will cause some debate on who first played the game, which is getting ready to be an Olympic sport. Going back in the old days, the game of futsal was played in England, when football was banned by King Edward. During the England football ban, the game was played indoors, in ballroom facilities, churches hall, were benches were used in the side line to prevent damage to the walls. The ball was weighted to gain low bounce, preventing it from touching the light fixture hanging from the ceiling. The unlawful indoor game was then called soccer. There were no written rules, but a set of regulation were obeyed by all. After the football players made a fool of the King, playing hidden football, the game was allowed back into Great Britain, but the end result was that the Britons became better footba...

foto by Carlos Mateus Back Row left: GLEN JOHNSON, LES MALBON, DANNY HENRY, JIM DEGOUDE, DALAS MOEN & IKE MACKAY,  front row: ROB WALLACE, ROB WIILIAM, GARY SMITH DOUG MUIRHEAD, TIM ACHEZTNER &  BUTCH FOSTER   In 1984, Osvaldo Garcia contacted me in Nanaimo, In order to promote  futsal in Canada and USA, we decided to have the First North America Cup in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada.  However; in the event were two teams from Canada and two from USA. The two Canadian teams were from the Nanaimo League, were futsal officially started in Canada. The First North America Cup was a two day event, the USA team coached by Osvaldo Garcia, was supposed to be the USA National Futsal Team, and the Canadian Team coached by Ike Mackay. The other USA team was a pick up team from Oregon State, coached by a Brazilian fellow, and the second team from Canada, was a native team coached by Chief Jerry Brown of Nanaimo Indian Band. On Saturday, the USA ...

This is the first post of this blog about Canadian Futsal History. Enjoy it.