Futsal Skills

Futsal is basically is a smaller version of soccer but it has some different rules. It is played with 5 players a side. The name futsal is derived from "fútbol de salon" it origins can be traced back to Uruguay exactly in Montevideo. Juan Carlos Ceriani the guy who had the idea of playing soccer indoor due to rain and bad weather, he made some rules for the game and he made it more accessible and more organized.

Futsal is a fast game that demands too many skills and abilities, but there are 4 main skills which are necessary for a futsal player. These 4 skills are passing, receiving, shooting and dribbling.

Since passing is a very important skill in futsal, and considering that the futsal court is smaller than soccer court, futsal players should

Handball, Basketball, Volleyball and floorball are indoor games like futsal. The number of the players differ from on sport to another, in soccer there are eleven players, but in Volleyball and Floorball there are six players and these number of players is more than futsal which have only five players same as basketball. The number of players is mostly affected by the size of the field, for instance the size of futsal field is 38-42m x 20-25m which is smaller than soccer field size which is 100-110m x 64-75m and this is a reason of having less number of players in futsal. Basketball have smaller field than futsal, yet it have the same number of the players. Both of Handball and Floorball have same size o field 40 x 20 m which is nearly same size of the futsal, the size of Volleyball field is 9m x 18m and there is a special thing in volleyball which is the height of the net for men is 243cm and for women 224cm. The duration of the games can be the same for some sports but it may differ in the periods for example Futsal and soccer have two halves, but each half in Futsal is 20 minutes and in soccer 45 minutes. In Basketball the duration of the game is same as futsal but the difference is that they are playing the game in four periods. Each half of floorball is 20 minutes but it has three periods not two like futsal. Handball is playing in two periods like futsal

The passing exercise is important to learn the basic skills for the futsal and if the students wanted to learn how to play futsal they need to start training from the zero, for that reason the exercise started by playing passes to other players without moving and the level of the exercises become harder by making them playing with the weak foot or by playing pass with one touch only. With that exercise the students have to demonstrate different techniques of passing for example pass with inner or outer or instep side of the foot. To learn more skills the students had to play passes between cones while moving from one side to another, the same method were used for the second exercise also which is making them play with the weaker foot. The level of the exercise increased by making them passing and moving faster, so they improver the skill of passing and receiving in