In USYD’s Futsal Competition
My friend Keith has asked me to join his futsal team that he’s assembling this sem. Apparently there’s a futsal competition that runs from Week 3 onwards, where 7-players team field 5 aside team every Monday at 1-2pm. There will be two 8-minute halves.
I have been placed in midfield. Hope my batteries can hold up. Haven’t jogged since… oh God, ever since I can’t remember. Think the last time I pounded the pavements was last year.
My fitness prognosis ain’t that good, man.
The thing is, I’m not very familiar with futsal. I’ve played plenty of amateur 10-people-chasing-one-ball football during high school, but not a lot of futsal.
The only time I played it was in Cherrybrook Tech HS, for intra-sports. I remembered it being pretty intense. Although the field is much smaller than outdoor football, the fact that there’s only 4 outfield players means that you have to do a LOT of running, dribbling and passing. Very tiring stuff.
Plus, I used to rely basically on my speed (as I lack much of anything else…) when playing football, but I can’t do the same for futsal anymore, since it’s so tiny. You have to rely more on your skills, hich is bad news for me. I can do step-overs, but the ball seems to go to the opposing team once I’ve done that…
So anyways, wish my team luck! Btw, my team’s called FC Kalac, in memory of Kalac’s terrific performance for Australia against Croatia in the World Cup.
