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Breaking news week commencing Monday 30th August
Written by Kevin Bryant
Sunday, 29 August 2010
FUTSAL Starts Today
Please keep me informed of your team situation, if your team has continued holidays or 11v11 matches to play please let me know days not hours before your scheduled game. 99% of managers are 99% reliable. The effort managers put into getting teams out is fully recognised. Players give your manager 100% support, he deserves it for taking on the responsibility of team manager.
Referee Gavin Sartain has received an email today from FA inviting him to accompany the England futsal team when they go to Macedonia in October. He will referee the two friendly games with Macedonian Referees.
The team leave England on the 17th and return on the 20th. Games will be played on the 18th and 19th.
Gavin is obviously really happy with appointment and looking forward to going away with the national squad. Hopefully to learn from the experience.
FIFA Law changes. The key changes are as follows:
v Flying Goalkeeper (Law 12): an indirect free-kick is awarded to the opposition if a goalkeeper after playing the ball touches it again in his own half of the pitch after it has been deliberately kicked to him by a team-mate without an opponent playing or touching it.
v Ending Periods of Play (Law 7): If the ball has been kicked towards one of the goals, the referees must wait for the kick to end before the timekeeper may sound the whistle or acoustic signal for the end of the period. The period ends when:
• The ball goes directly into the goal and a goal is scored
• The ball leaves the boundaries of the pitch
• The ball touches the goalkeeper, the goalposts, crossbar or ground, crosses
the goal line and a goal is scored
• The defending goalkeeper stops the ball or it rebounds from the goalposts
or crossbar and does not cross the goal line
v Number of Players (Law 3): the number of substitutions allowed has caused clubs in the FA National Futsal Leagues some confusion. However, in official competitions the ruling that states that up to a maximum of 7 substitutes may be used in any match has not changed and is what will be applied in the FA Futsal Cup.
It is proposed that a one day FUTSAL Referees course is run in Grimsby during September. This is dependant on numbers and a venue but if held it will be on a Sunday.
Junior under 13 league teams please note, current league will continue
to its conclusion as you would expect, given the growing age of the
players will then move to being an under 14 league. New teams are
welcome into the newunder 14 league. If there is demand it will be
possible to organise an under 13 and under 14 league.
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