Futsal Posatives……………….

4 weeks ago I started coaching futsal to 13-15 year olds at Kent Street Resource Centre.  Of the initial 6 players 2 had older brothers playing futsal that had inspired them to want part of the action.

Before the end of the session another group of local lads had asked to join in.  I ended with double the number I sated with!

Week 2 came and more players arrived who had already decided they wanted to be teams.  The stragglers became team 3 for the night.

Week 3.    I arrived and thought I had problems.  Kids were every where; how do I get this lot of the pitch?  What I hadn’t realized was they were all down to play futsal.  Mighty Mariners, Joga Benito, Kent St, Gy Rebels, Real McKid’s (what a name?).  Everyone played everyone else, not a bad tackle in site.  Talent and skill in abundance, street football at its best (futsal is street football with rules).  Everyone had taken to futsal like ‘ducks to water’, decisions are accepted in the spirit they are made.

Week 4.    Mighty Mariners spawn a ‘B’ team, and teams travel from West Marsh estate and Hereford school to play.  

Not a player or team lost in 4 weeks.  From 6 players to 8 teams!!

An abundance of football talent.

Not an adult in sight (they don’t see me as an adult because they know I want to keep adults out of their space).

Players from the senior Kent Street Futsal Team referee matches, we have no losers, and everyone starts with a clean sheet next week.

There is work do; do the teams create a league, what do they want out of futsal, what are they going to do to create that dream?

Watch this space?

Kevin Bryant
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Hereford