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William Hanford (O-W-K-N)
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A scratch sided was fielded against FA North title
contenders Leeds Futsal club at the Bonus Arena –Hull –past Sunday.
An interesting experience for our three GFL novice 16/17
year olds Will, Reece and George. The one
game was worth a thousand words. The
opposition had an almost full squad which was predominantly Brazilian players, just
one English player. With a squad that
had just met and did not have the luxury of having played together, this was a
big challenge.
To the teams credit the team did better than I anticipated,
with two ex professional defenders organising ‘the back’ Leeds was given a
challenge when they had the ball. The
difficulty was that players that train weekly together know how to move forward
as a group and how to create ‘set play’ chances. An unorganised team can only play off ‘the
cuff.’
Teams played 3 x 20 minute games. We lost first 3-0, second 2-1 and last
4-0. By the third game our older senior
players had changed, exhausted. Our
younger players kept going but with tired limbs.
Looay Ghrib said ‘he ached more than he had ever done from a
game of football the next day.’
Will, Reece and George said they had got a lot out of the experience,
playing locally they had not perceived the tactical finesse and the ability
they was going to come against. Futsal
was never going to be the same again. As
a coach I was delighted they had played and appreciated the standards the game
can rise to, a thousand words would not have described the actual experience of
that one game.
Special mention for Steve Goodwin who played superbly in
goal and gave the team a base to build from.
Two shots from corners that were played back to him were hit with
accuracy and ferocity that I have not seen from him before.
Hull coach Joe Duffy watched the game and then went to watch
his 11 year old play 11v11 football. He
telephoned that it was like watching football on two different planets; he said
his son got nothing out of the eleven aside, but if he had played futsal he
would not be saying the same.
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Goal Keeper Steve Goodwin
William Hanford (O-W-K-N)
Reece Parker & George Horricks (N Waltham)
Looay Ghrib (All Blacks)
Not in picture – Adam Lowthorpe (ex Hull City)
Paul Mud (ex Scunthorpe)
Danny Glen (Hull)
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