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<h1><img src="cid:part1.05070608.01060901@futsalsj.org" alt=""
height="85" width="87"> Hello Coaches! </h1>
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<b><big>We invite you to our 2010/2011 season of Futsal San Jose. <br>
We expect it to be our best season ever!<br>
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Our season last Winter was a huge success with almost 90 teams from
Palo Alto,<br>
Milpitas to Gilroy participating (boys and girls, U9 to U16). Our
games are<br>
played in different gyms in San Jose on Saturdays and mostly Sundays
from<br>
December to the end of February. We are ready to run this season
with<br>
100 teams. <br>
<br>
We are planning to run a sizable portion of our games on a real
Futsal surface,<br>
with correct markings. We will also have a larger portion of games
on<br>
Saturdays. <font color="#ff0000">The registration fee is $525/team
if you register by November 6</font> and<br>
$575/team until December 4 when registration closes. Register your
team early<br>
to secure your team a place in the upcoming season. As in past years
we may not<br>
be able to accommodate all teams so please send in your registration
today.<br>
<br>
The registration information for this winter season is now on our
webpage:<br>
<a href="http://www.futsalsj.org/registration_form.shtml">http://www.futsalsj.org/registration_form.shtml</a><br>
<br>
This year we will make a special effort to start a U8 group for boys
and girls<br>
on normal sized fields, with normal goals and a referee. For
questions<br>
regarding U8 please contact our U8 Director Annette Reavis<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:annette.reavis@gmail.com">annette.reavis@gmail.com</a> . We have also decided to run games for the
older<br>
age groups with 2 referees instead of just one.<br>
<br>
If you have any questions please let me know.<br>
<br>
Greetings, and see you soon on the court! <br>
<br>
Claudio Fleiner (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:info@futsalsj.org">info@futsalsj.org</a>)<br>
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Looking for some fun for your team during the winter season? Then
you<br>
found the right place! We are starting our fourth winter season in<br>
December.<br>
<br>
<br>
Try the game that Pele and Ronaldo played: Futsal/Five-a-Side. It's<br>
the world's official indoor soccer game, played within the existing<br>
side and end lines of a basketball court without the need for<br>
sidewalls or artificial turf. The term, "Futsal," is derived from
the<br>
Spanish, "futbol sala," meaning indoor soccer. It also is referred
to<br>
as indoor five-a-side. In the United States, it originally was<br>
referred to as "minisoccer."<br>
<br>
Futsal is gaining rapid popularity in the U.S. because it adapts so<br>
well to existing facilities. For instance, it is now being played in<br>
gymnasiums throughout the country by the Boys and Girls Clubs of<br>
America. Anywhere you have a basketball gym, from Key West, Fla., to<br>
Ketchikan, Alaska, you can play Futsal, and you can play it on
outdoor<br>
courts, as well.<br>
<br>
Futsal is one of the world's great skill-developers for youth
players.<br>
Pele, Zico and Socrates of Brazilian World Cup fame grew up playing<br>
the game, and Brazil's recent World Cup stars, Romario and Bebeto,<br>
have played it extensively. Ronaldo played it until he was 16.
Futsal<br>
is an ingeniously condensed version of the outdoor game that
preserves<br>
the outdoor game's true time and space relationships. The<br>
ball-handling speed and skill and quick thinking of Futsal translate<br>
directly to the outdoor game - around both goals and in the thick of<br>
midfield battle.<br>
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