LONDON UNITED FUTSAL CLUB COUNT WITH NEW TALENT IN THE FA FUTSAL NATIONAL LEAGUE 2010/2011

" PHOTO BY POLLIANA ROSA "











The Brazilian team, London United Futsal Club already start thinking about the start of official competitions nationwide. The team led by James Rosa, who was in 4th position from the last edition (South Region), is confident and looking forward to starting work. The team already started on Monday (04/10).

According to executive director, the team will be new this year, the goal is to maintain good performance showing from last season when the team made the second best league campaign (South Region) won five matches, one defeat and one draw , in the main futsal national competition.

"Expectations are the best. We will have many new players, with another hand the club lost a few players like (Alemao, Vagner Mussi, Simao Xavier), on the other, new players arrived, like the Brazilians, Daniel Douglas, Daniel Soares, Hugo Borges, Alessio Conradi "Rico" , Anilson Souza, Robson Delazari, Bernardo Carbonari, the Portuguese Edou Kamara and Lativian Arturs Fjodorous will be part of the team this season 2010/11.

"Last year, the secret of winning performace, was the serious work, their importance within the team, through their attitudes. The joy, healthy competitiveness and the union infecting everyone, so the secret of victory, "said team captain Andre Morra.

Already winger Pedro Cunha, said the squad will strive to seek further conquests.

"We're expecting good things this year. We will strive to the most, dedicate ourselves to the last second, then we have reached our goals, and the secret of this will be a lot of work, which certainly will not miss us, "said Alessio Conradi - pivo" Rico ".

The target is to win titles, the group focuses its attention to play League Futsal competition in which the boys in London Utd Futsal Club ended the last edition in 4th position, but fight for a berth in the finals; committed Daniel Douglas, one of the revelations of the team.

The team is looking for new sponsors for 2010/11 F.A Futsal National League, those interested contact by phone 07528561309 with the executive director James Rosa.

Brazil begins the Grand Prix by thrashing the Czechs

Anápolis (GO) - The Futsal Brazilian Team began its journey in search of the sixth title of the Futsal Grand Prix. This Sunday morning (17/10) the team beat the Czech Republic by 9 to 2. The contest, valid for Group A, was the opening match of the competition and was played at the Newton de Faria Arena, in Anápolis (GO).

Brazil began well the sixth edition of the GP, taking the lead of the Group A, which includes Costa Rica and Libya, who play at 6pm, at the UniEvangélica gymnasium, also in Anápolis. The next game of the current world champions will be this Monday (18/10), at 6:45pm, against Costa Rica, at the same place. SporTV channel will broadcast the game live.

The Czechs, however, will look for rehabilitation against the Libyans, also on Monday, at 2pm, at the UniEvangélica gymnasium.

The match began with a lot of action. Right after 39 seconds, Martin Dlouhý opened the scoring for the Europeans. However, the Brazilian answered back almost immediately. On 53 seconds Wilde stuffed the net and tied the contest. From then on, Brazil dominated.

After 2min12, Gabriel turned the game around, while Ari, on 9min22, Vinícius, on 12min58, and Oliva with an own goal, 19min04, completing the score of the first half at 5 to 1 for the hosts.

In the second half the South American dominance continued, although the rhythm of the match slowed down. Falcão scored the sixth in Brazil, on 22min08, while Wilde scored his second of the game, on 31min10, a little before the Czechs scored one more, on 31min24. Falcão, on 36min54, and César Paulo, who scored from a pass from Falcão, on 37min44, completed the final score of the match: 9 a 2.

The Czech Republic’s coach commented on the performance of his team against Brazil. “It was very difficult. We had many young players and I think they played well, but Brazil is the number one in the world”, said Tomas Neumann.

For Brazil’s coach, Marcos Sorato, the debut factor influenced the performance of his players. “The anxiety was pretty high, this was noticeable in the first half, but they slowly relaxed during the game and got a score of 9 a 2. We know that it will only get harder as the tournament goes along and we have to improve a lot”, stated Sorato.

Holders Benfica learn elite round draw fate

Published: Tuesday 12 October 2010, 14.24CET

Holders SL Benfica narrowly missed a Lisbon derby against Sporting Clube de Portugal and instead starts their UEFA Futsal Cup campaign in Serbia after the elite round draw was made.
The winners of the four one-venue mini-tournaments played between 20 and 28 November will progress to the finals in late April, to be hosted by one of the qualifiers. Benfica, who lifted the trophy for the first time on home soil last season, must get past hosts KMF Ekonomac Kragujevac, FC Time Lviv and MNK Nacional Zagreb to earn another shot at glory.

MFK Viz-Sinara Ekaterinburg, winners in 2008, were pipped to the finals by Benfica last term but this time are up against Araz Naxçivan, ASD Città Di Montesilvano C/5and AGBU Ararat Nicosia FC – the only survivors from the preliminary round – in Group B.
The 2008 runners-up ElPozo Murcia FS were given a bye to this round along with AFC Kairat Almaty, Benfica and Ekaterinburg, while the other 12 teams came through the main round completed last week.

Elite round draw

Group A:
SL Benfica (POR, holders), KMF Ekonomac Kragujevac (SRB)*, FC Time Lviv (UKR), MNK Nacional Zagreb (CRO)

Group B:
MFK Viz-Sinara Ekaterinburg (RUS)*, Araz Naxçivan (AZE), ASD Città Di Montesilvano C/5 (ITA), AGBU Ararat Nicosia FC (CYP)

Group C:
AFC Kairat Almaty (KAZ)*, Iberia Star Tbilisi (GEO), Akademia FC Pniewy (POL), Slov-Matic Bratislava (SVK)

Group D:
ElPozo Murcia FS (ESP), Sporting Clube de Portugal (POR)*, FK EP Chrudim (CZE), City'us Târgu Mureş (ROU)

* denotes host club

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