Report from Canada:

Photo FC Quebec on the Canadian Futsal Club Championships tournament on 2007

IS FUTSAL "CONSOLIDATING"?

It is interesting to know the development of futsal, in it’s different branches, and the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada has become fond of it. The Sport that until the end of 2004 was ignored in our city and that through the initiative of Daniel Cerros, has obtained a boom (outbreak) in 2007 in Toronto Futsal League and this is one magnificent reaction in the sport that is going to raise the competition level in the field of the games, and the "commercial rivalry" between sport leaders (owners of leagues)...

Futsal offers great opportunities to participate in international competitions in AMF, a sport that in addition has rooted concept of discipline, which protects the athlete by arbitration if suitably applied does not allow violence, in defence of the participants, specially amongst children, since it has already been demonstrated in the past 3 years since it’s implementation in Toronto.

We have already written about the original process of formation of this sport, whose origin is disputed between Uruguay and Brazil, although it is in Asuncion where it Futsal was formed on the basis of the investigations of Professor Carlos Ceriani, on the basis of regulations of 5 sports, and his first regulations were registered in that nation and the United States, in 1930...

If somebody wishes to think on the matter, will respect its judgment, whenever it adjusts to minimum norms of respect that entails the right of the Freedom of Expression...

“IS FUTSAL CONSOLIDATING?” It is a sport that enables teams that play it to participate in Provincial, Inter-Provincial/Territorial competitions in Canada and allow it without much problem to play international games, which is not possible for teams which play Indoor Soccer (Arena and 7aside)...

This sport "was offered" to several leaders, during several years, but "they did not see it’s value", or because they did not investigate its roots and projection...

And it was played nearly 17 years in London, Ontario, promoted by Robert Luft, when Daniel Cerros accepted the challenge...

It was associated with people who in principle saw this sport like a competition without "projection", until the problems arose from owners of sport leagues: Mario Carranza/Cerros; Ricardo "Pinolero" Vega and Abel Rosero/Cerros; Tony de Thomasis/Cerros; Jairo Muñoz/Cerros...

That pressure was causing, the development, along with the advantages "discovered" by the now defunct Deportivo Pereira, represented by Jairo Muñoz and Rubén Positions, after three years of arduous sport work and investment of time and money in its ideal to go to IX AMF Futsal World Cup in Mendoza, Argentina...

The "force" of the beginning of the development of this disciplined sport is evident, either in Futsal/AMF , it is possible to go far in the sport of Ontario, Canada and beyond the borders...

The growth process is in the of development and good training of the athletes.

At the moment there are players of high level in Futsal, created in the matches of the World-Futsal Association (AMF), and begin to glimpse an extraordinary development of this type of sport that "protects" the physical integrity of those who play it, is effective and quickest... 2005/07:

In the city of Toronto there are of approximately FIFTY-SIX (56) teams that play FUTSAL AMF

Article from the newspaper EL POPULAR from Toronto