Stephen McGettigan

Interview with Matt Fejos assessing New Zealand’s FIFA Futsal World Cup Bid

Matt Fejos is a futsal coach and development officer now based in England with Tranmere Rovers FC, a professional football club. With 10 years’ experience in futsal across playing, coaching and development roles.

Interview with Steve Harris assessing the Japanese FIFA Futsal World Cup Bid

This interview is with Steve Harris, born in the USA but has spent almost 40 years in Japan. Fell in love with futsal over 30 years ago while serving in administrative capacities at the Japan Futsal Federation and Futsal Committee of the Japan Football Association for over two decades.

Assessing the four FIFA Futsal World Cup bidding nations

Kris Fernandes who wrote this article has covered international futsal and soccer for well over a decade having worked at four FIFA World Cups, three UEFA European Championships and two FIFA Futsal World Cups, including as the lead correspondent for Futsal Focus at Colombia 2016.

Olympic dreams and lifelong memories for Brazil, Russia, Egypt, Portugal, Japan and Spain

For every nation that took part in the Youth Olympic Futsal Tournament in the Men's and Women's sections in Argentina, this historic event will live long in their memories.

Drama, goals and skill reflect the success of the Youth Olympic Futsal group stages

The first ever Youth Olympic Futsal tournament group stages have finished with drama, goals, and skill displayed on the court. Tomorrow the semi-final stage of the competition will take place.

Futsal set to enjoy a landmark moment today at the Youth Olympics in Argentina

Today, Sunday 7 October 2018 is a date that will go down in the history of the discipline, one on which futsal will make its debut as an Olympic sport following a long fight for it to take its place in the programme.

England accept invitation to compete at the Thailand 5s Tournament

On the 20 and 23 October 2018 at the Indoor Stadium Huamak, Thailand will host their invitational Futsal tournament called the Thailand 5s Tournament and has invited England to take part along with Malaysia and Uzbekistan.

Belgium are much more than a golden generation and it is not luck

There are plans afoot to increase the focus on dribbling as a key skill and also an appetite to put futsal at the heart of youth development.

Progress despite defeat, England launch their new FA Futsal Strategy 2018-24

England lost their recent friendly matches against Croatia 4-0 and 2-6 who are 40 places above them in the World Rankings but they aim to continue developing and succeeding on and off the court.

Paraguay are the champions of the South American Futsal League

The Paraguayan Futsal team did not fail in their decisive match against Argentina winning 2-1 in this talent-filled duel and was the best in the FIFA Conmebol Futsal Liga Sudamericana 2018 South Zone .