Futsal in the Philippines

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Futsal in the Philippines
Country Philippines
Governing body Philippine Football Federation
National team(s) Men's national team
Women's national team
Nickname(s)Indoor football, mini-football
First playedJune 1981 (official)

Futsal in the Philippines is an emerging sport in the Philippines.

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History

Youth playing basketball in a multi-purpose court which also allow play for volleyball and futsal. MCCID College Sports Area.jpg
Youth playing basketball in a multi-purpose court which also allow play for volleyball and futsal.

Early years

An informal form of futsal has been played in the Philippines as early as the 1960s and 1980s, and it is usually played as part of a cross training for footballers during rainy weather using regular association football rules. [1] It was then known as indoor football. [2] Futsal was officially introduced to the Philippines, when the Philippine Football Federation (PFF) under the President Manuel Tinio along with the Gintong Alay program headed by Michael Keon, the San Miguel Corporation, and Adidas held a "mini football" exhibition match. The exhibition match was held in June 1981 at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum, which pitted teams named after Adidas' shoe models; Adidas Rom and Adidas Vienna. Vienna won 7–3 over Rom in a game described as having a faster pace than regular association football. [3]

In 1983, the PFF under President Frank Elizalde held a mini football tournament known as the Adidas Mini-Soccer Invitationals which featured teams from San Miguel Corporation, Philippine Air Force, University of the Philippines Los Baños, University of the Philippines-Diliman, Ateneo de Manila and Philippine Navy at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum. It featured two rounds; a single round robin and championship round contested by the top four teams from the previous phase. [3]

It was only in 1989, that the sport known as futsal was adopted by FIFA. [2]

2000s: Early years of Futsal under FIFA

The PFF's futsal program under the auspices of FIFA began in 2001 with the PFF General Secretary Christopher Monfort tapping the services of Joaquin Preysler to head the federation's futsal committee. [2] [4] At the 2007 Southeast Asian Games, the Philippine women's national futsal team clinched a bronze medal. [2]

2010s–2020s: Resurgence

The Philippine Football Federation organized a futsal league from 2009 to 2016 which was known as the Philippine Futsal League, when its futsal committee was headed by Iranian coach, Esmaeil Sedigh. [5] [6] [7]

The PFF has lobbied the inclusion of futsal in youth sports tournaments organized by the Philippine government. In 2016, the Department of Education included futsal as an official sport for girls competing in the secondary division of the Palarong Pambansa, a national multi-sports tournament for student athletes. In 2019, the education department named futsal as a demonstration event for the elementary division of the same games. In 2018, the Philippine Sports Commission reinclude futsal in the National Youth Games for U13 and U15 boys and girls. [2]

In 2016, the Henry V. Moran Foundation began supporting the PFF futsal program. The foundation launched the Liga Eskwela Futsal program which aimed to the teach public school teachers the fundamentals of the sport. Allianz, is another private company known to organize its own youth futsal tournament, the National Youth Futsal Invitational which is for boys and girls ages 14 to 16. [2]

In November 2020, the PFF announced that it has acquired the services of Dutch coach Vic Hermans who will serve as the league's consultant for its futsal program which is headed by Kevin Goco. [8] The PFF plans to organize its own age-group futsal tournaments in late 2021 despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic prevailing at the time. [9]

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Olivares, Rick (April 13, 2021). "40 Years of futsal in the Philippines". The Philippine Star. Retrieved April 16, 2021.
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  4. ↑ David, Miguel (December 20, 2003). "Local News". Philippine Futsal Newsletter. 2 (5).
  5. ↑ Giongco, Mark (August 18, 2011). "PFL takes futsal to greater heights". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
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