The world have marveled for years at the precise ball-handling and passing skills of international soccer legends such as Pele, Ronaldinho and Romario.
They may not know those skills were honed indoors on basketball courts in a miniaturized version of soccer called futsal.
The ball is about two-thirds the size of a regular soccer ball. It's also denser and doesn't have the bounce of the outdoor ball, so it remains closer to the foot.
Connell said those skills are transferable to the outdoor game because players have more confidence on the ball and in their decisionmaking. The small field gives more ball control, smaller goal have to have more accuracy etc...
Futsal was developed in Brazil in the 1940s. In Brazil the sport was developed by the Young Men's Christian Association of São Paulo due to the lack of available football fields. Basketball courts and hockey posts were used to practice the sport.
The Brazilian national team is very successful, winning several titles, such as the FIFA Futsal World Championship, the South American Futsal Championship, the Grand Prix de Futsal, and the Futsal Mundialito. Brazil also won the first edition of the sport at the Pan American Games, in 2007.
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