Could Futsal turn around the fortunes of English football?
By Adam Daley 4 Mar 2009 Football FanCast columnist Adam Daley wonders if Futsal can help turn around the fortunes of English football. It’s now 43 years since the mother of football won a major football tournament. Let’s face it, even with Capello’s Italian hope; there is something wrong with English international football. Opinions often vary from too much pressure being put on the players, the players not actually being good enough, there not being enough decent English players and sometimes that too much emphasis is put on physical power over skill. This is something that the FA have actually tried to confront in recent years, and in 2006 they commissioned the chairman of Rugby League, Richard Lewis to look at how England can better develop their youngsters. The resulting report mentions (amongst other things) that: There needs to be “a change in ethos in age groups 5-11 so that much more emphasis is given to skill development and acquisition rather than an emphasis on results in m
