The USA fell 2-1 to Panama in the quarterfinals of the Concacaf Futsal Championship, failing to qualify for the FIFA Futsal World Cup for the third time in the last four tournaments.
Nilton de Andrade’s goal with 70 second remaining in the second half was the lone U.S. goal. It was his team-leading fifth goal of the tournament, tying the U.S. record for most goals at a single Concacaf Futsal Championship.
The USA was missing three players serving suspensions: Raphael Araujo for receiving two yellow cards during the group stage Diego Burato and Diego Moretti both for receiving red cards in the group finale against Guatemala.
• Other U.S. results: 7-4 win over Trinidad & Tobago, 7-6 loss to Dominican Republic and 3-3 tie with Guatemala.
How do you get a card playing futsal?
My son played a lot of futsal – it has become violent. Mixed ages – one game – tournament – he was ankle tackled from behind over and over by a younger kid – finally he had enough – he got up from being taken down – on the run – onto the pine basketball court – from behind and menaced the player – mind you couple years his junior – but did not touch him – my kid at that time was rugby and brown belt karate – he could have taken on most adults in the room – at 12 – anyway – he was carded off – red – on his way – he stopped to talk at adults of the other team – who’d been heckling him – a piece of his mind – in Spanish – his first language – and he called the referee over to support his case – anyway – after that he say on bench and cried. In futsal – at least in our context – they began to allow contact and slide tackles – this was the root of the situation.
Too bad USSF is so useless. Indoor soccer is prevalent in the Midwest and East, not futsal. Is there an indoor soccer World Cup?
the reason futsal does not take off here – and my son played hours and hours of futsal – in league, free, whatever we could find, anyway – there is no money. Plenty of facility. Any hoop court will do. Plenty idle. The soccer clubs here – they make it an in season – ‘rest’ day – then offseaon. Futsal – a sport all in it’s own right. Does not and should not be part of p2p soccer clubs. They don’t like it ’cause they mostly live off their monopoly of full size fields – and they cannot implement that on school gyms and basketball courts – so they don’t really care about it – no money to be made. My son’s club was new – and naive and they tried futsal – the window opened for him – then closed – when owner wised up realizing most parents don’t value, don’t understand and he cannot leverage to make money, which it was a battle to get his club started. So my recommendation to anyone that wants to do futsal – is – set up free play times for you or your kiddos on hoops courts. Maybe it grows into something bigger. Maybe not. There are purists – who think it must be played on regulation futsal courts – they are technically correct – but – the sport was invented in NOT Brazil – but Uruguay – FUTSAL is short for futbol de salon – it is essentially futbol de cinco or siete. 5 a side or 7 a side as you like – they play it anywhere they can – beach – now beach soccer – grass – or in winter – preferable – indoor – that became – FUTSAL. Good day.