Futsal

THE 2015 Trinidad and Tobago Futsal League commences at the Central Regional Indoor Sporting Arena, Chaguanas, from 7 pm today, and will feature some of the nation’s quickest feet vying for local honours.

The T&T Football Association, which has stated its desire to have every national team qualify for its respective Fifa World Cup by 2018, has taken its first step to achieving that feat for national futsal, as the official governing body for the sport- the Futsal Association of T&T (FATT), was publicly launched yesterday.

FUTSAL is the name of the game, as the sport event management company, SW Touring Limited, gets ready to host the third edition of the exciting sporting event Futsal Invitational. After a two-year ‘hiatus’, the biggest national futsal tournament returns.

Futsal coach Clayton Morris believes that Futsal in Trinidad and Tobago will enter a new era after it was ratified as an official member organization of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association at the Ordinary Congress on the weekend.

The 2014 national futsal trial series, hosted by the Futsal Association of Trinidad and Tobago continues on Saturday at the Mayaro Indoor Sports Arena, Mayaro.

Some $10,000 in prizes are up for grabs when the one-day Futsal 101 invitational tournament presented by Dragon Stars kicks off at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Spec Indoor Turf, St Augustine, tomorrow at 9 am.

The current main focus of the newly-launched Trinidad and Tobago Futsal Association is the selection of a training squad of players for international qualifiers for the 2016 Futsal World Cup, to be played in Colombia.

Guatemala's Domo Polideportivo will be the venue for the 2012 CONCACAF Futsal Championship, the second straight and third time overall that the country has hosted the event.