Sizzling Hot Links from the Futsal Griddle

LUCAS STAUFFER, the 17-year-old chosen for the U.S. National Futsal Team's CONCACAF qualifer, traveled to the Netherlands in August to investigate his opportunities at professional clubs. Travis Clark has the story at topdrawersoccer.com. Stauffer was the subject of a feature in June in the Futsal World newsletter.

http://www.topdrawersoccer.com/club-soccer-articles/teenage-futsal-star-gets-european-experience_aid25908

TOO OLD, you say? At 45, Kazuyoshi Miura has been invited to play for Japan in Thailand. The player, known as King Kazu by fans in the J League, plays in the second division of Japan's professional league.

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/sports/soccer/AJ201209030114

IN AN IN-DEPTH INTERVIEW with Tony Lepore, scouting director for the U.S Development Academy, Soccer America writer Mike Woitella discusses the role of futsal in the development of young American players.

http://www.socceramerica.com/article/48039/us-academy-goes-younger-futsal-in-the-plans.html

ENGLAND is in a stage of rebirth in its national soccer programs, and its growing Futsal Fives League announced recently that it has expanded into a new area. Futsal Fives is now a sport offering in Royston, located 43 miles north of London in the county of Hertfordshire.

http://www.royston-crow.co.uk/sport/football/futsal_fives_league_coming_to_royston_1_1520281

CHARLOTTE newspaper features United States Youth Futsal affiliate F5 Futsal. Columnist Reid Creager wrote about Barefoot Futsal and its innovative training programs in the Charlotte Observer's South Charlotte section. Futsal World featured the innovative programs of Head instructor Guillermo Uribe and lead instructor Paul Roderique in the September newsletter.

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/09/21/3539278/looks-like-soccer-but-its-futsal.html#storylink=cpy

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/09/21/3539278/looks-like-soccer-but-its-futsal.html

HAS THERE EVER BEEN a world championship without an uproar over whether facilities would be completed in time? That's the case in Bankok, Thailland, where construction progress advances on a futsal arena for the upcoming world cup.

http://www.fifa.com/futsalworldcup/news/newsid=1707333/