A six pack of futsal videos, everything from Falcão to Phillipine inmates to a preview of the 2013 USYF national tournament

"Falcon gives show and leaves gaping fan of Neymar 'is from another planet'!" is what you get when you ask Google Translate to transform the Portuguese video title (Falcão dá show e deixa o fã Neymar de boquiaberta 'É de outro planeta'!) to English. After watching this exciting highlight clip of a Santos-Carlos Barbosa game in the Brazilian professional league, however, it all begins to make sense. Falcão, who now plays futsal for Santos, the same club that boasts Neymar outdoors, comes off the bench to punish Carlos Barbosa not once, but twice, for using a fifth attacker. The first goal shows Falcão's great awareness and accuracy at distance, but it can't match his second goal for sheer "Wow Factor". Try translating that to Portuguese, Google! And the announcer in this fun video rises to the occasion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAY5e4vDZz0&feature=related

Similar in idea to a section of “Find the Game,” a non-fiction book and documentary featured in last month’s newsletter, this FIFA film sheds light on the role futsal plays for inmates in a prisoner in the Philippines. As we’re quickly learning, futsal is played outdoors in much of the world … on courts, streets and any hard surface.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=JS9pFMNFjS4&NR=1

In this 2010 video, one school of thought – that futsal improves the skills of outdoor players – takes center stage. It features a U-11 premier girls’ team from Otto Orf’s USYF league in Cleveland. The girls have been well coached to use their soles to stop of the ball, turn and create space, and do it almost every time they take possession.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-Y8r1vMHDg

In this month's Hot Links from the Futsal Griddle, we look at the effort Denmark and FIFA are making to develop futsal there. And we've frequently observed the progress England's FA is making to incorporate futsal, both with a national league, youth programs and the national team. In this video, the two futsal debutantes, England and Denmark, face off in a two-game friendly series.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxZryiYvWVw

United States Youth Futsal videographer John Hassis located this gem in his wide-ranging Internet explorations. How popular is futsal in Spain? Popular enough to support Marca TV’s “Pista Azul,” a highlight show that focuses on LNFS, the Spanish professional futsal league, and other futsal-related topics. This is the first program in the series, so there will be more. For the non-Spanish-speaking, “Pista Azul” refers to the playing surface – literally “blue track”.  A number of LNFS teams use the surface, as you’ll see in the highlight reel. It’s not to be confused with Blue Track, Microsoft’s new all-surface computer mouse. Make some popcorn; pour a drink. This runs three-quarters of an hour.

http://www.lnfstv.es/PISTAAZUL1-54239092012.html

USYF will host its 2013 National Futsal Championships at the beautiful New Century Fieldhouse in suburban Gardner, Kan. The fieldhouse will be outfitted with seven regulation futsal courts. Here’s a preview video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ux1zC2-mUU&feature=youtu.be