The Norfolk County
Futsal League has officially registered it's
74th team for league play in 2005, making this
league the largest such futsal league in all of
Massachusetts and perhaps even the largest s uch
league in all of New England.
Norfolk County
Futsal League (NCFL) is run under the direction
of Bill Sampiao, who is also the National
Director of Coaching for the United States
Futsal Federation. NCFL is an affiliate
futsal league of New England Futsal and operates
as a United States Futsal Federation (USFF)
sanctioned league.
The United States
Futsal Federation is
the officially
recognized national governing authority that
oversees all Futsal league development, policies
and competitions throughout the United States
under the auspices of the United States Youth
Soccer Association and FIFA.
In this our
inaugural year, the NCFL placed teams as
Massachusetts State Champions or as 1st
Runner-ups in all divisions of play, ranging
from U10 to Men's Open at the 2005 Massachusetts
State Cup Championships played in January 2005.
Additionally, NCFL coordinated sending
13 of it's league's
futsal teams to compete at the United States
Futsal Federation's Region 1 Championships held
in Monroeville, PA in February 2005.
Twelve of those teams advanced into the
semi-final match round play and 3 teams,
including the Pride FC BU10 of Fall River, New
England Futsal Mens team of Fall River & the
GU16 Shooting Stars of Natick made it to Final
round match play.
Norfolk County
Futsal League's regular season games are played
on four adjoining futsal courts each weekend at
the state of the art Dana Barros Sports Complex
in Mansfield, Massachusetts.
The NCFL sponsored
New England Futsal Academy offers personalized
skills and technical training to futsal players
from age 6 through 18. Training sessions are
held on weeknights a the Forekicks Sports
Complex in Norfolk, Massachusetts.
Training sessions are highlighted by
coaching direction given by Coach Bill Sampaio
and Professional Futsal Goal Keeper Julio Cesar
Franco.
"This is quite a
milestone for our organization", says Coach
Sampaio. "We have stepped in and stepped
up big time and we are both proud and humbled to
know that in some small way we have helped to
properly develop the sport of Futsal in the New
England region". "In addition to the
Norfolk County program, our Fall River Futsal
and Catholic Youth Futsal League programs
continue to attract more and more players and
teams. Our East Bay program is now in the
formation stage and we are hopeful that this
league will follow in the steps of these three
successful programs as well", says Sampaio.
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Norfolk County Futsal is Growing
