Soccer Powered by Futsal

05/30/2025

Registrations finish Saturday, 4pm Central.
Please help spread the word :)

🚨 NEW COURSE: ST Diploma: Soccer Powered by Futsal Level 2🚨

This diploma will provide the information the coaches need to coach futsal at the youth level. Space for the course is limited, register today.

📅 - Sunday, June 1, 2025
⏰ - 5:00-6:30pm CT via Zoom
🎟️ - Register here - https://bit.ly/43weGN6

05/19/2025

Are you ready for the “Soccer Powered by Futsal Level 2 Diploma” organized by United Soccer Coaches?

Level 1 provided an overview of how futsal and soccer can interact, from grassroots to the professional level.

This upcoming diploma, Level 2, Sunday, June 1st, 5pm (central time) will focus on the basics of coaching futsal: rules, techniques, how to organize sessions, and show our favorite activities.

But we will also show some cool tactics!
You can obtain more information and register at:
https://bit.ly/level2-diploma

03/02/2025

Soccer Powered by Futsal – Level 1 – Specials Topics Diploma
Organized by United Soccer Coaches

During this diploma we will:
•⁠ ⁠Provide an overview of the relationship between futsal and soccer and how futsal can contribute to the development of soccer players and teams,

•⁠ ⁠Discuss common challenges and misconceptions about the transition between both sports,

•⁠ ⁠Show examples of tactics and techniques normally associated with futsal applied to both youth and professional soccer,

•⁠ Provide insights of professional soccer clubs using futsal to help develop their players.

Register at:
bit.ly/special-topics-diploma

12/19/2024

From Santos Futsal (Rodrygo) and Flamengo Futsal (Vini) to Intercontinental Champions.
Same skills that they started to master on the futsal courts, once again displayed on the world's biggest arenas.
They were key in the Champions League, and did it again today.

08/01/2024

Last days to sign up!

Do you want to really improve your skills and understanding of soccer?

Do you want to improve your confidence and enjoyment during soccer practices and games?

Are you looking for a soccer camp different from any other camp that you have been to before?

Join us at for the "Soccer Player Intelligence Camp"!

👉Who?

Serious soccer players, boys and girls, ages 2013 and up.

👉Where?

PISA (Pittsburgh Indoor Sports Arena) 22 Rich Hill Rd, Cheswick, PA 15024

👉When?

August 5th till August 8th, 9am till 5:00pm

👉Sign up at:

https://www.pisausa.com/soccer-powered-futsal-camp/

Welcome to SOCCER Powered By FUTSAL!

Based upon the concepts of high level Futsal, we developed an

07/31/2024

Attacking Through the Middle in Soccer

Attacking through the middle in soccer requires art, creativity, and precision.
Unfortunately, many current soccer methodologies are restricting a player’s capacity to develop these qualities.

For example, many say, “When back to goal, pass back with one touch.”
While this can be a good solution in many cases, this restricts what players develop.

Our method, “borrowed” from high-level futsal, provides a great variety of options (to find the target, target movement, turns, and combining with the target). As a consequence, players work on different movements, runs, and combinations.

We believe that during developmental years players should be exposed to a great variety of possibilities, developing physically, technically, tactically, and cognitively. As they grow, they will mature their decision-making and increase effectiveness.

Resources:
You can find a full version of this video on https://www.youtube.com//playlists Target Play

For full sessions:
https://www.soccerpoweredbyfutsal.com/books

We also shared a full session with United Soccer Coaches
https://unitedsoccercoaches.org/soccer-journal/




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06/25/2024

Do you want to really improve your understanding of soccer?

Do you want to improve your confidence and enjoyment during soccer practices and games?

Are you looking for a soccer camp that is completely different from any other camp that you have been to before?

If so, come to our “Soccer Player Intelligence Camp”.

Please be aware:

This camp is for the player who wants to play at a high level.

You don’t need to be the fastest, or most skilled player, but you need to come with the mindset of wanting to learn and develop.

Players will be challenged to learn, think, debate and, at times, even present.

Yes, we will have a lot of fun and play time, but also a lot of content to master.

If you are that player, we look forward to seeing you soon!

👉Who?

Serious soccer players, ages 2013 and up.

👉Where?

PISA (Pittsburgh Indoor Sports Arena) 22 Rich Hill Rd, Cheswick, PA 15024

👉When?

August 5th till August 9th, 9am till 5:00pm

👉Sign up:

Soccer Player Intelligence Camp August 5th - 8th 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Ages 11 - High School This camp is for the serious soccer player who aspire to play at a high level. The focus will be on developing game intelligence, knowledge, and confidence. Skills will be developed and applied according to tact...

06/23/2024

Following through with our last post, which was a share from the women’s world cup, showing a player using a “flick” (scoop, lift) to beat an opponent, it reminded us to share a few of the slides from our presentation at the 2024 United Soccer Coaches convention.

A few take aways from the slides:

1- Futsal is great to work on a great variety of different techniques,
2- Any technique “from futsal” can be used in soccer,
3- The frequence that a technique will be used, can differ in soccer and futsal,
4- This frequence can change. For example, goalkeeper techniques normally used only in futsal (or some in handball) are now commonly used in soccer.
5- We can’t really say a technique is a futsal or soccer technique. We can say that is known from its use in one sport or another, or that it may have started in one sport or another, but techniques don’t really belong to one sport or another. However, certain environments may facilitate a technique to be mastered.

06/21/2024

In over 20 years coaching, in different countries, states, colleges, clubs, I have not met a youth soccer coach who would properly teach and practices flicks (scoops, lifts, or whatever you call it), practicing with both feet, inside foot flick, outside foot flick, toes.

It is outstanding the number of things that are typically worked on futsal, but are not part of soccer methodologies.

And even more incredible, the resistance that most (the great majority of) soccer coaches will have to try to open their minds to it.

Meanwhile, we keep sharing some tips here and there about the possibilities :)

06/14/2024

On Sunday, June 30th come to PISA (in Pittsburgh, PA) to our futsal and soccer 1 day integrated camp!⚽️

This camp will be a partnership between Soccer Powered by Futsal and Assassins Futsal.

It will be an Integrated Futsal and Soccer Camp showing how futsal tactics and techniques from high-level futsal transfers and helps in the development of soccer players. Special attention will be done for goalkeeper development.

You can register at:

👉https://www.assassinsfutsal.com/camps

And keep an eye for our “Player Intelligence Camp,” with a completely innovative methodology, also in Pittsburgh, August 5-9th! (it will be an day camp)

06/12/2024

Thiago Motta is Juventus' new coach.
The article below does a great job talking about his strategies and style.
What it does not do, as well as all other press releases, is to tie how his past as a great futsal player influences his styles.

Thiago Motta played futsal for years, at top Brazilian futsal academies, before completely migrating to the soccer fields.

The article bellow talks about:
-using the goalkeeper in possession,
-allowing players to rotate to unbalance the opposition,
-playing with 1 or 2 "pivots",
-playing possession but also looking to pe*****te,
-defensive intensity.

Futsal is not only a way to develop players, but also coaches.
It allows the coach the see the game in much more detail, not only thinking "formations" and specific positions,
but also how players interact with each other, creating effective dynamics.

UEFA-licensed coaches from The Coaches' Voice take a deep dive into the tactics and principles employed by Bologna manager Thiago Motta