The Macabees
13-03-2007, 01:45
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Welcome to the Second International Futsal Tournament, the successor the the not-so-popular First International Futsal Tournament (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=444244). Fortunately for the world, the Empire of the Golden Throne (The Macabees) has come out of its War of Golden Succession, which has claimed hundreds of millions of lives on both sides, and is now prepared to go through a cultural revolution - including the hosting of more international sports related extravaganzas!
What is Futsal, you ask?
Futsal is the indoor version of association football (soccer) that is officially sanctioned by football's international governing body, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), as well as the Asociacion Mundial de Futsal (AMF). Its name is derived from the Portuguese futebol de salão, which means roughly room soccer (salão means "large room").
Futsal is played between two teams of 5 players, one of which is the goalkeeper; in addition each team may have a number of substitutes. Unlike some other forms of indoor football, the field is delimited by lines, and not nets or boards which the ball may be played off.
Other forms of indoor football games, which are played by somewhat different rules, exist and may be referred to as indoor football, five-a-side football or indoor soccer. Those games predate the formulation of official rules of futsal.
The rules are as follows:
There is no off sides, however, the goalkeeper cannot hold the ball for more than five seconds outside the area. He must either drive it to the other half of the field, or pass it.
There are three cards: Yellow, Blue and Red. Yellow signifies an intentional foul, while blue is two yellow cards. A blue card evicts the player from the game for one game only, and the player can be replaced immediately. The red card is given after a certain number of yellow cards, normally decided by the ref, and the player is evicted for the game, and he cannot be replaced for said game.
You cannot wear cleats. Futsal soccer shoes are completely cleatless, and have a leather bound at the front to reinforce the toes, which receive the most damage.
The golie cannot pass the ball to the other half of the field without the ball bouncing at least once on his own side.
Six fouls in one part (of two parts) is a double penalty kick, without a wall.
Each half lasts twenty-five minutes, and the field is the size of a basketball court, but with all the lines standard to an eleven-on-a-side game; just miniaturized. The games are quick paced, and there is very little in the way of defensive play - it's mostly agressive. There are other tricks to playing the game, but they are tricks not rules, that nations will have to learn with experience.
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You ask, you like to copy and paste invitational brochures? We say, hell yea!
You know you want to join. ;)
Scoring will be done through an Excel spread sheet.
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THE List (20):
The Macabees
The Gupta Dynasty
Quakmybush
Milchama
Delesa
McPsychoville
Jeruselem
Az-Cz
Ariddia
Lovisa
Malaisie
Qazox
Cafundeu
West Pasco
Brydog
Bostopia
Willink
Crave
St. Samuel
Welcome to the Second International Futsal Tournament, the successor the the not-so-popular First International Futsal Tournament (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=444244). Fortunately for the world, the Empire of the Golden Throne (The Macabees) has come out of its War of Golden Succession, which has claimed hundreds of millions of lives on both sides, and is now prepared to go through a cultural revolution - including the hosting of more international sports related extravaganzas!
What is Futsal, you ask?
Futsal is the indoor version of association football (soccer) that is officially sanctioned by football's international governing body, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), as well as the Asociacion Mundial de Futsal (AMF). Its name is derived from the Portuguese futebol de salão, which means roughly room soccer (salão means "large room").
Futsal is played between two teams of 5 players, one of which is the goalkeeper; in addition each team may have a number of substitutes. Unlike some other forms of indoor football, the field is delimited by lines, and not nets or boards which the ball may be played off.
Other forms of indoor football games, which are played by somewhat different rules, exist and may be referred to as indoor football, five-a-side football or indoor soccer. Those games predate the formulation of official rules of futsal.
The rules are as follows:
There is no off sides, however, the goalkeeper cannot hold the ball for more than five seconds outside the area. He must either drive it to the other half of the field, or pass it.
There are three cards: Yellow, Blue and Red. Yellow signifies an intentional foul, while blue is two yellow cards. A blue card evicts the player from the game for one game only, and the player can be replaced immediately. The red card is given after a certain number of yellow cards, normally decided by the ref, and the player is evicted for the game, and he cannot be replaced for said game.
You cannot wear cleats. Futsal soccer shoes are completely cleatless, and have a leather bound at the front to reinforce the toes, which receive the most damage.
The golie cannot pass the ball to the other half of the field without the ball bouncing at least once on his own side.
Six fouls in one part (of two parts) is a double penalty kick, without a wall.
Each half lasts twenty-five minutes, and the field is the size of a basketball court, but with all the lines standard to an eleven-on-a-side game; just miniaturized. The games are quick paced, and there is very little in the way of defensive play - it's mostly agressive. There are other tricks to playing the game, but they are tricks not rules, that nations will have to learn with experience.
-----
You ask, you like to copy and paste invitational brochures? We say, hell yea!
You know you want to join. ;)
Scoring will be done through an Excel spread sheet.
-----
THE List (20):
The Macabees
The Gupta Dynasty
Quakmybush
Milchama
Delesa
McPsychoville
Jeruselem
Az-Cz
Ariddia
Lovisa
Malaisie
Qazox
Cafundeu
West Pasco
Brydog
Bostopia
Willink
Crave
St. Samuel