Members of the New Zealand futsal community have paid tribute to late Futsal Whites goalkeeper Atta Elayyan with a moving gesture at the FIFA Futsal World Cup™ in Lithuania. Elayyan had long dreamed of getting to futsal’s biggest…
New Caledonia played their second phase of regional qualifiers for Coupe de Caledonie, the country’s national cup competition last weekend. The provincial divisions saw FC Gaitcha beat FC Paita 3-0,…
Last week, Chris Sinclair was refereeing at the Continental Futsal Championship in Thailand as part of his preparations for the FIFA Futsal World Cup 2021 in September. Sinclair marked…
The introduction of futsal to Tonga’s Vava’u island group has been embraced by the community of Holeva, with both their U-8 and U-12 teams winning their categories at the first-ever…
Futsal has debuted in the northern island group of Vava’u in Tonga thanks to a collaboration between the Tonga Football Association’s Technical and Just Play departments. On Saturday, the first-ever…
The coronavirus pandemic has been the main backdrop behind football in 2020. Nobody has been able to avoid disruption in some capacity around the globe and the impact has been…
If border restrictions ease, top international futsal teams could be offered the opportunity to play in next year’s OFC Futsal Invitational tournament. The Solomon Islands are scheduled to head to…
2019 was an historic year for futsal in Oceania with the launch of the inaugural OFC Futsal Champions League. The four-day tournament, hosted at Auckland’s Barfoot and Thompson Stadium from…
New Zealand’s longest serving futsal player Marvin Eakins is synonymous with the game on the Shaky Isles. Born in the Philippines to his Filipina mother Aida and his Irish father…
Don’t count out the Solomon Islands in a game of futsal. Even if their men’s national team is down by multiple goals, they won’t give up. The Kurukuru are the…