Indoor soccer is an adaptation of traditional soccer.
Soccer is a sport known as football in Spain and soccer in the United States that pits two teams made up of eleven players (ten field players and a goalkeeper) who try to get the ball into the opposing goal.
The football regulations impose certain restrictions and obligations. Field players, for example, cannot touch the ball with their arms or hands. However, the goalkeeper (who guards the goal or goal) can do it.
What is indoor soccer
Indoor soccer , futsal or futsal is an adaptation or variation of soccer, which combines elements of other sports (such as handball and basketball ). There are several versions of this discipline, such as five-a-side football , showball or indoor soccer .
The players on each team each have their role, just as in any other sport, and that is why they have their specific name. More precisely, we can say that these are the usual positions:
• Goalkeeper. As in soccer, this is the player who is under the goal and whose mission is to prevent the opposing player's shots from becoming a goal.
• Pivot. A purely defensive attitude and activity is what defines this participant who must mark his rival in the most correct way and who must prevent him from passing towards the goal, that is, he must close spaces.
• Libero. Covering his teammates, marking the rival pivot and avoiding shots are basically the functions entrusted to him.
• Lateral. Closing spaces and anticipating any ball are specifically the main tasks that he must perform.
Indoor soccer is a type of indoor soccer.
Some features
In addition to all the above, we would have to point out that other fundamental pillars of any indoor soccer game, and that can make one team or another win, are serves, coverage techniques or offensive plays as well as counterattacks. .
In indoor soccer, two teams of five players each face each other on a rectangular field measuring 40 by 20 meters. Teams can opt for various game systems that imply a different distribution of players on the field (1-2-2, 1-3-1, etc.).
Among the most important national leagues of this sport in the world are the following: Italian futsal league, national futsal league of Spain, Liga Brasileira de futsal, the AFA futsal championship of Argentina, the F. League of Japan, the Thailand Futsal League of Thailand or the Venezuelan Futsal League.
indoor soccer competitions
Futsal has its World Cup organized by FIFA , which had its first edition in 1989 . The Brazilian team won four times, while Spain won the remaining two. The last World Cup to date was held in Lithuania in 2021 .
In its different variants, indoor soccer is one of the most practiced sports at the amateur level since its essence is similar to that of soccer, but it requires less physical capacity and can be played with fewer players.