3v3 Flexible School Football
A pilot initiative held at Carres Grammar School has allowed more girls to participate in girls football within schools in rural areas. 3v3 football has taken hold at Carres and has thrived over 20 teams take part in pink, red, blue and yellow leagues.
Smaller areas and fewer girls are allowing skills and techniques to grow along with confidence and the love of the game.
From research done within the schools competition only 10% of girls actually played for clubs, where as over 70% of girls wanted to play football for a club and over 90% wanted to play in a girls only school team. Overall 95% of girls in the schools league wanted to play football against other girls.
These school leagues are now being supported by external clubs to increase and develop girls football.
Futsal
Futsal is an indoor version of association football. Its name is derived from the Portuguese futebol de salão and the Spanish fútbol sala/de salón, which can be translated as 'indoor football'. In Madrid 1985 the name fútbol de salón and all other names the game was called were changed officially and internationally into FUTSAL.
Futsal is played between two teams of five players, one of whom is the goalkeeper, and up to seven substitutes per team.
Unlike some other forms of indoor football, the game is played on a hard court surface delimited by lines; walls or boards are not used. Futsal is also played with a smaller ball with less bounce than a regulation football
The rules create an emphasis on improvisation, creativity and technique as well as ball control and passing in small spaces.
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. Many of these codes predate FIFA's adoption and endorsement of futsal rules; the American indoor soccer variant, with a regulation-sized ball, larger artificial turf-covered court, and walls off which the ball may be rebounded, has sustained professional leagues in that country for over thirty years.