) Helvecia and Doncaster crowned champs

Helvecia Futsal and Doncaster Rovers Belles have both become the new national FA Futsal Cup champions, Helvecia following a dramatic victory over last year’s winners Ipswich Wolves on Sunday evening, while the Belles also beat last years winners Watford Ladies earlier in the afternoon. The Final looked all set for extra time when it was still goal-less in the last few seconds, but a piece of quick thinking from Thiago Roberto Diorio won it for the London-based team of Brazilians.

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) Festival of Futsal

This weekend saw almost 100 junior teams from all over the country descend on the English Institute Of Sport for The FA UMBRO Youth Futsal Festival. Both boys and girls’ teams from the U10, U12, U14 and U16 age groups participated against each other on Saturday and Sunday. A fine way for young players to develop crucial ball skills, Futsal has been growing in its popularity over the last few years and this can be seen in the interest shown in the Festival this year. With teams travelling from as far apart as Northumberland and Devon, the game’s nationwide appeal is obvious and Dermot Collins, The FA’s National Manager for Small Sided Football, is pleased to see the interest in the competition.

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) Gosforth Fields Sports Association score big!

Gosforth Fields Sports Association has been awarded funding worth £2,300,000 to develop new facilities and become a sporting hub in its Derbyshire community. The Association has been awarded a grant worth £1,000,000 from the Football Foundation – the UK’s largest sports charity – to develop a new changing pavilion, a full-size, floodlit third generation artificial grass pitch and drainage to natural grass pitches.

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) Visions for the future

Logistique have just finished work with three County Football Association’s who have undergone a thorough root and branch review as part of a new 4-year County strategy planning process. The new strategies set out the vision, key priorities and targets for investment into grassroots football from 1st July 2008 until 30th June 2012 and represents each County FA's contribution to the delivery of The FA National Game Strategy. Work was undertaken with West Riding FA, Gloucestershire FA & Wiltshire FA.

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