Canberra Futsal goes to NSW
Meet Boomerang FC.
And well done Eddie Senatore and Kristian Collins for doing something that no-one else in Canberra football have been able to do.
Futsal teams under new club Boomerang FC from 12 boys and girls to Premiers will play in NSW Premier Futsal league. The implications for Canberra are awesome if you understand the size of the game in Asia and Worldwide, for now read on. But sshh seems it's a secret!! From Peter Funnel
Boomerangs F.S a new initiative in Futsal in the ACT
There is a new Futsal club in the ACT – Boomerangs F.S. The club has been set up by Eddie Senatore and Kristain Collins to address a glaring deficiency in the development of Futsal players in the ACT – the development of players who wish to play Futsal to a higher standard than is on offer in our domestic competition.
The Boomerangs were created to achieve this aim. As they say, everyone wins.
The initiative is fully supported by Capital Football and on one important condition – the Boomerangs must support ACT Futsal.
The solution is devastatingly simple and achievable – the Boomerangs have gained entry to the Football NSW Super League Competition for the 2009/10 season.
We now have terrific pathway for our better and best Futsal players to participate in competitions of a much higher standard than the ACT competition. What a coup!
What a brilliant and elegant solution. It is a solution that takes nothing away from the ACT competition – quiet the opposite. To be eligible to play for the Boomerangs you have to be playing in the ACT competition.
So there we have it. Our better or best Futsal players will continue to play for their ACT teams and be simultaneously developed for higher levels of competition (particularly the Nationals) by direct participation in higher standard of competition through the Boomerangs.
That’s how it should work – in football and futsal! We are leveraging off something that already exists in the game, not creating new structures or tearing our limited playing strength to pieces.
We can all learn a lot from this initiative. It shows us how things might be done in the future in football in the ACT, and most particularly in the “talented” development regime, as we implement a new curriculum from the FFA, which will demand new and innovative thinking for it to be successfully implemented in the ACT.
In times of change and necessity it is encouraging to see Capital Football construct a new way of doing business – enabling the development of Football and Futsal. A good idea can come from anywhere.
As General Patton was said to fond of saying – “If everyone is thinking the same, then no one is thinking”. Correct. Or as my old football coach said too often for confort – “if you do what you have always done, you’ll get what you’ve always got.” Correct again!
Good thing Eddie Senatore thinks outside the box, has an eye for a good option and the energy to get things going. Better still that Capital Football grasped the idea and the opportunity.
Empowering other sections of our football and futsal community (with appropriate conditions and controls to Capital Football) to undertake actions on our collective behalf is a smart way to do business in a small community like the ACT.
Capital Football simply can’t do it all itself and will only fall victim to itself if tries to do so. This approach assists Capital Football concentrate on it’s core business and be a leader and lead organisation, rather than a Club.
Did we construct a new “academy”, have another “review”, hamstring it with unnecessary administrative bureaucracy, subject it to selfish personal agendas and mischievous football nonsense - not a bit of it. That’s not to say there may not have been some hard talking and debate – fair enough if it happened.
Importantly, a smart, motivated football / futsal coach got an idea in his head about how he could make our teams more competitive at the Futsal Nationals, after having coached teams that fell to more robust NSW teams.
I am not sure of the Boomerang’s administrative detail, training venues or costs at this stage, but the detail will follow. These are areas where Capital Football can provide professional assistance and I hope they do if it is needed.
We have a robust and increasingly popular Futsal competition in summer across the age groups. Capital Football fields many players of all ages and gender in thanks to the selfless efforts of so many hard working volunteers. This will make them happy.
The Boomerangs will brake new and important ground on behalf of Futsal in the ACT and Capital Football are to be congratulated for the foresight and flexibility. Now to make it work.
The following is the text of an email notice sent out by Capital Football to futsal players / parents:
Dear Player,
Boomerangs F.S. has been admitted to play in the Football NSW Super League Competition for the 2009/10 season. Canberra’s inaugural Futsal club Boomerangs F.S. is calling for expressions of interest from players wishing to participate in Super League competition. This fantastic Boomerangs F.S. initiative will be offered to 10 players for each age category below.
The Age Groups offered for this competition are as follows:
12 Boys 12 Girls (born 1997 or before)
14 Boys 14 Girls (born 1996/95)
16 Boys 16 Girls (born 1994/93)
Youth Men (born 1990/91/92)
Open Men Open Womens (all age)
The Competition will run over 16-17 weeks starting in September and concluding in early February 2010. Players will compete in 14 matches against NSW based clubs, 7 of these will be based at home in Canberra and 7 away matches in Sydney.
Please note this does not replace the local South & North Canberra Futsal, or Capital Football run competitions, players will have to participate locally in Canberra before being considered for a position in a Super League Boomerangs F.S. team.
This is a wonderful opportunity to develop and improve skills in highly competitive matches against seasoned Futsal clubs.
Please respond to this letter by email at the following address boomerangsfs@hotmail.com. Expressions of interests close 12th June 2009.
We sincerely hope you take on this challenge and strongly consider this wonderful opportunity to test yourself against the best Futsal players that NSW has to offer.
Yours sincerely,
Kristian Collins Eddie Senatore
3 comments:
I hope Capitol Football don't get cold feet about this new opportunity in Futsal. I don;t know why am so mistrustful. Perhaps I am being sooo unfair!
This easy fixed. How about the CEO comes out and give it some publicity. I'm surprised that Capitol football didn't tell the community that this was in the wind, because its such a good idea.Others may have rallied to the cause if they had known and may still do. I hope so.
I truly hope Capitol Football don't do anything to hamstring participation in the NSW competition by the Boomerangs. No daming by faint praise please!
Surely they couldn't be that small minded.
How could the Boomerang's proposal possibly diminish or compromise anything they might intend to do? I just wonder why Capitol Football didn't think of it - they are paid to lead the way.
I just can;t shake this uneasy feeling - its such a sensational step in Futsal - and we do like to target tall poppie ideas in the country. Being right seems to make you more of a target. But perjhps I am looking over my shoulder a bit too much.
In fact, now that I think about it, nothing has happened with futsal of any great consequence since the Nationals ended. They did some goo work last Nationals which was encouraging. The summer competitions have been conducted as they always are and that probably didn't require much assistance from Capitol Football.
So are we all lost in the magic of the A League bid. Is that where the effort is going at the top end of the organistation? If it then fine, but clear the path for others to get on with it - that's the thing isn't it?
If Capitol Football has some plans of their own for Futsal, it would be good to hear what they are planning to do. Have they thought of consutling the community? Not likely, and not since the coaches and managers debrief after the Nationals. They were a really good asset to engage with. The risk they run by not consutling the community expertise is that they operate in a vacuum and derive something that is less than the best and possibly self serving. So who knows what they intend to do. Be nice to know though.
We do know what they said the Boomerangs could do and have done and its good, real good.
I hope they are not threatened by the Boomerangs plan. Surely not. There's no room for bruied egos here, that would be silly. I wonder if they were thinking perhaps that nothing would come of it?
Big msitake if they did.
Well lets hope Capitol Football swing in behind this one Go with the flow and use a very good idea that comes along if helps the cause - particularly if the spade work is being done by good people in the community.
There is always risk to good ideas and intiatives from the community, because they don't come fromt the organistaion. The smart organisation harnasses people power.
Please don't burn your bridges Capitol Football or make the mistake of thinking that you are the game.
So lets hear from Capitol Football and let's hear them give this good idea a rousing thumbs up - and help where they can if its needed.
Great oppurtunity for Futsal players but I have some reservations about the coaches invloved. As with all things in Canberra we are let down by Coaches with not enough experience or capable of not getting invlovled with politics.
This is a good start. However, we also need to get our own premier league up and running. Set up proper futsal clubs and have all the best players playing each other rather than the poorly run northside and southside leagues we have at the moment. They amount to nothing more than a social league. It speaks volumes of how far ACT Futsal has fallen in the last couple of years when players have to go play in the NSW Super League (their second division) to get a proper competition. We use to be the undisputed number 1 futsal state. Changes have to be made.
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