However, talks between FIFA and AMF to reconcile governance were not successful. AMF is the successor organization to the original governing body. The two most important governing bodies of futsal are the Asociación Mundial de Fútsal (AMF) and Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). The most attended futsal match in history was played on 7 September 2014 on Mane Garrincha Stadium in Brazil's capital Brasilia between Brazil and Argentina in front of 56,483 spectators. In particular, it was the Brazilian journalist José Antônio Inglêz who passionately contributed to the rapid spread of the game, as well as being credited as the man who coined the name "futsal". It attracted some interest in South American media, which regularly began to follow futsal.
Shortly after, a tournament was organized. In 1965, the Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol de Salón (South American Futsal Confederation) was formed, consisting of Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru and Argentina. Luiz de Oliveira wrote the Book of Rules of Futsal in 1956, then adopted also at the international level. In 1956, the rules were modified by Habib Maphuz and Luiz Gonzaga de Oliveira Fernandes within the YMCA of São Paulo, Brazil, to allow seniors to compete. These reasons convinced João Lotufo, a Brazilian, to bring the game to his country and adapt it to the needs of physical education. It was easily played by everyone, everywhere, and in any weather condition, helping players of other sports stay in shape all year round. The YMCA spread the game quickly throughout South America.
While writing the rule book, Ceriani combined the principles of association football-where the ball may be touched with every part of the body except the hands-with rules from other sports: from basketball, the number of players (five per team) and the game's duration (40 active minutes) from water polo, the goalkeeping rules and from team handball, the field and goal sizes. Ceriani's goal was to create a team game similar to football that could be played indoors or outdoors.
Association football was already highly popular in the country, and after Uruguay won the 1930 World Cup and gold medals in the 19 Summer Olympics, it attracted even more practitioners. Originally developed for basketball courts, a rule book for the new sport was published in September 1933. Since then, futsal has become the officially and internationally accepted name, and FIFA has also started using the term.įutsal started in 1930 when Juan Carlos Ceriani, a teacher in Montevideo, Uruguay, created a version of indoor football for YMCAs. The World Futsal Association registered the name futsal in 1985, following a dispute with FIFA over the name fútbol. During its second world championships held in Madrid in 1985, the Spanish name fútbol sala was used. 7.3 China International Futsal Tournamentįutsal comes from the Portuguese futebol de salão and from the Spanish fútbol sala or fútbol de salón (all translatable as "indoor football").7.2 World University Futsal Championship.