JUVENTUS FC

Juventus Football Club (from Latin[3] iuventus: youth, IPA: [ju.ˈvɛn.tus]), commonly referred to as simply Juventus or Juve, is a football club from Turin, Italy. With the exception of one season,[4] the club has spent its entire history in the top flight of Italian football.[5] After winning Serie B, Juventus were promoted back to Serie A for the 2007–08 season.

Juventus is the most successful[4] team in the history of Italian football. Overall, Juventus have won 51 official trophies, more than any other Italian team; 40 in Italy, which is also a record, and 11 in European and world competitions. Juventus is the third most successful club in Europe and the sixth in the world[6] with the most international titles recognized by UEFA[7] and FIFA.

In 1985, Juventus, the only team in the world to have won all international cups and championships[7] (which includes all official European competitions[7] and the Intercontinental Champions Clubs' Cup[8]), became the first club in the history of European football to have won all three Major European trophies[9]. The torinese team is also one of the G-14’s founding members, a group that represents eighteen of the largest and most prestigious[10] European football clubs.

At present, Juventus play their home games at the Stadio Olimpico di Torino while their full-time stadium, Stadio delle Alpi is having structural changes and will not be completed for use until 2008.[2][11]

Futsal

INTRODUCTION ABOUT FUTSAL

Futsal is an indoor version of football (soccer). Its name is derived from the Portuguese futebol de salão and the Spanish fútbol sala/de salón, which can be translated as 'indoor football'.
Futsal is played between two teams of five players, one of whom is the goalkeeper. In addition each team may have a number of substitutes. Unlike some other forms of indoor football, the field is delimited by lines, and not nets or boards that players can use to redirect the ball. Futsal as it is called in many countries is played with a #3 or #4 ball, which is slightly heavier and smaller than the #5 ball used in football.
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. Those games predate the formulation of official (FIFA) rules of futsal. In England, the Portuguese term futebol de salão is used to describe a slightly different sport.
Although the most popular sport in Brazil is football (soccer), Futsal is widely practiced.

HISTORY OF FUTSAL

The development of Salón Futbol or Futebol de Salão now called in many countries futsal can be traced back to 1930 in Montevideo, Uruguay, the same year the inaugural World Cup was held in the country. This early form of futbol Sala (futsal) was developed by Juan Carlos Ceriani to be played at YMCAs. Ceriani's game was designed for five players per team, and could be played indoors or outdoors.At around the same time, a similar form of football played on basketball courts was being developed in São Paulo, Brazil. These new forms of football were quickly adopted throughout South America. The Brazilian Confederation of Sport instituted its first official rules for futebol de salão in 1958.
The international governing body FIFUSA (Federación Internacional de Fútbol de Salón, International Futsal Federation) was created in 1971 to administer the game, and held its first futsal world championship in São Paulo in 1982. Due to an apparent dispute with FIFA over the administration of fútbol, FIFUSA coined the word fut-sal in 1985, while the United States Futsal Federation coined the name "Futsal" the same year.
FIFA soon began to administer its own indoor soccer games, creating its own version of the rules and hosting its first FIFA Indoor Soccer World Championship in 1989 in Rotterdam, Netherlands, in 1992 it was the FIFA Five-a-Side World Championship (Hong Kong) and since 1996 it has been called the FIFA Futsal World Championship (Guatemala).One of the most remarkable changes was the reduction of the ball weight and increase in ball size (from a handball size to a football size 4), which enabled faster play and, for the first time, scoring goals with the head (though this is still difficult and uncommon).
In 2002, members of PANAFUTSAL (La Confederación Panamericana de Futsal, The Pan-American Futsal Confederation) formed AMF (Asociación Mundial de Fútbol de Salón, World Futsal Association), an international futsal governing body independent of FIFA. Both FIFA and AMF continue to administer the game.
Some professional players start out with futsal to build fundamental skills. Brazilian players Ronaldinho, Robinho, Ronaldo, Rivaldo, Juninho and many more started out playing futsal. In Brazil, the majority of children start out with Futsal rather than association football, as it occurs at a smaller space and the greatest part of the schools in the country doesn't have a field to play traditional association football. There are also some notable players like Falcão who continues to play futsal at the club level.

RULES OF FUTSAL

1.PITCH

The pitch shall be marked with lines. These lines belong to the areas of which they are boundaries. The two longer boundary lines are called touch lines. The two shorter lines are called goal lines.All lines shall be 8 cm wide. The pitch shall be divided into two halves by the halfway line.The centre mark shall be indicated at the midpoint of the halfway line. A circle with a radius of 3 m shall be marked around it.The pitch and its features are shown in the following diagram:

2.BALLS

The ball shall be:

spherical
made of leather or another suitable material
of a circumference of not less than 62 cm and not more than 64 cm not less than 400 grams nor more than 440 grams in weight at the start of the matchof a pressure equal to 0.4-0.6 atmospheres (400–600g/cm2) at sea level

3.PLAYER

A match shall be played by two teams, each consisting of no morethan fi ve players, one of whom is the goalkeeper.

4.THE REFEREE

Each match shall be controlled by a referee, who has full authority to enforce the Laws of the Game in connection with the match to which he has been appointed, from the moment he enters the premises where the pitch is located until he leaves them.

5.DURATION OF THE MATCH

The match shall last two equal periods of 20 minutes.The timekeeping shall be carried out by a timekeeper, whose duties are defi ned in Law 7.The duration of either half may be prolonged to enable a penalty kick to be taken, or for a direct free kick to be taken against a team that has committed more than fi ve accumulated fouls.