Although it started in 1930, in Montevideo, Uruguay, futsal began to boom at the millennium era in Indonesia.
I also loved to play this variant of football.
"It saves my energy almost 50%" I thought, rather than football which have a larger field.
You can count how many yard you can save for your running zone. And you can save some wasted calories and protein also when you running through the field. (and you can keep it for yourself! -> for better old age). and (again) you can keep your leg’s muscles healthy a little bit longer. (as you knew the older you are, the more you can get injury- and the older you are, your injury will be permanent! Hiks so sad!!).
Yeah, this is some reasons why i love this game, besides the hysteria itself.
I play this lovely sport in Jakarta's City (attention please: City:Jakarta, Country:Indonesia, not BALI!!).
As other player who play this game. I also can kick, dribbling, passing, and some diving, of course!!.
I play this game in many futsal places in Jakarta.
And lately, I pay attention with some ethnic futsal.
No it's not some Cherokee Indian's playing futsal. nor some Chickasaw's playing this game.
but i look that the team in one field, is shares the same ethnic. (usually in one futsal place, there is more than one field, usually 4 or more).
The chinese ethnic played with other chinese, so it's like Macau National Futsal Team
The arab ethnic played with other arab ethnic, so it's like Bahrain National Futsal Team.
The caucasian (white people, or "bule", the local term), played with other caucasian. (but i don't know, where they're came from, whether they’re came from the same country or not, which "bule" from australia, america, south africa, or even vatican, i can't distinguished between them - sorry for bad report)
And also the local people (ethnic group native to indonesia, or "pribumi" in local term), play with other local people. (but here i also don't know whether they're javanese, sundanese, madurese, balinese, or even Minangkabau ethnic group, but if they're from papua and surrounding areas, i can exactly distinguish that).
I don't know why this happen. is this futsal phenomenon?
Are they more comfortable playing with same ethnic? or
They're looking for "ethnic" national futsal team?
I don't know whether Jakarta's korean, Jakarta's Japanese, Jakarta Indo-Indian's (from India-new delhi, not Apache or Mohawk), or Nigerian (No! no Obafemi Martins here) also play futsal with "fellow" ethnic.
But in one field in the place i usually play futsal, there are mixed ethnic between some chinese and local people, playing together.
Yeah, finally i found a mixed team in this city, with equal number of each ethnic.
I called them Indonesian National Futsal Team.
No matter we're chinese, arab, javanese, sundanese, japanese, korean, australian, nigerian, or even chickasaw's, If we live here, (In Indonesia, Not just in Bali..) and love this country (and not just love Bali).
We're INDONESIAN.
Footnote:
Mrs. AMEL WROTE:
“This blog post is submitted as part of Sony Ericsson’s Extra Time campaign. You can read the other local football stories here. :)”
Me WROTE:
or if you don't like football but you love "food"ball. You can read another foodball stories
here. ^_^
