What is "Futsal"?

"Futsal" is the coined word made from Portuguese "sala" showing the interior of a room and Spanish "futbol" of the  showing soccer. FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association) unified the rule and game name of the mini-soccer in each country of Europe or South America in 1994.
 When it says very simply, originally are a sport performed indoors like the mini-soccer of a five-person system. But now, it is performed by the outdoor artificial lawn or a gymnasium in Japan
(The size of a pitch is about 1/8 of soccer)
                                                                                                    

The rule is devised unlike soccer. For example,

・There is no offside.

 It is very hard to understand the rule of offside.

・A player's change can be performed freely in front of bench.

・The ball of futsal is small and difficult to bound compared with soccer. It becomes easy to carry out a play.But the person familiar to soccer will be greatly bewildered by the difference in the bound.
・A throw in is not carried out.
 Futsal is restarted by kick in.Therefore, a chance can be directed if it will be from where.
・There is no goal kick.
Although the ball which broke the goal line serves as a goal kick in soccer, this also becomes slow in futsal. 
・Contact plays, such as a sliding tackle are considered as a foul. Although a soccer player may slip in a peculiarity, the act itself serves as foul and he becomes a direct free kick. 
 As written in the above, different from soccer and futsal. Therefore, popularity came out as a sport in which a junior, persons of middle or advanced age, and a woman can also participate easy.