Footballers at the sports campus of the College of West Anglia have been showing their Brazilian-style skills in the  sport of Futsal. The game was created in South America in the 1930s/40s and now is played by more people in Brazil than normal football. An elite squad of players from King’s Lynn’s College of West Anglia went to the fantastic Sporthouse facilities in Dagenham to compete in the ECFA regional futsal competition. This facility in the past has hosted the England Futsal team and their international Futsal fixtures. The opposition consisted of other elite squads from Cambridge Regional College, Braintree, Milton Keynes, Easton and the Tottenham Hotspurs futsal foundation. The group did very well and made it into the final, losing narrowly (5-3) to CRC. Making the final of the regional event was enough to book themselves a place in the National semi-finals in May where they will meet the regional finalist from the North, Midlands and South West of England. Dan Buhlemann was pleased with the outcome of the day. He said: “Although we have used Futsal as a training tool for our elite players, this was the first time we have played competitively and against other colleges. “Some of the colleges present where full-time futsal colleges so I’m very pleased that we didn’t just compete, we played very well and looked very comfortable on the futsal pitch. “We had players that were great at rotating positions and were very creative when attacking. We have had some interest from competing colleges to organise fixtures in the future, something I will be very keen to do” A Futsal team has five players, including a goalkeeper, and is played with a smaller ball, on a smaller hard court, normally indoors. It was created in Brazil and Uruguay. Picture The College of West Anglia futsal squad.