Another team is added to the Onisilos Association. After the football department, the basketball department and last year's table tennis department, Onisilos adds to his potential a futsal team, which will premiere this year in the league.
The team's stadium will be the closed multipurpose hall of DG Sotiras Primary School. The main outfit will be green with white while the secondary one will be orange.
The group consists of the following people:
1. Spyros Dimitriou
2. Marios Stefani
3. Charalambos Kounes
4. Andreas Tziortzis
5. Panagiotis Georgiou
6. Panikos Georgiou (Pantoura)
7. Stelios Georgiou
8. Petros Zanetou
9. Giannos Tsoukkas
10. Panagiotis Savvas
11. Adamos Lazari
12. Marios Charalambous
A few words about the sport
The sport of indoor soccer has a significant impact on the world sports map, while at the same time it is developing rapidly in the Cypriot area in recent years. Some of the most important features of the sport are:
• Each team consists of 5 players with 1 of the 5 being a goalkeeper,
• The ball is size 4 instead of 5 as in the sport of football,
• The stadiums where the matches take place are closed and have parquet and their size is clearly much smaller than football stadiums,
• Footballer changes are unlimited,
• It is statistically proven that the average goal and goal effort in each game is high and thus, according to public opinion, the sport is among the most popular and enthusiastic.
Here are some highlights from World Futsal Championship matches:
Goal of the year:
This year's goal of the team is on the one hand to make its maiden appearance in the 2nd division championship gaining important experiences and on the other hand to create the best impressions by winning as many games as possible.
Long-term goals:
The following are long-term goals:
1. The introduction of the sport of futsal in our newly established municipality, aims at promoting the Municipality while strengthening the prestige of all of us in the field of sports.
2. A great effort will be the attraction of the youth to sports in general.
Major sponsors:
• Sotiras Municipal Council - contribution
• "Eva Pavilion" (Yiannis Pattaoros), Sotira - contribution
• Florence Savva Conservatory, Sotira - contribution
• Futsal courts in Deryneia "Forca" - contribution
• School tax office of Sotira - concession of the closed room
• Tavern Mousikos, tavern Strappos, tavern Plumin, gym of Florina donations of services for tombola prizes
Thanks-call for help:
Warm thanks to all those who helped us in any way. We invite all young and old to continue to support us by watching the evening games of our newly enlightened team every Thursday.
The first official game will take place on September 26, in the closed hall of DG Elementary School.
In closing, we quote an article from the offside news which praises Sotira as a "Football Man" and gives an excellent mention to our titanic effort (Click here to read the full article)
"This year's task of the futsal team of Onisillos Sotiras is difficult, since it is essentially a brand new team that was created just this year and is invited to take part for the first time in a KOP championship.
This great initiative was taken by six young people from Sotira who will also be football players of the team since it is known that the specific parts of our island "give birth" to football talents. Onisillos player-coach for this season will be Mr. Marios Stefani while the roster of the team so far consists of 13 futsal players while at the same time efforts are being made for at least one more addition.
The main goal of the management and technical team of the team is a decent presence in the B category having full self-knowledge about the difficulties of the championship. It is worth mentioning that most footballers are not familiar with the floor and it will definitely take time and intensive training so that the team can be ready for the official premiere against ENA Athienou on September 26th.
Onisillos continues his preparation with a scheduled friendly on Tuesday 20/8 at 20:30 against the team of D. Christodoulos Deryneias at the indoor stadium of the XNUMXrd Primary School of Sotira.
Sotira's team for its home games will play on Thursday at 19:30 »
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