Inside Futsal: Recent Episodes
Kris Fernandes
Hosted by Kris Fernandes, Inside Futsal is the premier English language futsal talk show featuring the world's best futsal players, journalists, coaches, and key people from within the game. Want more than the audio? Check out the videos on the official Inside Futsal channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_WqGAHhY3_JB6de0HLgPFg
"The Wolf of Futsal", Paula Ferreira Lobo joins the show to talk about Portugal's European Championship victory against Russia, what it means for the Portuguese domestic league, how long can Sporting CP keep Zicky Te, Argentina winning the Copa America, the retirements of futsal legends Ortiz, Cuzzolino, and Taborda, and the amazing Futsal ZeroZero.pt site that is like a Livescore of futsal on steroids. Make sure to check out our YouTube channel Inside Futsal - YouTube and make sure to subscribe and like the content but also recommend who you want on the show and what you would like to have talked about.
That might have been the greatest single day of games in UEFA Futsal Euro history! This episode is wildly entertaining. Join me and futsal data wizard David Tapia-Owens, one of half of the dynamic duo from On The Court, the best futsal magazine on earth, as we breakdown what happened in the Spain / Portugal and Ukraine / Russia matches. We also preview the championship game this Sunday, talk about futsal data and the trends we are seeing in this tournament, UEFA and Dutch marketing, the value of Bruno Coelho, should futsal have 2x25 min halves, and about the ridiculously awesome OTC magazine.
Italian futsal expert Valerio Scalabrelli of QuattroZero joins Kris to preview the massive Euro Futsal semi finals between Spain and Portugal as well as the hotly anticipated Ukraine and Russia match. Valerio provides excellent insight into a variety of futsal topics including Finland's remarkable run, Mico Martic stepping down, investing in women's futsal, the Futsal Awards, among others.
Inside Futsal #8 for the UEFA Euro Futsal 2022 is with Maria Pinto Jorge, one of Portugal and Sporting CP's most knowledgeable and passionate journalists with Zona Tecnica, one of the world's best futsal websites. Kris and Maria cover the final group stage matchday with Group C and D, talk about the Portuguese national team, Sporting's world dominance and influence on futsal, the need for women's futsal to grow to maximize the game, and, of course, preview the 1/4 matches for Euro 2022.
With over 100 appearances for England, one of, if not the best English language futsal analysts around, Doug Reed, joins the show and it is an epic one that you are really going to enjoy. Kris and Doug hit directly on a variety of topics including matchday 3 of UEFA Euro 2022, What's happening in English futsal, will the spectacular Alex Merlim play in another major international tournament, why Zicky Te is so fun to watch, Brazilians on foreign teams, Finland's rise in futsal, the Women's Futsal Euro draw and why FA's around the world should immediately create women's national teams in order to grow the sport. If you want to watch check out the Inside Futsal YouTube channel
Kris sits down with Vic Hermans, the Golden Ball (MVP) winner of the first ever FIFA Futsal World Championship after leading Holland to a silver medal. He has coached six different national teams over his career, leading three of them to the Futsal World Cup, is a FIFA instructor, and is now building a huge futsal program for the Philippines. He shares some great stories from his experiences over the decades and the boys also talk heavily about Euro 2022, what it means for the Netherlands to host it, and why Russia look like favourites so far.
The bold and intelligent Portuguese futsal expert Paula Lobo brings her super in-depth expertise and opinions into what may very well be the best show in the series so far. Paula and Kris not only talk about the Group A matches Portugal / Netherlands and Serbia / Ukraine, in addition to the recent Futsal Awards and why Pany Varela should have won, the need for females to start voting for the Awards, Portugal's goalkeeping situation, if anyone can stop Portugal's Zicky & Pany, women's futsal development needs, and a whole lot of great banter in between. A truly entertaining episode.
One of the best fans and thinkers in futsal, Emanuele "ɪl Fanatico" Risso of Futsal Corner and Quattro Zero joins Inside Futsal to talk about a bunch of great topics starting off with Group C's opening games between Russia and Slovakia as well as Croatia / Poland. Topics covered include the hat trick performance from Antoshkin, the ASTONISHING goal by Croatia's Matej Horvat, preview Group D's opening games as well as the great futsal coverage work by Futsal Corner and Quattro Zero.
A really great conversation with special guest Damon Shaw that quickly covers a lot of futsal. Firstly, we review the epic Futsal Euro 2022 Group B clashes between Slovenia and Kazakhstan and Italy and Finland that produced golazo after golazo.
Kris and Damon talk about the magic of Alex Merlim (Babalu), brilliance of Douglas Jr, Futsal legend Mico Martic, the On The Court Magazine and Damon shares from his experiences at the 2021 FIFA Futsal World Cup with the Solomon Islands.
Artem Yerentev joins Kris to discuss the 2021 Futsal Awards, recapping the opening day at UEFA Futsal Euro 2022 recap Matchday 1 and preview Day 2. We also talk Ukrainian futsal in the midst of looming geopolitical unease in the region.
Should Portuguese power Pany Varela have won the 2021 Futsal Player of the Year? Or was Brazilian beast Ferrão the deserving winner? Who will win the UEFA Futsal Euro 2022? Which star players to watch out for? Leave a comment and let us know YOUR answers.
These questions and more are bantered about on the soft launch of episode #1 of Inside Futsal between host Kris Fernandes and special guest "The Doctor" Andre Caro. Fantastic chemistry between two of futsal's most engaging personalities.