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Greensboro was the Futsal Capital of the World
A writer for the Segovia al Dia website jested that Greensboro, NC, was the “Capital of World Futsal”, and that writer, either jesting or half-jesting, was absolutely correct. For four days at the end of June, Greensboro was capital of the Futsal world.
It was a phenomenal, unprecedented sporting event organized by Rob Andrews and Miguel Andres Moreno in cooperation with Spain’s Liga Nacional de Futbol Sala (LNFS), which brought to the U.S. on those four days the best Futsal in the world, and, on a broader scale, the best soccer in the world.
“I Was watching the UEFA finals and some of the other finals, and I thought that our tournament had the highest level of competition in the world,” Andrews said. “It was equal to any of the tournaments.”
In the championship final Sunday, Dinamo Moscow and Carlos Barbosa of Brazil were battling it out 1-1 with under four minutes left before a live USA Futsal TV stream and millions of viewers via Spanish and Brazilian television, when Nando touched the ball to his left and sent a left-footed rocket into the net to give the Russian club a 2-1 lead.
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