Baluan Sholak Sports Palace Almaty - venue for UEFA Futsal Cup finals 2011
Almaty will put itself on the map of international sporting events this weekend as it hosts the UEFA Futsal Cup finals. It’s the first time ever that Kazakhstan has been chosen to host the finals of a UEFA tournament.
Local favourites Kairat Almaty will face off with Sporting Clube de Portugal on April29. Later that day SL Benfica, also from Portugal, will take on Italy’s ASD Città di Montesilvano C/5. The winners of these two games will battle it out in the final on May 1.
Futsal is basically five-a-side football played in an indoor arena. The match consists of two halves of 20 minutes and unlimited substitutions are allowed at any time from a pool of 12 players.
Kairat are a force to be reckoned with in Futsal – it has made the semi-finals of this annual tournament three times since 2006. Kazakh midfielder Dinmukhambet Suleimenov is confident that Kairat, which has eight Brazillians on its books, can use its home advantage and be crowned UEFA Futsal champions for 2011
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Hi, my name is Diogo Mata from Portugal. I’m a Benfica supporter and I have a collection of programmes and tickets. Do you know someone that has programmes and tickets from the UEFA Futsal Cup 2011 to exchange or sell? Regards, Diogo