Manchester v East Coast Preview

East Coast travel to Manchester today ahead of the 5th clash between the 2 teams.

The game will be played in the Velodrome, Manchester, in our opinion, the best venue currently in the National League.

The Velodrome, Manchester

Currently Manchester are sitting top of the league on 25 points and last time out Manchester ran out 9 v 4 winners at Ennerdale Leisure Centre back in November,

East Coast unveil the teams new Manager, Vadimas Tiscenka, for the first time.

New Coach Announced

East Coast Futsal have the pleasure to announce a new coach at the club.

Vadimas Tiscenka, from Lithuania, now living in Hull, has taken over the role at the club.  Vadimas is busy preparing his side form the away trip to Manchester on Sunday and viewed his sqaud last night at the training session for the first time.

After refereeing in his home country, Vadimas was badly injured and turned his hand to coaching, winning a cup in his first season coaching in Lithuanian Futsal  League as well as officiating in the Lithuanian Football Premier League.

Vadimas will bring much needed Futsal experience to the side as well as new tactics and direction.  His ethos is of hard work, discipline and team work and the club beleive this will help the young side progress in the next few seasons.

New Coach Vadimas Tiscenka

East Coast 1 Tranmere Victoria 5

East Coast were left to rue a slow start and missed opportunities as they fell to a 5-1 defeat at home to Tranmere Victoria.

East Coast were looking to make a winning start at their new Ennerdale Leisure Centre home while Tranmere were looking to bounce back after an opening day defeat.

The home started with and experienced line-up of Ryan TateJoao RodriguesJon ProsserMatty Payne and Danny Horigold, but after a slow start they went behind inside two minutes to a well-organised Tranmere outfit.

Prosser had a chance to level the scores soon after but his effort flew over the bar after a rebounded effort.

The home side were still looking to settle into the game before finding themselves 3-0 down when Tranmere hit a quick fire double in the seventh minute.

Player coach Steve Brennan had a chance to pull one back coming on off the bench when he did well to make space for himself before seeing his shot blocked by the Tranmere goalkeeper.

Just minutes later the visitors added a fourth leading to East Coast calling a time-out.

However, the time-out failed to prevent Tranmere from adding a fifth five minutes before the break.

Rodrigues pulled a goal back for the home side when he turned his marker and fired the ball into the bottom left hand corner in the final minute of the first half.

East Coast came out much improved in the second period and troubled Tranmere with numerous efforts on goal.

Payne was looking threatening but failed to take his chances, coming closest when his left footed drive cannoned back off the up right.

Both sides came close but ultimately neither side added to their tally in what was a hard fought and even second half.

It was a frustrating afternoon for East Coast but the team will look to bounce back when they travel to Liverpool on the 13th November.

 

Birmingham Futsal Club v East Coast Futsal Club

East Coasts first Futsal Friendly Fixture this Sunday 11th.

Expected to travel to the @Futsal Arena are amongst others new signings Jon Prosser, Matty Payne, plus last years captain Brewster Frizzell & 16 yr old trialist Sam Turner from Scarborough.

Last season saw Birmigham come out 15 v 9 winners, Richard Sneekes scoring 5 for Birmingham and Gerard Ferre 5 for Coast in an entertaining match in Solihull.

Matty Payne signs

Transfer News! Matty Payne signs for East Coast for the 2011-12 season. Once in the England set up & Grimsby Futsal player Payne was 2009 top scorer in the North league, winning the North Division with Middlesbrough before another spell with Grimsby & Leeds last season.

Matty Payne, right, in action for Leeds

2009 – 12 App / 20 Goals – Mboro & Grimsby

2010 – 10 App / 14 Goals – Grimsby

2010/11 7App / 5 Goals – Leeds

2011-12  East Coast Futsal

Double signing boost to new Season

East Coast Futsal Club is delighted to announce the signings of Joao Rodrigues & Jon Prosser to the clubs ranks.

Joao joins the team from Serpa Pinto Portugal.  Aged 30 and 6ft 4 he will be a massive influence in games and at the club this season and will help our young team progress.

Jon joins from Middlesbrough Futsal Club, having completed his university course in the North East.  Jon is one of the most capped National league players and was also part of the Teeside BUCS winners.  He also scored form the halfway line last season against us!!!

This shows the plan the club has for the future, and the aims of the team this year looking to challenge the top teams in the league.

Jon Prosser, left, and Joao Rodrigues

 

East Coast gain University Link

East Coast Futsal Club is to officially link up with Hull University next season.

This is excellent news for the club and something manager Steve Brennan, has been looking to do since East Coast formed in 2009.

John Prince the ‘Get into Football Officer’ has been pivotal in this and we thank him and also Steve Curtis, Sports Development Officer for the University of Hull for putting Futsal into the universities plans.

The club will look to form a partnership with players & use the universities facilities where possible, and also look at getting Hull Uni into the BUCS Futsal Championships 2011/12.

Crewsadors & Tranmere first up

East Coast Futsal will travel to Manchester on the 2nd October to play newly promoted Crewsadors in the first FA Futsal National league game of the 2011/12 Futsal Season.

Crewsadors beat Team Northumbria 6 v 5 in the playoff game after being 1 v 5 down at one point!

East Coast then take on Tranmere Victoria on the 16th October in the teams first home game. This promises to be an enthralling encounter after the 10 v 7 scoreline in the league las season and then unbelieveable 1 v 1 draw in the FA Futsal Cup.

Heartbreak for East Coast

East Coast’s young team were narrowlly denied a place in the final shootout v Middlesbrough for a place in FA Cup elite stage.

The team drew 2v2 against Team Northumbria, Hunter & Davis then scorers and then drew with Tranmere Victoria 1 v 1 to lose out on goals scored to Northumbria.  Earlier Northumbria had drawn 2 v 2 against Tranmere.

Coast could have won the Tranmere game in the last 2 minutes, player coach Steve Brennan hit a 30 yrd lob that came back off the bar and Josh Christlow hit wide in the dying seconds when it looked a certain goal.  Nick Van Heerden saved twice also in a pulsating game.  Christlow hit the goal for Coast.

In the final, Northumbria upset Middlesbrough 2 v 1 despite playing with 4 men for 2 minutes and then Boro missed a 10m penalty late on but the Newcastle based team took the honours and automatic qualification into the FA Cup Elite rounds in Birmingham 10th July.