WINNERS ARE GRINNERS!

Our women dominate the women’s final to become NPL1 champions!

Going down early from a slick UTS goal the girls never dropped their heads.  A missed tap in on one end, and then UTS hitting the bar on the other kept the scores close. A free kick was then banged in top corner for hakoah to draw level. Our young guns then combined in quick succession saw Hakoah go into the half time 3-1 up.

UTS came out firing in the second half, but brick wall Bree stood strong saving a number of 1v1s. Hakoah then scored 3 goals in 5 minutes to take the score to 6-1. UTS tried to go 5th man but were no match for Hakoah, who again added the best goal to their tally. A strong back post pass from Ella and Aurelia running inside the post like we are taught to knock it home and seal the 7-1 win. The biggest win of the day. Though bree came out with a possible concussion and broken hand, and nearly everyone was disgustingly sweaty - food was had, drinks were shared, tears were shed and now the trophy is at Toni’s house in mostly one pieces and only a little bit sticky.

We don’t like to do it the easy way - there was a point in the season where the women could have missed out on a top 4 finish. But they then had 5 wins in a row to storm into second and then seal the championship - the first women’s NPL1 championship in Hakoah history!

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And the regular season is done and dusted. We finish 6th overall, a mere 2 points behind 5th.Our under 14 boys (who are predominately 13 year olds) climbed the ladder and finished second. Our 17s and women’s also finish in the top 2.

Our 15 girls finished strong as did our men who once again finish 4th. Our 11 boys, although not an official ladder, went through undefeated for 8 games in a row.

To finish the season as the strongest team.Congratulations everyone. Bigger and better next year!

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Congrats to our razzlers from the weekend!

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Round 11 wrap up: another mixed day but our 14s continue their dominance.

Our 16s came back from 2-1 down to draw 2-2. Whilst our womens dominated in a 5-3 win. 

Tonight our men were trailing by 2 goals most of the game and came home to win 10-7. If you didn’t watch - you missed out!

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Catch up game day!  Our men play mountain Majik at MORRIS IEMMA INDOOR CENTRE Pop down to support them! 

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Our 2024 premier league schedule

Don’t forget to sign up for the membership to secure prime seats and a discount at the cafe

INTRODUCING: Hakoah membership

This year we are upping our game. For only $50 you will receive a Hakoah membership for the 2024 season. Perks include:

- Limited edition Hakoah Supporter Tee
- Priority seating on halfway at all home games (yes we have seating for this year)

- Priority Mini’s

- 10% discount at the Cafe - there’s 7 home games, that’s like 70% discount (hey I’m a lawyer not a mathematician)

Trials are locked in!
Over 2 days we will be selecting our 2024 premier league teams!

Fill out the EOI below and come to trials.
Please be there 30 mins before your allotted slot.

Uniform tryouts will be over the same weekend!
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Our EOI for if you want to play this season:

Fill out this EOI if your child wants to be a mini:

Introducing Hakoah Mini’s!!!

Our minis are going to walk out with our senior mens and women’s teams on Home game days, get the opportunity to be ball kids and hang out with our senior teams before and after the games!!

Fill out this EOI if your kid would be interested:

Our EOI for if you want to play this season:

No matter what age we have a team for you!!
We develop players from academy all the way to open men’s and women’s

Fill out the EOI now! Existing and future players

New sponsor

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New ESHFC Coach appointment

Mel Keith

The Hakoah Futsal Club has divided its mens team into two teams. Everyone who is eligible to go to Maccabiah has been put into one team and all the other mens and youth players into a second team. By doing this, we hope that when the trials for Maccabiah are run, a lot of our Hakoah players are selected to play. For the Maccabiah Team and the players that are selected this is the start of a long journey that will hopefully lead to Gold in Israel in 2022.

Training for the Maccabiah started weeks ago and will now continue until the team leaves for Israel in 15 months. Just as importantly as training each week, this team will play in back to back futsal competitions. Firstly it will play in the FNSW Winter League that starts in a week. At the conclusion of that tournament the players will play in the FNSW Premier league and simultaneously in the Allsorts Super League. Finally next year they will play again in the FNSW Winter League. If history is a guide, Covid allowing, there will also be two tours to Thailand. THe first tour will be in March 2022 and the second one one in June 2022. Whilst this team may not do one better than the last team that went to Maccabiah in 2017, which won a silver medal (the first football medal of any colour in either mens or womens, indoor or outdoor, masters, Opens, Under 18s or Under 16s), there will never have been a better prepared Australian team in any sport.

Coach Simon Kieth
Manager Ashley Swartz

Players
Jono Barzel
Dylan Basger
Jake Besser
Dan Engleman
Robbie Ezekiel
Noah Felich
Jake Lees
Coby New
Brad Sarif
Julian Shalome
Josh Shubitz
Adam Strasser
Gillad Swartz
Tal Weiner

Football NSW has decided that to ensure that NSW futsalers stay at the forefront of Australian Futsal, FNSW needs to encourage and nurture young players. To this end they have appointed Miles Downie (Hakoah’s mens Coach) to run a program where the best players in NSW will train together through out the year.

Hakoah has been asked to nominate its best players to be part of the program

We are pleased to announce that the following Jewish players have been nominated

Gillad Swartz
Adam Strasser
Zac Sapsford
Noah Felich

And for the female Program
Toni Sharp

The Club is encouraging FNSW to expand the program and to create a further even younger group. If that occurs we will be able to nominate some brilliant 15 and 16 year olds.

News

Games start for the 2021 Season

The Hakoah Futsal Club has entered in to two competitions. Older teams are playing at Dural on a saturday and  younger teams (Accademy) are playing at Marackville PCYC on a sunday.

The Academy is for boys and girls, ages 6-13 years, of all playing abilities. Club teams start at boys U11 and run through U12, U14, U16, U19 and Mens Open division. For Girls we have U11 and U12 U13, U15, U17 and Womens Open division. Training and competitions will run between September and December 2021 (after the outdoor football season has ended).

Places are limited so act quickly to secure a spot for the next season

News

Coaching Team:
Head Coach of the Academy- Miles Downie. Miles is our current ES Hakoah men’s coach and, under his watchful eye, our men’s team are the most successful Futsal team in NSW at the moment. If rumours prove true, Miles will be the Next Australian Futsal Coach

Our men’s team in 2019-20 were: NSW Premier League Division one Champions, Southern Cross Futsal League Australian Champions, The Cage NSW champions, and Indoor 5’s NSW Champions. This team played the Australian national team and drew. Our U17s teams in 2010-21 were: Indoor 5’s NSW Champions

Lets meet our experienced Coaches:

Miles Downie Head Coach at Hakoah. AFC level 2 coach and physical trainer, Futsalroos player and Futuroos Coach

Stephen Tzanakes St George Coach, State level Futsal Coach

Julian Lam Coach and player for over a decade

Antonia Sharp Senior Women’s player State Player and State Coach

Stephen Peters TD Macarthur Rams, Previous women’s, U17 and U15 Coach and State Coach

Peter Nowakowski Reserves Coach for Macarthur Rams, State Coach

Training and Games:
Academy teams will train once per week at either Rosebay Secondary College, Sydney University or Gunyama Park Aquatic and Recreation centre.

The cage is a series of tournaments held over a year for open men’s teams, The competition is a hybrid competition in that it runs on Astro turf but is played on a court the size of a basketball court. The ball used is a futsal ball. Every time you compete you get allocated points depending upon where you place in the tournament. This was the third time that we had entered the competition. The previous two times we had made the Grand final, winning one and coming runners up for a second. This time however most of our men’s players were away so we brought into the team two rising stars, Noah Felich from our youth team and Coby New from our under 15 Boys team.
This tournament is like a carnival, music is blaring the games are short and many immigrant communities enter teams. We started very strongly winning our first three games

Hakoah Vs Sydney Street Crew 5 1 (win)
Hakoah Vs Karikalan 6 1 (win)
Hakoah Vs Project 33 3 1 (win)

In the semi-final our lack of players started to tell and even though at two all we hit a shot that rebounded off one post on to the other, we lost to a very physical Estraalia
Hakoah Vs FC Estraalia 2 3 (loss) Semi Final

In the 3rd 4th playoff we again asserted our dominance and won
Hakoah Vs Sydney Street Crew 3 1 (win) third

Standings after three rounds
Hakoah (Bondi) 36, UTS 28, Sydney CF 24, Links 20, SDT 16, Mosaic 16, North Sydney 16, Sydney Fusion 16, FC Estraalia 12, Sydney Street Crew 12
ydney AllBlacks 4, Banksia 4, Project 33 4

So the 2020/2021 season has finally come to an end, and what a season it was. With Covid the season looked very different to previous seasons. The season was shorter this year and the age groups were condensed. (There was only a U12 Boys, U13 Boys, U15 Boys, and a Combined Youth and mens competition. On the girls side there was a combined Under 14 and U16 competetion and a combined U18 and Womens Compeition) Hakoah entered an under 12s Boys team. This team had a number of new players including a brilliant female player. During the season the team lost a few games to a very good accademy team. This did not bode well for the Grand final when we each won our respective semi finals. Going in as under dogs we stepped up a gear and won 7 0. A very very good result. Our Mighty Under 13 Team went one better than they did last year. Last year they were undefeated until the Grand Final, this year the team won every game including the Grand Final. The St George Team were huge and very physical. Playing on a smaller court the larger, stronger team has all the advantages. This did not phase our boys though. They ran out easy winners 5 2. We can’t wait for these young players to start playing for our men’s team in the next three or four years. Our U15 boys came fist in the regular season only to lose the Semi Final to the team that came fourth. A great lesson for next year. Our Mens team who have been undefeated for the last 14 months made the Grand Final and had to play the Mighty Mountain Magic team. To add to our woes most of the mens team including its coach, were interstate and couldn’t come back for fear of being unable to leave the state again. Up stepped our youth team and in the last minute of extra time scored the winning goal. An amazing result. We entered three girls teams in the U16 age group. Two of the teams were very young. One team made the semi finals and was leading with 5 minutes to go, only to concede two goals quickly. With futsal the game change in a moment. The Under 18 Girls Team are Champions for the 2020 season of the combined wons under 18 competition. In their last three games they beat the Hakoah Women’s team 5 4 then the Mountain Magic Women’s team 6 2 and finally in the grand final the Mountain Magic U18’s 3 2 in the last 30 seconds of extra time. Looking back at the season, the club did very well. That said 2021 will be a new year and the previous years results will mean nothing.

EXciting developments coming (stay Tuned)

1) The Cage tournament (feb 2021)
2) Champions of Champions Tournament in Port Macquarie (Late Feb 2021)
3) Future Futsalroo Program
4) Winter Comp

So the 2019/2020 season has finally come to an end. And what a season it was. This year the Club entered five accademy teams into the local Allsorts competition. An under 7 boys, an Under 9 boys, an under 10 boys and under 11 and under 13 boys team. The highlights for this group of teams included, the U10 and the U13 boys winning their respective competitions. Some of the under 10 boys (who were nine at the time being invited to train and play a few games with the Under 11A team. And some of the under 13 players being selected to play in the Under 13 NSW State team. As noted below the club managed to have selected almost all of it coaches and 25 of its players to represent NSW in the National Championships (see below for a list of the succesful coaches and players).

The club came fourth in the Club Championship with 142 points. The highest number of points that it has ever got. Highlights for the Club teams include, The Under 12 boys winning their competition, the under 11 boys improving tremendously from the start of the season to the end. Our men’s team moving from 7th last year to fourth this year, then winning their semi-final on penalties and then winning their grandfinal, to be annointed Champions. No men’s team in only its second year has ever won the men’s cometition. In fact only six clubs have ever won the competition, Sydney Magic twice in 2008 and 2009 Quake in 2010 Sydney City Eagles in 2011 Dural 5 years in a row from 2012 to 2016 Inner West in 2017 Dural againin 2018, Enfield 2019 and Hakoah in the 2019/2020 season. Another highlight for this teams was that at the start of the year understanding how good they team were, they were asked to play against the Australian Futsalroos. A game they eagerly accepted and a game that in the end the Futsalroos were lucky to draw. However the days of the Club only being about the men’s team are long gone. We had 5 teams out of nine make the finals. (our under 12 boys, our Under 16 Boys, Our Youth (U19 boys) our Women and our men. The equal most of any Club. Then miraculously four out of the five won their semi finals and made it into the Grand Final. We were not so succesful in the grand final, two teams losing in the final five seconds of their games. The 12’s who had been the best team for the whole season, lost effectively with .5 of a second to go. The under 16s lost with 5.7 seconds to go. The soccer gods can be so cruel some times. Our youth were beaten by the Vipers, who were simply better than we were on the day. And then our men in the final game of the day upset Inner West Magic winning 4 3. An amazing day and an amazing result not just for the mens team but the club as a whole.

A huge congratulations goes to

Mile Boughton U13 Thunder
Chloe Tseros U13 Lightning
Kiara Holyoake – Caceda U15 Thunder
Olivia Mitchel U15 Thunder
Felicity McNeill U17 Lightning
Gisella Pipino U17 Lightning
Daniella Batten Youth Women Sydney
Akala Howell U16 NSW Metro Youth Women Sydney

Boys
Dov Baron U12 Lightning
Garbis Basmajian U12 Thunder
Jaydon Ellis U12 Thunder
Troy Megwrditchian U12 Storm
Oliver Sacks U12 Thunder
Daanish Wardhana U12 Thunder
Ethan Di Giacomo U13 Lightning
Lachlan Choy U13 Lightning
George Frousalias U13 Thunder
El Sidhant U13 Thunder
Massimiliano MCAliffe U14 Lightning
Julian Shalome U14 Lightning
Alen Harbas U15 Lightning
Marcus Mallard U15 Lightning
Lucas Pezzano U15 Thunder
Sammy Salcedo U15 Thunder
Alvin Khoshaba U15 Thunder
Sebastian Cereecdo U16 Thunder
Jordan Mikhail U16 Thunder
Noah Felich Youth Lightning

Special note goes to
Samuel Tzanakes Youth Lightning (up an age group)

Coaches
Steve Tzanakes
Raffaele Capasso
Antonia (Toni) Sharp
Pete Nowakowski
Miles Downie

Our men were asked to play the Australian Futsalroos.
Photo of the team that drew 3 3 with Futsalroos A great result.

15 august 2019

Stephen Peters appointed Coach for the Under 15’s and the Under 17’s girls team.

01 June 2019

Miles Downie has been appointed as the mens coach for the 2019/2020 Season.

The following players were selected for NSW honours in December 2018

Ethan Di Giacomo U12 NSW Storm
George Frousalias U12 NSW Storm
Chloe Tseros U13 NSW Lightening
Eden Walker U14 NSW Thunder
Dylan Gil U14 NSW Thunder
Marcus Mallard U14 NSW Thunder
Alvin-John Khoshaba U14 NSW Lightening
Gisella Pipino U15 NSW Thunder
Olivia Mitchell U15 NSW Storm
Kiara Holyoake-Caceda U15 NSW Storm
Lucia White U15 NSW Storm
Felicity Mcneill U15 NSW Storm
Jordan Weizman U17 NSW Country
Steve Tzanakes Coach
Raffaele Capasso Coach
John Jiggins Coach
Pete Nowakowski Coach
Daniella Batten U16 NSW Metro AFA
Akala Howell U16 NSW Metro AFA

With Brett Rosenberg flying out to Canada, He has resigned his treasurer responsibilities. Dylan Basger has agreed to take on the role. welcome Dylan.

Another Great Sponsor has come on board. Business and Tax Money House, a Bondi Junction based Accountancy firm joins the family.

The Club is really pleased to announce that Aquila Super has come on board as a sponsor (25/5/2018)

Due to the fact that Scott Gilligan has found a job in Canberra we have had to find some coaches to replace him. Obviously finding one coach to do Scott job is impossible so we have found two. We are incredibly lucky to have been able to employ: (15/5/208)

John Jiggins to Coach our Under 17 Girls and our Under 11 and Under 12 Girls academy. JJ comes with a great predigree. we look forward to watching how his teams progress through the season

We have also managed to employ last year’s Coach of the year (Premier League 1) Steve Tzanakes. He will be coaching our Under 12, under 13 and under 14 boys teams.

The Club has appointed Raffaele Capasso as the U16 Boys coach. Raffaele has a tremendous futsal coaching history (See U16 team tab) (28/4/2018)

The Club is really pleased to announce that Pengana Funds Management has come on board as a sponsor (25/4/2018)

The Club has appointed a number of coaches for the 2018/2019 season (02/04/2018)

U10 and U11 Boys will be coached by Adriano de Mello

U12 and U14 Boys will be coached by Scott Gilligan

The Youth team will again be coached by Robbie Ezekiel

The U11 and U12 Girls will be coached by Scott Gilligan

The U13 and U15 Girls will be coached by Stephen Peters

The women will be coached by Paulo Dutra

As there was no winter competition last weekend, this week’s news are the first futsal coaches that we have signed for the next Premier League season.

The first signing is Robbie Ezekiel. Not only is Robbie a member of the Premier League winning men’s team, Club Captain and Silver medal winning Macabiah representative but up until the last two years he was key coach at the club. Between 2017 and 2018 he was the Youth Coach and between 2015 and 2016 he was the under 16 coach. This premier League season he has volunteered to be the Assistant Youth Coach and an academy coach. Both the Club and the teams that he is helping are really lucky.

Now the Prez thinks all his female player are super heroes, but it is nice when independant people agree. Elissa has been selected from hundreds of applicants to be a member of the Wander women program for the Western Sydney Wanderers. This is the inaugural year of running this program and it puts her in a brilliant position for when the program goes full time.

In what can only be described as a huge step forward (in no small part due to Robert Fotti) it looks like FNSW will be running an accademy competition next futsal season. This means that our younger players will be put into a high level competition playing other Premier League Clubs. The latest advice is that we will be able to enter two teams per age group. We will have in the boys competition two Under 8’s, U9’s , U10’s, U11’s and possibly U13’s. In the girls competition we will have two U10’s and Under 12’s. These teams will play on sunday and be in addition to the U11 and U12 Boys teams and the U12 Girls team that will play on Saturdays. This is very very exciting news.

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Dave is a previous member for Wentworth. Prior to beinga politician he has been an Australian businessman and a public servant. He held a number of senior positions in the Australian public service, including from 2010 to 2012 as the head of the International Division of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. From June 2013 to June 2017 he served as ambassador to Israel His appointment, at the age of 37, made him the youngest person to be appointed as an Australian ambassador and the second Australian ambassador of Indian heritage. Dave is chairman of the board of directors of Shekel Brainweigh Ltd, an Israeli technology company. In January 2018, Dave also began working for Kelly+Partners Chartered Accountants, leading their Government Relations, Incentives and Innovation team.

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Futsal is football on steroids. It is played indoors with only 5 players on a team. Most of the worlds leading footballers started their football career playing futsal. It will increase your child’s foot skills, your child’s speed of feet and of thinking.

Want more information? Lets meet the coaching team:
Head Coach of the Academy- Miles Downie. Miles is our current ES Hakoah men’s coach and, under his watchful eye, our men’s team are the most successful Futsal team in NSW at the moment. If rumours prove true, Miles will be the Next Australian Futsal Coach

Our men’s team in 2019-20 were: NSW Premier League Division one Champions, Southern Cross Futsal League Australian Champions, The Cage NSW champions, and Indoor 5’s NSW Champions. This team played the Australian national team and drew. Our U17s teams in 2010-21 were: Indoor 5’s NSW Champions.

Lets meet our experienced Coaches:

Miles Downie Head Coach at Hakoah. AFC level 2 coach and physical trainer, Futsalroos player and Futuroos Coach
Stephen Tzanakes St George Coach, State level Futsal Coachr
Julian Lam Coach and player for over a decade
Antonia Sharp Senior Women’s player State Player and State Coach
Stephen Peters TD Macarthur Rams, Previous women’s, U17 and U15 Coach and State Coach
Peter Nowakowski Reserves Coach for Macarthur Rams, State Coach

Training and Games:
Academy teams will train once per week at either Rosebay Secondary College, Sydney University or Gunyama Park Aquatic and Recreation centre.

Places are limited so act quickly to secure a spot for the next season.

Futsal is an exciting, fast-paced small sided soccer game that is played across the world and is officially recognized by both FIFA and UEFA.

Futsal earned the status of FIFA’s official form of indoor soccer in the 1980s as it was recognized as a scaled down version of outdoor soccer played indoors. It is a 5 v 5 small-sided game played on a hard surfaced, basketball sized court with a smaller, low bounce ball. Futsal is played with touchline boundaries and without walls.

Futsal places a large emphasis on technical skill in high pressure situations which can be translated into the outdoor game. The sport is a great skill developer as it demands quick reflexes, fast thinking and pin-point passing.

Futsal is played in all the continents of the world by over 100 countries with 12 million players.

For decades now, futsal has been a popular and much-loved sporting discipline, especially in South America and southern Europe. And while the indoor version of football is rapidly growing in popularity elsewhere now, thanks to FIFA’s patronage and the support of many leading personalities, it is in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Spain and Portugal that futsal has proved a breeding ground for some of the greats of the game.

The list is topped by Lionel Messi. The three-time FIFA World Player of the Year and Barcelona’s all-time leading scorer took his first tentative steps with a ball in the colours of Newell’s Old Boys, although he played futsal rather than football.

“As a little boy in Argentina, I played futsal on the streets and for my club. It was tremendous fun, and it really helped me become who I am today,” said the 25-year-old, reflecting on the benefits of the five-a-side version of the game.

Pele and Co convinced by futsal
Messi is by no means the only superstar with futsal roots. Apart from the Argentinian wizard, the likes of Pele, Cristiano Ronaldo, Xavi and Ronaldo learned the trade in the sports hall.

Cristiano Ronaldo honed his natural ability by playing futsal. “During my childhood in Portugal, all we played was futsal,” he said. “The small playing area helped me improve my close control, and whenever I played futsal I felt free. If it wasn’t for futsal, I wouldn’t be the player I am today.”

World and European champion Xavi revealed his love of futsal to UEFA.com, citing one reason in particular: “In futsal, you see whether a player is really talented. In normal football you don’t necessarily identify talent as easily because it’s so much more physical. But with futsal, you notice the small details in quality, class and tactical understanding

For younger players

The priority in Futsal is to motivate players in an environment that is conducive to learning. The more pleasure kids derive from their participation, the more they wish to play and practice on their own. While their instinct to play is natural, their affection and appreciation for soccer must be cultivated. Futsal is the foundation to such goals because it:

Allows players to frequently touch the ball.
Presents many opportunities to score goals and score goals often.
Encourages regaining possession of the ball as a productive, fun and rewarding part of the game (defending).
Maximises active participation and minimizes inactivity and boredom.
Reflects the philosophy of player development expressed in state and national coaching schools.
Eliminates complicated rules such as off-sides that may hinder youngsters from “playing”.

For older players

Played at a much higher pace than outdoor
Dramatically improves ball skills.
Raises your correct body positioning to a higher level.
Improves your ability to track defenders.
Rewards creativity & punishes mistakes.
There are pathways to both state and Australian teams.

Why Futsal is so good for young players.

Between the ages of six and eleven Brazilians play four days a week futsal and one day a week outdoor. (It is a little bit dry but if you want to understand why futsal in the off season is better than a 12 week soccer academy watch it)

History of the ES Hakoah club
The following video explains about the history of the club

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