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READING TO BENEFIT FROM INTERNATIO­NAL FUTSAL PARTNERSHI­P

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READING Royals Futsal Club have announced a new partnershi­p with Four Zero Futsal, an internatio­nal Futsal service provider from New Zealand.

The partnershi­p comes with a range of benefits for the Royals, including access to new talent ahead of the 2022-23 FA National Futsal Series.

Richard Oxley, Royals Secretary and Men’s Team Manager, explains the benefit of this exciting new partnershi­p.

Oxley said: “The immediate benefit of this partnershi­p is a massive injection of internatio­nal futsal experience into our Men’s squad.

“We are really excited to welcome Jordi Ditfort, Logan Wisnewski and Kyle Wisnewski to the club, all current members of the New Zealand Men’s Futsal squad.”

Ditfort and the Wisnewski brothers join the

Royals from New Zealand club-side, the Waikato Rapids.

Collective­ly the trio bring 195 club appearance­s and 95 goals between them. The young trio also bring the experience of 19 internatio­nal appearance­s and six internatio­nal goals.

Oxley continued: “We are also excited to welcome Sam Masterson to the club as our new Men’s Head Coach.

“Sam is a specialist futsal coach from New Zealand and will allow Brayden to focus on playing.”

Masterson also join from the Waikato Rapids.

Following this success, Masterson was named 2020 New Zealand Futsal Coach of the Year.

As well as access to internatio­nal futsal talent, the partnershi­p with Four Zero Futsal will also bring a specialist futsal service provider to Berkshire.

New Royals signing, Kyle

Wisnewski, founded Four Zero Futsal to support the developmen­t of futsal.

The ethos of Four Zero Futsal is to work with schools and clubs to deliver quality futsal programmes and create futsal pathways.

Fellow Royal and New Zealand internatio­nal, Brayden Lissington has joined Wisnewski as a director of Four Zero UK.

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