READING TO BENEFIT FROM INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP
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, 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 [Royals player-coach since 2020] to focus on playing.”
Masterson also joins the Royals from the Waikato Rapids. Under his watch, the Rapids finished first and second in the New Zealand Men’s Futsal Superleague.
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.
Their ambition is to apply the same ethos to futsal in the United Kingdom to accelerate the growth of the sport.
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 (Royals player-coach since 2020) to focus on playing.”
Masterson also joins the Royals from the Waikato Rapids. Under his watch, the Rapids finished first and second in the New Zealand Men’s Futsal Superleague. 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. Their ambition is to apply the same ethos to futsal in the United Kingdom to accelerate the growth of the sport.