Kieran Shannon: The street is now indoors. Futsal is where Irish football has to go

Ireland used to have a national futsal team, just as we had an U21 futsal national league featuring Seamus Coleman and James McClean. Wes Hoolahan, while still 18 and playing for Belvedere, was a particular standout with some of those national teams in the late 1990s

Ireland's Dane Massey gets his shot on goal despite the attention of Dauren Nurgozhin, Kazakhstan, during the Uefa Futsal Championship qualifying tournament at the National Basketball Arena, Tallaght, in 2009. Picture: Stephen McCarthy / SPORTSFILE

While it seemed a goal he made out of nothing, a trained eye could spot it came from somewhere.

When Mo Salah used the sole of his foot to roll the ball out from under his feet before going about scoring a goal Jurgen Klopp has rightly claimed will be spoken about for decades to come, followers of a certain school of football would have known it as a move straight from futsal.