Simon: Hi! What's your name?

Nathan: My name is Nathan Curtis Gildard. Well, my name is Nathan but people call me Nate so..

Simon: OK. What do you do in your free time?

Nathan: I do a lot of different things. I like to travel around, I like to go to places I've never been. I like to play guitar in a band which I'm not in right now. I like to play soccer. I play soccer a lot and I play futsal too.

Simon: Futsal, what's that?

Nathan: Futsal is a 5 a side soccer game, so it's played on a small court about the size of a basketball court and the ball is smaller than a soccer ball. It's kind of heavy and you have five people so there are 4 players and one keeper, goalie.

Simon: Oh, interesting. Is it similar to soccer in other ways?

Nathan: Well, it's similar in ways that you know you pass the ball but it's different in ways that for example, you have a stop clock in the international futsal games and professional games, so there's a stop clock. The way you move around is very different you know, you have positions like midfield, forward, defense but often a defender can find themselves playing forward which is kind of fun because defenders get a chance to score too.

Simon: OK. Here is the last question which do you prefer, soccer or the big football or futsal?

Nathan: Ah, that's a difficult question. I think at the moment I enjoy futsal a little bit more because it is a harder pace. You're running a lot faster. There's more chances to score. It's a really challenging game. It takes a lot of energy and the five guys that you play with, there's only five people so you really depend on each other to do well so it's a real team sport. You really need each other.

Simon: Thank you.