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How is Italy's best futsal club helping a rising English star chase his dreams?

At 17 years old, Dylan Parker has an enviable futsal CV, unrivalled amongst his peers. Braintree's captain tells Total Futsal how the Italian champions, L84 Torino, are helping him fulfil his futsal ambitions.

01.10.26, 18:03 Updated 01.10.26, 20:51

It's August 2025 and a 16-year-old Dylan Parker has just touched down in Turin, to be greeted by the president of L84 Torino, one of Italy's best futsal clubs, with whom he will spend the next three weeks.

The trip is a bold step towards an ambition that Parker, who plays for Braintree Futsal Club in Tier 2 South of the National Futsal Series, has held for a long time...

To play futsal professionally.

The opportunity arose earlier that year, when L84's coaches asked 'who is the number seven?' playing for Braintree in the U19 section of the Montesilvano Futsal Cup, the 'world's best youth futsal tournament'.

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