LAWTON, Okla. (AP) — Futsal is not a sport most Americans are even familiar with.

However, one Lawton man is trying to change that, in Southwest Oklahoma at least.

Mark E. Brown is the president of the Oklahoma Futsal Association and the Southwestern Oklahoma Futsal League. Recently, Brown was able to add another title, as he was named the Chief Operations Officer of AMF USA, the American division of the world governing body of the sport, the "Asociacion Munidal de Futsal", or AMF.

Futsal was created in the 1930s in Uruguay and probably would remind most Americans of soccer or indoor soccer. I...