In Week 10 of the Academy we worked on playing off a front man. We had 3v2 attacking one goal with a 5 metre zone in front of the goal. A target player was alone in this area and to score the attackers must play the ball into them and then shoot first time from […]
Read More →On Sunday 20th March 2016, Pro Coaching Academy took a team of seven girls to the U14 national finals in the FA People’s Cup in Sheffield. The coaching team of Chris and Suzy Collins were looking to use the tournament as experience as five of the seven players were actually U13s. Eight teams from across […]
Read More →In Week 20 with the girls we worked on attacking from different angles. The court was laid out in a square and the attackers started in 2 corners with one defender starting in another. The attackers also had a gate that both of them had to run through before they could score. At first, both […]
Read More →Well, what can we say, it was just not our day at Sheffield in the FA People’s Cup. After only 2 minutes in the first game, a bad collision with Alexia saw her with a cut to her head and her left eye closed up – and that was the end of the tournament for […]
Read More →In week 9 of the Academy we worked on moving the ball quickly to enable the players to get it forward as quick as possible. We had a 20 x 15 metre rectangle with a player at each end and 2v2 in the middle and one floating player who played for whichever side was in […]
Read More →With the start of a new half term we decided it was about time we really got down to specific Futsal drills and coaching. Inspired by watching a lot of the UEFA Futsal tournament, the coaches decided that tonight’s session would be about about box defending. This is the idea where you have 2 banks […]
Read More →The brand new kit for the girls of Pro Coaching Academy has arrived! When they qualified for the finals of the FA People’s Cup the coaches decided it would be a nice reward to get them a new kit to play in! The girls travel to Sheffield early on Sunday morning, with the tournament for […]
Read More →Well, it is really getting serious now. The draw for the finals of the FA People’s Cup has just been made live from the BBC, and Pro Coaching Academy were in it!!! Watch the link below, it is just like a proper FA Cup draw. The coaches here loved it, and we just can’t wait […]
Read More →York Railway Institute Girls U13s won their City of York Girls’ 7 A Side League this weekend without even kicking a ball! The season was originally supposed to be 20 matches long but after the terrible weather over the last few months the league committee decided to stop after only 15 games. This leaves York […]
Read More →Here is the latest match report from York Railway Institute U13 Girls home game to Kirk Deighton Rangers. The opposition are the most improved side in the league this season, and really impressed Coach Chris last time they met. Could the girls cope with this improving side and score their 100th league goal of the […]
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