On Monday night we welcomed back Joe McKechnie for another visit to Manor CE Academy. Joe is an ex England and Scotland cerebral palsy player and coach, and a good friend of Manor Futsal Club. Joe ran the warm up with a simple game of ‘bulldog’, with and without the ball. With the girls he then went […]
Read More →On Sunday 22 May 2017, Pro Coaching Academy coaches Chris & Suzy, and their daughters Kim and Katie attended the F Trophy Final between York City and Macclesfield at Wembley. York City walked away with the trophy after a fantastic last gasp winner in a 3-2 game, with goals from John Parkin, Vadaine Oliver and […]
Read More →On Sunday 14 May 2017, Pro Coaching Academy Coaches, Chris and Suzy Collins completed the Leeds Half Marathon in aid of Parkinson’s UK. The race was really hard work with more hills than they were expecting, and one of them was a real beast. Also, the weather was hotter than either was happy with, […]
Read More →We started the girls’ and boys’ sessions with a very simple warm up exercise that has been providing great fun for coaches who try it. It is so simple, a circle of cones with a player on all but one cone, and a player running round the outside of the cones trying to get to […]
Read More →People who believe coaches know it all and never stop learning are so far from the truth! Coach Chris attends as many course and events as possible, and part of that is reading anything and everything he can on football related subjects. On a recent psychology CPD event in York, he was advised to read […]
Read More →The girls started tonight with a bit of dribbling around the court, through various cones, getting them to try different ways to go through them. Top dribbler on the night was Abbi, lovely ‘tekkers’ on show! We then had a bit of a rondo practice, something the girls have never done before. We challenged the […]
Read More →With it being the first session back after the Easter holidays, and the Year 9s doing mock exams, numbers were a bit low, but that didn’t stop us having fun. The girls started with a team warm up, with lots of cheating going on and players and coaches not knowing their left from right. We […]
Read More →It was the last session of futsal at Manor CE Academy before the Easter break, so we had two full matches! First up were the girls and we welcomed back Melody, great kid, always full of smiles, brilliant to see her again! It was Coach Chris’s first time back for quite a while and he was suitably […]
Read More →With Manor CE Academy girls’ football team having an away match tonight, most of the girls were away, so we had the fantastic 3 left of Katie S, Abbi and Bob! After a warm up, the girls did some 3v1 with the help of Mr Foster and Coach Suzy. The girls were challenged to score […]
Read More →Every once in a while a video comes along that makes everyone think, and this is one of them! Geno Auriemma is head coach at the University of Connecticut Huskies women’s basketball team. He talks about the body language of players who are not in the game. It is brilliant, at Pro Coaching Academy we think […]
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