What started out 12 months ago finally came to fruition on Monday evening. Pro Coaching Academy coach Chris Collins has always wanted to see secondary schools play each other in competitive futsal matches. It has been a long hard road getting people to believe in the game, to see the benefits and just getting schools […]
Read More →From watching the last few games of the season and the first one day tournament, the coaches noticed a lot of the players were reluctant to shoot when travelling with the ball. They really wanted to walk the ball into the back of the net, and seemed to doubt their ability to strike a moving […]
Read More →Week 6 saw a great turn out at Huntington School futsal club with 2 new players and everyone else turning up! Coach Chris never expected the club to grow so big in the first half term and is so impressed by everyone’s enthusiasm. Tonight we worked on getting behind the defenders and into the corners. […]
Read More →On Sunday 15th May 2016 it was the Annual York Railway Institute Girls’ Summer Tournament, and the U13s were defending a title they have won for the previous two years. It was a bright sunny day and the pitches were perfect for good passing football. All games were 5 a side with 5 minutes each […]
Read More →For the first time in ages we had beautiful sun and a wonderful night to train in, a week ago we had snow!! The aim of the session tonight was combination play in and around the goal. We started with a simple drill where one player travelled down a wide channel before crossing low and […]
Read More →With a number of the girls off ill or involved in school activities we had a very select few at training on Monday night! The weather was absolutely freezing, even though the sun was shinning. A nice surprise was Chloe J coming to watch, and her not using crutches was a really good sign! We […]
Read More →On Saturday 7th May is the City of York Girls’ Football League Cup Finals held each year at Poppleton Junior Football ground on Millfield Lane in York. The day kicks off at 10.00am with the U13s 7v7 and 9v9, and the U16s. As these games finish, the remaining matches will take place, namely U12, U14 […]
Read More →With a cup final coming up on Saturday and not wanting any of the girls to miss out with a silly injury, Coach Chris made training a real fun session last night. One of the drills he did was from a twitter video from Arsenal player Nacho Monreal in which the players are doing as […]
Read More →As part of the FA Girls’ Football week Pro Coaching Academy took certificates to all the girls they coach. Here is the week in review! First in the week was Monday at Manor CE Academy Futsal Club. Several of the girls were missing due to illness or the schools Bake Off competition. Resident coach Suzy, […]
Read More →We started the session with some individual techniques. This included running with the ball round 4 cones using only the little toe on one foot. The challenge was to keep the ball as close to the cone as possible without losing control. We progressed onto some simple passing drills where the girls had to communicate […]
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