Week 13, doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun! Ruby, a regular for York RI U12s and at Manor Academy Futsal sessions joined us for the night, welcome Ruby! After a warm up we set up a drill that concentrated on keeping possession of the ball. We had two 15 metre squares side by side […]
Read More →It was great to see yet another new girl at the Academy this week, welcome Grace! Grace plays for the very successful York Railway Institute U13s side and is coming back after some problems with her knees. Defending was the topic of the week, with specifically 1v1 defending a channel in front of the goal. […]
Read More →We were searching for some pictures recently and came across a few old team photos of the York RI Girls’ teams. So we thought, why not put them on the website! Didn’t they all look sweet and innocent how times change! Click here to have a look what we found and see what you think!
Read More →The review of the FA People’s Cup has just been featured on the York Press website! Huge thank you to Dave Flett, Sport Reporter at the paper, it’s an amazing write-up, and Pro Coaching Academy are eternally grateful! It was featured on the main sport’s page, we are so impressed! Please share this link with […]
Read More →As most of the girls will be playing 9v9 next season or even in some of the end of season tournaments, we introduced a session tonight with the element of offside. This took some explaining as the girls are still unsure of how to use it to their advantage. We played 4v3 so the attackers […]
Read More →York Railway Institute started their campaign to win back the City of York Girls’ League Cup. Two years ago they won the trophy, beating Wigginton 5-1 in the final. But last year they lost to rivals Fulford 3-1 on penalties. Could York RI win a place in the semi finals and in the process keep […]
Read More →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 […]
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