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 →After a warm up for the girls we did some cross court passing. The girls were asked to pass the ball across the whole width of the court in 3’s whilst travelling along the edge of the court. We asked them to pass with the foot on the outside of the court. So when travelling […]
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 →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 […]
Read More →We started the summer term with the girls by doing a bit of ‘follow my leader’. The girls all had a ball and were asked to dribble round. Coach Chris held his hand in the air with a different number of fingers each time, and the girls had to copy him. This made them lift […]
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 →After the massive success of the last tournament the girls wanted another! So in Week 22, we decided to have a second mini tournament. Again, we divided the girls up into teams of 3 with one of the coaches as the team captain. THE GIRLS The teams for the girls were as follows: Chris’s Superstars […]
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 […]
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