This week we worked with both girls and boys on playing behind the last defender. We had two cones set up about 10 metres apart and one defender and one attacker. The defender started in front of the attacker, and both started in the middle of the two cones. Before the ball was played to […]
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 →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 →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 →As coaches we decided it was about time we played a proper Futsal match, with full rules for the players to see exactly what a match was like. The girls were up first and we spent a couple of minutes explaining the rules and answering any questions they had. Mr Foster took one team, Chris […]
Read More →Tonight we concentrated on taking goal scoring opportunities early and with either feet. Often in practises and training sessions we allow the players to have far too much time to set themselves, pick a point on the goal and then shoot. In a match this is not really realistic, the chance is there for only […]
Read More →We had the biggest group ever at the Academy on Monday night, the sessions continue to grow week on week. We welcomed Lucy-Liu, a girl Coach Chris knows from Manor CE Academy Futsal club and someone he recently signed to play for York Railway Institute U13 girls’ team. The theme for tonight was changing the […]
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