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 →Pro Coaching Academy is excited to announce they start futsal coaching at Huntington School, York on Wednesday 13 April 2016 at 3.45pm. In January 2016 coach Chris Collins gave a free futsal session to the pupils in years 7, 8 and 9 at Huntington School. Over 30 boys turned up, to try futsal, some for […]
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 →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 →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 […]
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