On Sunday 6th June 2016 it was the 15th Annual City of York Girls’ Football League Tournament, and the U13s were defending a title they won last year. It was a scorching hot day and the girls had been drawn in a group with 4 of the 5 favourites so progressing from the group stage […]
Read More →As is the usual for futsal through Pro Coaching, the last session of the term is the much-anticipated tournament. We split the players into three teams, and this time Coach Chris got to watch and didn’t have to make up the numbers! The teams were: Team Yellow: Max D, Tom S, Joshua, Oliver, Dan Team […]
Read More →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 →In week five of the futsal at Huntington we concentrated on some combination play with 2 players. First, we worked on a good cross field pass to the far post and a player arriving to finish first time. At the start the players thought it would be easy but the lack of goals showed this […]
Read More →The focus of this week was playing into the corners of the court and getting behind the defenders. In futsal there is no offside so it is a great tactic to not only get the wrong side of a defender but also behind them. The girls started with 4 players at the end of the […]
Read More →Having won the league title with a 100% win record, York Railway Institute U13 Girls lined up against Kirk Deighton Rangers to see if they could add the League Cup to their impressive collection of trophies. Kirk Deighton Rangers finished bottom of the league, but league form is nothing in finals! Could York RI complete […]
Read More →With a school rounders match, we had reduced numbers tonight. We centred the session on tactical work without the ball. First we did the coaches’ favourite reaction drill, the girls loved it! We played two rounds with overall winner being Coach Suzy. We then split the girls into two teams and placed two different colour […]
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