Week 2 started with a simple passing drill, with 3 players, across the full width and length of the court. We emphasised getting the players to use their right foot when on the right side of the court and their left foot when on the left side of the court, and try to control the […]
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 →York Railway Institute U13 girls faced their third straight year in the semi-finals of the City of York Girls’ League Cup. They have won the previous two against Wigginton Grasshoppers and Goole Town. Could they win this time and seal a place in their third consecutive final on Saturday 7th May at Poppleton Tigers’ home […]
Read More →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 →After much planning, emailing and generally sorting out, Pro Coaching Academy finally got their futsal coaching started at Huntington School. A special mention to Mr Paley, PE Teacher at the school for all his helping in welcoming Pro Coaching, without him, we wouldn’t be here. We had 12 boys and 1 girl turn up for […]
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 →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 […]
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