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 […]
Read More →For the first time in ages we had beautiful sun and a wonderful night to train in, a week ago we had snow!! The aim of the session tonight was combination play in and around the goal. We started with a simple drill where one player travelled down a wide channel before crossing low and […]
Read More →With 4 players missing in week 4 of the futsal at Huntington School we finally got to play 5v5 at futsal! We started the session with a bit of keep ball, with half the players not having a ball. The players had 30 seconds to either get a ball or keep the ball. We reduced […]
Read More →In the last game of the season York Railway Institute U13 girls travelled to Bishopthorpe White Rose. Last time these teams met Bishopthorpe ran York RI close to the mark and York RI only won 2-0 after Bishopthorpe put up a spirited display. York RI were still missing striker Chloe J, so who was going […]
Read More →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 →With a cup final coming up on Saturday and not wanting any of the girls to miss out with a silly injury, Coach Chris made training a real fun session last night. One of the drills he did was from a twitter video from Arsenal player Nacho Monreal in which the players are doing as […]
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