With every player turning up to the session it was going to be a busy night! First was a dribbling session along a set of cones laid out in a T shape. We were looking for close control, using both feet and different parts of the feet. When the players thought that was too easy, […]
Read More →As part of the FA Girls’ Football week Pro Coaching Academy took certificates to all the girls they coach. Here is the week in review! First in the week was Monday at Manor CE Academy Futsal Club. Several of the girls were missing due to illness or the schools Bake Off competition. Resident coach Suzy, […]
Read More →York Railway Institute U13 Girls entertained Rawcliffe in their last home game of the season. Having won the league several weeks before they were trying to win 15 out of 15 league games, something the team has never done before. This was match day 14 and a win would take them to within one match […]
Read More →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. […]
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