FC Sports have announced the dates for this summers ‘FC Cup’. After the great sucess of last year, FC have decided to add more age groups to the competition. The dates are as follows:
Under 7s + Under 8s – 17th June AM
Under 9s – 17th June PM
Under 10s – 24th June AM
Under 11s – 24th June PM
Places are limited and the competition is filling up quickly. For more details or to enter a team contact Luke at fcsports@littlesportscoaching.co.uk
A big congratulations goes out to FC Sports under 9′s player Luke M who has just signed a contract with professional club Rochdale AFC. He adds to the long list of FC players at professional clubs which now comes to 8.
This includes:
FC Sports Under 7′s did themselves proud with a great display against Liverpool’s shadow squad earning a very impressive draw. For much of the game you could not tell the difference between the two sides with FC showing their class storming into an early two goal lead when Leo C twice broke through the Liverpool defence and calmly finished. As Liverpool settled they started to bring themselves into the game and managed to bring the score back to 2-2. Not to be dis-heartened by this FC kept fighting and managed to take the lead again with a great strike from Theo T with his unfavoured right foot. As FC could start to sense the victory they deserved, they were stunned by two quick fire goals from Liverpool taking them into the lead for the first time in the match with only minutes remaining. FC would not give up that easy and seconds before the end a stunning strike by Jacob L was to hot for Liverpool’s keeper to handle and FC were back on level terms. All of the lads battled hard for the 4-4 draw in a game which they were unlucky not to have won.
Its great news for our under 7s who have been invited to the Liverpool FC academy to play against their under 7s on Saturday 22nd October. Its proof that proffesional clubs are now starting take notice of FC sports and how many quality football players are developing withing the club. GOOD LUCK BOYS!!
Player of the week trophy winners will now be listed on our ‘Kids Zone’ area of the site. have a a look to see who won the trophy at your centre? could it be you?
This event is being completed by Barry Curran, Steve Taylor, Richard McGreevy & Mark Curran. Please read Barry’s story below!
On Monday 4th October 2010, Barry Curran was working in Speke, near Liverpool and received a call from his wife Catherine to say that his 4 week old boy Callum had been rushed to hospital with suspected meningitis.
Barry had the agonising journey of getting from Speke to the Paediatric Ward in Daisy Hill Hospital Newry, Northern Ireland to be by Callum’s bedside. After a journey that seemed to take an eternity, Barry arrived at the hospital and he and his wife Catherine were given the news that Callum did have meningitis and that he was a very sick little boy.
After a night when he was closely observed, and with the help of the brilliant doctors and nurses, Callum began to respond to the drugs, and he started his road to recovery.
He was diagnosed with Strep B meningitis. Group B Streptococcus is just one of a number of bacteria which normally live in our bodies and carrying it is perfectly normal. This is the most common cause of severe infection in newborn babies in the UK. Pregnant women can transmit this to their newborns at birth. Catherine had been diagnosed with Strep B at 20 weeks of her pregnancy. While she was treated with antibiotics and IV fluids during labour, Callum unfortunately still contracted the ‘late-onset’ Group B Streptococcus infection called meningitis.
If it had not of been for the quick reaction of the A&E doctors and nurses we may have been writing something different today.
Callum has now made a full recovery, and to support the amazing work the doctors and nurses did at Daisy Hill Hospital, Newry Barry will be recreating the Mercy to Newry Dash from that agonising day, although this time he will be running it. Accompanied by Steve Taylor, Mark Curran and Richard McGreevy, the intrepid runners will complete the following itinery:
22nd September 2011
Run from Speke to Birkenhead docks – 12 miles
Overnight ferry to Belfast
23rd September 2011
Run from Belfast docks to Dromore , Northern Ireland – 19 miles
24th September 2011
Run from Dromore to Daisy Hill Hospital, Newry – 23 miles
Total – 54 miles
Please give what you can and help the guy reach there target of £5000.00
If the firewalls at work don’t allow you to donate through the above link, you can also donate by sending a text - RUNR54 £1 to 70070. (You can also donate £2, £3, £5 or £10 if you desire)
The children on both the Olympians & Mini Soccer courses had a great week working hard on lots of various skills and tasks in the mornings with fun games, matches and tournaments in the afternoons. The week came to an end with Tim presenting all of the awards to the children during our presentation and talking briefly about his time playing football and sports as a child.
Dean Gorré made his debut on 20 April 1988 for SVV. He also went on to play for the merger club SVV/Dordrecht’90, as well as at Feyenoord, FC Groningen, Ajax, Huddersfield Town, Barnsley and Blackpool.
In 2008–09, he was the assistant first-team coach at Southampton, after previously occupying the same role at Stoke City.
Gorré’s son, Kenji, is a member of the Manchester United academy and has signed a 2 year contract with them.
Little Sports Coaching’s Managing Director Craig Brennan was invited for an interview with Dean for the worlds number one football resource website football4football.com.
Craig was ansewring questions on his life in football as a child and as an adult as well as discussing his views on various coaching styles and methods he and Little Sports Coaching use. Craig also spoke about how Little Sports Coaching was established and his vision for for the football side of the buisness and the buisness as a whole. Full interview will follow.
Dean Gorre show real
Little Sports Coaching has been identified as one of the countries leading football coaching providers.
Football rescource website football4football.com has recognised Little Sports Coaching as one of the countries top football coaching providers, our football for 3-5s programme and mini soccer centres have been running for almost 5 yeras at various locations across the North West of England. Our philosophy has always been to develop players by making the coaching environment FUN and inclusive for all players. This has proved to be succesful with many of the players from our centres moving on to either one of our academies, or junior team FC Sports or other premier league acadamies.
Matt Quigley has been an integral part of Little Sports Coaching for some years now, he has now taken on our first franchise.
Little Sports Coaching (High Peak) is already proving to be a hit with Football for 3-5s and Mini Soccer centres opening in New Mills, Chapel-en-le frith, Eyam and in other areas too.
