For those of you not aware, the Paralympic games includes a 7-a-side football category. The players are rated from class 5 to 8 depending on their degree of impairment, with class 5 being the highest level of impairment. Each team must maintain a line-up featuring players with varying levels of impairment and each team of 7 […]
Read More →Week two started on Tuesday with the first game for the ladies team. The college will be running a first and second team but as most players are not back yet it was more of a ‘who is available’ kind of team! Guiseley Vixens are a very good local side and play in an open age […]
Read More →Well, day one of the Futsal World Cup 2016 in Columbia lived up to its billing with the hosts involved in an amazing match against one of the European favourites Portugal. Columbia were leading 1-0 as the game went into the final seconds of the match, and with the match clock showing 1 second to […]
Read More →Coach Chris has just finished his first week of pre-season at Leeds City College, here are his thoughts: I was a bit apprehensive to start the week but also dying to get going. Due to holidays and other commitments the coaching team will not be fully together until the first week of September. We started […]
Read More →Here at Pro Coaching Academy we love to highlight talent, especially in the female game! We have had the pleasure of coaching Chloe at both the girls’ academy and York Railway Institute for several years, and last year she sent us a video of her practising her ‘tekkers’. Well, she’s been at it again and sent […]
Read More →Well what started as a simple idea grew very quickly into two after school clubs at two very big York schools. Throughout the year we have taken 47 sessions, with 42 separate players trying futsal for the first time, giving us over 700 places in total! We have taken hundreds of photographs, shot hours of […]
Read More →As coaches it is always a difficult decision to honour individual players, especially when the game of futsal is definitely a team game. But at Pro Coaching Academy we like to highlight individual success, and so the Futsal Player of the Year from Huntington School is Eddie Hopper. Eddie is already on the books of […]
Read More →Last week we received an email from North Yorkshire Sport showing the write up for the Manor Futsal Club and their award for being the Satellite Club of the Month, and this morning it went live on their website! Click here to read the fantastic write up. We are all so proud of the coaches, players and […]
Read More →After 33 weeks of fantastic futsal, the coaches at Pro Coaching Academy picked their players of the year. For the girls there was only going to be one winner – Rachel Jones. She has been pretty much at every single session since the start of the year and has developed into a confident player who never stops […]
Read More →As this was the last session of the school year, in usual Pro Coaching fashion, it was the much anticipated tournament. We split the players into three teams, and due to some absentees Coach Chris had to play to make up the numbers! The teams were: Team Yellow: Archie, Tom S, Joshua and Oli. Team […]
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