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Preparing your team for a grassroots tournament

FA county coach developer, Rebecca Garlick, provides a list of practical coaching tips. For all the excitement and enjoyment, taking a team to a tournament can be a challenging time for coaches. With this in mind, planning for the event is absolutely essential. The more planning done prior to the day, the more time there […]

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Corwen JFC Club & Community destroyed by Floods

After the weekend floods in North Wales it looks like all the equipment including our generator, will be ruined at the Corwen Junior Football pitches. All the kids and volunteers are devastated by the damage the water has done and have no idea when the pitches will be useable again and where the money will […]

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Join the debate everyone’s talking about. ???? What’s better dance mum or footy mum? We have no bias here. ????

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What is matchday like for a grassroots coach?

Grassroots coach and football writer, Glenn Moore, provides an insight into his matchday coaching experience and some important lessons learned on the FA Youth Award courses. Looking at a neighbouring pitch last week, as my U12s prepared to kick-off, I saw a fellow manager struggling to erect a portable goal. Goal construction is like putting […]

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