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Youth coaching in the 21st century Introducing our blogger: Our resident coach is working at professional youth level in Scotland. He has a degree in Sports Coaching and experience of coaching high level youth players in England, Scotland and the USA. His blog will aim to give ... Read more |
The make or break years Introducing our blogger: Daniel Shields has returned to Spartans at Under 19 level after playing pro-youth for two seasons with Alloa Athletic. He has also represented Edinburgh Schools FA in the Scottish Cup where he reached the semi-final against The North ... Read more |
Behind the scenes at St. Mirren YFC Introducing our Blogger: Sean Graham goes behind the scenes at St Mirren Youth FC. Entry 10 | 5th April 2012 St. Mirren Youth Football Club April Update - The Wanderer Returns! By Sean Graham Much has been going on since my last update on ... Read more |
Local Heroes Unlimited Introducing our blogger: Ian Mackay is a freelance sports journalist that has dedicated many years to ensuring the grass roots game gets the coverage it deserves. This page is devoted to promoting football and other sports, bringing you news and updates. You can vi... Read more |
The Scottish Football Improvement Association Introducing our blogger: On 18th April 2011 Ben McKenzie, a twelve year old youth player, and his ten year old cousin Matthew, were disappointed by the direction Scottish football was headed in. Rather than watching it unfold, the duo decided to take... Read more |
McSoccer for Girls Introducing our blogger: Jennifer Flueckiger grew up loving and playing soccer in the American Midwest. She played on girl’s teams, all-boy’s teams, indoor teams, outdoor teams, school teams, select travelling teams, a Junior Olympic team, and finally, her university team. A ... Read more |
Fitness within football Introducing our blogger: Our resident fitness expert, Grant MacLeod, has been working in the USA for the past two years. He has been working both as a football coach, and also a strength and conditioning coach. He graduated with an honours in... Read more |
A Guide to Surviving Youth Football Introducing our blogger: Adam Sibley is a well respected man in the local youth football scene in Cornwall. He started playing at an early age and fell in love with the game. After initially qualifying as a referee aged 12, Adam qualified as a... Read more |
Becoming a 'Soccer Star' Introducing our blogger: Darren Shaw started his football development with Chelsea BC, captained his school team Eastbank Academy for five years as well as representing Glasgow Schools Select at senior level. Spells with St Johnstone and Hamilton Accies came about before 20... Read more |
Scotland Vs The Rest of the World Introducing our blogger: Mark Christie is a grass roots coach with a difference. USA B Licence and SFA Level 4 qualified, he splits his time between personal football training, coaching teams, club development and coach education, working for his organisation Euro So... Read more |
The man in the middle Introducing our blogger: Despite being in his mid-twenties, our mystery ref has been there and done that when it comes to grass roots football. Amateurs, SYFA, pro youth, girls and women's football are all on the CV, in addition to lineman duty ... Read more |
Stepping into a Junior club Introducing our blogger: Ryan Gibson has worked his way through the development side of football at the 1994 age group as a striker. He has played with Tynecastle, Edinburgh City, Dalkeith CYP and Fernieside, scoring a number of goals and firing hi... Read more |
Kenny Arthur - A goalkeeper's blog Introducing our blogger: Kenneth James "Kenny" Arthur (born 7 December 1978) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper. He plays for Grimsby Town. Arthur came through the youth ranks with Partick Thistle in 1996. During Partick Thistle's recent ... Read more |
Experimenting with grass roots football Introducing our blogger: For the last 18 months Ewan has been the Sport and Exercise Scientist for women’s and girls’ football club Forfar Farmington and work primarily with the Scottish Women’s Premier League. He is there to control fitness training and ... Read more |
Making it over the pond Introducing our blogger: Gary McColl has spent the past three seasons playing on a soccer scholarship in the United States. He is about to graduate from university with a degree in Exercise Science and has ambitions of coaching professionally. Gary spent ... Read more |
Here come the girls Introducing our blogger: Steve Cuthbert was an ordinary Ayrshire football parent, then before he knew it he was a coaching assistant and soon after manager of Kilwinning Girls Under 11s. He coached Kilwinning for four years, becoming Scottish cup winners at Un... Read more |
Magic sponge no more Introducing our blogger: First Call! Medical Training are a leading if not THE leading First Aid Training Company in Scotland. Training & Events director, Craig McDermott has spent 20 years with the last Scottish Ambulance Service. Prior to that he gained ... Read more |