Children should enjoy playing football. Having fun and playing football with their friends should be their main motivation for playing. We want to provide a team environment where this can take place while also helping to shape and develop the children we coach as individuals as well as footballers.
To help children enjoy, improve and play the right way, the club asks the following of children:
• Listen to coaches and each other at training and at games
• Show respect to coaches, teammates, referees and the opposition
• Apply themselves and put in the effort needed to do the best that they can
• Do their best to meet team and individual challenges and to be successful within a game, but ensure this is within the rules of the game and that success does not mean behaving in an unsporting way
• Understand that mistakes are part of learning to play and that they should be learnt from, not worried about
• Understand that they are playing as part of a team where everyone is equally important
• Understand that they are part of a team where all players will receive equal game time wherever possible and play in a variety of positions while learning the game (at least during U5-U10). This may evolve as they grow older (U11-U18)
• Learn to be confident on the football, maintaining possession individually at first before doing so as part of a team. As they grow older, children play as part of a defensive and/or attacking unit on the pitch, contributing as part of a team rather than just individually
• Enjoy playing football with friends
To help children enjoy, improve and play the right way, the club asks the following of children:
• Listen to coaches and each other at training and at games
• Show respect to coaches, teammates, referees and the opposition
• Apply themselves and put in the effort needed to do the best that they can
• Do their best to meet team and individual challenges and to be successful within a game, but ensure this is within the rules of the game and that success does not mean behaving in an unsporting way
• Understand that mistakes are part of learning to play and that they should be learnt from, not worried about
• Understand that they are playing as part of a team where everyone is equally important
• Understand that they are part of a team where all players will receive equal game time wherever possible and play in a variety of positions while learning the game (at least during U5-U10). This may evolve as they grow older (U11-U18)
• Learn to be confident on the football, maintaining possession individually at first before doing so as part of a team. As they grow older, children play as part of a defensive and/or attacking unit on the pitch, contributing as part of a team rather than just individually
• Enjoy playing football with friends