Coaching Sessions Jan – Mar 2008
The club organised coaching sessions for young people and attracted over 20 people.
The club organised coaching sessions for young people and attracted over 20 people.
Further coaching sessions were held at West View LC, where over 20 young people took part.
After an absence the previous year, the club once again entered a team in the league.
The team is very much experiencing new opportunities.
To see how the team is doing, go to the league site and click on ‘find your league’ and then type in Preston city league.
http://full-time.thefa.com/
With support from the Football Foundation the regular coaching sessions were organised at three venues, West View Sports Centre, St. Augustine’s Sports Centre and Ashton High School.
The culmination was a central venue tournament at West View Sports Centre.
The Club continued the successful coaching sessions at West View leisure centre, with over 50 young people participating.
The club entered teams in tournaments which were organised to raise funds for disasters around the world.
The Club entered a team in the under 14’s Preston Junior league. Red Rose performed well in a high quality competition and finished sixth.
Following on from the success of the football coaching sessions at West View leisure centre. The Club entered the annual Callon football tournament, organized by Preston City Council sports development.
The Club were successful in winning the under 11 tournament.
After the tournament, the Club members participated in the presentation and community activities being organized.
The club repeated the coaching sessions at West View leisure centre, but this time the aim was to conduct them as trials and training sessions for an under 11s team to enter the first Preston City Council 9-a side mini soccer football league.
The trials attracted over twenty young people and from it a team was selected. Again, a coach was used from the PNE ‘football in the community’ scheme, as well as the clubs coaches.
The club entered the open Fishwick junior tournament. Three teams were entered, including a girls team, who narrowly missed making it to the final.
The boys teams had mixed fortunes and failed to progress beyond the Quarter-final stages.
