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Training at New Venue |
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Orpington Rovers had
their first taste of the London FA’s Charter Standard In-service
training for coaches from Charter Standard Clubs on Tuesday 11
November as 40+ coaches descended on sand based Astroturf to watch
Geoff Pike and Richard Horner take sessions for two teams at The
Priory Leisure Centre. |
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The under 11’s were led by
Richard Horner London Regional Coach Development for 5 - 11 year
olds, while Geoff Pike London Regional Coach Development for 12 -
16 year olds took Orpington Rovers under 14’s. The session
was well attended by Charter Standard Coaches as there are many
Charter Standard clubs around Bromley / South East London which
made the venue accessible to coaches who saw the two sets of boys
put through drills based on a similar theme by the two FA coaches. |
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The session started at
7.30pm with introductions before the Charter Standard coaches were
led out onto the pitch where Geoff and Richard set up the playing
area alongside another club Orpington FC who were unable to finish
their session till 8.00pm and were playing a training match.
This actually played into the two FA Coaches hands as with reduced
space the training became more specialised, the boys from both age
groups were shown a white board and quickly managed to work out
what was needed to make the sessions work and then delivered it
themselves (with some guidance from Geoff and Richard). |
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Pleased with how the two
teams responded to the challenge Richard remarked – |
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“The
boys were the best behaved and most enthusiastic that we’ve had
in a long time. They picked up on the ideas we were putting
across to them very quickly and that made the session smoother.” |
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Geoff concurred |
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“The
boys were a credit to their team and their parents, we didn’t
have any problems and they proved that coaches are not the font of
all knowledge by taking the base ideas of the session and building
on them.” |
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At the end of the session
coaches were able to ask questions and provide feedback which will
be used to make Charter Standard In-service training even better
in the future, and give them access to more upcoming opportunities
such as coaching courses, seminars and age appropriate courses. |
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Thanks go out to Orpington
Rovers teams and coaches, all the coaches from Charter Standard
Clubs who attended, the Priory Leisure Centre staff (especially
Tom Clark) and Geoff Pike and Richard Horner. |
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