Week Four, Manchester City

This week we played against Manchester City on Pitch 3 on a pleasantly sunny autumn day.

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We split our squad:

Team 1	Team 2
Felix(c)	Jessica(c)
Nicholas	Natasha
Caleb	Kees
Zachary	Raphael
Zaqiy	Daniel

I didn't get to see Team 1 play but they had a hard close game, with Felix and Nicholas finding the back of the net. Team 2 put together some great combinations with Jessica and Natasha making some long drives down field and some very determined work on defence by our Player of the Day, Kees.

We've had some good improvement on our juggling.

We still need to work on our nice high flat knees.

Don't forget to check the example video from our Practice Session.

At the practice we had during the break we introduced headers, so we will be including headers in the juggling test for next week. Check out this guy:

Week Three, April 16 2011, Leeds

This week we played against Leeds in the pouring rain!  Check out all our drowned rats in the photo montage.

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Leeds had a lot of players away sick and could only field 5 players this week, so we split our squad:

Team 1	Team 2
Natasha(c)	Zaqiy(c)
Jessica	Zachary
William	Mackay
Felix	Caleb
Kees	Raphael

Team 1 played Leeds first while Team 2 played some 3v3 with Billy on the other pitch.  The teams swapped at half time so everyone got a turn playing against Leeds.

We saw some great running football from everyone - obviously nobody wanted to stand still in the rain! - with some great passing and goal scoring from Natasha and Jessica in the 3v3 game, and a Player of the Day worthy hat-trick from Felix in the first half.

We had our first "juggling skills" test with some great knee juggling from everyone - Zaqiy and Raphael are leading the way in this clip with some very good ball control and nice high flat knees! Keep it up, everyone, we'll be building our juggling repertoire during the season and keeping an eye on everyone's progress.

Practice Session Tuesday 12 April

We had a great practice session tonight with some passing and shooting drills and a quick 4v4 game.

This week's homework was knee juggling.  Check out this clip:

Remember to get those knees up nice and flat.  There will be a quick test for everyone after this weekend's game!

Week Two, April 9 2011, Blackburn

This week we had another glorious sunny morning to play Blackburn on Pitch 1. This also put us on BBQ duty although the Grade 6 team who were on before us had cunningly neglected to start the BBQ (they said it was broken!) so we only had to focus on drinks. So a big thankyou to the parents who helped staff the drinks counter.

This week we split the squad:

Pitch 1a	Pitch 1b
Kees (c)	Raphael (c)
Nicholas	Jessica
William	Natasha
Zachary	Caleb
Zaqiy	Felix
	Mackay

Blackburn were able to get a few goals ahead of us on each pitch but we saw some spirited defence from everyone, and Caleb was able to find the back of the net in the second half on Pitch 1b to keep Blackburn from running away with it completely.

Player of the Day went to Natasha, for some great pushes through and some outstanding throw-ins that found her team-mates and always put them in a good position down field.

Click to play our Week 2 slideshow on PhotoPeach!



Have a great weekend and we'll see everyone who can make it at practice on Tuesday night!

Week One, April 2 2011, Manchester United

Welcome to the first game of 2011! Up against Manchester United on Pitch 2.
Sorry I wasn't there so not as much detail with this update, but I had reports of some great football all around, including an excellent first game from our first Player of the Day for the season: Raphael.

Huge thanks to Aaron and family and Vickie for looking after the squad while I was away - and everyone else for helping it to run smoothly on the day.

Thanks to Genie Clementir and Tabrez Ali for the photos for Week 1.

Click to play our Week 1 slideshow!
Week 1 on PhotoPeach



Looking forward to the rest of the season!