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DBS Checks, First Aid and Safeguarding
DBS Checks, First Aid and Safeguarding are essential and paramount to all grassroots clubs and coaches to ensure compliance with FA guidelines and policies.
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DBS Checks, First Aid and Safeguarding are essential and paramount to all grassroots clubs and coaches to ensure compliance with FA guidelines and policies.
What is a Football Academy? If you regularly attend junior grassroots football matches, you’ll often hear phrases like “he’s an academy player” or ‘“he used to be at an academy’” or “he should be playing at an academy”’ or “he was released from an academy”. But in case you are
This weekend will see tens of thousands of kids across the country playing grassroots football. Before parents start barking from the touchline, one grassroots football coach, who has asked to remain anonymous, offers some advice to parents bearing in mind the FA Respect code of conduct…
One of the first things to consider as a junior grassroots football coach is your team philosophy. It’s worth having a clear idea what it is you want the children you’re coaching, their parents and the coaches.
In a nutshell, football scouts attend grassroots football matches in order to look for the most talented players, who can fit into pro academy teams.
How To Become A Football Coach – Our guide shows you how to gain your football coaching qualification such as FA Level 1, Level 2 and more
The Football Association (FA) has announced a controversial new law banning tackling in all youth football matches up to the Under-13 age group.
In celebration of Mother’s Day, we thought it only fitting to highlight what makes football Mums so special and why we should thank them, for all that they do!
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🎯 Top 5 Tips for New Grassroots Coaches (from someone who’s aged 10 years in 2 seasons) ⚽😅
1. Be ready to answer 47 questions before you’ve zipped your coat up.
“Are we home or away?” “Do we have bibs?” “Can my child go in goal even though they cried last time?” Welcome to your new full-time admin job.
2. Forget tactics – you’re really managing snacks, moods, and lost shin pads.
You can spend 2 hours prepping a pressing drill, or you can spend 2 hours explaining why Timmy can’t wear his Spider-Man socks instead of kit.
3. Parents will say, “It’s all about fun,” right before demanding to know why you didn’t play 4-3-3.
Fun is great… unless their kid was subbed for 8 minutes. Then it’s “What’s your long-term development pathway plan?”
4. Always pretend you know what you’re doing.
Stare thoughtfully at the pitch, cross your arms, nod occasionally. Bonus points if you shout “press!” at random intervals.
5. You will never leave the pitch clean, dry, or mentally unscathed.
Rain, mud, emotional trauma — it’s all part of the badge.
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