Hello all,
After a good 3 months of plyer development we've seen some massive improvements in technique and I'm very proud to say in attitude as well.
Our Technical Theme for last term was 'Fast Break Attack' in which we concentrated on speed, running with the ball, 1 v 1 feints, the 'killer' pass and one-touch finishing. Our Personal Theme was 'Respect'. To us, using football as a vehicle to develop young people's personality is a massive part of the work we do. It is made all the more difficult by famous players such as Ashley Cole and Gattuso showing no respect for referee's or opposition coach's! However, we start and end every session with hand shakes and jump on any opportunity we see during our session to highlight issues with respect. Some examples we eradicated were a little bit of bad language(!), calling each other names, mocking each others abilities and personal attributes such as accents as well as being able to step into interactions between players and their parents where disrespect was shown.
All our staff have taken a huge amount of self-satisfaction from the development we've seen, parent and player feedback and the very high levels of player retention for the upcoming term.
We're now heading into summer and for those of you who've never experienced the heat in the UAE during these months, let me just tell you now....it's HOT! As such we've been battling to secure indoor venues to protect our players, parents and coaches. Both Regents International School in The Greens, Dubai and Al Ain Men's College have great indoor facilities for us to run our summer themes.
Our Technical Theme is 'Creating and Exploiting Space' and our Personal Theme is 'Teamwork'. We're start these sessions on Sunday 24th April 2011 in Al Ain and Monday 25th April in Dubai. We have a few places left in each age group and as always are offering free taster sessions for players and parents to experience the Coerver method and to see what really does make us different.
If you or anyone else would like to take up this open invitation logo on to www.coerveruae.com and sign up for our academy programme.
Until then....Dream, Believe, Achieve
