NDSL Dublin Bus Academy Notice

Tuesday 07th June 2011

The Coaches Club held yet another very successful session up at the Oscar Traynor Development Centre on the 1^st June.  Neale Fenn of Just 4 Strikers ran a session focusing totally on good quality finishing.  Just 4Strikers is a specialist soccer training school.  Neale has set up the school to help address a fundamental void he has identified with the training that very young players nowadays are receiving.  Neale has seen it all in years as an amateur and the 15 years he played as a professional.  To have been playing around, and with such very recognisable names as Giggs, Cantona, Klinnsman, Duffer, Ginola, and many more, you couldn't but have a wealth of knowledge and experience to pass on to young eager to learn budding strikers.  The session was designed to build confidence, show players what it takes to be part of a team.  Sessions incorporate a huge element of fitness, and bucket loads of fun all football related.  From Neale's professional background he can highlight what's it's like to train like a pro.  Fun games and relevant Q and A after sessions also help nurture young talent.  If you would like more information:  contact Neale at ph/no. 0876371718 or by email at just4strikers@gmail.com.  You can log on to website at www.just4strikers.ie.

The upcoming eufa grassroots small sided games workshop that the NDSL will be hosting in the coming weeks has had to be changed to a later date.  As we have the Kennedy Cup coming up in the next few weeks, it has been decided to postpone the workshop for a week or two to maximise the participation from as many coaches and managers as we can attract to the event.  The workshop will highlight that it's not simply enough to look at the players and say we need to be giving them more touches of the ball.  Young players need to get a look at more specific types of training.  With the impending introduction of 5 aside, and non-competitive football into the NDSL next season, every aspect of football training has to be looked at worked on. 

The NDSL will publishing a blueprint for the method and policy that the clubs and the NDSL Academy will be following next season in relation to 5 aside and non-competitive.  In conjunction with this policy document the NDSL has asked the academy to run a series of monthly workshops, where a different club teams will be invited up each month to the OTDC to be trained by our new highly qualified coaching staff, and which all club mentors will be asked to attend. 

The new era in Irish schoolboy/girls football that will begin next September has received a kind of indorsement from none other than the legendary UTD manager Sir Alex himself.  In an interview to some of the papers after the Champians League Final, Sir Alex highlighted the need to improve the next generation of young player's technical abilities from a younger age.  All the big guns of the modern game have been playing under the 5 aside non-competitive formats, and the proof that it works is there for all to see.  Can anyone say that Messi, Inesta, Xavi, and many more of the young Spainish and German players we watch and adore are not winners, and not now competitive.  They most certainly are, but with one huge fundamental difference.  These same players know how to play the beautiful game, and every team in the world would love to have any of them on their team.  Far fewer Irish players are plying their trade in the upper reaches of the Premier League in England, as compared to years gone by.  It's time we all took a huge step back and looked at who is the people that need to be getting the most out of the game.  Wouldn't we all like to be that coach who finds the next Messi, and not the coach who turns him away because we only want the players that can help us win that next big game?  The responsibility for insuring that future young players get the necessary top quality training and game related experience falls squarely on the shoulders of the young and old managers and coaches that are in charge of coaching the game right now.  Everyone says that it's the players and the parents who are the competitive ones who drive the game in the direction it is currently going.  What would happen if those same players and parents see that a manager or coach is fully focused on mainly developing the young player into our next great young footballer? 

To finish I would like to take this opportunity to say well-done to the fantastic group of young girls who took part in the Gaynor Cup in Galway last weekend.  They proudly represented the NDSL so well, and we look forward to seeing them play NDSL club football again next season  

Yours in Sport

John Farrell

Academy Director

NDSL               

NDSL Dublin Bus Academy Notice

Tuesday 31st May 2011

The next session of the Coaches Club:

To be run on Wed 1st June.  Reg time 6.30pm, session starts 7pm sharp, and finish no later than 9.30pm.

Topic for the evening is:     ATTACKING   and   FINISHING

Tutor/Coach:                     NEIL FENN   of   JUST 4 STRIKERS

Neil has a vast amount of experience of what it takes to be a highly effective striker, having played that position in not just League of Ireland, but also English Premier League and English International football also.  Neil has set up JUST 4 STRIKERS finishing school, after retiring from the professional game at the end of last season, to help give something back to the game.

Breakdown of the session on the night.

Warm up will be based around all aspects of Finishing.  Next will be a selection of sessions looking at Functional practice sessions on Finishing.  All this work will then be brought into Small sided and 11v11 games incorporating attacking and finishing, and how to implement them, and also how to defend against them.

Additional work will look at runs with, and without the ball.  Support play from all areas of the pitch, and will finish with a look at set pieces and their effect on the game.

The session is free to all Coaches Club members, non-members there will be a charge of €5 each with a club special offer of 5 coaches for the price of 4 @ €20.

This session is fantastic value and should not be missed.  See the session in real life, and then take a hard copy home to practice on your own players.

For further information contact the NDSL academy staff John Farrell @ 0866860415, or Mitch Whitty @ 0879513624 or the offices of NDSL @ 01 8488802.

Check out NDSL.ie home page for more details on the Coaches Club. 

 This week see's the ladies of North Dublin go down to Galway to take on the best young talent in Irish ladies football in the Gaynor Cup. On behalf of the NDSL Academy I'd like to take this opportunity to wish John Morgan, his coaching staff, and all the girls all the very best.

Carl Carpenter and his coaching staff are going through the final stages of preparation before travelling down to Limerick to take part in the Kennedy Cup. 

Last Thursday the NDSL sent a delegation up to Belfast to be present at the draw for this year's Northern Ireland Milk Cup.  The NDSL will be represented in the u14's section, and will play in a group consisting of the Israel team Hpoel Haifa, English team Swindon FC, and Northern Ireland county team Derry.  Anthony Bailey and his coaching staff are busy putting his provisional squad of 24 through their paces.  To help with the selection of the squad of 18 that will travel north, a number of games and training sessions are planned over the next month and a half at the OTDC, despite most of these lads sitting their junior cert in early June. 

The FAI under the direction of Jimmy Mowlds one of our FAI Regional Development Officers will be running 2 FAI Summer Soccer Camps at the Oscar Trainer Development Centre.  Details for the camps are available by contacting the FAI or through contacting Jimmy Mowlds.

Ger Coughlan the North Leinster Coerver Coaching representative will also be running a number of pilot youth summer camps focusing on Coerver Coaching for all young players ranging from u5's upwards.  More information will be available on the NDSL.ie website or by contacting Ger directly at ph/no. 0862050949 or email gerry_coughlan@yahoo.ie.

The NDSL will host a FREE Underage coaching workshop/seminar on the second week of June at the OTDC. This workshop/seminar will showcase the methods and strategies we think will help our clubs in their rolls of implementing this new revolutionary underage 5 aside, non-competitive football philosophy that the clubs voted in at the NDSL AGM.  All aspects from training methods to game plans and ideas will feature on the seminar.  The seminar will look at common practices throughout Europe where this concept has been fully integrated into underage football.  From the lowest skill levels to the elite club and academy skill levels, we will be looked at some of the best training styles and game situations used.  We will be highlighting the benefits of the relaxed, very calm, no pressure from coaches, no pressure from parents learning environment that will be generated around this new concept in Irish schoolboy/girls football.  It will show you how young players can still play competitively and still have a winning mentality, but not have that win at all costs attitude, to the detriment of learning how to play the game.  Players will learn the technical needs of how to play football under less stressful environment.

The NDSL will also host the very first Coerver Coaching diploma course at the OTDC.  The date has yet to be fixed but it will most likely be late August or early September.  Look out for further details on the NDSL.ie website.  Places on all summer camps and upcoming coaching courses held at the Oscar Traynor Development Centre will be limited, and come on first come first served bases.  There has already been a large uptake in many of the places so far.  Get in early to be sure of your place.

Yours in Sport

John Farrell

Academy Director

NDSL