Majura FC has been doing a lot of thinking and planning about how to improve Football opportunities for young players and make it all a bit more "family friendly".
Then they took some direct action!
The objective - to extend the season beyond the short playing season, keep our children engaged in the sport and give them a real opportunity to develop. Well they've done it. It's going "gangbusters".
Right now, they have Coerver Coaching (easily the best individual technical coaching solution around the world) running technical development for the young players and they are getting 85 of their kids down to ANU on Thursday 5.30 - 6.30pm. How good is that? And all done by themselves.
Here is an brief outline of the program Majura FC Board has agreed to put in place for next year:
Nine months football for those who want - plus kids can always head to Coerver and HPP.
1. Coerver 6 week pre-season program at reduced/sponsored rate - starts March 1
2. Goalkeeping clinic with Paul Jones - reduced sponsored rate
3. Pre-season Mother and daughter intro clinic $25 a head
4. In-season one night per week Coerver clinic reduced/sponsored rate - on top of normal training
5. All Coaching Courses free - a first for Majura
6. Summer Sixes next season including paid administrator - and Development program. 6's will run Tuesday, Dev Thurs. and a discount thru sponsor and if you sign up for both. All Coaches and Assistants will be paid, must be licenced and take direction from our TD.
Top effort Majura FC. You need a football club on the inner Northside, take your child to Majura FC next season, matter of fact ring up Majura FC now. Why would you do anything else?
1. Coerver 6 week pre-season program at reduced/sponsored rate - starts March 1
2. Goalkeeping clinic with Paul Jones - reduced sponsored rate
3. Pre-season Mother and daughter intro clinic $25 a head
4. In-season one night per week Coerver clinic reduced/sponsored rate - on top of normal training
5. All Coaching Courses free - a first for Majura
6. Summer Sixes next season including paid administrator - and Development program. 6's will run Tuesday, Dev Thurs. and a discount thru sponsor and if you sign up for both. All Coaches and Assistants will be paid, must be licenced and take direction from our TD.
Well done Majura. It looks like a great program and a model others could follow. Looks like Majura is moving in the right direction.
ReplyDeletePeter you might like to note that there is another club on the Northside also doing similar things - Gungahlin United - summer sixes on Tuesdays for 16s and up (to go down the junior age groups next year), Monday night development program from ages 5-17 that started 2 weeks ago with nearly 150 kids enrolled, Coerver in-season programs that have run for a few years now, and next year a revamped girls development program to co-incide with a greater presence in senior football, not to mention the Canb City-Gungahlin P16 and P18 trials/development that began this week. So looks like at least 2 clubs on the Northside are going forwards.
Glad to hear about Gungahlin's off season program. Another strong Junior football club. The collaboration with Canberra City seemed to work well in the Premier League. Just one questions - why didn;t Canberra City put a team in the Summer 20's. I expect that one day Gungahlin will be a Premier League Club in its own righ5t. How about putting in a Women's Pl club bid to Capital Football?
ReplyDeletePeter - good questions - don't know about the U20s comp but if you have a look at the GUFC website you'll see that they are in the process of applying for a Womens Premier League License and started trials for all three teams last week and that goes for the next several weeks (all the details are on the site).
ReplyDeleteThat's sensational news about GUFC and the Women's PL. I'll follow it up on the NPL program. Now let's see if Monaro FC can gets its act together in the Women's PL.
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