2003-2013 10Th ANNIVERSARY SEASON FIRST TOUCH SQUADS
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Who Are First Touch ? 2003-2013 10th ANNIVERSARY SEASON FIRST TOUCH SQUADS Ex Pollok & Scotland international Davy Jamieson turns on the style Formed in 2003 by local coaches John McClurg, Des McCole and Billy Clark First Touch is a voluntary organisation which is self funded, and has grown from 30 players and 5 coaches to more than 65 youngsters, and around 15 coaches. We focus on the delivery of age appropriate skills based coaching to children between the ages of 6 and 12. Whilst maintaining this focus, we have now joined the Paisley Johnstone and District leagues for under 9’s, 10’s and 11’s.( www.pjdyfl.com ) Our priority, however, is to prioritise the continued development of the player rather than being results driven. Our main source of recruiting players has, to date, been through scouting from the local annual Gourock YAC Sevens Tournament which runs from April to September and the Saturday morning football sessions offered by Inverclyde Leisure. Our coaching takes place twice a week at the Battery Park, Greenock. Our pool of coaching talent combines youth and experience together with current and former players, including many with experience playing at amateur, junior and senior levels. The Club are delighted to announce that they received the SFA Quality Mark Development Level Award in December 2012. This award is the highest level available to the Club and represents a fitting start to our 10th Anniversary Year. Off the park we pride ourselves on having a highly effective and up to date governance First Touch Group4-under 9’s infrastructure which covers recruitment of new coaches, child protection policies and codes of conduct for coaches Back l-rRoss peacock, Mark McLeod, Craig Anderson, Veronica Nelis(Tontine Hotel), Ben parents and players. Since our formation, we are proud to have been able to Barrs, Niall Robertson, Kian Weir. Front l-r Lewis Whitelaw, Adam Boag, Matthew Garrity, maximise our players’ talents to a level where they have moved on to playing Robbie Carlin, Lee Wilson, Steven Aitchison. with local boys clubs and senior pro-youth clubs, including Rangers, Celtic, Aberdeen, Kilmarnock, Motherwell and Greenock Morton We also continue to send players for trials or additional coaching to some of these clubs. Almost a year ago former FT player Robbie Crawford made his debut in the Glasgow Rangers first team when he played against Northern Irish opposition Linfield.This month against the same opposition at Ibrox Stadium, it was the turn of 16 year old full back Ryan Sinnamon who came off the bench with 25 mins to go and make his first team debut. Ryan found time to drop down to our Robbie and Ryan two former First coaching on the following Thursday evening and chat with some of our young Touch players share the stage at players and coaches answering questions about his debut and many other Ibrox topics. PRIZE WORDSEARCH Show your completed programme to any FT Coach to have your name entered into the Prize Draw. BALLS STRIKER GOALS OFFSIDE REFEREE GROUNDHOPPER PENALTY SUPPORTER KEEPER Former First Touch player Robbie Crawford visits our 2003’s FOOTBALL Have Potential FIRST TOUCH FOOTBALL COACHING First Touch Coaching is always interested in players showing potential at our entry age 12th FOOTBALL FESTIVAL Group 3 Under 10’s of 6-7 years old. If you would like to discuss Back l-r Dunky McEachran, John Hampsey, Des McColl, Ross Knight, Mick Harrington this matter, please contact: CAPPIELOW PARK GREENOCK Middle I-r Max McShane, Jake Rae, Dillon Wilson, Paul Leslie, Lewis McGarrigle, Andrew [email protected] McEwan. Front I-r Joe Greene, Kai Gillespie, Lewis McEwan, Katie Check Out Our Website SUNDAY 21st APRIL 2013 Darroch, Jake Bannister, Conor Black. http://firsttouchfootballcoaching.com PROGRAMME £1.00.