Issue 18 - September 2012 News from League Football Education Touchline Inside: Pre-Season Tour | Summer Transfers New Season New Structure LFE was established by The Football League and the Professional Footballers Association WEB PERSON BLOG TWITTER @LFEonline WEB NEWS WEBVIDEO www.lfe.org.uk PERSON EMAIL PERSON news blog.lfe.org.uk BLOG PHONE BLOG TWITTER HOME TWITTER VIDEO FACEBOOK Apprentice of the Month VIDEOEMAIL EMAIL Goal of the PHONE After a break over the summer PHONE LFE’s Apprentice of the Month HOME HOME is back later this month. FACEBOOK Last season the likes of FACEBOOK Month 2012-13 Johnny Williams (Crystal Palace), Lucas Lidakevicius (Barnsley) and Fabian Spiess (Notts County) were among those named as ‘Apprentice Fantasy of the Month’. Each month our Regional Fabian Spiess Officers and Clubs will work Notts County in tandem to nominate Football their chosen players. An LFE panel will then judge the It’s back and it promises to be bigger winner based on how each Competition than ever before - LFE’s goal of the individual is progressing on Archie Love month. With over 1200 Apprentice his apprenticeship. Burnley players keen to emulate, Sheffield Once that has been Returns Wednesday’s Jarrod Kyle who was decided the winner will be crowned Goal of the Season winner announced via our website LFE’s Fantasy Football competition is back for the 2012-13 and a presentation will be season. Designed as a resource to help Apprentices complete in May. arranged at the player’s their Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Achieving Excellence in Sports His 25-yard thunderbolt against local rivals Sheffield respective club. Performance, players manage a budget of £10m to select their United on 7 April beat off the competition last term Sean Murray best XI from the Championship. with his winning strike watched by over 50,000 Watford So if you’re an Apprentice join in and go head-to-head with people. The 2011-12 Roll of Honour your team-mates and club and college staff in LFE’s private The competitionWEB will operate throughout the season September January league. And come May if you’re the top ranked Apprentice with clubs asked to submit their nominations to LFE in Johnny Williams – Crystal Palace Sean Murray – Watford you can expect to receive £250, while second and third the usual fashion.PERSON placed Apprentices can expect to pick up cheques of £150 & October February £100 respectively. Watch any of BLOGlast season’s goals: Billy Daniels – Coventry City Lucas Lidakevicius – Barnsley All requests to join the league will be verified by LFE’s Michael WEB www.lfe.org.uk/goal-of-the-monthTWITTER November March Cooke and if you haven’t already joined you can still do so by Archie Love – Burnley Ryan Hopper – Accrington Stanley using code 1809 on the website: www.youtube.com/LFEOnlineTVPERSONVIDEO December April WEB Luke James – Hartlepool United Fabian Spiess – Notts County www.fantasy.football-league.co.uk BLOGEMAIL (Please note this code differs to the onePERSON contained within the NVQ PHONE Logbook. The Logbook provides further guidance for Apprentices.) TWITTER 3 2 BLOG HOME VIDEO TWITTER EMAILFACEBOOK VIDEO PHONE EMAIL HOME PHONE FACEBOOK HOME FACEBOOK WEB PERSON BLOG TWITTER news VIDEO Got a story? Want to share news with other LFE partners?EMAIL email: [email protected] The Performance Analysis in Sport course accredited by Northumbria University is available PHONE again to Club Staff, Coaches and current and former Delivered remotely via nine online sessions, the Level 4, 20 credit Apprentice players. programme, is flexible enough to fit around existing working Last season 25 individuals passed the online work-based learning module commitments while providing studentsHOME with evidence for future which focuses on the skills, knowledge and understanding that are professional development portfolios. NEWS needed to develop professional practices and personal development. Designed to take approximately 12 weeks this course is available from Youth Alliance September onwards. FACEBOOK For more information or to apply for this course please visit: www.lfe.org.uk/videoanalysis & Premier Performance U18 Leagues Analysis in Sport The introduction of the Elite Player Performance Plan (EPPP) has seen a move away from the two tier system of last season into four distinct categories. As a result nine U18 leagues and five U21 leagues have been created as English football goes through its biggest overhaul at youth level since the Charter for Quality. This season LFE’s website will be at the forefront of it all, bringing you all the fixtures, Image courtesy of PA all results, top scorer tables and league tables. The Football League Youth Alliance divisions remain split across four geographical regions, while Category 1 and 2 Clubs have been split into two U18 competitions. Twenty-two Category One clubs will play across three national groups while Category Two clubs compete in North and South leagues. At the time of going to writing seven clubs remain unbeaten in the Youth Alliance. Carlisle Utd, Bury, Walsall, Wrexham, Doncaster Rovers, York City, and Watford have all yet to taste defeat after solid starts to the new campaign. Unsurprisingly, Eric Kinder’s men sit top of the North West Division with four wins and a draw from their opening five fixtures. Hot on their heels though are fellow unbeaten clubs Bury, Walsall and Wrexham, while Shaun Garnett’s Tranmere side prop up the table without a win. In the North East, Doncaster lead the way, with York and Hull City closely following Paul Wilson’s side. Plymouth Argyle top the table in the South West, with Bristol Rovers in second only on goal difference. Swindon Town and Oxford Utd are a further point back. In the South East the top six is separated by just three points with leaders Leyton Orient keen to stay at the summit of a chasing pack that includes, Dagenham & Redbridge, Southend Utd, Watford, Portsmouth and Peterborough Utd. In the Premier U18 Leagues, Oliver Muldoon’s goals have helped to propel Charlton Athletic to the summit of 4 PL2 South while Nottingham Forest, Leicester City and Leeds Utd are split only by goal difference in PL2 North. Bolton started life their PL1 U18 group in spectacular fashion. Top of the table Wanderers fired five past Arsenal on the opening day. Elsewhere, Southampton top their group with a one-hundred per cent record, while in (All information correct at time of writing.) London Chelsea and Fulham have both started the season in prolific form. Chelsea opened up with a 6 – 1 victory over Man City only for their West London neighbours Fulham to eclipse that score-line a week later in a 7 – 1 win over Wolves. 5 RY E URG S ART ART E At the Heart H of the Matter For many He had returned to Youth Alliance football just The consultant said he could sort it out and my three months after having open heart surgery. fitness could well improve as a result. of LFE’s Back in April, Sellens, along with other Sellens underwent the four hour procedure at Apprentices prospective Gills Apprentices, contracted youth St Thomas’s Hospital in South London just a month after first being seen and it was time Saturday 25 players and first teamers attended a free heart Image courtesy of PA screening day at Priestfield Stadium, organised so was able to sit his GCSE English and Maths August was by the charity Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY). exams and recover enough to take some part in nothing It is a charity close to heart – literally and pre-season training. out of the figuratively – for the people of Medway. Five “All the previous operations the Consultant had years ago, Rochester schoolboy Jack Maddams done had been 100% fine so I felt okay about At the start of each season every new ordinary. died in his sleep, aged 17, and his family have it. I’ve had this defect since birth so I’ve known Apprentice player that joins a Premier League since raised more than £17,000 to help CRY no difference in how I’ve felt. I was obviously For most or Football League club will undertake a pay for young people to be tested for heart fit enough to play football! But the gap the Cardiovascular screening programme. This is it was just problems. blood was flowing through was so small that it jointly funded by The Football Association and putting extra stress on my lungs. They could’ve another “The screening showed a slight abnormality The Professional Footballers Association. with the rhythm and they checked what was collapsed when I was playing or last me until I match- And each year a small percentage of wrong,” Sellens explained to Touchline. was 60-years-old but why take a chance.” those tested will require some form of day in a At the first CRY screening day last year, “They could see a blockage but they weren’t corrective surgery. long and sure what it was called because it’s really rare. Gillingham’s youth team were screened and two Derby County’s Irish centre-back Mark O’Brien They thought it would probably require an of them, including manager Andy Hessenthaler’s arduous is one of the most well known players to have operation though. We saw a consultant within son Jake, had heart problems. Both were then undergone heart surgery in recent years. season a couple of days and he confirmed seen by specialists before being given the all The Rams defender going under the knife but for that prognosis.” clear and allowed to continue to play, Jake earning a one year contract at the Gills.