Issue 15 - September 2011 News from League Football Education Touchline Inside: Transfer Watch | Pre-season Tours Big moves for former Apprentices LFE is a partnership between The Football League and The Professional Footballers’ Association. WEB PERSON BLOG WEB TWITTER PERSON BLOG VIDEO WEB @LFEonline TWITTER Got a story? Want to share news with other WEB EMAIL www.lfe.org.uk PERSON VIDEO LFE partners? email: [email protected] You Said, We Did EMAILBLOG news blog.lfe.org.uk PERSON LFE would like to remind all Apprentices and Clubs that PHONE your feedback is valuable to us. BLOGPHONETWITTER We are committed to continuous improvement for the HOME benefit of Apprentices and Clubs and listening to the views TWITTERVIDEO HOME of Apprentices, Clubs and Education Providers is a critical Apprentice EMAIL part of this. OpportunitiesVIDEO Board Goal of THE You Said, We Did, which is available in the Apprentice LFE is continuing to provide currentEMAILPHONE and former Apprentices with MONTH/SeasoN of the Month Info section of our website, hosts a summary of results gathered in stakeholder feedback questionnaires. relevant and more importantly realistic opportunities via our Goal of the Month will continue to operate The Apprentice of the Month award will kick off later this PHONEHOME These results will be updated throughout the season Opportunities Board. throughout the 2011-12 season. All Clubs month for the 2011-12 season. and LFE would like to thank all that take the time Found in the Progression area of our website this one stop shop for should submit their nominations for August Working in tandem with LFE’s Regional Officers, Club’s will be asked to HOME to respond. Without this assistance it would be difficult ex Apprentices planning their next move hosts the very latest to LFE in the usual fashion. These should nominate their chosen players in the last week of each calendar month. to know how satisfied you are and know what needs be received by 7 September. opportunities in sport, education, employment and training. An LFE panel will then decide on the winner based on the merits of further improvement. Last season’s Goal of the Season winner was each individual’s progress on the ASE programme. It has been visited over 2000 times since its creation last year. Charlie Taylor (Leeds United). His fantastic The winner will be presented with a trophy and feature on www.lfe.org.uk/WEB strike against Newcastle Utd in April saw apprentice-info/you-said-we-did www.lfe.org.uk at the start of the following month (e.g. The winner off the challenge of five fellow Apprentice www.lfe.org.uk/progression/recruitmentWEB of September’s prize will receive their award at the start of October). PERSON players who were all respective Goal of the Month winners. PERSON BLOG To watch any of last season’s goals please visit www.lfe.org.uk/goal-of-the-month or BLOG TWITTER watch LFE TV on our homepage. The roll call of honour for the TWITTER 2010-11 season is as follows: VIDEO September EMAIL VIDEO Adam Thompson, Watford October PHONE EMAIL Dale Jennings, Tranmere Rovers November HOME PHONE Haydn Hollins, Notts County December HOME Mauro Vilhete, Barnet January WEB Connor Goldson, Shrewsbury Town February PERSON Gerald Mulholland, West Brom March BLOG Teddy Nesbitt, Southend Utd April TWITTER Curtis Nelson, Plymouth Argyle www.lfe.org.uk/VIDEO goal-of-the-month 3 2 EMAIL PHONE HOME WEB PERSON BLOG TWITTER VIDEO Development Fund Got a story? Want to share news with other EMAIL news LFE partners? email: [email protected] Safeguarding PHONE If any Apprentice feels at threat, or unsafe and wants to speak to someone HOME in confidence you should contact your club Designated Safeguarding Officer. Alternatively you can always call your LFE Wrexham’s youth-team have taken part in Regional Officer, their number can be an adrenalin fuelled white-water rafting day. found in the contacts section of Held at Llangollen Nr Clywd in North Wales, the LFE website. the outward bound trip was fully subsidised by WEB www.lfe.org.uk/contact/ League Football Education’s Development Fund regional-officers PERSON which is provided to help Clubs enhance their individual Apprenticeship programmes. Youth Alliance & BLOG TWITTER River Rafting for Academy League VIDEO EMAIL WEB PHONE PERSON HOME Round Up WEB BLOG ead of Youth, Andy Davies, noted: “It was Burnley started the season in confident In the South East, Southend Utd chalked up a 5-1 win at Eighteen players took part in team building H Adrenalina worthwhile Junkies day to take the lads out of theirPERSONTWITTER Wimbledon and they will be keen to close the gap on last Wrexham’sexercises before braving the rapids on the 2km fashion in the North West Conference. kind of examination to the ones that are year’s Champions QPR. course that is notoriously difficult to navigate. comfort zone and try something new. They kicked off the campaign with a 5-0 regularly faced on the pitch: BLOGVIDEO In the Academy League Group A Southampton will be Fully kitted out in safety gear and wetsuits the “At this time of year a lot of the new lads who win at Morecambe before edging an “I think for a few of the lads it was respite have joined us from school are still getting eager to start well after losing out to Fulham last season players had four runs down the steep and rocky from what is a tough time of year physically – EMAIL East Lancashire derby with Accrington mountain river which was a stark contrast to used to full-time training so a day like thisTWITTER is by a single point. Q. especially on the legs. the gruelling pre-season work they have been perfect for camaraderie and team bonding.” in Week 2. Leicester City will also be keen to make amends in PHONE carrying out at their Colliers Park training H “Players are a lot fitter these days when they VIDEO Meanwhile last season’s NW champions Rochdale have Group B after Aston Villa stopped their bid for a third title come back for pre-season but running is a “It was a really good experience and one 0870 458 9250 endured a mixed start. A 5-0 defeat at Carlisle after an in four years last time out. necessary evil if you want to be right come the EMAILHOME opening day draw will leave Chris Beech with plenty to that most of the lads were happy to throw In the North West Crewe Alexandra will once again go first day of the season. [email protected] work on at Spotland. themselves into literally,” said current second toe to toe with Premier League giants Man Utd, Man City, year Apprentice Stephen Tomassen who has “The rafting just broke up the work we’ve been PHONE In the North East Conference Hull City and Lincoln City Liverpool and Everton. already made his first-team debut. doing and gave us a different type of challenge both took maximum points from their opening two fixtures. that I think everyone responded to really well,” HOME In the eastern Group D, Nottingham Forest will be looking After appearing in the club’s first-team last he continued. Swindon Town will be hoping to retain their title in the to bridge the gap between themselves and last season’s April, Tomassen, who is keen to push on this South West but may face pressure from Yeovil Town group winners Sunderland while Sheffield Utd will also be term, admitted the day threw up a different after they made an extraordinary start to the season. eager to build on their FA Youth Cup exploits of last season. The Glovers hit Hereford for nine on the opening day. (Please note: At the time of going to print the Academy www.lfe.org.uk WEB fixtures had not commenced) 4 PERSON 5 Images courtesy of P.A. BLOG TWITTER VIDEO EMAIL PHONE HOME Pre-Season Tours FOOtball The two weeks gave us the chance to ADO Den Haag hosted us in week one so it work on things that might take two or was good for our players to get the chance three months to develop back in England, LeaGUE to work with their coaches and vice-versa. particularly the social and cultural aspects. We were able to learn about them and they You’re with your players for 24-hours a day learned about us. CLUBS GO over a fortnight so you can take much more out of it than just football. Nick Cox Richard Dobson DUTCH Watford, Academy Manager Wycombe Wanderers, Head of Youth LFE’S pre-season tour programme took Coaches at state-of the-art facilities. Their place again this year with Apprentices from schedule’s also included visits to the Arnhem Scunthorpe United, Walsall, Watford and War Memorial and day trips to Amsterdam, Wycombe Wanderers hosted by top Dutch Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht and Arnhem. The tour provided our youth team players with a unique opportunity to sample a sides Feyenoord, FC Utrecht, ADO Den Haag The 74 Apprentices were also keen and NEC Nijmegen respectively. different type of football and experience spectators at the Amsterdam Arena as they playing and training on mainland Europe. The two week tour provided plenty of watched FC Twente beat Ajax 2-1 in an opportunities for the players to sample entertaining Dutch Super Cup Final. The lads were under no illusions; it was a a different football culture, and to tough two weeks as we needed that to LFE Project Manager Dan Jolley said: build on our other pre-season work, but at broaden their horizons both personally “On a professional basis it’s a great and professionally.