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Penlake Summer Soccer Skills Camp 2009

Penlake would like to thank all the children who attended this year's Summer Soccer Skills Camp.

The camp was run over 3 days 10th, 11th and 12th August 2009 and
accommodated 24 children between the ages of 6 to 11 years.

Following the success of last years Soccer Skills camp, and Penlake's coach education programme,
the club has been able to continue it's long
term vision of providing the children of the local community with this kind of facility.

With qualified coaches Steve Smith and Paul Forester providing special coaching sessions
aimed at improving the children's skills and abilities and teaching them how to prepare for physical activity.

These session included a full warm up followed by shooting, passing,running with the ball
and goalkeeping skills amongst others.

All three days were packed with fun exercises and games designed to educate and provide enjoyment for budding footballers. Special "Skills" Sessions were a huge success with every child learning a number of different methods to get past a player,
using the same skills as their heroes on T.V.

There were also competitions including 6 aside champions' league, penalty shoot-outs and a fun Football-based quiz.

Every child who took part was given their own football to keep and take away to continue to practice the skills
and techniques they have learnt, and were also presented with a medal at the end of the 3 days.

We would like to make a special thank you to Rob Deakin who is the
Secretary for the St Helens & District Football Combination League,
who came to do the presentation on the Wednesday afternoon.

There were also individual awards for the Penalty Shoot-Out winners, Champions League Winning Team,
Individual "Star Players" for each day and also the special award for the
"Most Improved Player" over the 3 days.

Once again we would like to thank all the children for making the project extremely enjoyable and hugely successful.
We look forward to seeing you all showing your new skills out on the pitch and hopefully back at Beeches
next summer for our next Summer Soccer Skills Camp.

 

Pictures from the soccer School will be added in due course