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As State of the Game comes to a close, what do YOU think of youth development in this country?
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Comments (42)
Andrew Deakin says...
A little bit of money to parks to keep up the football posts in off periods will surely help. There are 3 "football areas" in a 3 mile radius of where i live. This has now been reduced to one set of goal posts for the entire summer. This means that a sunday league coach who coaches 5-9 year olds, som eof whom were quite good, has to stop cause he has nowhere to train them now. In england there are no facilities and not enough youth clubs around to make it work. The region i lived in last year in france had 4 youth training teams in within 5 miles of where i lived. Kids from anywhere can apply to play, they all have coaches and fantasic facilities. Most are better than i have seen anywhere in england, and these were apparently getting upgraded this year to make them a better standard.
Posted 12:16 12th May 2008
Barry Hood says...
I am the youth deveopment co-ordinator at Pickering Town CFC. We received funding from the Football Foundation to coaching in primary schools. The funding is in its final stage and with no more payments forthcoming our schools coach will be unemployed so after July we cannot sustain the coaching therefore links with the schools will stop. During the 3 years of funding 4 boys have progressed to York City so it shows that the funding has worked, sustainability is the key word. Without it the funding only papers over the cracks.
Posted 11:16 12th May 2008