This
is the weekly update page for the Under 6 squad (School
Year 1 boys and girls)
Many
of the boys and girls who are in this squad came from
the Club’s “Gimme 5s” Program (details
on this Web site here)
The
squad meets two times a week. Saturday mornings at Crossford
Bridge Sports Ground from 10.30am through to 12 noon.
Then Monday evenings at Ashton-on-Mersey High School Sports
Hall, 6 until 7pm
For
more information, contact the club by email here - U6's
Manager
There is an emphasis
on technique, installing good habits early and encouraging
use of both feet. All sessions are planned by a UEFA ‘B’
Level 3 Licensed Coach and generally there is a coach
to player ratio of 1 to 6. Only FA qualified coaching
staff are used. In fact, every Sale United junior squad
is led by FA qualified staff at either Level 1, 2 or 3.
With the Under sixes,
over the season we will also be concentrating on friendly
games of only 4 or 5-a-side to give these new ‘players’
the opportunity to have time on the ball, giving them
confidence and an introduction to team play. This will
prepare them for future years when, in full support of
the FA strategy, the number of players in their team will
increase in stages. They will not compete in 11-a-side
teams until they move to High School.
Saturday
9th December
Training was not possible at Crossford Bridge today because
the pitches were too wet. Some of our squad took part
in the U7s Friendly Tournament at the JJB Soccer Dome.
We had three very tough games against opposition who were
older, bigger and stronger than us. We are making some
mistakes in defence which is costing us some goals. This
is something we can work on to improve. But there were
some excellent goalkeeping performances from Nathan, Jack
and Lewis. Also, two great goals were scored for us, one
by Morgan and one by Jack after some good work by Oliver
to force the chance. We were told that we can be proud
of the way we played.
Saturday
2nd December
We learnt about the importance of finding
space when our team has the ball, and then getting close
to an opponent when their team has the ball.
We were told that there will be shooting practice soon,
because in the games at the end shots were going wide
of the goal.
Sunday
26th November
A very busy weekend saw some of our players taking part
in the Under 7s competition at the JJB, and all our players
involved in an early morning football festival at Ladybarn
school, Cheadle on Sunday morning.
On Saturday seven of our players represented Sale United
as the U7 Demons and after two games lost to narrow margins
we secured our first win at 2 - 0. We musn't forget that
the Demons are all a year younger than players in the
opposition teams. Roll on next year when we really are
Under 7s.
The rest of us trained with Sarah, Gareth, Jordan and
Stewart at Crossford Bridge where a lot work was done
on shooting, which probably helped us hit the back of
the net so many times on Sunday.
On Sunday we had four squads playing against Ladybarn.
The Aztecs won both of their games, the first one a narrow
1 - 0 win, but the second was won 5 - 0. The Beavers won
one, lost one, the Chiefs drew both their games 1 - 1
and the Demons also won one and lost one. Because Ladybarn
had five teams we mixed up some of our players who got
a further two wins. So all in all we played 10 games,
won 6, drew 2 and lost 2. We scored 28 goals conceeding
10. This was another great day for our development. A
big thank you goes to the Ladybarn management team for
allowing us to use their fabulous pitches and for organising
such a good event.
Club Head Coach Stewart Heywood came to watch us on Sunday
and was very pleased to see the football we played. A
learning point is that we must always listen to the good
advice that is given by our coaches. They are trying to
teach us to become better players and if we listen we
will always do better.
Saturday
18th November
Lots of exercises dealing with passing today. There is
only one ball in a game, so its not a good idea for everyone
to chase it. We can move the ball a lot quicker if we
spread out into a good position for the kicker to pass
the ball to us.
Saturday
11th November
Some of us were lucky enough to be chosen to play in
an Under 7s festival at the JJB Soccer Dome. Good to
see Dan coming back from University to help Stewart
Jenkinson. Our Under 7s 'Demons' squad drew two matches
and lost one 1-3. Hopefully we can do this again in
a couple of weeks.
The rest of us trained at Crossford, with Gareth looking
after one group and Sarah looking after the other. Lots
of new exercises are helping our skills. There were
some great matches at the end - even coach Jordan was
showing us some of his own skills in one of the matches
where there was a player short.
Saturday
4th November
Good training session today. Plenty of matches and its
great when a goal is scored
Saturday
28th October
Because of the half-term break there were only 18 of
us down today. Half of us did a shooting drill and the
others did some ball control and were shown how to do
a step-over followed by a shot on goal. The matches
at the end were very close. At the end of training,
the Chairman, Colin Dowdy, gave out red 'Sale United'
sweatshirts to those who have not been given them before.
We are going to need these during the next few months
when the weather is cold.
Saturday
21st October
We did lots of passing exercises today. It is important
to make sure you aim the pass towards the player and
don't kick it too hard or too softly. We finished with
some matches. At the end we formed two lines with the
Under 9 squads and made one of the coaches, Sarah Rogerson,
dribble a ball through the middle and score a goal to
celebrate a birthday that has a "zero" at
the end of it.
Saturday
14th October
Another new coach, Gareth, helped us today. Half of
us did 'passing' and the other half did 'turning with
the ball'. We then went into 4-a-side matches.
Saturday
7th October
A couple of new players joined us today and also a
new coach called Justin. We started off the day using
both feet to control the ball and looking up to see
how many hands the two Stuart's had up. First player
to shout out got the point. We then did a relay through
the rope ladders followed by running with the ball
and passing. We did the 'Circle Catch' game where
the other team had to run round the circle as fast
as they could to stop the 'catching' team getting
a high score. After this we then split into four teams
and each team had a couple of short matches. Going
home time came too soon. T
Sunday
1st October
This last week we have spent a lot of time during our
training sessions practicing for our first ever tournament
against another Club, which was 4-a-side.
This morning we all got up very early to travel to Barnstormers
FC based at a school in Cheadle. This is very close
to Manchester Airport and there were planes flying low
over us for most of the time we were there.
We were organised into four squads; Aztecs, Beavers,
Chiefs and Demons. Two games were played at the same
time leaving our two other teams to wait on the sidelines
until it was our turn.
in the very first game it was a bit of a shock when
Barnsormers took the lead against Sale United Azteks,
but the boys did well to fight back and win the game
2 - 1. This spurred us all on and led to some very good
games played by all four squads. In fact out of 10 games
played we won 6 of them, drew three, and only losing
one game by the narrowesrt of margins 1 - 2.
This was a fantastic experience for the 17 players who
were able to make it. All games were played in a good
spirit. The Barnstormers Manager has invited us back
again in November to play in a similar tournament.
Saturday
23rd September
Two new helpers, Tom & Scott were with us today.
After the warm up we did a "quick feet" exercise
through the ladders and had a try at heading a ball
thrown to us.
We did a simple passing game and then split into four
teams and had two matches each to finish the practice.
Saturday
16th September
Stuart showed us a new game today and we had good fun
playing games at the end of the session. On Monday we
played "Slam" indoors for the very first time.
Saturday
9th September
This
was already our eighth training session of the season
and it has been good to see more and more children return
to us after the small summer break, plus a few new ones.
Today
we worked on passing and learned that it is important
not to kick the ball too hard when passing it to a team-mate.
We also learned that when making a short pass it is better
to use the inside of our foot, a bit like a golf “putter”.
Towards
the end of the session we split into four teams and played
games against all of the other three teams. It was great
to play in a team against the others. The Mums and Dads
cheered when goals were scored.
