Great to see academy graduate Gerrard Buabo (2005) gaining further minutes with our first team! 📈
Congrats to all those involved in his recruitment & development journey past and present.
#ITFC
👏
I'm delighted to announce that I have been appointed Head of Academy Recruitment at
@IpswichTown
A club with a fantastic history, I feel privileged and excited to be able to help drive the Academy and the Club forwards.
My time at
@NorwichCityFC
has come to an end after 9 years as I move onto a new challenge.
It’s been a privilege to represent the Club and work with so many fantastic people.
I will always look back with fondness and pride.
Thank you to everyone past & present.
#OTBC
💚💛
We are recruiting! 🔍⚽️
2 x Emerging Talent Scouts - South East & London.
6-8 x Grassroots Scouts across the following local areas.
- Suffolk & Central Ipswich
- Cambridgeshire
- Norfolk
- East Norfolk / East Suffolk
Further information below 👇
It is a privilege to be in a position to provide opportunities and help others to be successful.
An enjoyable, challenging & very progressive first season at the Town 🚜⚽️
6 years ago today, I was up all night in anticipation to launch
@NCFCRDP
in Cambridgeshire.
It’s a privilege to represent
@NorwichCityFC
& I’m proud of what has been achieved. I’m thankful for everyone that’s played there part past and present.
Onwards to normality 💛💚
Hit my final 5K run of 2020 this morning. That’s 733KM since April. Ready to hit 2021 both personally and professionally. 👊
Wishing everyone a positive and successful 2021! 💫
Delighted to have taken up the role of East Anglian Cat 2-3 Academy Scout at NCFC.
That brings an end to my 9 years as Cambs U7/8 scout. A privilege to see & provide opportunities to so many talented lads & get to know lots of excellent grassroots set ups & people involved 💚💛
Histon FC Academy U11 away @ Notts County in 2009.
Sven was first team manager, and gave up his time to speak to the boys on their performance after the fixture.
A true gentleman. RIP Sven.
THANK YOU to all of our
@NCFCRDP
staff (over 60 of you now!), official partners, participants & parents/guardians across our regions for everything this year.
2020 has been a challenge like no other! 👊
Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and prosperous 2021🎄💫
Incredibly proud of Isaac & Josh after progressing all the way through every tier of our programmes to gain an opportunity with our Academy. Well done to the boys, the family and everyone involved in their development ⚽️💚💛
£100 million for footballers! Meanwhile I’m running round trying to stop grown men from cutting the 16 pairs of match socks we have and taking the shorts home with them 🤦🏻♂️
Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a prosperous 2022 💫
Thanks to everyone associated with
@NorwichCityFC
@NCFCRDP
&
@cupfc
for their hard work, dedication, trust & loyalty 👏
To all those that have been there for me personally. Thank you 👊 x
The photo on the left is a constant reminder that the most important thing in life is to look after your own body and mind.
August 2019 👉 September 2021 👊
Never again 🐷
I’m humbled for being nominated for an award for my work towards the Leadership & Management Diploma I’ve been studying over the past 2 years.
Congratulations to my colleagues at
@NorwichCityFC
who were also nominated & claimed awards amongst individuals from other industries👏
Delighted to welcome
@thomas_rumsey
to our Academy Recruitment team👏
A key role for the continued development of our pre-academy and foundation phase age groups 👁️⚽️
#TalentID
#Local
#EastAnglia
I am honoured to say I will be taking on a new role at Ipswich Town Academy, as Local Recruitment Officer. I am looking forward to networking and engaging with clubs, schools, grassroots, bringing communities of East Anglia closer to the Academy 🔵⚪️🚜
#itfc
Good fun today with our first Pre-Academy event of half term! We welcomed boys from Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire & Essex 🌏
Creative celebrations throughout 🕺
#ITFC
🚜⚽️
Enjoyable evening welcoming boys identified by our scouts across summer tournaments to play against the
@ITFCFoundation
at the training ground.
A great start to our summer ID festivals ⚽️🚜
Country is backwards.. Pubs opening before sports can re-start properly. Blokes infront of me in a queue banging on about how tomorrow will be like NYE. To be honest I’m fuming. At least everyone’s health is being made a priority 🤥
The
@NCFCRDP
is 8 years old. Our first ever group of youngsters to attend have reached scholarship age and I’ve gone grey (in the beard). Where does the time go…
A childhood dream of seeing England live in a major tournament comes true tomorrow, and it can’t get much better than against Scotland, reliving 1996 🦁🦁🦁
#LondonsCalling
🔥🔥
First class from every single staff member this week. Not only making it a fun, engaging environment on our courses, but having to adapt to stricter guidelines and putting up with boiling temperatures. Heroes all round 👏👏👏
Our first Academy GK Talent ID event of the season at Playford Road!
Recruitment 🤝 Goalkeeping
A big thanks to
@CarlPents
@walksgk25
& George for your outstanding coaching delivery as always, & well done to all the U11-U16 boys involved🧤
#TalentID
#ITFC
#Goalkeepers
Very sorry to hear of all the redundancies at the FA. Too many fantastic people have lost their jobs. If your employer has managed to save/keep your job, be grateful and work twice as hard. We aren’t through the storm yet.
Very proud tonight knowing I will be taking
@cupfc
to 2 Cup finals this season. A massive effort from our management team, players and everyone at the Club. Nothing has been won, and still games to play, but my god does it feel good!
#UTP
💙
I really miss all my “Gaffer, can I have a lift” and “Buzzing for today, feeling good, 3 points” messages on a Saturday morning.
Massive void not having that Saturday feeling. Hurry up and return need to see the lads
#UTP
💙
Great having the team together for our 23/24 scouts induction at Playford Road following a busy summer.
Thanks to
@MarkArmitage85
(Sports Science) &
@callum_tongue
(U18s lead) for Insightful presentations relevant to TID.
Another season begins with a great group🕵🏻👁️⚽️
I have nothing but admiration for unbelievable group of men I get to manage. 7 games this month, and consistently performing & battling for each other. 2 league games remaining and a second cup final to finish an amazing season ⚽️💙🏆
#UTP
FA Advanced Principles Talent ID (L3) complete ✅
A fantastic 10 months in the company of brilliant people learning, collaborating and developing 🤝
A big thank you to the course leads & cohort for a great learning opportunity. Challenging & thought provoking! 🧠👁️⚽️
#TalentID
Our academy recruitment team is expanding! 🚜🔵
We are seeking enthusiastic, organised, self motivated individuals with a passion for Talent ID.
2 x casual scouts vacancies available in Suffolk
- Pre-Academy (U6-U8)
- Foundation Phase (U9-U12)
Apply👇
A new generation of
#ENGU16
players began the season with a 3-1 defeat to Italy in Coverciano this afternoon. Alejandro Gomes Rodriguez of Southampton scored; the two teams meet again on Thursday.
I’ve really missed being out & about scouting at summer tournaments this year. Always so well run, & as a child they are the best days to be part of. Lots of fun & plenty of games.
It’s always nice to see our current players in action too & how they’ve developed over the year.
The Suffolk Futures Group @ Playford Road in full flow with a fixtures night as part of the programme. Great to see our staff setting high standards and providing plenty of challenges for the boys.
#TalentID
#Futures
#Pathway
Two weeks to go until my first Cambridge 1/2 marathon. Feeling fit as a fiddle and ready to smash it! 🏃🏻👊
I Would appreciate any sponsorship as I will be racing for cancer research 💙💜 DM for deets… 👍
300 young footballers from 36 grassroots clubs and organisations across East Anglia & London attended festivals at our training ground this week for half term.
Thank you to everyone that attended and we hope you enjoyed your experience at Playford Road. 🚜⚽️
Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas & Happy New Year! 🎄⚽️
A big thank you to everyone that has played their part in an unbelievable and very special year.
I’m proud of the progress being made with our recruitment team, and look forward to a successful 2024 💫
#ITFC
A brilliant week in Northern Ireland attending the Super Cup! 10 games in 4 days! 😮💨 Great to catch up with so many good people from across the UK. Good football in a beautiful part of the world 👏⚽️
Thank you
@EJALeague
U15 rep side for a competitive fixture with our Academy this evening. Over 30 grassroots clubs and community / private academy teams have now been involved with us over the last month at our training ground. Plenty of talent on show, & great people involved.
During Feb 1/2 term we welcomed 42 clubs & orgs from East Anglia & London to our events, engaging with 764 aspiring footballers!
Thanks to everyone that attended, and to my hard working team who are forever relentless in their pursuit of talent ID & providing a pathway 🚜⚽️
A match day experience for our most recent Academy Schoolboy signings, their families & our hard working scouts that identified them. Superb atmosphere and 3 points 🚜⚽️
#ITFC
Top evening of football as our local recruitment team welcomed
@Cops_FC
@Woodbridgetown
@OfficialHUFC
&
@Elmswell_FC
U11s to a local festival at our training ground!
Thanks for attending & we hope you enjoyed the experience 🚜⚽️
Easter complete ✅
800+ boys attended festivals across East Anglia & London
Thank you to partners
@needhammktfc
&
@HaverhillRovers
- fantastic hosts 🤝
Our first East London festival & continued
@ITFCFoundation
boys pathway opportunities.
Massive effort from the staff🚜🔵
#NCFC
have gone 10pts clear & an end to lockdown in sight. What a week so far.
Thank you for everyone’s patience and support over the last 12 months. I’m proud of our
@NCFCRDP
staff & participants, with superb engagement throughout.
We can’t wait to get back to it 💚💛
Academy Recruitment - Regional Trials
Applications are now open for our regional open trial event taking place in Essex!
📍
@BTFC
- 19/02/2024
U12 (current year 7) & U14 (current year 9) boys.
#ITFC
#Trials
#TalentID
#Essex
It’s not often we are all in the same room!
Great to have our recruitment team together for our first CPD event of 2023.
A day of workshops, information sharing & observing our Academy in action.
#TalentID
🚜⚽️
It won’t be long before our full team of staff will be back & fully operational at
@NCFCRDP
thank you for your patience.. Just a couple more weeks to go. 🙌
When we return there will be opportunities aplenty from trials, courses, tours & festivals.
It’ll be worth the wait. 💚💛
A big thank you to
@FoxInTheBox05
for sharing your amazingly powerful story with us this evening. 👏🙌 We want to ensure that we continue to be aware of the
#mentalhealth
responsibilities to each other & all those that attend our courses
@NCFCRDP
THANK YOU 💙
This man
@piphdavis
has been with me through thick and thin. Loyal, hard working and all round good guy. Thank you for everything you’ve done and continue to do. Have a brilliant birthday. 🥳
Happy birthday to our Football & Education Development Manager, Pip Davis. Our longest serving staff member, fantastic coach and all round joke master. Have a great day from everyone at
@NCFCRDP
🥳🎈