This photo was of me June 2020 after just completing my UEFA A licence intro. This week I was pleased to find out that I have passed my UEFA A licence assessment. I would like to thanks all those at the SFA and Rangers for the help and support throughout the course. ⚽️
From Miami to Inverkip ✈️ This week we welcomed
@InterMiamiCF
MVP
@10LewisMorgan
in for training. Lewis has been back in the UK for a while now and with new manager Phil Neville now in charge Lewis wanted to get a head start before pre season begins. More pics & videos to follow.
As most of you already know we had the most amazing Christmas present yesterday as we found out that we are having a baby boy 💙 we are blessed to have such amazing family and friends around us supporting us all the way 🙏🏻 we are grateful we can spend this time of year together.
Excellent away trip to Brussels with
@RFC_Youth
u10s for the Brussels cup. An amazing experience for the young players in their first tournament abroad. Experiences to keep with them for the rest for their lives. ⚽️🇧🇪
Great day down at
@ManCityAcademy
today with
@RFC_Youth
. More best v best games in our brilliant games programme to help keep challenging our players in their development.
Great day to finish the year. Well done to this young group of players on today. Congratulations to CC on winning player of the tournament as well ⚽️ looking forward to continuing next year to help further develop these young players and more.
Fantastic day down at
@ManUtd
academy with
@RFC_Youth
. Great new concept of mixing together for training sessions followed by lunch and brilliant games. Thanks very much to
@AdamMcwilliam
for inviting us down.
Great first season with
@RFC_Youth
u11s. Signing night tonight for this group and that now brings the season to a close. What a season it was as well. Brilliant best v best games and tournaments abroad. 1 of 2
⚽️ Academies can provide young people with some fantastic enriching experiences.
💙 Thanks to the hosts
@SunderlandAFC
and fellow visitors
@LFC
for contributing to a great day of player challenge in today's three-team event.
Very busy week last week so we never got the chance to post the videos we promised of our 121 session with Inter Miami MVP Lewis Morgan but here they are.
Another great weekend down at
@LFC
academy with
@RFC_Youth
u11s & u12s for more “best v best” games as part of our programme. Challenging games to help continue and improve player development.
Another great weekend of football for
@RFC_Youth
u11s & u12s. More best v best games against
@SheffieldUnited
academy last night. Finishing off today
@LCFC
. What an amazing facility to visit and experience for the players.
A great way to finish off the season at the joer cup with
@RFC_Youth
u11s. Some brilliant performances and moments throughout and experiences that will last a life time. Thank you to all the parents who supported the players across both days.
Happy first wedding anniversary to my beautiful wife. What a quick but amazing year it has been. We are now a family of 3 and have welcomed our amazing son Jaxson into our life. I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life with you watching our son grow with you by my side. ❤️
📸 We finished our coach development week on the pitch!
A great demo session followed with discussions about ‘Outplaying through the different age groups’.
Some great games of football today at the rangers training centre today with
@RFC_Youth
against
@DUFCAcademy
@ManCityAcademy
. Well done to all the players involved for playing some excellent football. ⚽️⚽️⚽️
Really fun and enjoyable way for our young players to learn and be challenged. Allows for the players to engage and be involved in their own development. ⚽️
Huge thank you to
@GREENOCKJFC
for allowing me to come in and practice another session for my coaching licence. Players were fantastic and I appreciate all their effort.
Fantastic day 3 of our coach development week with
@RangersFC
Manager Michael Beale & first-team coach Harry Watling delivering to our coaches in the FP, YDP, PDP and Girls Academy.
UEFA A LICENCE - COACHING PRACTICE
Day 3 of 5 and a slight change of scene to the astro pitch
@Oriamscotland
Delighted to have the students from our
@EdinburghNapier
degree course today to help bring life to the sessions!!
#ScottishFACoachEd
FULL TIME: Clydebank 1 - 1 Elgin City.
What a second half from the Bankies - as Nicky Little’s penalty means we’ll do it all again in Elgin next weekend.
So Proud to be a Bankie!
Well what a weekend that was. I want to thank my brother Ross McGhee and all the boys for an amazing stag in Newcastle. What a laugh it was from start to finish. Thanks for what will be amazing memories and funny stories to look back on. Now to look forward to the wedding.
⚽️ Some great Best V Best opportunities for our players and staff over the easter break:
- U10s: Brussels Cup (BE)
- U13s: Baronie Cup (NL)
- U15s: Mallorca Cup (ES)
Looking forward to the challenges and learning experiences!
Day 3 complete ✔️ an enjoyable first 3 days on the elite youth licence course. Some insightful presentations delivered by the tutors and guest speakers. Today we had Ian Donnelly talking about the importance of analysis when developing players and Seamus with relative age effect.
2nd day of elite youth licence complete.
@stevensallis
with another great presentation about curious coaches and how we help our young players by adding value. Robert Docherty’s talent is an analysis as well was really insightful how players are identified for the national teams.
What a great experience it has been and memories that will stay with you for the rest of your life. Playing against some of the best teams in the uk and Europe. Coaching and watching these young players learn and develop, seeing the joy and happiness on their face is why we do it
‘Game model & curriculum’ with our youth development phase coaches on day 2 of our coach development week.
Analysing academy trends, aligning the language and small group discussions.
Tonight marked the end of the season and an amazing 6 months with
@SaintAndrewsBC
. It was a pleasure working alongside the club with my role of club coach officer with
@sfa_west
. Huge thank you to all the coaches who are a credit to the club and do excellent job with the players.
Well that’s it, back to work tomorrow after an amazing 3 weeks off. We’ve had such an amazing time celebrating our wedding and having a fantastic honeymoon in Croatia 🇭🇷
Between attending webinars at the United soccer coaches convention its been great learning more
@RFC_Youth
at our coaches development week. Tonight video analysis. Great presentation from George.
With the situation with football teams training been difficult and my current situation with being on my A licence im looking to see if anyone in the inverclyde area working with a team at 11 a side would allow me to come in and practice my sessions.
Would like to thank the staff at
@port_juniors
for allowing me to come up tonight to practice one of my sessions for my course. Also would like to thank the players for their hard work and effort throughout.
The A-League in Australia have mic’d up a ref in a recent game. 🎤
Something we’d want to see in Scottish Football?
Get
@CelticFC
v
@RangersFC
games on after the watershed? 🤬
With the current pandemic allowing kids to use the pitches to get away from whats happening, take time away from school work, meet up with friends & help with their mental health. Do the right thing and let the kids play.
A small clip of a 3v3 small sided game from the 2006 st andrew's boys club. High tempo stuff with the players all working hard. Great session by coach Stevie Morris.
@sfa_west
@CorrieCampbell1
@_skip_4
#sfa
#cco
Would like to thank
@steviemo31
&
@morry85
of
@SABC06s
for allowing me to come down and practice my session tonight. Really enjoyed coaching the players alot of old familiar faces in the group.
Thanks to
@MarcMcGhee91
of
@FirstTouchFC1
for coming along and taking a session based on progressive possession for the whites. In depth session that the boys all enjoyed.
✍️✍️Bayern Passing Activation.
✅Emphasize players to position their body correctly before receiving the ball.
✅Open up the body to face the direction they want to play the pass.
✅Emphasize creating space and angles of approach for one-touch passes.
✅Encourage dynamic and
First football coaching 1-2-1 this afternoon with Mitchell Morris from st Andrew's boys club 2006's. Mitchell done excellent and his work effort was fantastic.
For anyone who would be interested in any 1-2-1 coaching sessions give me a message for more details.
Huge thank you to
@ChrisFulton79
&
@ash22042012
for allowing me to come down and coach their gourock 2008 group and practice sessions for my course assignments. Player worked hard and were a joy to coach.
Football in Scotland is in danger of losing a whole generation of kids. SYFA and SFA are not putting enough pressure on the Scottish government to get kids playing again. Too few facilities, too many hurdles. Clubs are disbanding and kids will be lost to the game forever...
Finally back to feeling normal after the weekend. I would like to personally thank all of you who wished my a happy birthday and for anyone who sent cards & gifts. I really appreciate all your generosity. Not so bad being 30.
We are back! Now that the academy season has now come to a close for the summer break we now will be back up and running offering 121, small group, team sessions and our summer session classes. We will be providing more details over the next couple of days with our venue etc ⚽️
Great night coaching
@SaintAndrewsBC
2006's tonight in the sunshine. Couldn't have asked for a better night. Credit to the boys who applied themselves well working hard ⚽️☀️
Great training session delivered by community club officer
@MarcMcGhee91
for St.Andrews 06s tonight. Boys all worked very hard in the sunshine ☀️ 🌞
@SaintAndrewsBC
What an amazing first night at our festive football sessions ⚽️ well done to our 2015-2014 & 2013-2012 players who attended our session. We hope you all enjoyed it and we can’t wait to see you all again next week.🎄
Tonight's session with
@SaintAndrewsBC
2006's. Coach
@steviemo31
leading the session working on passing and receiving the ball along with player communication before moving onto 1v1 and 2v2 defending. Here the boys go through their warm up in a networking drill.
The first Semi-Final is here and we have
@StCadocsYC
vs
@SaintAndrewsBC
. Please vote for your club or favourite strip in this poll. You only have 24 hours so get sharing, liking and commenting! Good luck both teams!
#worldcupofstrips
Continuing on this week with
@RFC_Youth
coach development week with a presentation from
@stevensallis
. I've had the pleasure of attending 2 sessions from Steve this year and I can't speak highlier enough of him and the work he does.
Amazing in service night up at HTC with
@MichaelBeale
. Learned some new practices and got a great insight into him and how he thinks about football/player development.
Looking for 11 a side teams in the area again who would let me come in and practice a session for my A licence. If any teams out there would help me with this that would be really appreciated. Ideally working with a squad of 16+ players and with a half pitch to work in.
Already had positive feedback about my post last week about starting up my own 1-2-1 football coaching.
For anyone who has a child, know a young person or even themself would like for them to receive 1-2-1 football coaching give me a message.
#football
#coaching
#121coaching