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BSC Newsletter February 2007 |
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News from Byte Size Coaching
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February 2007
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BSC Curriculum Newsletter #6....
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Byte Size Coaching Newsletter
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Beginner & Advanced Coaches Set
Check out World of Soccer's website. Our featured products this month - Beginner Coaches Set and Advanced Coaches Set.
The "Beginner" Coaches Set is complied of 3 books written by Tony Waiters. You begin with Coaching 6, 7 & 8 Year Olds and 5 Year Olds Too! Progressing to Coaching 9, 10 & 11 and end with Coaching the Team. To complete the package is a set of Ace Coaching Cards.
The "Advanced" Coaches Set contains Coaching thet Team, Keeper II, Coaching Set Plays and Zonal Defending. The set also includes a set of Ace Coaching Cards.
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This month we didn’t need an extension of the month of February. We’ve just made it and it isn’t even leap year. There is a Canadian flavor about BSC this month as Canada strives to play catch-up with the United States’ soccer programs.
Our featured “club” this month is Saskatoon Youth Soccer, where at this time of the year, the temperatures are sub-zero and snow is everywhere. But as you will see in the article, it does not stop them from playing – even 11 vs. 11 if they so choose.
A sad ending to the story we featured last month about Rebecca Johnstone, who was suffering from cancer. She was cheered up by a personal phone call from David Beckham, but it was not enough.
Geoff McCormick’s insider article about Crewe Alexandra last month was timely as English soccer looks closely at the academy development system. It is working in some places and not in others, but for Crewe, as the chairman points out, it is the lifeblood of the club and Crewe feel they are not being properly supported by the Powers-that-be!
As the Internet becomes more and more important in our lives, we report on a web on-line conferencing service used from Sea-to-Shining-Sea by a committee building a Long Term Player Development for soccer in Canada. Could this be a way for BSC to go?
Hope you find this month’s Newsletter interesting and as always, we welcome your comments.
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E-lluminating the Communication Problems |
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The internet has opened up a whole new world. And we are pleased to say we are a part of that process.
Apart from Byte Size Coaching, we are working closely with our partners, INSINC, on the whole aspect of interactive on-line clinics and seminars.
We’re not quite there yet, but it’s only a question of time.
A few years ago I was in a studio in Pittsburg doing a live clinic via satellite network – mainly into High Schools and libraries. It definitely wasn’t there then.
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| Featured BSC Club - Saskatoon Youth Soccer Inc |
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Three weeks ago, I was in Winnipeg conducting clinics for the Winnipeg Youth Soccer Association and then presenting at the Manitoba Soccer Association’s symposium. As I wrote in the February World of Soccer Newsletter it got down to minus 42 Celsius on the day I flew back to Vancouver
The Prairies of North America have a long, hard winter, but this month’s featured Byte Size Coaching partner, Saskatoon Youth Soccer, have done an incredible job of finding a way around the weather problems.
Saskatoon Youth Soccer Inc. (SYSI) started as an informal collection of clubs that joined together to become a registered non-profit corporation in 1984. In 1996 the organization became more structured with the formation of five permanent clubs, each with responsibility for a geographical area or zone established under the bylaws of SYSI.
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| Crewe Boss Voices Academy Fears |
Crewe's production line of talent could come under threat because of a cash crisis outside football's top flight.
Crewe chairman John Bowler told BBC Sport that many clubs outside the Premiership were struggling financially and youth set-ups may be sacrificed.
"We are finding it harder and harder to carry on such an extensive youth development scheme," said Bowler, whose club have produced a string of stars.
"We are doing it but that could come under challenge."
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| Rebecca's Story - Update |
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In our January BSC Newsletter we reprinted an article from the Hamilton Spectator about a soccer player in Ontario who was dying of cancer. It told of how Rebecca received a phone call from David Beckham and then later, an autographed jersey by Becks arrived by mail.
A friend had made us aware of the article.
What we had no way of knowing at the time was that Rebecca had passed away two days before we published this heart-wrenching story.
Go to www.mem.com and put in Rebecca’s family name – Johnstone – to find out more about this remarkable person and her family
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