PADDINGTON Recreation Ground will mark the arrival of the FA Tesco Skills programme in London on Saturday.
The Football Association run scheme which has already provided 4,000,000 children aged five-11 with coaching comes to west London as part of becoming a nationwide project this summer.
The free coaching sessions first launched in just a handful of counties in 2007 have since helped 21,500 teachers in 7,500 primary schools as well as 1,000 charter-standard clubs.
The FAs director of football development, Sir Trevor Brooking, said: "We started off with a handful of counties delivering The FA Tesco Skills programme, expanded to 26 and now the funding is there for to take the programme nationwide, which is great news because the take up from the youngsters has been fantastic over the last six years.
The core values of the FA Tesco Skills programme are about getting active, learning new football skills and enjoying the game but weve also got the Skills Extra initiative which identifies talented boys and girls and gives them a chance to develop their football education."
For more information on how to register for the session, which runs from 11:30am-2:30pm, visit www.thefa.com/TescoSkills
FA Tesco Skills coaching programme comes to Paddington
PADDINGTON Recreation Ground will mark the arrival of the FA Tesco Skills programme in London on Saturday.The Football Association run scheme which has already provided 4,000,000 children aged five-11 comes to west London as part of becoming a nationwide project this summer.The free coaching sessions first launched in just a handful of counties in 2007 have since helped 21,500 teachers in 7,500 primary schools as well as 1,000 charter-standard clubs.The FA’s director of football development, Sir Trevor Brooking, said: "We started off with a handful of counties delivering The FA Tesco Skills programme, expanded to 26 and now the funding is there for to take the programme nationwide, which is great news because the take up from the youngsters has been fantastic over the last six years.“The core values of the FA Tesco Skills programme are about getting active, learning new football skills and enjoying the game but we’ve also got the Skills Extra initiative which identifies talented boys and girls and gives them a chance to develop their football education."For more information on how to register for the session, which runs from 11:30am-2:30pm, visit www.thefa.com/TescoSkills
