Everton Offer Online Soccer Training Tool For Under £50

Everton Football Club are pleased to announce a new online soccer training programme that is designed to help soccer coaches and players.

The comprehensive information within the site is taken from the very same soccer coaching courses that the club use in the training of their own youngsters. It is a holistic approach, which represents all aspects of soccer training from the technical aspects of the game, to physiotherapy, sports psychology, education and welfare.

In recent years, Everton have raised over £45m (over $60m US dollars) from the sale of Academy-produced players, so they clearly know a thing or two about soccer coaching. The portal comprises a series of soccer coaching clips, audio commentary, editorial walkthroughs, diagrams and tactical advice, which reveal the proven techniques of an academy which has produced graduates such as Everton first team players James Vaughan, Jack Rodwell and Leon Osman, not to mention Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney.

Tony Farrell, the Technical Co-ordinator of the Everton Way, said: “This new online soccer coaching service is an illustration to our commitment to the development of young soccer players, not just in terms of their abilities on the soccer pitch, but also off it.”

“For just £49, users can get the same coaching knowledge and expertise of one of the most successful soccer academies in the world. We believe that this is exceptional value for money and in the time that the service has been live, we have already received some very positive feedback from users.”

Those interested in signing up for the service can access a free trial, here.

Source: SanePR

Manchester United Soccer Schools in SA

I was driving through Pretoria today and I saw a board advertising Manchester United Soccer Schools in South Africa.

The board included a link to www.muss.co.za and I thought I would check it out.

Sure enough Manchester United have a soccer school in South Africa. Having looked at the site though, I noticed though that the site only had news up to July 2008 and only details 2008 courses...

Anyone know the status of the Soccer School?

SAFA slams SA football fans

I picked up the article below on the IOL website and thought it would stir an interesting debate seeing as we'd been asking about ticket sales:

South African fans were told by world controlling body Fifa and the 2010 Local Organising Committee (LOC) to get their act together and support both the Confederation Cup and the 2010 World Cup finals.

What is worrying Fifa and the LOC is the fact that only 170 000 tickets out of 640 000 have been sold for the Confederation Cup which kicks off in 102 days on June 14 when Bafana Bafana play Asian champions Iraq in the opening Group A match at Ellis Park.

Read the complete article here: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=6&click_id=4&art_id=nw20090303193809327C739433

Now my question is this - has it occurred to SAFA that we're in the middle of a financial crisis? For many of us, watching the football live is a treat - if we're hosting this at a time when people are battling to make ends meet, things are not quite that easy...