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Paul joins the ASC team (Dec 2011)
Advanced Sports Coaching Ltd would like to welcome Paul Burke to it's growing number of quality coaches. Paul is an FA Level 2 coach of vast experience and knowledge having coached and managed teams at most age groups, including time spent as 1st team manager at Hellenic League side Wootton Bassett Town FC.
U8's Development Centre play in Reading Academy Tournament (Dec 11)
Having seen the U6's & U7's compete well at Reading in August, It was now the turn of the U8's to represent our Development Centre. The tournament was made up of teams from Reading FC's Hampshire and Basingstoke Development Centres, as well as 2 teams of Reading Academy U8's.
In our opening 2 games we faced the academy teams and this was great, as it gave our boys and parents a chance to see the level of the signed players and the level they must achieve if they are to become signed players themselves. Again we took the opportunity of playing today's matches to try a number of players in positions which they weren't previously used to, in an attempt to challenge them further and to add to their development, and again we got a lot of positives out of this.
All in all, this was another great day and a fantastic experience for all the players who travelled over to Madejski Training Centre from our Development Centre.
ASC welcomes Mario (Nov 2011)
Experienced Level 2 coach Mario Walsh has recently joined the ASC coaching team. Mario is an ex professional player who's previous clubs include Portsmouth, Torquay, Southend and Colchester.
Reading Academy back ASC Development Centre (Nov 11)
"Over the years, it's been great to work with Nick Bolton and his staff at Advanced Sports Coaching. The partnership that Reading Academy has built up with them is now paying huge dividends, as a steady stream of quality players are being forwarded into our Academy and Elite Centre's. This is resulting in an ever increasing number of players earning Academy contracts after coming through the ASC Development Centre system."
Lewis Goater
Reading Academy Foundation Coach
Rep and Schools Rep Team Successes (Oct 2011)
Advanced Sports Coaching are proud to announce that the following ASC Youth/ASC Development Centre players (past and present)have been selected to play Representative Team Football for the 2011/12 season. This is an increase of 17 players from last season who have gone on to achieve selection and yet again confirms the benefits that our training methods are having on our players.
U9's
Kai Richardson
Marshall Thompson
Tom Ponting
Max Whitfield
Spencer Bunce
Luke Rouse
Thomas Lane
Jed Phillips
Jay Cole
Michael Friend
U10's
Harvey Flippance
Conor Whitlock
Jack Payne
Ben Paul
Oliver England
Gabe Costello
Zac Stewart
Dylan Boulton
Adam Butterworth
Sam Barlett
Jordan Murray
Jack Lewis
U11's
Ethan Bond
Dan Hopper
Harrison Lea
Hamsa Amman
Joseph Slack
Harry Drag
Harvey George
U12's
Oliver Hopegood
Sam Brewster
Connor Chivers
Ethan Fishlock
Euan Hutcheson
Joe Liddington
Lee Murphy
Oliver Matthews
Tom Puddifoot
Euan Burke
Sam Jones
Jayden Handel
U11's Swindon Schools Rep Team
Archie Benge
Harvey George
Mitchell Cremin
Dan Hopper
Harrison Lea
Becky joins the team (Oct 2011)
ASC Ltd is pleased to be able to welcome Becky Gammon to our team of experienced coaching staff. Becky joins our successful Development Centre after spending over 10 years coaching in around Wiltshire. Over the years Becky has coached a variety of different age groups, as well as coaching at The Wiltshire Girls School of Excellence.
Dave and Paul pass FA Level 2 Course (Oct 2011)
Congratulations to Dave Knapp and Paul Gillie who both recently passed the FA Level 2 Certificate in Coaching Football. These awards ensure that Advanced Sports Coaching Ltd coaches can continue to offer quality coaching to all our members.
ASC Youth FC Photo Shoot - Oct 11
With brand new kits issued to all our club teams, we couldn't have picked a better day for a club photo shoot. With temperatures soaring and the whole club together and in high spirits, this was a very successful event. Special thanks must go to Toni Knapp for her expertise and patience whilst taking action shots of around 50 players, brand new team shots and a brilliant club shot of all our teams together. Also, another thank you goes out to all our various sponsors who helped fund the purchase of the kits.
Reading Academy Sessions to Start again - Sept 11
With the Elite Centre and Academy teams getting back into regular training at Reading FC this month, Advanced Sports Coaching Ltd can confirm that we now have a total of 18 boys from U6 through to U17 who have come through our system and are currently training with Reading FC. Congratulations to all those who have so far achieved this and good luck to all the boys who are training hard in our DC hoping to achieve the same in the future!!
U6's and U7's Development Centre play at Reading - Aug 11
Having built up a good group of U6/U7 players over the last year, we felt now would be a good time to see them play in matches to help us, and them, gauge how they've developed over that period of time. Therefore, we travelled over to Reading's Training Dome to play against a group of U7's who have been training with the academy over the summer. Again our boys performed brilliantly and managed to compete well throughout the morning. Yet again the feedback from the academy was excellent and our Development Centre is now seen as one of the top centre's in the area!!
ASC Youth U7's Tournament Delight!! - Jun 2011
ASC Youth FC U7's had a great day at the Corsham Tournament, which was our first one of the summer. We entered 2 x U7's teams and both stayed unbeaten throughout the whole tournament conceding only 1 goal all day. To add to this the team, parents and coaches were delighted to be awarded the Fairplay Trophy.
Ben Young complete's Triathlon - Jun 2011
Congratulations to Ben Young, who successfully completed the Cricklade Triathlon recently. Ben has been a regular at our Development Centre over the last year or so.
Development Centre at the Madejski Stadium Reading v Cardiff City Championship play off match - May 2011
Advanced Sports Coaching Ltd was delighted to offer members of its Swindon based Development Centre, the chance to act as a guard of honour at the Reading v Cardiff City Championship first leg match at the Madejski stadium. To make the occasion extra special, the players were also invited to go onto the pitch again at half time and take part in a shooting session. The match was watched by 22,000 fans and was also covered live on Sky TV. All parents and players thoroughly enjoyed this ‘once in a lifetime opportunity’
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U11's win league - May 2011
Congratulations to ASC Youth U11's who managed to win the league title and get to the final of the League Cup for the second time.
Reading Academy Training/Games Days - Apr 2011
As part of the Development Centre programme, our players were invited to take part in 2 days of training and matches at Henwick in Thatcham. This was a great opportunity for our players to play against other DC's and also players from Reading Advanced and Elite Centres. The event proved to be an enjoyable and informative few days, well done to all who attended.
Advanced Sports Coaching Ltd makes it onto the Reading FC Website!!
After our enjoyable trip to the Madejski Stadium in November it was great to see our Development Centre and ASC Youth FC get a mention along with a photo on the Reading FC Website.
Reading Academy Tournament - Dec 2010
Due to the horrendous weather we've been experiencing over the last month, our DC players haven't had many opportunities to train or play. So the Reading Academy Tournament proved a great chance to see them in a competitive match situation again. Unfortunately our U7's didn't get to play this time around, as their proposed tournament scheduled for last week fell victim to the heavy snow and had to be postponed!!
The tournament for U8's, U9's, U10's and U11's was spread over 2 days which saw our teams play against some very good opposition. All the teams we entered gave a good account of themselves and we were delighted to see 3 of our 4 age groups represent our DC in the finals of their particular age groups.
However, not everything went to plan, with a number of players unavailable for various reasons including North Wilts Rep Team and family holiday commitments. Add to this an incident on the M4 which resulted in a most of our U9's arriving late to their tournament and this made it all the more remarkable that we did so well.
Joe and I decided to approach this tournament slightly differently to the other teams who had entered, in the fact that we wanted to see how our players would cope playing out of their comfort zones, by playing in various different positions. The players showed great character in accepting this and although this prevented us winning as many matches as the players and parents would have liked, it definitely added to the players development. As a Development Centre we aim to ensure that our players are comfortable playing in any position on the pitch if asked and as a result of this we saw a number of fantastic displays from players who up until now didn't realise how effective they could be playing a different role.
So all in all, a positive couple of days of football and we look forward to playing again in the near future.
Match Experience for Dev Centre and ASC Youth FC
(Nov 2010)
Members of our Advanced Sports Coaching Development Centre and ASC Youth Football Club were invited to take part in a match day experience at The Madejski Stadium, Reading. The day consisted of a guided tour of the stadium, a photo opportunity on the pitch and tickets to see the Reading v Doncaster Rovers match. The day was an enormous success with around 80 kids and parents taking part in the experience. The match itself turned out to be a thrilling encounter with Simon Church (who paid a visit to our Development Centre back in May) scoring the winning goal in the dying minutes.
Brandon signs for Swindon Town!!
(Nov 2010)
Brandon Martin has become the latest player in our ever increasing line of success stories, after recently being asked to join The Swindon Town Centre of Excellence. Congratulations go to him from all at ASC Ltd.
Joe passes Level 2 Dodgeball award
(Nov 2010)
Congratulations to Joe Hockham on recently passing the UKDBA Level 2 Certificate in Coaching Dodgeball. This award again emphasises the commitment ASC Ltd has to the continued development of our coaches.
Rep and Schools Rep Team Successes
(Nov 2010)
A massive well done to the following players who have recently been chosen to represent The North Wilts League Representative and Swindon Schools Representative Teams. ASC Ltd are proud to have helped these players achieve this level and we look forward to helping more achieve the same in the future
U9's
Harvey Flippance
Brandon Martin
Jack Payne
Edward Barnett
Ben Paul
Gabe Costello
Zac Stewart
Dylan Boulton
Adam Butterworth
Sam Barlett
Jordan Murray
Jack Lewis
U10's
Ethan Bond
Dan Hopper
Harrison Lea
Finley Thompson
Joseph Slack
U11's
Oliver Hopegood
Sam Brewster
Connor Chivers
Ashley Prim
Ethan Fishlock
Jayden Handel
Euan Hutcheson
Joe Liddington
Lee Murphy
Oliver Matthews
Tom Puddifoot
U11's Swindon Schools Rep Team
Euan Burke
Advanced Sports Coaching Development Centre U11's v North Wilts Rep Team U11's (Oct 2010)
Saturday 2nd October saw ASC's U11's Development Centre being invited to play the North Wiltshire Representative Team at The Cirencester Town Corinium Stadium. Although this was only a training match to enable the Rep Team to trial a number of players. It was a great opportunity for us to check on our players in a match situation.
With a number of our usual DC players being asked to play against us for the Rep Team and a few others unavailable due to pre arranged commitments, we found ourselves a bit low on numbers and therefore drafted in a few of our DC U10's, who it must be said performed brilliantly!!
We played 2 x 20 mins periods of 9 a side and 1 x 20 min period of 11 a side and although Joe and I have seen these boys play a lot better in previous matches, they competed well over the 3 periods and everyone was pleased with the outcome.
Playing these types of matches not only gives our players a chance to play together, but also puts them in the shop window and allows Rep team managers a chance to see them in action. Off the back of this game players from the DC have now been approached to go on trial for the Rep Team and others may be considered in the future, which proves that this was a successful exercise.
Paul passes Level 2 award
(Sept 2010)
Everyone at ASC Ltd would like to congratulate Paul Cooper on recently passing the FA Level 2 Certificate in Coaching Football. This award emphasises the commitment ASC Ltd are showing to ensure the continued development of our coaches.
More Development Centre players achieve trials!!
(Sept 2010)
Congratulations go out to Harvey Flippance and Brandon Martin for recently being invited into The Swindon Town FC School of Excellence for trials. Everyone wishes them the best of luck and we hope they are successful!!
Five ASC Youth teams to play in North Wilts League
(Sep 2010)
ASC Youth FC are proud to announce it will be entering five teams into the North Wilts League for the 2010/11 season.
U7’s: Nick Bolton and Dave Knapp are excited about running the new U7’s team and are hoping they can continue to help these players develop over the next few years.
U8’s: Our U8’s will be managed by Joe Hockham who started this team last season and has watched them improve steadily
U9’s: Craig Wykeham-Martin will be leading our U9’s into the new season with a team consisting of most of the original players from when the team was formed 3 years ago plus a few new additions.
U11’s: This team has been added to in readiness for the jump upto 9 a side football this season and now looks to be a strong outfit. The U11’s will be managed by Joe Hockham and Paul Gillie.
U14’s: After seeing a number of our player’s progress to join pro academies last season our 13’s had a pretty mediocre season. Therefore Nick Bolton and Marcus Corcoran will be looking forward to a better season this time around.
End of Season BBQ 2009/10 Season (Jun 2010)
Another great event in which we saw all our managers present the well earned trophies to our teams. As well as playing in the customary Dads v Dads matches which this year was won by the U7’s Dads.
Thankfully the weather stayed fine and the turn out was good. As usual there were lots of things going on including BBQ, raffles, stalls, “wang the wellie”, parents and kids cricket and rounders.
Reading FC players visit Development Centre
The continual growth of our successful Development Centre was recently boosted even further by a visit from Reading FC players, Simon Church and Alex Pearce, along with Reading FC's Senior Scouting Co-ordinator Tim Pink. The evening started with a short introduction and an interesting question and answer session. This was followed by Simon and Alex joining in with the warm up and leading a shooting session , before finishing things off by signing autographs. It was a great evening which was enjoyed by all parents, players and coaches and something we hope to do again at some point in the future.
ASC Ltd would like to congratulate Lachlan Beggs on being selected to represent Gloucester in a 3 v 3 competition held by Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium which had teams from all over the UK and Europe attending
"The work Lachlan is doing at the Advanced Sports Coaching Development Centre has played a massive part him in achieving this."
Thanks, Mark and Lachlan
Development Centre Easter matches at Reading FC
Over the Easter break around 50 of our Development Centre players travelled to The Dome, which is Reading FC's multi million pound training centre.
This time around we took U7's, U8's, U9's and U10's to test them in match situations against other Reading DC's. All of our teams performed brilliantly, showing a lot of the techniques and skills we've worked on recently in training.
Again, the Academy staff commented on the standard of our players which has led to 2 more players being invited into the Elite Centre for trials.
ASC Youth FC achieves Charter Standard!!!
ASC Youth FC has just been informed that it has been granted the prestigious FA Charter Standard Award. This is something the club has been working tirelessly to achieve over the last 6 months and has come as a timely Xmas present for the club.
Well, done to all committee members, managers, players and parents who have helped to make this possible!!!
Reading Academy
As part of our Development Centre programme we took our U8 and U9 players along to the Reading Academy to play against some of the trialists and Academy players.
It was a great day out with the U8's playing in the morning and the U9's in the afternoon. The standard was very high and all of our boys showed they could compete with the Reading boys which was great for us to see.
Joe and I are confident that the players we've had in the centre have progressed since they've been with us. This has been proven by the fact that 3 of the boys who played at Reading have now been invited into the Academy for further trials.
Regards Nick
End of Season BBQ/Fundraising Event
Saturday 18th July saw us hold our annual End of Season BBQ/Fundraising Event and this years event turned out to be even better than last year!
The day started with the usual Dads v Dads match, which this year was won by the U7's dads. There were lots of other events going on including several stalls, a raffle and a penalty shoot-out against the coaches, which even the mums couldn't resist having a go at!
All in all it was a fantastic day, made even better by good weather and the fact that the day raised £235 for the club.
Thanks to everyone who attended and here's looking forward to doing all over again next season.
Thanks to everyone connected with our club who attended the Broad Town School Fete where we held various stalls, including 'Beat the Goalie', 'Football Target Shooting', 'Coconut Shy' and 'Nail Painting' which helped raise a massive £4389 for the school. Also well done to our members who entered and completed the 5 mile fun run, see you all again next year!!!
U9's win league
Congratulations to our U9's team who capped off a great first season of competitive football by winning the league title and finishing runners up in the League Cup.
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