Academy Managers Blog - April
Chris Mason's April Blog
Chris Mason has submitted his blog for April!
Football
Here at Manchester International Football Academy we pride ourselves on delivering professional standard football sessions and the opportunity to experience the English way of playing alongside players from all over the world. The full time football training programme is designed to build the key core essentials of any aspiring footballer to help them move forwards.
This month as a squad we have been focusing our attention to the concept of 'Playing out from the back' to give players the skills and knowledge to be effective when doing so. During the most recent match against Revive FC the team demonstrated this with clear understanding and precision running out 10-1 winners.
Education
At the academy we offer a number of education packages that can be tailored to an individual player, English and Football, Study Programme for 16-18s (level 1 and 2, level 3 coming soon) and will now be delivering a Sports Science and Coaching Degree as of September 2016.
MIFA and Rathbones now in partnership delivering football and Education. This was highlighted when we played Rathbones on Friday 15th April in a big celebration game to announce the relationship between our organisations.
This month eight players have completed their Level 2 Leadership Awards in partnership with the Rio Ferdinand Foundation a massive well done to:
Lewis Trusty
Gabriel Furtado
Stephen Valassakis
Mateo Rossis
Giuseppe Sinatora
Jay Lamb
Ronnie Kanyepi
Players
Well done to Jos Bakker who has recently signed for Bacup Borough FC and is helping them in their pursuit for a play off position this season.
We look forward to welcoming new players for the upcoming season!
Chris Mason
