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Small Heath School Cluster: Coerver Coaching

Coerver® Coaching, The World’s Number 1 Soccer Skills Teaching Method, in partnership with their global sponsor adidas® have delivered a series of football lessons to schools throughout the Small Heath School Cluster and The Calthorpe School Sport Partnership in the build up to the World Cup in South Africa.

The Coerver® Coaching method focuses on individual skills development and small group play, which is delivered by specialist coaches through fun & progressive drills and games that can be adapted for all ages and abilities.

In addition to the benefits on the pitch, Coerver® Coaching’s technical curriculum “The Pyramid Of Player Development©”, links technical & physical development with Psychological and Social development, aiming to improve Decision Making, Confidence, Communication and Self Esteem. Coerver® Coaching are now in the process of delivering a series of fundamental movement lessons within the partnership with the view to engaging more children in physical activity while developing vital areas such as Fitness, Agility, Balance & Co-Ordination

UK Director Scott Wright says  

“It is great to be working with the Small Heath School Cluster and The  Calthorpe School Sport Partnership, delivering both football & core movement programmes. It has been well documented that there is a problem with the physical activity levels of primary school age children and a lack of fundamental movement skills.

Our Core Movement programme aims to encourage pupils to become more active through exhilarating and fun coaching sessions which have a high engagement factor which is needed to get children excited about sport and hopefully leading them towards a more healthy lifestyle.

These lessons involve equipment such as hurdles & ladders which are used for high quality and high repetition movement work which is needed to develop the fundamental movement skills that many children in schools do not have. Our football programme is also a hot topic at the moment with the failure of the English national team at the world cup, and the need for more technical English players.

Our programme has proven over the last 26 years to produce highly technical players which has been demonstrated during the world by Dutch winger Arjen Robben, who is a big advocate of our work having utilised our training methods as a young player. The foundations of these essential core skills need to be worked on at a young age which is why it is so important to expose primary school age children to this type of high quality work.

“… the coach is punctual, polite, he gets the children motivated and involves all of them. He also appears to have very good behaviour management, at the moment he is teaching skills and the teachers has noticed improvement in their ability”

Y3 teacher Small Heath Cluster

We are hopeful that we can have a big impact in the UK with our two school coaching programmes and if we can work with partnerships as committed and as forward thinking as the Small Heath School Cluster and The Calthorpe SSP then we have a chance to really improve things within the school environment”

For more information on Coerver® Coaching log-on to www.coerver.co.uk , alternatively you can email westmidlands@coerver.eu or call 02476 473460  

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