We are running our course from Tuesday 10th to friday 13th April 2012.

it is our pleasure to offer this four day course for £55. Single day visits are available for £20.              Please visit the page which describes our Summer Day camps as this will give you an idea of what is included. The only exception on the Easter course is that a stadium Tour is not included and nor is lunch, so a packed lunch is required. We will still of course be working through our exciting skills tests alongside our coaching with a place at the International skills Final on offer.

Please email Leigh at bcssa.co.uk for further details and for booking.

Or call Leigh on 0161-972-0000 as she is eager to take your call.

Every Saturday and Sunday we hold Goalkeeping clinics at our Parrswood Campus in Didsbury.

The goalkeeper is without doubt one of the most important players on the field – they are the last line of defence and the first line of attack. To play the position well requires special skills and training.

Team managers and coaches have told us that their goalkeepers are generally left to their own devices as this is an area that they do not have a specialist knowledge of. So often Keepers are left to fend for themselves.

A game can be won or lost on one goal!

A small difference.

If you’re ready –

let us be the difference that makes the difference.

At Bobby Charlton’s our qualified FA Goalkeeping coach Ciarán takes the sessions which take place every Saturday and Sunday from 12-1.30pm  Follow Ciaran on Twitter @coachciaran or on our blog above.

It is a pleasure to see the keeper’s in the North West improving week by week.

As always at Bobby Charlton’s we aim to exceed expectations and we measure ourselves always by your success.

Will your team keeper be one of them? Will you be one of them?

Thank you to Mark, one of our parents who sent the following email

Geraldine

Mark

So, do you want to train like the professionals? – this course gives goalkeepers the opportunity to receive specialist goalkeeping coaching in all aspects of the position; handling, footwork, diving, shot stopping, recovery saves, reflex saves, one v one, dealing with crosses, dealing with the back pass and distribution

Topics covered on the program include:

Goalkeeping Specific Warm ups: Ball Coordination, Exercises
Dynamic Stretching and footwork.

Basic Handling. The Starting Position,
Balance and Footwork,
Moving Into and Down the Line,
Shot Stopping

Diving Saves: Collapsing Saves,
Step and Dive Saves,
1 v 1
Reaction Saves,
Recovery saves

Dealing with Crossed Balls: Positioning for Crosses, 
Assessing the Flight and Attacking the Ball, 
Jumping and Catching Technique,
Punching the Ball,
Dealing with low Crosses

Distribution: Dealing with the Back Pass,
Throwing the Ball,
Kicking the Ball

Small Sided Games: Goalkeepers 2 v 2,
Goalie wars

Plus: Sweeper Keeper
Communication,
Organisation at Set Plays,
Shooting Practices,
Crossing Practices,
Penalty Saving

Sessions cost £10 for the hour and a half clinic.

Sessions block booked are £70 for ten or £40 for five.

We look forward to meeting you and you’ll be surprised to see how quickly you get to know all the other keepers.

One of my New year’s resolutions is to update this lovely website more often. You are all nagging me to put so many photos on that maybe I will allocate time each week to doing just that. We have had an amazing rush of bookings which gets us all excited about the coming year. We so look forward to seeing you all again and to meeting some of you for the first time!

We wish coaches Stu and Paraic and relaxing and event free journey as they head back to coach in Japan after their Christmas break. Also safe journey to Rumi Adachi who visited England with Stu from the  ACC in Japan. It was great to see you and at least Manchester United performed for you on your visit to Old Trafford with us on Boxing Day. Say Hi to all our friends in japan.   

Jordan Booth with Rene Meulensteen

What a fantastic Day we had. We welcomed all our fantastic skills finalists back to Manchester, all eager and maybe just a touch nervous about competing!

In true Bobby Charlton style the weather was great.

The coaches set up at 6.30am in the dark preparing to see who would be the Champions Champion.

After the welcome meeting we headed down to the pitch to begin the Skills Tests.

It’s a strange notion that you can never really know how anyone will perform at their, once in a lifetime chance, to be the International Skills Winner. There were players who surprised themselves and achieved their personal bests, and some who in their own words “messed up” At the end of the day, you can only do what you can do.

After lunch, competition over, came the greatest opportunity – to be coached by Rene Meulensteen, the Manchester United First team Coach.

Rene, met all the players and first things first, had his photo taken with them.

The feed back we have had from the day, as always, makes us know what an experience this was!!

Thanks to all the families who flew their children from all corners of the globe to be with us. All the photos will be on our Facebook page very soon for you to tag and keep.

A big, big congratulations to our International Skills Winner for 2011 Jordan Boon (from Manchester) and to our Internationl Skills Runner Up Ilya Vasiliev (from Russia)

Sunday is the big day!

Players have flown in from all over the world to take part in The Skills Final this Sunday.

I am sure everyone is excited, if not a little nervous.

Win or lose they all get to meet Manchester United’s First team coach Rene Meulnesteen who will be coaching them and then they can enjoy a question and answer session with him before he presents the medals and trophies.

Looking forward to a dry day! : )

This image is of Charlie Purcell the 2010 International Skills Winner  with Rene.

[[Show as slideshow]] It’s Half term.

It’s Joga Bonito time !!!!!

Now you may usually find some friends to play football at the park with, but this Half Term, we”ve gathered a whole bunch of lads to take you on!

Come join the fun and show us what you’re made of!

This half term we are offering an exciting football extravaganza – our highly energetic 3v3 Joga bonito. The term ‘Joga Bonito’ means ‘play beautifully’ in Portuguese and that is exactly what we are going to do. On small sized pitches, in small goals, let the fun begin!

Joga Bonito is based on individual flair, emphasis on attack and vibrant possession football, it is high scoring and is amazing fun. With loud, loud music to spur you on, –  your team of 3 take on the opposition for the length of the tune, then the music stops, and you hand in your score. Move pitch and get ready to meet your next challengers.

You can play with your chosen friends, or make up a few teams to enter –  or we will make up a team on the day with the friends that you haven’t met yet!

So, what are you waiting for? The numbers are limited, so tell all your friends and get booking.

Check when your age group is playing :-

Wednesday October 26^th School year 5 and 6 (9-11yrs) 9.30-12.30

Wednesday October 26^th School year 7,8 and 9 (12-15yrs) 2pm – 5pm

Now go to our booking form.

Fill in all your details and then scrollllllllll all the way down to the bottom and see the Joga Bonito button to click and prepare to have some fun!

Oh, and we may also do a penalty shoot out competition for those who fancy it, and some other challenges!

See you there!

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They were coached by Ciarán, Joe and Stu and we all enjoyed having them with us.

Their singing will be missed !!!

Thank you to Greg, Nevada and Pride for bringing them to Manchester.

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Looking forward to seeing you.

Watch this space for more details

“I just wanted to write to thank BCSSA for a great fortnight of coaching with Pete & Rob here in Bangkok. The camps were a great success with over 100 players attending over the fortnight.
All the players really enjoyed the activities and we have received great feedback from parents too ! I was very pleased with their professionalism and the rapport they very quickly built with the players
and our own coaches. It was a pleasure to work with Pete & Rob and I hope they enjoyed their stay with us !”