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There’s still time to book your child’s place at our Summer Football Camps at Eversley & California Youth FCand Wooden Hill School, Bracknell ⚽️🔥

Does your child fancy themselves as the GOAT 🐐 Leo Messi, or perhaps they’re the new kid on the block, à la Lamine Yamal? Well, with our fun focussed on the recent Euros and Copa America, it’s the perfect place to showcase their skills, have loads of fun and learn from some brilliant coaches 🏆

Hit the link in our bio to book or swipe along to scan the QR ⚽️💥

🆕 TOURNAMENTS 🆕 As it’s our last sessions this term, the focus at PPC this week is tournaments and fun games ⚽️💥

Players can look forward to small-sided matches and lots of fun as we round off what’s been another fantastic year at PPC. It’s been brilliant to see the development of the players over the past few months, and we look forward to seeing them putting what they’ve learnt into games this evening and on Thursday ⚽️

COME ON ENGLAND! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Predictions for tonight? 🇳🇱🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 More Southgate-ball? Will we nick it on pens again? Will the Netherlands sweep us aside or will England FINALLY start playing well and perhaps be bringing it home on Sunday?! 🏆

FINISHING THE ATTACK 🆕 The focus at PPC this week is finishing the attack ⚽️💥

What wins football matches? Goals! At training this week we’ll be working on effective finishing, but also good attacking movement to get onto the end of crosses and through balls. Tactically we’ll be looking at the players’ decision making in the final third, whether that’s link-up play, creating space or how they finish.

Last Thursday, our U8s enjoyed a fantastic friendly fixture against Sandhurst. PPC’s development players ran out 7-2 winners. Head Coach, Elliott, commented “they played really well considering they’ve never played together before”.

The players at PPC have been following a structured development program for a number of weeks and months, and the rewards were there for all to see. This is testament to the work done by the coaches but also the players’ effort and willingness to learn and improve. Well done to all ⚽️👏

Our PPC Utd players, coaches and parents came together last weekend to enjoy a fun day of footgolf followed by their awards ceremony 🏆. The day was an opportunity to look back on the success of last season and reward the players for their brilliant efforts. We’re already looking forward to doing it all again next season! ⚽️🔥

The focus at PPC this week is OVERHEAD KICKS! Just kidding, not sure the local walk-in centre is geared up for quite so many broken bones in one go! Instead, we’ll be focussing on combination play – here’s hoping England will be doing the same before the quarter final 😳

To create openings and fluidity, it is then essential that players can move the ball quickly in tight spaces and combine to create openings. Players should time and coordinate runs off the ball to either create space for themselves or for a team-mate and allow forward play.

Receiving the ball in an open body posture is essential to be able to play forward quickly, either with a pass or by dribbling into space.

Quick combinations such as one-twos, up-back-throughs, overlaps and underlaps are efficient ways to pe*****te and disorganise defences so that a path towards goal can be found.

Players should support their team-mate on the ball to give them options and create overloads which can then be exploited to pe*****te the opposition ⚽️

Okay, he hasn’t really been sacked, but there’s a lot of people thinking they could do a better job, including our followers, so we asked them who’d they’d pick to improve England’s chances at the Euros.

What do you think of these lineups? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

🆕 BREAKING THE LINES 🆕 The focus at PPC this week is creating the attack by breaking the lines ⚽️💥.

If performed consciously and constructively, breaking the opposition’s lines can serve to open the pitch up and result in swift and successful attacks. To break a line, players must be able to receive the ball on the turn and deceive and eliminate pressing opponents from the game.

In the modern game, most teams operate with either a high press, a mid-press or a low press. These present obstacles when in possession but having the ability to break lines can quickly lead to attacking opportunities.

PS. Remember lots of water this week! It's going to be a hot one! 💦 🥵

Is it coming home? Who knows, but you can stay home this Thursday as there will be no training to allow players and parents to watch the England v Denmark game. An email has been sent confirming details of the rescheduled session.

Enjoy the game and… COME ON ENGLAND! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

🎉⚽This Summer we go football crazy!! ⚽🎉

❗❗This summer we have not 1 but 2 Summer Football camp venues for your delight!! ❗❗

Covering every single day of the summer holidays, there is no excuse not to get outside in the (hopefully) beautiful sunshine ☀ and join us as we take part in our very own version of the biggest summer football tournaments! ⚽

At our camps, children take part in some amazing skill challenges, some fun active games & as always, plenty of friendly inter camp matches!

To book your place at either our Eversley & California Youth FC or our Wooden Hill Primary School camps, head to https://pro-player-centres.classforkids.io/camps now!!

Mental Health Awareness Week is over, but every week we should be aware of mental health challenges. Sport and football have huge benefits for young people’s wellbeing, but struggles can still exist. Keep encouraging talking, keep signposting and keep listening 👊

🆕 COUNTER ATTACKING 🆕 The focus at PPC this week is counter attacking ⚽️💥.

Simply put, this is when a team sits deep in their own half absorbing pressure, and then upon winning the ball, they attack at speed exploiting the space that’s been left.

We’ll look at the various details that make a successful counter attacking team, such as defending responsibly with heightened levels of concentration, being able to play out quickly and then attack with speed, movement and clinical finishing 💥

Any idea who was the most successful Premier League side from counter attacks this season? Clue, they scored 9 goals on the break and their manager is leaving…

Our May half term camp is just around the corner! Have you booked your child’s place? ⚽️

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🆕 PRINCIPLE OF BALANCE WHEN DEFENDING 🆕 We all love scoring goals but defending is equally important, plus with the right defensive principles, defence is often the first part of an attack.

We'll be looking at how players can pressure and cover (roles and responsibilities), body position, recognition of ball movement and change of roles, transition speed between roles, reading body shape of players in possession to anticipate what they are going to do, and the end product once the ball is won, can a counter-attack be launched ⚽️

Don't Forget About our spectacular May Half Term Football camp! Join us this May as we get all excited about the biggest football tournament of the year!!

Can you join us and score more goals than Harry Kane? Or dribble past more players than the Magic Mpabbe?

Book your place now at: https://pro-player-centres.classforkids.io/camps

⚽️⚽️ Welcome to your Euro 2024 warm up! ⚽️⚽️

🎉🎉 Get excited for this year’s biggest summer football tournament with PPC this May Half Term! 🎉🎉

Every day we’ll put you through skill sessions to fill the shoes of your favourite players like Harry Kane, Kylian Mbappe, Kai Havertz & Rodri!

Book your place now @ https://pro-player-centres.classforkids.io/camps