Foundation of Light Girls U12's 26/27

We opened season 2026/27 with an early start and away game today. Bright morning but a a blustery day which we didn't handle the best.

We started flatly but just about held our own for the opening 10 minutes before we were undone on the counter-attack with a strong strike from distance breaking the deadlock. We livened up afterwards with decent breaks down our right in particular causing some problems but we were still some way off our best levels.

Half-time came still well in the game but unknowingly we must have managed to learn to speak in another language over the summer as we started the second half as though we'd never met one another or a ball before 🫣🤦🏻. We quickly conceded another two before we regrouped and began to gain a foothold in the game.

From there we slowly put together some decent passing moves and a couple of positional tweaks gave us a timely reminder of what we are capable of. The last ten minutes were much better all round and a strong run through the middle from Poppy, saw the ball worked for Neive whose shot was well-saved but Bella reacted first and tucked home the rebound.

Another goal might have made it interesting but wasn't to be and on balance the score was unfortunately fair to the opposition.

Shoutout for our referee today, explained every decision and talked the girls through the game, one of the best we've ever had.

Our first player of the match award for the season was given to Eva. A tough day, her commitment never wavered as she fought for every ball and worked herself into the ground in three different positions.

Football is back, FOL's girls just need another week to join the party 🙏. We know that we can be so much better and compete with anyone in this division, one game doesn't change that.

Eva 🌟
Bella ⚽️

Happy Grassroots Eve!

Real football is finally back this weekend and we can't wait to see where our third full season together takes us!

So very proud of the group we have created and never stop being thankful to be a part of this team, kids, parents, coaches and all who support us!

Let's go FOL 💪

Our final session of pre-season this week. Almost a full squad and a pleasure to have most of the girls back at training.

We focused on fitness, speed and explosiveness for the most part before finishing with a larger and longer 6 a-side game. Despite being hyper, the girls were in good spirits and worked hard throughout. Some really pleasing football played in the match at the end too.

Annalise picked up player of the session. Strong effort in the fitness drills and was full of running and skill in the match at the end. Lots of strong effort across the group with Poppy in particular impressive.

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Annalise is running her first Junior Great North Run on 12 September. She's decided to run to raise funds to support her football team, the finest around with a canny coach or two/three, Foundation of Light Girls U12's 26/27. Any donations would be gratefully received 🙏

Training this week for the final time of a long summer.

Quiet night but the girls able to attend switched on and focused from the beginning. We focused on sharpening our first touch in the main and then played football tennis for the first time. Difficult and different skillset required but the girls worked at it and concentrated. We finished with a shooting drill focused on different striking techniques.

Neive picked up player of the session. Tough drills but she didn't give up and showed some real development as the session progressed.

8 days to go before the big kick-off and the best time of the year!

Good quality training session this week despite low numbers.

We opened with a drill to work on our first touch both on the ground and aerially before a fitness drill to help us with our speed. We finished with some 2 v 2's and then a longer penalty shootout competition.

Well done to all the girls, the work put in will soon be paying off with the real big kick-off only 14 days away 💪. We chose Aria for player of the session. Some serious work put in across the session especially after cycling to training 💪. Real improvement with her first touch and fitness work on the hurdles.

Couple of recent player of the sessions to catch-up on.

We've focused on reactions, finishing and small-sided games, a new drill to aid speed/explosiveness and a couple of short friendlies with our u13s.

Rose was awarded player of the session two weeks ago. Great technique with her ball striking and a big part of some great build-up play in the match based situations.

Isla won last week's award. Like a gazelle in the extended warm-up, she scored a cracking goal running in behind in our friendly too in a very good session overall.

We also belatedly confirmed our player of the tournament from our recent victory. The whole squad were strong candidates but we went with Chloe. Never one to give much away, we could still tell she was in a determined mood as she arrived and so it proved. Tracked back well to support her full-back, brave on the ball and an increasing threat cutting inside off the left.