Newsletter: 3 (2014) w ww ww w..ppeezzzzaazzssttrreeeettssoocccceerr..ccoom m Jay in action for England PEZZAZ COACHES WORK WITH PREMIERSHIP STARS! Pezzaz Street Soccer coaches, Perry Cocking and Geoff Bonner, were recently asked to work with Southampton and England international Jay Rodriguez at Southampton FC’s newly refurbished Staplewood training ground. Jay is recovering from a cruciate knee ligament injury which unfortunately saw the Premiership star miss the World Cup. Jay is determined to return to the Premiership in the best condition of his life and a better player than he was before the injury. We were asked to put together a ball work training programme for him that he could work on as part of his rehabilitation. Perry Cocking had put together a similar programme for Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (now Arsenal FC) back in 2011. We based Jay’s training plan around the 20 Pezzaz Core Skills that we regularly work on with the children. The first session was a great success. Development squad player Bevis Mugabi joined in to make it competitive and Gaston Ramirez, who has since joined Hull City on loan, asked if he could join in after seeing what type of things we were doing. The session was filmed and Jay follows the programme routinely using the video played through the big screen in the training ground gymnasium. Jay also asked us to show him some moves to help him gain a yard of space in tight areas to get a shot away. We showed him various moves from our Skillz to Beat & Deception Moves syllabus topic and we are looking forward to seeing moves such as; the reverse flip-flap, the chop, roll-step-robana, the slamover (and many more!) in the Premiership soon! HOLIDAY COURSES We had a great summer period with holiday courses in Salisbury and Andover as well as an extremely popular Tournament Day. We have holiday courses at Winton Community Academy reserved right through to the summer of 2015 and beyond. Our next course is the October halfterm where this signed Jay Rodriguez picture will be given away! A GREAT START TO 2014/15! 2014/15 has got off to a great start with almost 200 children attending our new Kick-Start groups, Player Development Centres (PDCs) and Match-Play sessions. We spent the summer redesigning our coaching syllabus and PDCs now spend six weeks concentrating on an individual topic with Medals of Achievement handed out to all the players on the sixth week of each topic. Kick-Start sessions follow a slightly different version of the topics and are awarded a Certificate of Achievement on the sixth session of each topic. Due to the new scheme all players must now block book with new players being put on a waiting list when the sessions reach their quota. Pay-as-you-play and part bookings are still possible with prior consent and are dependent on available space. Match-Play sessions are for our older age groups and are payas-you-play with no commitment. These sessions are designed for children to play matches in a pressure free environment and for them to express themselves and try things that they might not be able to do in their club or school games. INTRODUCING MINI-KICKZ (PRE-SCHOOL FOOTBALL SESSIONS) We have been busy putting together a hugely fun coaching scheme for pre-school children. We will be launching these sessions at various locations in and around Salisbury & Andover very soon. The first sessions to launch will be for children who will be starting reception year in September 2015. If these sessions are of interest then please contact us for more information and we can add your child to our list of budding young pre-school footballers. SCHOOLS FOCUS Please look out for Geoff, Jacob and Phil at various local schools delivering our ever expanding schools coaching programme. Pezzaz Street Soccer is currently working at; Woodford Valley, Clatford School, Greentrees Primary, Broad Chalke School, Harrow Way School, Wellington Primary, Wilton Primary and Coombe Bissett. We plan on organising an inter-schools tournament for all the schools we are involved with early in 2015. PJC ACADEMY NEWS A busy summer programme saw the PJC Academy squads play matches against Chelsea FC, AFC Bournemouth, Arsenal Soccer Schools and Bath & Wiltshire Boys. Two of our long standing players also officially signed for professional clubs. The PJC Soccer Academy is open to all children and not just Pezzaz Street Soccer attendees. Please ask for further information. Please follow us on Facebook (Pezzaz Street Soccer) & Twitter (PJC Soccer) Pezzaz Street Soccer is part of the PJC Soccer group 01722 743757, 07876135770, [email protected], www.pjcsoccer.com