Busy week..

This week my ‘blog’ is a little delayed and brief due to the fact I have been in Canberra, attending a Football Federation Australia National Technical Network Seminar.

The seminar highlighted the goal of FFA to become a ‘World Leader in the World Game’. FFA, as I do with The Lady Reds, have ambitious goals. I want and expect The Lady Reds to develop into a leading side in The W-League and to challenge for the title over the next 2-3 seasons. Again, in line with FFA, my aim is to achieve this playing a possession based style of football.
To achieve this ambitious goal, the NTC and other youth teams in the FFSA Women’s Elite Pathway will focus their training ‘in the ball’.

Technical skills, Insight (game understanding) Communication and Conditioning will all be developed with the ball. Taking the best practice and knowledge from a range of Sports Science and importantly football experts a thorough and rounded program will be implemented to assist the development of South Australia’s Female Football Players. Through a series of coaching seminars, this program will also be delivered to the FFSA  Women’s Clubs and Coaches and it is hoped that they will buy into the system and use it to develop a broader base of footballing talent across the region.

After another away trip to The Sunshine Coast is it good to be back at Burton this week to face Perth and I am hoping for a healthy crowd and an exciting performance from The Lady Reds.
Last week saw another solid performance from The Lady Reds with some glimpses of the possession work which we have been focussing on more in training over the last few weeks.
Having become more solid out of possession, the change in focus to greater composure in possession and becoming more of an attacking force is a sign of the direction I want to take the side in over the next year and leading into the 2012/13 season.