Regional Young Leaders Camp
On Wednesday 9th April twelve budding young football coaches from Northamptonshire aged 16 and 17 set out on a journey with the goal of being selected to attend The FA National Young Leadership Camp 2008 which will take place in Nottingham.
The youngsters were selected by the Northamptonshire FA Football Development team as having the attributes to be the coaches of the future. They attended the FA East Midlands Young Leadership Camp along with likeminded people from Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Sheffield and Hallamshire County FA’s. Activities were organised by football development officers from around the region and the elite young leaders from 2007 who attended the national camp to include team building, presentation skills and futsal / skilful coaching sessions. All participants were given the opportunity to express themselves during the workshops and show us what they can do.
From Northamptonshire Hayleigh King of Raunds and Charles Mutonga of Northampton have been selected to be our representatives at the National FA young leadership camp taking place on 14th – 18th July 2008.
They will begin the next stage of their journey along with 100 successful young leaders from around the country. Well where do they go from here?
The goal for Hayleigh and Charles will now be to impress FA staff to gain one or four places available to go on an all expenses paid, once in a lifetime trip to South Africa as part of The FA’s International ‘Changing Lives, Saving Lives’ project.
The national young leadership camp will include activities covering all aspects of football such as refereeing, coaching, emergency aid, girls and women’s football, futsal, disability football and much more. Hayleigh and Charles will again have the opportunity to participate and deliver football related sessions so will learn a huge amount to bring back to Northamptonshire and include in their coaching session.
Please visit the following link for information on the 2007 Young leaders who were selected to go to Malawi;
http://www.thefa.com/GrassrootsNew/School/Postings/Malawi07.htm
Everyone at Northamptonshire FA would like to wish Hayleigh and Charles well as they continue their journey.