Spaces still available at NFF workshops

The Northern Football Federation advised there were still spaces remaining for a couple of courses being held at the Kerikeri FC clubrooms at the Baysport facility in Waipapa over the next few weeks.

These include a referee course Level 1 this Sunday, March 11, from 9am to 4pm, where the cost to enter is $75 or $50 for anyone under the age of 16 (i.e. secondary school students); a Fifa 11-plus years course (free entry) designed to give local coaches the tools to help players with injury prevention which is set to take place from 6-8pm on Monday, March 12 and features free entry; and, the following Sunday, March 18, a Junior Coaching Level 1 course from 9am-1pm and costing $65 per person.

Other courses local clubs have been invited to take part in by the NFF include an introduction to junior coaching course, a free two-hour course — half theory and half practical — designed with the parents of new players in mind, particularly First Kicks and Fun Football; various seminar/ workshops of theoretical or practical nature on specific topics such as warm-ups, using rondos, playing out from the back, transition, passing drills, games for understanding, creating and finishing, proactive defending or generic in nature; and also the Retreating Lines workshop (which will be in operation for all 9th to 12th grade teams across the district this season). For more information, contact Dave Alabaster on (021) 795-073.