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Training Evenings With a Difference

U11 Sabres have been treated some special training recently bringing Dutch street football to sessions.

Street football and freestyle star Darren Laver of the International Street Soccer Association has attended training, bringing his unique training style to the Sabres sessions. The team has been taught freestyle tricks and learnt some techniques from street soccer that is played in Holland and Spain especially. Street soccer is all about creativity and fun whilst focusing on high levels of individual skill.

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Droitwich Spa Wildcats in Arzbach

I play for the Droitwich Spa Wildcats, who are the towns under fourteen football team and we were very lucky to get the chance to visit Arzbach and Bad Ems at the end of August. We travelled by coach from Droitwich, leaving at 4 o'clock in the morning, arriving in Arzbach in the evening to a welcome by our host families.

On the first day we went to Kletterpark, near Koblenz. This is a centre in a forest where you climb up in the trees.  We were all kitted out with a safety helmet and harness before being given instructions and trying out the training course. After completing the training we were free to attempt the various courses which varied in difficulty and height.  Each course had lots of obstacles including rope ladders, tight ropes, swings, slides and zip wires.  We all had a brilliant time and also enjoyed laughing at the adults attempting what we could do but not  succeeding.

On the Saturday we had our football tournament.  We played against 2 other girls teams who came from Koblenz which resulted in us coming second overall. 

Everyone had a great time in Arzbach, especially making friends with our host families. We can't wait for them to come to us in June next year.

Georgia Howells

Arzbach Trip 2011

Germany. Definitely a place to visit on your Bucket List. And if you can go with friends all the better. Land of culture and history. Although we didn’t travel to Berlin or Munich, Arzbach was one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen. As if someone had plucked it from a fairy tale or the middle of the Sound of Music.

Accompanied by fifty two others, all as excited as the next and of course our life size cut out of the one and only, Frank Holiday, who despite being flimsy managed to take part in most of the activities as the rest of us.  

Football was the main agenda of the visit, however we all indulged in Kletterpark, Germany’s answer to Go Ape, swinging from the trees like a troop of monkeys, laughing, screaming and some rather choice words from the parents that one doesn’t hear in polite conversation.

The tournament was full of dives, spectacular goals, dodgy decisions and some brilliant examples of football at its best. And then in the evening we gathered for a night of games and entertainment. While the boys ran around in the rain, having already spent the day playing football, the adults enjoyed themselves in a less energetic way.    

Our final day and a leisurely stroll to Bad Ems through the luscious greenery unlike anything I had seen outside of the cinema screen. We arrived to watch the breath taking Flower Show and take in the enriching culture that oozes from these story book places.

The final day came all too quickly and it felt like we had only just arrived, while we were actually saying goodbye for another year. While Frank stayed behind, the rest of us piled onto the bus for the endless journey home.

While we were dragged from the picturesque landscape, I over heard the plans to try and “out-do” the Germans next year.

I can’t help thinking they might struggle.   

Megan Harrington