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The Club are delighted to announce that they received the SFA Quality Mark Development Level Award in December 2012. This award is the highest level available to the Club and represents a fitting start to our 10th Anniversary Year. Off the park we pride ourselves on having a highly effective and up to date governance infrastructure which covers recruitment of new coaches, child protection policies and codes of conduct for coaches parents and players. Since our formation, we are proud to have been able to maximise our players’ talents to a level where they have moved on to playing with local boys clubs and senior pro-youth clubs, including Rangers, Celtic, Aberdeen, Kilmarnock, Motherwell and Greenock Morton We also continue to send players for trials or additional coaching to some of these clubs.

Almost a year ago former FT player Robbie Crawford made his debut in the Glasgow Rangers first team when he played against Northern Irish opposition Linfield.This month against the same opposition at Ibrox Stadium, it was the turn of 16 year old full back Ryan Sinnamon who came off the bench with 25 mins to go and make his first team debut. Ryan found time to drop down to our coaching on the following Thursday evening and chat with some of our young players and coaches answering questions about his debut and many other topics.

FIRST TOUCH FOOTBALL COACHING12th FOOTBALL FESTIVALCAPPIELOW PARK GREENOCK SUNDAY 21st APRIL 2013

FIRST TOUCH SQUADS

First Touch Group4-under 9’sBack l-rRoss peacock, Mark McLeod, Craig Anderson, Veronica Nelis(Tontine Hotel), Ben Barrs, Niall Robertson, Kian Weir. Front l-r Lewis Whitelaw, Adam Boag, Matthew Garrity, Robbie Carlin, Lee Wilson, Steven Aitchison.

Group 3 Under 10’s Back l-r Dunky McEachran, John Hampsey, Des McColl, Ross Knight, Mick Harrington Middle I-r Max McShane, Jake Rae, Dillon Wilson, Paul Leslie, Lewis McGarrigle, Andrew McEwan. Front I-r Joe Greene, Kai Gillespie, Lewis McEwan, Katie Darroch, Jake Bannister, Conor Black.

Formed in 2003 by local coaches John McClurg, Des McCole and Billy Clark First Touch is a voluntary organisation which is self funded, and has grown from 30 players and 5 coaches to more than 65 youngsters, and around 15 coaches. We focus on the delivery of age appropriate skills based coaching to children between the ages of 6 and 12. Whilst maintaining this focus, we have now joined the Paisley Johnstone and District leagues for under 9’s, 10’s and 11’s.( www.pjdyfl.com ) Our priority, however, is to prioritise the continued development of the player rather than being results driven. Our main source of recruiting players has, to date, been through scouting from the local annual Gourock YAC Sevens Tournament which runs from April to September and the Saturday morning football sessions offered by Inverclyde Leisure. Our coaching takes place twice a week at the Battery Park, Greenock. Our pool of coaching talent combines youth and experience together with current and former players, including many with experience playing at amateur, junior and senior levels.

Who Are First Touch ?

Robbie and Ryan two former First Touch players share the stage at

Ibrox

Ex Pollok & Scotland international Davy Jamieson turns on the style

Have PotentialFirst Touch Coaching is always interested in

players showing potential at our entry age of 6-7 years old. If you would like to discuss

this matter, please contact: firsttouch@btinternet.com

Check Out Our Website http://firsttouchfootballcoaching.com

Former First Touch player Robbie Crawford visits our 2003’s

2003-2013 10th ANNIVERSARY SEASON

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