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FC CENTRAL NEWSLETTEREDITION - NO. 4 - JANUARY 2015
IN THIS ISSUE:SEASON SO FAR
DID YOU KNOW?DREAM TEAM
BASFORD FC ACADEMY TRIALSCOLBY’S PROFESSIONAL CONTRACT
UPCOMING FIXTURES
VOLUNTEERINGCV BUILDING
ROOM 180
THE SEASON SO FAR
At the midway point in the season, two of the four Central College / Basford United Academy teams now top their respective division. Our U19s are first in Category 2A of the English Colleges FA structure, while nine wins from nine sees ‘Basford United Academy ’ top the Conference Youth Alliance Midland Division. Pleasingly, several more first year players have made their debut in the Conference Youth Alliance, further highlighting our policy of creating an intensive U17 group with long-term objectives like this in mind. Eight Academy players have also played for the club’s first team now, the latest being goalkeeper Jake Wood. In recent weeks, Jamie McNicholas, Robson Doolan and Joe Coxon have all regularly featured for Martin Carruther’s side. This experience has seen all three being offered a prestigious trial at League 1 side Barnsley which will take place at the end of January. The intent of the programme to offer it’s players the best experiences available was further shown by playing the second round of the national cup at Manchester City’s Ethihad Stadium complex.
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There has been a real blurring of the lines between those who play as number 10s and those who play as wide attackers. Natural number 10s have the traits of wingers and wingers have the traditional traits of number 10s – they seek spaces in crowded central areas to exploit, rather than exclusively looking for 1v1 situations, and have more in their technical armoury than simply dribbling and crossing.
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DID YOU KNOW?THE SECTION BELOW IS TAKEN FROM CHAPTER 5 OF SOCCER TACTICS 2014 – WHAT THE WORLD CUP TAUGHT USThe evolution of traditional number 10’s into more deep-lying positions can be seen as a direct result of the change in the style and requirements of the trequartista. Traditionally a team’s number 10 would look to exploit the space on the edge of the opposition’s penalty area – known as ‘zone 14’. With the largescale presence of one, if not two, deep-lying midfielders reducing the space in central areas, these players have had to evolve, adapt, and go elsewhere to cause opposition defences damage. The 10 is no longer simply “a player who positions himself in the central zone between the midfielders’ line and the attackers’ line”, as noted by Mancini, he must now have the traits of a winger (we are increasingly seeing number 10s being called “inside wingers”) – he must be able to dribble, run with the ball, play centrally or out wide in either left or right areas – and crucially, he will be asked to contribute to the defensive phase of the game.
Zone 14 is the attacking central area of the pitch located on the edge of the box, and traditionally the source of lots of goal-scoring chances. With Zone 14 being increasingly protected by midfield players, those who traditionally exploited Zone 14 now tend to drift all over attacking areas. Terms like ‘Zone 13.5’ are increasingly becoming used to describe the shaded areas above to indicate the growing infl uence of attacking players trying to exploit areas to the sides of Zone 14 and the deep-lying opposition midfielders.
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BASFORD UNITED FOOTBALL ACADEMY TRIALS 2015 – 16
In their quarter-final against Switzerland, Di María was selected to play from the right, although we see from his individual possession chart (via Prozone) that he consistently popped up all over the pitch, particularly in the Swiss half.
Ángel Di María Individual Possessions v. Switzerland 2014 – What the World Cup Taught Us
Not only are attacking midfield players becoming more rounded position-wise, we are also seeing a minor yet significant increase in natural wingers playing as central midfield players. Again Di María and his midfield colleague Maxi Rodríguez are good examples of this, as is the all-round German star Bastian Schweinsteiger. With the growing propensity for ‘inside wingers’, we may well see more natural wide players evolving into central midfielders. Stereotypical central midfielders would play off two-touches, switching the play and doing most of their ‘box-to-box’ running without the ball. In contrast now, however, there is a growing trend for midfield players who pick the ball up in central areas and drive forward in possession. Natural wide players, like Di María, with these skills already honed, may begin to influence central positions more and more.
• Feb 20th – Applicants only •April 7th – Applicants only• April 27th – OPEN TRIAL, Basford United FC, Greenwich Avenue, Basford, NG6 0LD 6 – 8pm• May 29th – Applicants only
For application forms, visit www.centralnottingham.ac.uk and search “football”. We have courses available at Level 2 & Level 3.
The blurring of these lines allows teams that play 4-2-3-1 to rotate the specific positions of the attacking midfield three. Brazil, for example, tended to play an attacking midfield three of Neymar, Hulk, and Oscar, although all three consistently appeared in different positions during different games, and often during the same game. The truth is that coaches are now more comfortable in allowing the flair and creativity of their players to be used, along with their evolving honesty and work-rate, much more than used to be the case. The very best of these attacking players at the World Cup had the ability to appear, and affect games, in various attacking areas of the pitch. They included Hazard, Di María, Neymar, Sterling, Messi and a raft of German attackers who consistently showed this capability throughout their time in Brazil.
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CENTRAL NEWSTHE CLIFTON TEAMThe Central College Clifton site team which forms the 4th side playing in the Association of Colleges East Midlands league has had a mixed start to the new term. Overall the team has won three and lost five games. They sit 6th in the East Midlands Cat 3A league. With several college 1st and second teams sitting below them.
VOLUNTEERING NEWS – BASFORD FC Students on the football education programme have the opportunity to build their experience by volunteering on the college’s volunteering scheme. Opportunities involve CV building experience at school events, football festivals, community coaching schemes and contributing to international events like the Nottingham Festival of Tennis. Such opportunities are great additions to the education and football programme that are exclusively offered by Central College, Nottingham.
ROOM 180 Did you know that Central College Nottingham is the proud venue for the Winmau Darts Academy?Students get the chance to play darts in an elite facility and have the expert tuition of PDC star Colin “Ozzy” Osborne. The current football students have experienced the room and had great fun learning the skills of the game of darts. The Notts County FC scholars are regular visitors to Room 180 – first team player and current year 2 student Colby Bishop enjoys the room and it helps him relax from his studies. Colby and ex Central student Haydn Hollis represented the Magpies in the Nottingham Sports Darts night that was eventually won by ASA Swimming. Room 180 will be the host of many more events – for more details – please contact one of the Room 180 team.Darts Academy Coach & patron – Colin Osborne - [email protected] Darts Academy Manager & Curriculum Manager - Gary Horsley - [email protected] Darts Academy Co-ordinator – Abbi Bladon - [email protected]
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BASFORD FC NEWS ‘Basford roll out 4 great signings for the run in.’Manager Martin Carruthers has had a busy couple of week as Basford have strengthen the pack with what can only described as some superb signings. Having lost Blair Anderson and Saul Deeney in the last two weeks to professional clubs in the UK and Ireland, then Basford had big voids to fill from these two star performers this season. Bringing the right quality in at this time of the season is a difficult task, but United have secured 2 long terms targets that we have finally got ,and two exciting young keepers. So with this. basford are delighted to report the signings of
Wide player -Cory Grantham - Heanor TownWide player -Lavelle White - Loughborough Dynamos GK William Radford - Trent UniversityGK Jake Wood - BUFC Football academy‘Under 16 Saturdays fight back to win.’Basford Under 16s looked like a continuation of the previous Sat crushing cup defeat to Trowell in trailing 0-2 against title challengers Bridgford.
However the lads responded in just the right way to power back and win 6-3. Some very special goals in this one as Simeon Cazley Watts netted two bril-liant efforts. Exo Bendo on his debut weighted in with 2 goals and the goals were supplemented by Nile Ion-Hall, Morgan Dodson who sealed the win. Tommy MacCauley, Liam Lander as well as Yenom Tesfalem registered fine showings. Keeper Will Munroe rounded off the day with a great penalty save.
COLBY’S PROFESSIONAL CONTRACTCongratulations to Colby Bishop on signing his first professional contract with Notts County FC. This is a tremendous achievement, Colby is still studying for his Level 3 Diploma and the college is really proud of his achievement. Colby has featured for the first team and is looking to continue his development both academically and as a professional football.
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BASFORD & COLLEGE FIXTURES
JANUARY
24TH – HEATH HAYES – H31ST – COLESHILL TOWN – H
FEBRUARY
4TH – CONTINENTAL STAR – A 14TH – BOLDMERE ST MICHAELS – H
17TH – LONG EATON UTD – H 21ST – COVENTRY SPHINX – A
28TH – ALVECHURCH – H
MARCH
7TH – CAUSEWAY UTD – A 14TH – TIPTON TOWN – H
21ST – WALSHALL WOOD – H 28TH – KIRKBY MUXLOE – A
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SUCCESSFUL FOOTBALL PLAYING PROGRESSIONGK – Barry Roach – Nottingham Forest & Morcambe FC
RB – Simon Francis LB – Martin Ball – Grantham Town & Carlton Town CB – Wes Morgan – Forest / Leicester CB – Haydn Hollis – NCFC
RM – Jake Sheridan – NCFCCM – Matthew Higginbotham – Kentucky Wesleyan College CM – Gareth Williams – Nottingham Forest LM – Anthony Howell – Mansfield Town FC
ST – Colby Bishop – NCFC ST – Reuben Wiggins-Thomas – Chesterfield & now Basford Utd
SUBS Adam Hassan – Leicester City Lee Potts – Grantham & Carlton Town Dexter Atkinson – Chesterfield FC Kevin Hemagou - Mansfield Town FCMike McGlaughlin – Ohio Wesleyan University
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