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Player Profile:

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2.Grace Basser-Silk

Pee Wees a changing

Under 7’s update.

Ref’s Whistle.

Clothing Store

News in brief.

Latest Match Reviews

Tim Davies (Coerver

Coaching) and Majura

players at Rego Day.

Contact for the

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Welcome to Majura Football Club 2010.

A huge thank you to all the Committee/Volunteers who helped

to register over 1200 players on registration days and thanks

to all parents for their patience.

Coerver Coaching kindly entertained our children on the rego

days and gave our players a taste of what is to come. Thanks to

Coerver Coaching Director Jason Lancsar for his support.

And it was great to see players from Canberra United mingling

with our players. Thanks to Kahlia Hogg, Ashleigh and Nicole

Sykes.

With over 1200 children there is a tremendous amount of work

to do as we aim to give your child the best experience we can.

Key dates:

11 March Deadline (Thursday): Contact Rhonda ASAP if

you’d like to coach your child’s team or any team. Every team

needs a Coach and Manager.

27 March (Saturday) Team Allocation Day at the Clubhouse.

30 March (Tuesday) AGM 7pm at Yowani Country Club. All

welcome.

Majura FC need more volunteers to help around the club.

Please give some thought to how best you can assist your

child’s club. (Need more info? Talk to a Commitee member

asap.)

Many parents are new to football but have played Basketball,

Netball, AFL, League, and Union in their youth. Skills are easily

transferable and with a grassroots Coaching Course

certificate(it’s free) you can easily and quickly improve the

football skills of our players.

I wish everyone a great season and check the website and

listen to the short podcast of “The Majura Philosophy.”

Rhonda Parkin, President

Pre-Season

Lightning Tournament.

Kanga Cup

Coaching Corner

From the Pulpit

Majura Talent

Referees Courses

Girls Football

Majura Quiz

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AGM is Tuesday 30th

March at Yowani

Country Club 7pm. All

welcome.

Find out what can you

do for your child, their

friends and Majura FC!

Pre-Season Football.

May 1st is the official kick off for football at Majura, but many

Coaches like to get going early with their teams.

There are some other options if your team is unable to train or

you just want more football. (And of course you can always

practice on your own and it’s free! Go to page 3 for top tips for

individuals.)

Majura FC hope to offer a pre-season Coerver Coaching Skills

course in April, watch the Majura website for details.

Coerver also offer an Easter Holiday program

Northside Schools Football:

Girls, from ANY school, can join the Turner Schools program.

The program runs on a Monday from 3.30pm-4.30pm Details

And Ainslie Primary School has an After-Schools football

program on Wednesday. Boys and girls eligible, but you need

to be in the Afters program to do this at Ainslie.

Lightning Tournament, Woden (Under 11-15s)

U11s to U15s - Here’s a great chance to “fine-tune” your squads before the winter season begins! Girls – Saturday 10 April 2010 Boys - Sunday 11 April 2010 Mawson Playing Fields, ACT More details Great new training venue: ANU Synthetic open March 2010. Why not book a training session for your players on the ANU new football fields and give your players a chance to play on a great surface. Something different, something fun!

Kanga Cup:

Register before March 26th and save $100.

A heads up on this year’s Kanga Cup tournament - it will be

held in Canberra from 4 to 9 July 2010. There will be a 9 vs 9

player format for U10-U11 players with U12-U18 teams

playing 11 vs 11.

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Great advice for all

parents, coaches and

players.

Listen to Technical

Director Paul

Whittinghams view on

Majura’s Coaching and

Playing philosophy on

the podcast at

www.majurafc.org.au

(5 mins)

Coaching Corner

Former Wallaby, Brumbies player and Majura Parent, Marco

Caputo is currently training the Brumbies Academy players

aged 17+.

“We (Brumbies)can take a good athlete at 17 and develop them

into a Rugby player. AFL, and League can do the same.”

Marco, could we do that with a 17 year old athlete for football

(soccer)?

“No chance, football is a very technical game and you couldn’t

get the athletes up to the standard required.”

Good coaching is critical to all our players’ enjoyment and

development no matter what level of football they aspire to.

Coaching Courses and advice at Majura.

Majura has a number of Youth, Junior and Grassroots trained

Coaches. Need help? Email flanagan.eamonn@gmail.com and

I’ll get someone who can offer some expert advice/program for

any age group.

Grassroots Coaching Courses are free.

All junior and youth coaching licences are offered by Capital

Football.

Individual Player Practice.

The season’s coming. It’s time to get the feet singing and the

ball moving.

1.Use a tennis ball inside your house. Walk the ball around the

house wherever you go.

2.Bang a ball up against a wall. Both feet. Always use your

instep for this exercise. At home, at school wherever you can.

3.Practice your juggling and shooting.

4. Get the cones out and dribble in and out, alternating with

each foot and then both together.

5. Got a friend? Play 1 v 1 with small goals and a very small

pitch.

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Football Tip

Tackling is the last

thing you should think

about when defending.

Stay on your feet, and

make the player with

the ball try to beat you.

The player may make a

mistake.

Food for thought: From the Pulpit!

FFA: Australian Football Development Curriculum.

Is your keeper still kicking or throwing long in football or

futsal?

It’s hard to get your keeper to throw or roll the ball to his/her

full back, particularly if you want to win or your team is under

the pump!

But research shows in football when the ball is kicked long it

results in a 50/50 challenge 95% of the time. Yes, you might

score, even win but your team will never improve!

A ball played to a full back is received by the player. The player

has to learn to touch it, control it and with the help of team

mates solve the problem of how the team keeps the ball.

Of course there is more to improving your players and team

but this simple crucial playing style sets the whole tone for

player skill development in Australia at the moment.

Your team not playing this way? Why not discuss it with your

team mates or Coach.

Don’t believe the Pulpit? Seeing is believing?

.....................................................................................

KOFI DANNING

“I remember my first game. (At Majura

Aged 7) I just came along to watch. I had no

boots, and just some track pants. But I was

allowed to play and I scored a goal. The

Coach asked me to come and play again, so

that was good.

Hear Kofi Danning’s career pathway, from Majura to

Sydney FC on the podcast at www.majurafc.org.au

For all our podcasts turn to page 9.

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Latest Results:

Watch out for Tommy

Oar.

Socceroos 1 Indonesia 0

Matildas 2 DPR Korea 2.

Next Matildas game live

on ABC TV Saturday

4pm, March 6th v DPR

Korea.

Majura FC talent on the rise.

Majura players

selected to play for the

ACT Under 13

Representative team in

National

Championships in

Canberra in April.

From this tournament

the Australian Under

13 teams will be selected to play in the Under 13 Asian Cup

later in the year!

Well done to Hiwot Johnstone, Emma Bestek, Madelyn Whittall

and Ruth Kravis, (pictured above)and Jack Elliott-Dunn in the

boys. Enjoy the games.

Futsal News:

Ali Cook gained a New South Wales Premier League Futsal

Championship with Boomerangs FC. Ali scored the last goal in

the 4-1 final win played recently. Well done Ali.

Referees Information:

The Entry Level Course for beginners - as detailed on the

Capital Football website; and

The Junior Northside Annual Seminar (for all current junior

referees) - Radford College, 10th April.

Girls Football is booming

If you are coaching a girls team this year please take a moment

to look at the FIFA research and injury prevention strategies

for our female players.

1. Here’s the facts and the prevention strategies for our girls.

And (older)girls why not inform your coach, or better still take

the drills for the coach!

2 Injury prevention in female footballers pages 29-35 are

probably the shortcut. While well worth a read, basically each

training session should include some of the strength building

exercises.

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Majura Technical

Director will be

appointed next week.

Applications close

March 5th.

Majura Quiz time. 1 correct answer gains you 1 point or 6 if that makes it more

exciting.

0-3 goals You’re only as good as your last quiz, oh well!

4-8 goals Good work.

9-13 goals Fox Sports need you

14-15 goals Majura legend: Can you write the next quiz?

Warm up

1. How many substitutes allowed in football?

2. Aussie Women’s National team is called?

3. Can you score direct from a corner kick?

First half: Majura Focus

4. Name one of the four Majura girls or the one boy in ACT

Under 13 squad playing at National Championships in

April in Canberra.

5. Approximately how many players does Majura have

registered?

6. Name a former Majura player now playing for Canberra

United and/or Sydney FC?

Second half: Rules and Canberra Football

7. Canberra United: Did they make the finals in Season 2.

Yes or no.

8. Name one of two Canberra Olympic players who

represented Australia in Indonesia in February?

9. What is the new playing formation for all Australian

football teams?

10. In Australia, all junior Futsal and Football should aim to

pass the ball out from their goalkeeper. True/False.

11. Will Canberra get an A-League team? Yes or No

Injury Time: Big Time Football

12. Top scorer in the A-League this season was?

13 Scott McDonald no longer good enough for Scottish

wonder side Celtic moved to where?

14 One to watch? Young forward from Adelaide United

15 When Sydney played North Queensland Fury in their

first meeting of the season who shone, former Majura

boy Kofi Danning or England International and fmr

Liverpool legend Robbie Fowler? Answers next page.

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Football can be played

in the rain!

So unless it’s coming

down in buckets on

game day, don’t ring the

club, just come and

play

Quiz Answers:

1, Three, 2 Matildas, 3 Yes,

4 Hiwot Johnstone, Emma Bestek, Madelyn Whittall and Ruth

Kravis, Jack Elliot-Dunn

5 Twelve Hundred, 6 Kofi Danning, Kahlia Hogg, 7 Yes,

8 Angelo Konstantinou, Trent Flanigan, 9 One-Four-Three-

Three,

10 True, 11 Yes of course, 12 Shane Smeltz, 13 Middlesboro,

14 Matthew Leckie, 15 Kofi Danning

Trials and Registration Day:

Overheard during a Majura trial.

Two players stood in defence. Neither moving, mostly

chatting.

The ball raced towards them. Now they were focused.

“This one’s mine,” said player 1. “I know exactly what I’m

going to do. I’m going to boot it.”

Player 1 seized the moment. Player 1 moved from their spot

towards the ball and gave it an almighty whack and sent the

ball back down the pitch from whence it came.

“That was awesome, you’re good at that,” said player 2.

“I know, I do it all the time.”

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Majura World Cup

Ambassador.

Did you know Kai

Thornton Majura Under

13 flew to South Africa

in December to help the

Aussie bid at the

expense of the FFA?

In South Africa he met

David Beckham,

Desmond Tutu and

Frank Lowy!

Majura Rego Day: Australia 3 Canberra United 2

While most people were in a queue on rego day, volunteers put

in countless hours helping getting everyone signed up, some

adults (me)had time to play with the kids! Ssshh don’t tell

Rhonda.

I teamed up with Gail McNamara and her two sons, Kai and

Shae. They can run, they can play. I might be old but I’m not

stupid. We represented Australia.

On the other team, representing Canberra United were

Ashleigh and Nicole Sykes. Officially clocked as the two fastest

Australians over 20 metres in Australian football. (I shortened

the pitch immediately.) And Eilis Fitt and Grace Fieg joined

Lachlain Hogg which looked to me like a pacy unit.

Inspired by her mum’s performance, Mia Thornton quickly

joined in. Unfortunately she chose to go up on Gail’s shoulders

for the whole game. Now Mia is only 3 but it still slowed our

team a tad.

With very small goals in operation it was always going to be

crucial to score early, and we did. Shae Thornton popped a

couple in. Albeit one when Ashleigh Sykes was called away to

sign photos. (Yes all part of our plan!)

Upon return Ash or maybe Nic scored after some good

interchange with Grace and Eilis. Lachlain then struck to make

it 2-2.

But with the older team tiring we managed one last attack.

Yes even at 47 I can still score a goal. Australia won 3-2 and

one old man went to bed happy that night……dreaming of what

might have been!

And remember you’re only as good as your last game!

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Majura Players:

We know you can play

but can you write?

Here’s your chance to

get published!

Can you take a team or

player photo?

Like to see your team,

your match report, your

thoughts in the

newsletter?

Send to

:flanagan.eamonn@gmail.com

Next Newsletter 1 May.

Majura Podcasts now online.

We have a number of podcasts available for

download or listening online at

www.majurafc.org.au

1.Kofi Danning talks about his

journey from Majura FC to

Sydney FC.

2. Kahlia Hogg tells her football

story from Majura FC (Pee

Wees), Papua New Guinea,

Chelsea FC to Canberra United.

3. Technical Director Paul

Whittingham outlines what it

means to play at Majura, and

gives some tips on how to get

the best from our children this

year.

Voice from our players.

4 Boys from Majura express their thoughts about

the game

5 Girls from Majura tell us what they enjoy about

football.

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