Locust Football are launching their first football academy aimed at providing professional football coaching to children from the age of 5 years through to 16 years. The academy will be based on Premier League boys academy system and follow principles of the FA’s England DNA.
All session will be age specific and will work towards Locust Football’s core philosophy of ball mastery.
Locust Football Academy will based around six week blocks from a specially designed syllabus that is a progressive and proven method of development.
We will be running academy’s in for following area:
- Pre-Academy who is it for; boys and girls aged between 5 and 8 years, players will develop their core skills such as individual moves (stop/starts, cuts and turns). players will have the opportunity to develop the moves in opposed practice in 1 v 1 situations.
- Boys Foundation Phase who is it for; boys aged between 9 and 12 years, players will follow a coaching syllabus designed to take their game to the next level.
- Girls Foundation Phase who is it for; girls aged between 9 and 12 years, players will follow a coaching syllabus designed to take their game to the next level.
- Goalkeepers Academy who is it for; all aspiring young goalkeepers aged between 9 and 14 years, players will follow a specific coaching syllabus designed to take their game to the next level