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Healthy Breakfast for Kids – Recipes

[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 45px 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text]So in the last article I talked about setting up for a healthy breakfast and the benefits this gives to your child. In this week’s article, I have written down some really easy, fast and healthy breakfast […]

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Healthy Breakfast for Kids

[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 45px 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text] Eating A Healthy Breakfast – Part One ‘Give your child the start to the day that can help them be successful at school and their activities.’ Breakfast as you probably are aware is one of the

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Ronaldo’s Scout mentions the EFA

[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 45px 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text] The man who scouted Ronaldo – on Dier, England’s chances and his trip to London in July. Head Scout for Sporting Club Portugal (SCP) Aurelio Pereria gave an interview in the Evening Standard talking about Eric

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Injury Prevention – Part 2

[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 45px 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text] Injury Prevention- part two In the previous article I talked about two types of injury, Non contact and contact, and a little about common muscles and joints in football that can be injured. In Part two

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Injury Prevention – Contact and Non-Contact injuries

[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 45px 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text] So what is a contact & non-contact injury? The Physical Preparation team’s number one goal at the European Football Academy is for a zero percent occurrence of non-contact injuries, during training and games. All of our training

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8 Tips for getting your children to eat Veges and Fruits

[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 45px 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text] Following on from part one, Glen gives us 8 tips for getting your children to eat fruit and Veges … Fruit and vegetables are packed full of essential vitamins, fibre and a host of beneficial plant

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Scoring 5-A-Day: How to get your children eating Veges and Fruits.

[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 45px 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text] Academy Head nutritionist Glen Matten takes a look at Scoring 5 a day of vegetables and fruits. Scoring 5 a day – Part One Getting youngsters to eat up their fruit and veg is a perennial

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Sunday Competitions, Under 6’s to U11’s

[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 45px 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text] Sunday Competitions in South London To allow our players to have as much practise as possible we have organised our own EFA – Football League as a Sunday Competition. We want to make this a lot

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Self Assessment: Match Principles of Play

[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 45px 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text] Self Assessment This brings me to self-assessment, as an individual and as part of a team. At the end of matches we discuss what did and didn’t go well, a self-assessment as individuals and as a

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EFA – Referral Program

[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 45px 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text]Our Academy is growing at a fast pace and we are now in the process of putting together our teams for the 2016 – 2017 season. As we all know playing football with your friends is great fun, and

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Match Principles of Play

[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 45px 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text] Match Principles of Play – Part one by Nuno Coelho – EFA Director   A game is highly unpredictable, as coaches we try to create predictability through preparation, planning and training structure. According to this, every

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Sporting Lisbon Camp – Day 5.

[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 45px 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text] Day 5. Last day in Portugal and there was a few sad faces as our first camp came to an end. Some early morning packing and getting ready for the morning training took place, and with

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