European Football Academy

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Football Tactics

The European Football Academy as a club maintains the belief in training based on tactical periodisation which is developed around the logical structure of the game and revolves around four key moments: offensive organisation, transition from attack to defense, defensive organisation, transition from defense to attack.

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Girls ONLY Sessions have moved

[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]Starting from Saturday 17th  September 2016 the Girls ONLY sessions have changed time and relocated to a North London location. Because the new location allows us to use a 3G all weather pitch, the girls will be […]

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EFA goes to Gothia – Days 5 and 6

[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] EFA goes to Gothia Day Five No game today so a sleep in for the boys and some R&R in Gothia town centre. The coaches went off to see Right to Dream Academy play in the

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EFA goes to Gothia – Day Four

[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] EFA goes to Gothia Day Four Game One Early game, and off to Grimbo for our final pool game. Today we faced FC Skara, a Swedish side who were gunning for a chance to get in

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EFA goes to Gothia – Day Three

[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] EFA goes to Gothia Day Three After a fun night at the Gothia opening ceremony and a big sleep in with a late game today, Coach Nuno put the team through some fun team building exercises

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EFA goes to Gothia – Day Two

[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] EFA goes to Gothia Day Two First game of the tournament and the Opening Ceremony 8am Wake up!, some tired heads pulled themselves out of bed after the first night in a strange place, and the

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European Football Academy Trials 2016

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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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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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