Sharp Shooters

Sharp Shooters is a course dedicated to building and improving your shooting skills. Our FA qualified coaches will teach you different finishing methods, headings, right and left foot techniques, and how to apply power and accuracy to achieve goal after goal.

Day: Mondays

Times: 5-6 pm for 8 years+

Prices: £5 per session

Who: Girls and boys welcome

To take part, please fill in a registration form (see above) and send with your payment.

Safe Hands

A new goalkeeping course concentrating on key skills such as shot-stopping, dealing with crosses, basic handling and footwork.

The number one priority for a goalkeeper is to stop shots from entering his or her goal. The single, most important aspect of goalkeeping is to handle the ball. There are a variety of handling techniques, but unless the ball can be safely caught then advancement will be almost impossible.

Taught by our FA qualified coaches, this course will provide goalkeepers with the technical ability they need for their specialised role within the team.

Day: Wednesdays

Times: 5.30pm - 6.30pm

Prices: £5 per session

Who: All ages, boys and girls welcome

To take part, please fill in a registration form (see above) and send with your payment.

Primary Coaching Clinics for Boys & Girls aged 4 - 7 yrs

Our Primary Coaching Clinics are aimed at 4-7 year old boys & girls, combining top class football coaching from our FA qualified coaches with fun, games and activities

Day: Wednesdays
Times: 4.30pm - 5.30pm
Prices: £10 per calendar month
Course commences: 4th November 2009

To take part, please fill in a registration form (see above).

For more information contact Mark Burke on 01462 720088 or email: info@htcfc.co.uk

Enhanced Coaching Clinics for Boys & Girls aged 8 - 12 yrs

The Enhanced Coaching Clinics are for children aged 8 - 12. Once again the clinics will be supervised by Hitchin Town Club coaches offering children expert coaching that will enhance their technical ability and will support but not interfere with any coaching they currently receive from schools or clubs. To take part, please fill in a registration form (see above).

Day: Saturdays
Times: 10.00am - 11.00am
Prices: £10 per calendar month
Course commences: TBA. Please contact Mark or Carly on 01462 720088 or email info@htcfc.co.uk if you are interested in the Enhanced Coaching Clinics.

Coaching Clinics for Women

Coaching Clinic for Women starts on Thursday 24th January 2008. The session is open to all women interested in playing football, whether it is a way of keeping fit as part of a New Year fitness regime, as an introduction to playing football, an opportunity to start playing again after a lay off or purely as a social occasion. A Hitchin Town FC coach will introduce participants into football and look to develop further opportunities in the future. The clinic will last for 1 hour from 8.30 pm to 9.30 pm every Thursday from 24th January for 10 weeks initially. If the clinic proves successful then we hope to extend the sessions and possibly form a team. The cost will be £1 per session payable on the night.

Thursday’s 8.30 pm - 9.30 pm

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Hertfordshire Advanced Development Centre

The Herts Advance Development Centre was set up to help young players in their dream to becoming a professional footballer.

Our courses are aimed at elite players who may be searching for that certain something in terms of confidence, belief or encouragement, or who just need the opportunity to perform in front of scouts, managers and agents.

We combine first-class football coaching with the mental attitude aspects that are becoming increasingly important in the modern game, along with tips from experts who know what it takes to make it to the top!

The Herts Advance Development Centre began in 2004 as an Ipswich Town Football Club satellite centre, supplying players to their Development Centres in Harlow, Bottisham and Chelmsford. Due to internal restructuring within Ipswich Town F.C. a decision was taken to close the all satellite centres. The coaches working from the Letchworth Centre decided to continue running the centre as an independent venture, retaining the players already with the Ipswich Town F.C. centre and recruiting new players from Herts, Beds, Bucks and Cambs.

The Herts A.D.C. contacted all the professional clubs within the F.A. guidelines regarding maximum travelling for young players, with a view to forging links and forwarding players to them to assess. This has proved to be very positive as we have links with most of the top professional clubs in the south; we have supplied them with players they have taken in at either development status, elite squad or full schoolboy contracts and we are actively pursuing these avenues for the talented young players we work with.

Herts A.D.C. is an invitational individual development centre, we are not a club or team. We identify promising young players and invite them to our centre with a view to improving their game using the latest coaching techniques and drills. We work on the core basics needed for the modern game, speed, intelligence, technique, attitude, strength discipline etc. The coaching sessions run for one hour each week in ten week blocks. The coaching programme is designed to improve all aspects of the modern footballer in a logical, progressive format. Herts A.D.C. work to compliment the coaching that young players receive for their school and local colt’s team.

Herts A.D.C. are continually looking to invite new players and we have a network of coaches and scouts who recommend players to us, but there are always a few players who slip the net, so Herts A.D.C. run a series of FREE trials during the season and during the close season. Herts A.D.C. also work with the local education authorities, delivering after school beginners clubs, advance sessions, PPA-PPE sessions and P.E. lessons. Many of our success stories have been discovered at an after school club or holiday course. Herts A.D.C. also have very strong links with local colt’s football, relying on the expertise of local club managers and coaches in scouting for potential players, both playing for their club and also for the opposition.

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