Football Beginner

looking · 22-07-2006, 11:21

I just moved here from Canada and want to start playing football. Does anyone know of a good place which can give me lessons? And a beginners league I can join? Thanks.

looking · 22-07-2006, 20:05

Come on, no one has any info? Please, help?
Thanks

looking · 25-07-2006, 12:08

still nothing? please can some one help? I really want to learn how to play!

clo_bo · 25-07-2006, 12:36

only know of teams, not just for beginners.....if I find something out I will let you know!!!!

BasilRathbon · 25-07-2006, 12:39

If you already have footballing ability try buying the Green'Un on a Saturday - they sometimes have teams looking for players.
Some even advertise on this forum - http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=128825

If not, hang around Endcliffe Park and when you see some lads having a kickabout ask if you can join in (probably best not to do this with kids though, for obvious reasons).

Macca · 25-07-2006, 12:41

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Originally Posted by looking

I just moved here from Canada and want to start playing football. Does anyone know of a good place which can give me lessons? And a beginners league I can join? Thanks.

Not a league, nor lessons.

But, you'ree more than welcome to join our social game. We play at Abbeydale sports ground every Thursday between 6-7. It costs £2 to play, and the ability levels vary widely.

PM me if you are interested.

looking · 25-07-2006, 19:46

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Originally Posted by clo_bo

only know of teams, not just for beginners.....if I find something out I will let you know!!!!

Thanks for the help! I really hope somone can find something! I'd really like to learn the proper skills!

Macca, Thanks for the offer, where's abbeydale sports ground? i know you said that the ability levels vary, but is their many beginners? and how serious are the games I don't want to mess up anyone's game!

looking · 27-07-2006, 08:27

maybe it's better for me to ask if anyone would be willing to teach/coach me on the game of football?

wufu · 27-07-2006, 14:26

Macca, what is the age range in your games. Do you need any more players?

clo_bo · 27-07-2006, 15:07

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Originally Posted by looking

maybe it's better for me to ask if anyone would be willing to teach/coach me on the game of football?

why dont you go down to your local Park and just have a kick about with lads down there?

have you never really played before at all? not at school or owt?

Malkin · 27-07-2006, 15:59

Why don't you buy a cheap football and run round the outside of a park kicking it, that way you will at least get used the timing involved in kicking a ball.

then find a wall and does some passes against it this will improve your passing and control of the ball.

This is how the majority of kids learn! or used to!

Then you will feel less anxious about being a totally terrible standard when you play a game.

mr_blue_owl · 27-07-2006, 17:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by Malkin

Why don't you buy a cheap football and run round the outside of a park kicking it, that way you will at least get used the timing involved in kicking a ball.

then find a wall and does some passes against it this will improve your passing and control of the ball.

This is how the majority of kids learn! or used to!

Then you will feel less anxious about being a totally terrible standard when you play a game.

You might get a game with Wednesday if they continue to play the way they did aganst Mansfield

looking · 29-07-2006, 14:55

just keeping this thread alive! still looking! thanks for all the offers to paly so far!

Averi · 29-07-2006, 16:19

Hi
i AM also looking for some training for my son who is 13 and has some experience of kicking the ball but could not join any club ( still lot to learn) .Is there a place where he can go to play to learn some skills.
Thanks

Big Rod · 30-07-2006, 11:56

I'm really amazed at this thread - the gentleman is recently arrived from Canada, and doesn't know the game at all - and yet there is a total assumption on the thread that everyone somehow knows the rules and objects of football. I presume that it's not just practice he needs - as everyone else seems to assume - he needs to know the game from the beginning.

This set me thinking - there are classes in just about anything these days - but none whatsoever about football. It seems to be assumed that everyone just knows the game anyway, and just needs to practice.

I have to tell you that despite living all my life in England, I haven't a clue about the rules, have never been to a game, and never played it either.

(I went to a VERY small primary school in a remote Lincolnshire village that had no sports facilities - or enough kids to make 2 teams up either)

Then when I went to grammar school, I was off ill for the first 6 weeks of autumn term, during which they apparently taught everyone to play footy - and so I missed out being taught the rules in PE, and certainly wasn't interested enough to learn otherwise. Passed the rest of my schooldays in a fog of confusion about what we were supposed ot be doing on the field. When the games teacher told me off for not knowing what to do, I asked how was I supposed to know if I'd never been taught the rules?

He said hat everyone knew them anyway, and just to make sure, they covered them in the first half term of the 1st year - so I reminded him that I was off ill at that time.

He asked me surely I must know the rules, having learnt them at primary school, or playing at lunch times? I told him that, no, I hadn't learnt them at primary, and why - and I had no urge whatsoever to play it at lunchtimes - it was bad enough being forced to stumble around in the wet and fog and cold in Games - freezing my *rse off - why would I want to do more of it in my free time?

I have met a lot of guys since in life who football has passed by completely. (Hang Gliding is my sport of choice).

So why does everyone on here assume that everyone knows about football?

looking · 30-07-2006, 21:56

Hey Big Rod, thanks for your reply. Well i do know a bit about football, and I do use the word "bit" loosely. I'm actually really surprised that there are no classes here for adults on how to learn football, especially since football's so popular here. Back home ice hockey is the big sport and they have lessons there for all ages, I mean if it's the most popular sport you would think that there would be enough interest from people of all ages to learn. I actually wrote the Sheffield FA to see if they could recommend some place where adult lessons would be available and they wanted to send me a coaching brochure? and when I wrote back that this wasn't what I was looking for they just never got back to me. I'm starting to think that lessons for adults just don't exist.

fhardy · 06-08-2006, 09:48

Football is the mosted simple game that you can learn! thats why its the biggest played sport in the world. You can't learn football by reading about, get a ball and the rest will come. When your happy with your passing shooting the rest can be learned by coaching, practice and training. I didn't kick a football till i was 12 and am happy 2 say that i can play at a good standard now!

james1k · 11-08-2006, 18:37

Ive been looking around the various websites for sunday league football sites for the sheffield leagues and non of then ever give you the the information you require. Like the top goalscorers for example. Or which players scored in a particular game.

I currently administer a website warminsterwanderers.co.uk who currently play in the sunday imperial league and im thinking of expanding that site for people outside the club do get more detailed information on games or scorers ect.

I have set up an ideas section on the forum on that site so if anyone has any ideas or currenlty plays in a league or for a club and you dont get all the information you would like please feel free to post in that forum as i regulaly check this and i can look at your ideas and see what i can do.