Well when you lose 8-0 at the start of the season your mind will have negative thoughts. Our pitch was waterlogged so we decided to play the game again away at the the largest Academy football school Codsall. Brilliant facilities and good 3G pitch. The team needed direction and motivation and with a teambus carrying only 14 lads, Lichfield City Academy needed to be a team. Injuries are happening at this stage of the sesaon and the team had a very difficult training session at St Georges Park on monday -sprint training.

Lichfield City Academy reached another Q-Final and with two frustrating referree decisions lost 2-0. This disappointment was evident to see at the final whistle and the lads deserved a draw for sure. However, the positive and encouraging evidence is this game showed how Lichfield City Academy have developed this season. Halesowen Town FC were the teams first game together in their first league game of this season and the team played well but lost 6-3 and their were several areas of the team to be improved.

Playing football with no whistle...

It will be a fantastic experience for Lichfield City football Academy students to visit Real Madrid training ground to have football coaching from the reserve coaches. The present World and European champions host historical success and the Academy will watch Real Madrid v A Madrid live. Ronaldo world player of the year, Bale, Ramos & Zidane to name a few stars on show. A meal at the training ground should bring anticipation of any eye catching stars. Followed by a day of tution and site seeing tour at the famous ground followed by a meal.

Congratulations to Jordon Lewis on hitting 30 goals to date this season. Its certainly been a team effort of support and attacking play. The team have excellent striker options and it is expected that Max, Joe, Brandon will all hit 20 goals this season. Blake, Jordy, Rainbow, Lika and TJ can all approach 10 goals.

Jordon is a calm student and has scored all types of goals this season from the numer 9 position. Good speed, running and finishing are his skills. Working to the team shape, scoring headers and communication we are working with Jordon to develop his total performance.

Mindfulness meditation can be invaluable in managing stress, improving wellbeing and enhancing performance under pressure. What’s more, you can do it anytime, anywhere.

Life skills are so important to progress.

Discipline is not the same thing as punishment. It is about encouraging people to follow a particular set of behaviours or code of conduct, the ultimate aim of which is to help them perform at their best, individually and as a team. This is the aim at Lichfield City Football Academy.

Lichfield City Academy had a fantastic day after college lectures at Wembley this week, touring the England National Football changing rooms and visiting the ground. Some lucky students even were seated in the Royal box. The pitch looked brilliant and the lads were treated to running out as if they were playing a game. The hosts at UCFB our sports friends were great hosts and looked after the team really well. Thank you. The backstage passes to the stadium tunnel and journalisum area were inspiring. It was great to witness the lads inspired and motivated having fun at Wembley.

Lichfield City Academy have some very talented attacking players and that shows in our season to date as we like to play on the frontfoot and entertain. Everyone likes goalscorers and at Lichfield City Acdemy we like to play attacking football. We create chances for strikers and in the squad i have been impressed with the attacking options of Lika,Rainbow,Archer,Smith and Addy who all have contributed and have more times ahead to shine with their personal and team goals.