Get Soccer Training with Frank Lampard for Free
I have to say that being British it is difficult for me to refer to football as soccer, but as beebleblog is read all over the world it is important that everyone understands that this is about soccer, so I will be good and bite my tongue and hope that other Brits will forgive me.
What is it?
The F.A. (the Football Association – Beeble) and Tesco (one of the UK’s favourite supermarkets – Beeble) have got together to promote soccer and the benefits of soccer to a child’s growth and development. They say that the FA Tesco Skills Programme is a revolutionary approach to youth coaching that is child centred, focusing on both football skills and children’s learning needs.
Children and exercise
By now most parents should know the importance of exercise to their child’s health, coordination and social skills. Most of the problems occur when trying to maintain the child’s interest in exercise so that they can enjoy it and keeping them away from an all day computer game session. There have been a few computer applications and games that have tried to bring computers and exercise closer together or to at least try and shake the stigma of computers and child obesity. However these have always tended to try and make the computer games more active rather than promoting actual exercise.
The Skills Dome
This is where the “Skills Dome” comes into play. It is a free to register website and I have to say it is a great interactive website which is fun, entertaining, simple to use and just looks first class. It has all the capabilities to get non soccer players interested in the sport and teaches them all the skills they will need to play 90 minutes like their heroes.
Learn with Frank Lampard and Kelly Smith
Frank Lampard and Kelly Smith, Englands men’s and women’s mid-fielders are there to teach you new skills or tweak and improve your current ability. I don’t know about you but to have a training session with these two professionals would cost a lot of money but thanks to the F.A. and Tesco you get all their expertise for free. You can’t say fairer than that and I don’t know many children that would miss the opportunity to learn from these guys.
What do you get?
After registering you get to design your own character and your locker room. Once you have made yourself at home you can learn useful tips, play an online game of keepy up, watch videos of soccer skills and take on the skills challenges. All this to improve your football skills and get your kids outside.
Our view
It will be great if schools get on board as well and use this website to help encourage the children to enjoy sport. However that may take some time, so as parents if you get your child interested in soccer or they show an interest they will only ever get health improvements from this if you support them, help them learn and even join in (or at the very least take them and their friends to play – Beeble). Then of course the exercise to help your child get healthy can also help you the parent get healthy. As far as I can see everyone’s a winner.
Visit the FA skills website to get started www.TheFA.com/skills.
