Wheelchair Football
IFA WHEELCHAIR FOOTBALL CLUB
By Richard McMeekin
Wheelchair football can be described as fast-paced, exhausting and tactical. With the success of wheelchair basketball and the continued growth of the sport, wheelchair football offers the same excitement in a game loved by so many in Great Britain and Ireland.
A new Irish FA Wheelchair Football Club has recently started up in the indoor hall at the Valley Leisure Centre in Newtownabbey. Manual chair users play on a Friday from 7.30pm-9pm and powered chair users play on a Saturday from 3pm–4.30pm. All sessions are coached by IFA/UEFA B Licensed coaches.
The football club is free to attend and anyone aged seven years and over (male and female) is welcome to come along and participate in the sessions which involve skill development, mobility, team play and small sided games. If you are interested in finding out more about the new club or you would like to register, please contact Alan Crooks: acrooks@irishfa.com or telephone 028 90 669 458.
Northern Ireland Wheelchair Football Club
This Club is open to males and females aged 7+ with powered or manual wheelchairs
For more details please contact Alan Crooks, the Development Manager for Disability Football: acrooks@irishfa.com
IFA TEAMS UP WITH KNIGHTS JUNIOR WHEELCHAIR SPORTS CLUB
THE Irish Football Association is pleased to announce its support for the newly formed Knights Junior Wheelchair Sports Club.
“Continuing with our commitment to Wheelchair Football the Irish FA will be delivering coaching sessions once a month at the Ozone Leisure Complex, Belfast,” explained Alan Crooks, the Irish FA’s Disability Football Manager.
Aubrey Bingham from Disability Sports NI and the Knights added: “This is a unique and exciting project that is aimed at primary and secondary aged kids with mobility disabilities. The aim of the Club is to promote and encourage exercise for kids via various sporting activities and to create an inclusive social experience through sport and we are pleased to be partnering with the Irish FA.”
The activities are free for all participants every Saturday morning and will commence with registration on 5 September 2009, 11.00am to 1.00pm at the Ozone Leisure Complex, Belfast. Come along and give it a go.
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