Outstanding evening for
@bcfcacademy
this evening! Excellent to see players fulfilling dreams tonight and given an opportunity and great to have the PDP coaching staff in attendance as part of our CPD evening! 💙👏⚽️
Excellent week
@BCFCAcademy
Academy with our first Academy day on Monday for our U7-U16 groups all training with the first team, our U8s signing day today and capping the week off with appearances for
@JordanJaj66
@j_bellingham
@nicogordon50
and George Hall today! 💪⚽️💙
Continuing that pathway to First Team!
Last night's game marked 5️⃣0️⃣ consecutive matches that a
@BCFCAcademy
graduate has featured in the senior matchday squad. 👏
Great to see another start for an academy graduate and 5 on the bench! Capping off an excellent week with two strong performances for both our U18 and U23 groups! Good luck lads! 💙💪⚽️
Excellent CPD event tonight for our
@BCFCAcademy
coaches from Paul, Tom and Robbo
@WarwickshireCCC
! Great to both share and challenge across sports! 🏏⚽️
📽 Some of the best highlights from our recent trip to Lithuania with a group of our players born in 2008!
Blues competed in the Ateitis Cup with a range of teams from across Europe and found lots of time to embrace the local culture.
🇱🇹⚽️
#BCFC
Great night
@bcfcacademy
YDP CPD evening! A good night of learning made even better by two great performances from
@BellinghamJude
and match winner
@OdinBailey
! Well done lads!!! 💙⚽️💙
A massive thank you to both Mark Kennedy and
@kblewettpsych
for two engaging presentations at tonight’s
@bcfcacademy
CPD evening. Excellent day of learning following the
@premierleague
EHOC support day earlier with Jock Clear! ⚽️🙌🧠
📝 Mike Dodds has been appointed to a new role as Head of the Professional Development Phase.
The adjustment to the structure of
@bcfcacademy
will allow for greater continuity and cohesion between the Under-16s and Under-23s age groups.
Doc Rivers provides the greatest coaching advice you will ever hear👇
🗣”Some of the advice I got was completely wrong ‘Don’t get too close to them.’ That’s awful advice, get close to them… Your job is to coach them, make them better players, better people & better teammates.”
1,696 - Most minutes given to teenagers in the
@SkyBetChamp
this league. 👊
6 - Most teenagers used in 2022/23 (Jobe, JJ, Josh, Hannibal, Alfie, George). 📈
Another really enjoyable
@bcfcacademy
ted talk event again today! Well done
@MikeDodds01
for the hard work and organisation and to all the presenters who gave up their valuable time! ⚽️
Some great lessons from
#TheLastDance
“Micheals got to realise he’s not going to carry a team”...”One guy cant turn the whole thing around”...”None of the experts thought that he would become what he became”...”When I drafted Micheal I didn’t have a clue how good he was” 🏀
DIWEDDARIAD CARFAN 🏴
Jordan James has been added to the squad for his first senior team call up.
Ben Davies and Joe Allen have been forced to withdraw due to injury.
#TogetherStronger
Great CPD Day, massive thanks to
@MichaelBeale
and
@r_groom
for taking time out of their respective busy schedules to talk all things coaching! Champions League football to finish the day! ⚽️
📰 We are pleased to announce that experienced coach Keith Downing has joined John Eustace’s backroom staff at the club.
The 58-year-old worked as assistant coach to Eustace at Birmingham City and he now takes on the same role at
#Rovers
, alongside Matt Gardiner.
🔵⚪️
CLUB PLACEMENT PROGRAMME | Applications are open for the 2021/22 season!
We've partnered with 16 professional clubs to provide academy placements for coaches from historically underrepresented backgrounds.
Does this sound like something for you? Apply today on The Boot Room 👇
@MikeDodds01
Doddsy I must say the way you and Birmingham handled the development of Jude is admirable 👏🏿. The amount of hours on and off pitch that you put in as a coach can go unnoticed. Well done mate 👏🏿. Dortmund have got a good young man and a terrific player.
Training ground staff are raising money for
@ProstateUK
! 💙
The lads are either running 5k or cycling 15k each day throughout November to raise money for the charity. 👊
A new role for Paul Harsley! 👏🔵
"I will be a First Team Coach on a daily basis, but then also be looking after the younger players coming into the First Team set-up and to support their technical development."
John Eustace delighted with the three points for
@BCFC
and full of praise for the Academy after big performances from youngsters Hall, Chang and James.
We are excited to get involved with the FA Club Placement Programme again this season, last seasons placement was a huge success ⚽️ Please see the link below...
@bcfcacademy
🏃♂️ Staff at Blues have come together to help raise funds for our local hospitals during the current
#COVID19
pandemic.
We are to cover the distance between Land's End and John o'Groats over a three-day period from Friday 8 May to Sunday 10 May.
#KROchallenge