One of the best ways to encourage your football-mad child’s love of the sport is to get them playing it from early age. That’s a particularly straightforward task in the Carshalton area owing to the large number of beginners’ football classes that exist.
Picking the right one can be a little more challenging, however. You need to select a class that will offer football in a safe environment, which teaches the right skills but does so while keeping the sport fun.
With that in mind, we’ve picked up three of the best places for beginners to set out on their football journey in Carshalton.
We Make Footballers Carshalton Academy
We Make Footballers are the south east’s leading football training programme with hundreds of weekly sessions taking place across the region. The Carshalton Academy is based at Carshalton High School for Girls and is the perfect place for beginners to take their first steps in football.
At We Make Footballers Carshalton, girls and boys of all abilities aged between four and 12 are taught by FA Qualified coaches in a safe environment. The overriding aim at We Make Footballers is to ensure that players have fun, which is the best way to help beginners foster a life-long love of the sport.
With links to local grassroots and professional clubs, We Make Footballers can help turn a child’s dreams of playing for a team into reality. The Surbiton Academy is partnered with local side AFC Walcountians, meaning that when players are ready to make the step up to club football there is an established pathway for them to do so.
Many We Make Footballers coaches also work in some capacity with professional clubs. If you’ve got the next Wilfried Zaha on your hands, then We Make Footballers know what it takes to give that talent a real shot at getting into an academy, as well as having the contacts to help it do so.
BB Soccer
BB Soccer is a football coaching school aimed at children between the ages of three and 12. The whole school is overseen by FA Qualified Coach Ben Boyce, who supervises and manages every course that is run.
The football takes place in non-competitive environments with the aim being to develop motor skills, promote physical fitness and create confidence in young children. Once a child who is enrolled with BB Soccer reaches the age of eight, they can join one of the club’s junior teams, who compete in the Epsom League.
BB Soccer offer various classes, depending on what your child is looking for. There’s a Saturday school for three to seven-year olds, a skills club for six to 12 year olds which focusses on futsal skills and holiday camps are run during school holidays.
Wobble and Kick
Can a child ever be too young to start playing football? Wobble and Kick don’t think so, which is why they offer football classes for children as young as one – from the moment that they begin standing, essentially.
Kicking off your child’s football career at such an early age can have significant long-term benefits. It encourages them to become more agile, inquisitive and active and helps to develop co-ordination skills, physical abilities, awareness, confidence and friendship.
Sessions involve playing football to fun and lively songs with popular puppets and animal characters used to help. There’s plenty of encouragement and team building exercises, all mixed in with learning the basics of football – kicking, controlling, dribbling and of course, scoring.
