Newtownabbey Development Centre this year decided to make fitness one of their focus areas for their P6/7 development squad. We all know how important it is to maintain a good level of fitness, and that is never more true when playing football and being able to last the whole match, especially having the ability to hold on to a lead in the last 15minutes or coming from behind to win in the last minutes.

This year we decided to bring Andrew Law, a strength and conditioning fitness coach, on board to help us out and to create fitness drills that are specific to footballers. [Read more...]

Running over four weeks, Coaching4Christ (C4C) has developed a Grassroots Cricket Development Program for those in P6 – P7 with our qualified cricket coach, Stevie Lazars (ECB Qualified).

The program is open to both boys and girls with a maximum intake of 25 participants. Get in contact now to register and avoid disappointment!

Dates: 8th November / 15th November / 22nd November / 29th November

Venue: The C4C Centre, 16 The Diamond, Ahoghill

Times: 6:30pm – 7:45pm

“If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be SAVED!”- Romans 10:9

The Newtownabbey Development Centre welcomed Alan Nixon from Athletes in Action to our P6/7 training session on Thursday 29^th September. Alan took the Newtownabbey Development Centre for a goal keeping session. This included a lot of ball familiarisation exercises, encouraging all the children to manoeuvre the football around their bodies without the ball dropping to the ground. Alan then progressed this unto passing in pairs and then passing in fours. This exercise started off simple with the children passing one ball [Read more...]

1 John 5:14-15 says, “This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us – whatever we ask – we know that we have what we asked of Him.” 

Our dedicated Prayer Warriors meet on [Read more...]

So the start of the C4C Community League season is only one week away! Teams have been training and getting ready over the past few weeks building up their squad and deciding on positions and tactics before their opening games. With only one more night of training left for all teams before the openers it is all to play for now. [Read more...]