Freeland
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Freeland
Freeland FC has enjoyed a fine campaign this season and also plays
a vital role in their local community. Football Focus Magazine
recently caught up with their Secretary Ben Symonds to find out
more about the good work that the club has been doing lately.
Atmosphere 2017 Youth
He told us, “I would say the mood
here is quite buoyant at present. Our
reserves have just finished their season,
and are on for a top 4 finish, the 1st team
are also pushing for a top four finish and
have a cup final to play in. Both our youth
sides have had successful seasons with
our U13s winning the league.” “We hope to finish the season
strongly, as the first team still have a
number of games to play and we hope to
be successful in the Charity Cup final that
we are competing in.
Looking forward to next season,
we hope to build on the success of this
campaign and hope to make some
additions to the squad to enable us to
maintain a strong challenge for the league
title and also explore the possibility of
having a new youth side for U9’s.” “We are lucky to have two youth sides
at the club (U10s and U13s) at present,
after a long period without any youth
sides. Our under 13’s have just won their
league, going the whole league season
unbeaten.
For a small village club such as ours,
having a successful thriving youth set up
is hugely important; to sustain our adult
sides we need to nurture our youth sides
and bring them throug