30/06/08

Dear Team & Parents
I would like t o say that the KCWA football Tournament was a great success and went well this year. All participants showed full commitment towards the game.

The winning team for this year in the 14 -17 age group were the Blue team (Congratulations) and the winning team for the 8-13 age group was the Green team(Congratulations).

I would like to say a big thank you to KYC and the volunteers (Sunil, Maya, Adharsh, Shayne & Manu )for their dedication, time and support in running the KYC Tuck Shop. Their support was very much appreciated by me, KCWA and all the Parents.
I would also like to say thanks to all the Parents who turned up to encourage their child, which helped them build more confidence in their skills with each other.

Pictures were taken and will be available HERE soon

Thank you

22/06/08

KCWA 11 - Side Football Tournament 28th of June 08......Time 12:45

We invite all parents and Members of the Malayalee community to this year’s football tournament which normally played as part of the FUNDAY. We are organising this early this year so any child going away on holiday will not lose the opportunity to take part. Please come to encourage our youngsters. Thanks
Click here for more details...


30/05/08

Next Payment of £10 is due on Saturday, Please bring this payment with you.

Any players who forget to bring payment for this Saturday, will be excluded until all payments are bought up to date.

Thank You

Suresh - Football Coach


28/05/08

FUNDAY - FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT 2008
28 - 06 - 2008 @ 1pm, Lanfranc School

click here for more details

11/05/08


Dear Team,
Next Five -A- Side Tournament to be held in East Ham. Organised by The Kerala Catholic Association of the UK (KCA).

The Kerala Catholic Association of the UK is established in 1984 for the purpose of providing for its members the means of social interactive, mutual helpfulness, mental and moral improvement and rational recreation.

KCA of the U K is working as a link between the Catholic communities, across the United kingdom. Most of the Association members are from East Ham, Southall, Hayes, Hounslow, Croydon, Ilford, Newbury park, Feltham, Willesden green, Wembley and North London.

If you wish to participate please advise me soon.

KCA Fiva a Side Football on 12th Saturday July 2008. Venue: Power league, Beckton Time: 1pm to 5pm

Adult Team £45.00 of 7 players in total
Children's Tournament will be free.



05/05/08

Dear Team,
First of all KCWA would like to say THANK YOU to Shayne who helped organise putting together 2 teams for the tournament and taking them to Eastham.

Kumar annan and I would now like to express our congratulations and the hard team effort that was put in by our boys, (Shayne, Sunil, Vivek, Nevin, Vishnu, Sreeju, Saju, Govind, Simon & Rees). They all played a very high level game of power league at Eastham, we got to the semi final which was a very good achievement for us as we have never played this type of 5 A Side game before. We have showed outstanding performance against the other groups of teams that are regular league players.

The tournament consisted of 5 teams 2 from Croydon 3 from Eastham.

Eastham won First and Second place.

We now need to start developing better skills to participate at this high level, as we are lacking in stamina and adrenaline when it comes to fast response when Passing the ball to each other at games. We also need to find out if we have a goal keeper amongst us? as we realised today in our games when we had no experienced goal keeper for the penalty shootout.

We will be ready for them next time for them…

Football Coach
Suresh


04/05/08


5-A-Side football tournament


04/05/08


Dear Team,
Any players turning up late next week who miss the training session will be asked to go home, those players finding it difficult to follow my instructions during training i.e. not listening to me and not doing the task which is required of you or disrupting the training session will also be sent home, and all parents will be informed. Any fighting between players during our training session, you will be excluded permanently. Fighting will not be tolerated.

Training session starts at 2pm and finishes at 4pm.

Please make sure that you leave the school grounds after the training session has finished, as the school has complained about kids messing around the play ground area after the training session has finished.



Congratulations to KCWA FC under 12 group who Won 9-2 Against Woodmansterne FC


Dear Team,
You all made me proud today, the game was played at a very high level and I can say that everyone contributed their part in this match. I have received very good feedback from all the parents and also from the opposition team coach. The referee asked “why these kids are not put forward for league games”. He said that he was impressed by their skill levels and they all showed outstanding commitment towards the game. Click here for more...



16/03/08

Dear Team,
This year we will be having our Onam football tournaments on 28th of June as most of you will be on holidays to India during August period.

I will be sorting out the teams in their groups for these games soon. All trophies for this will be distributed out at the Onam celebration or Christmas celebration

Payment of £10 is due next Saturday Please bring this with you. Any players who forget to bring payment will be excluded for that week until all payments are bought up to date.

17/02/08

I would like to say that the team building activity was great success and went well. All participants showed full commitment towards the bowling and were well behaved.

I would like to say a big thank you to KYC and the volunteers (Maya, Lekha, Reena, Adharsh, Sunil, Shiju, Rakhi, Sheeba and Bimal )for their dedication, time, full support and their help with each of the groups they looked after. Their support was very much appreciated by me, KCWA and all the Parents. I hope to see KYC taking the lead and responsibility in many other future community events/activities.

I would also like to say thanks to all the Parents who encouraged their children take part in this team building activity, which helped them build more communication skills with each other.

Pictures were taken and will be published here soon.

05/02/08


TEAM BUILDING DAY - TenPin Bowling - 16th Feb 2008 - 2:15pm

Dear participants, please be at TenPin no later than 2:15pm on Saturday 16th Feb, not 2:30pm as advised earlier. We are expecting no less than 43 participants. Let me remind you again to be at TenPin by 2:15pm. Thanks


21/01/08


Team Building Day

The proposed date for our team building activity is Saturday, 16th of February. KCWA has issued a letter to this last week and I hope you all have received it. A payment of £9.00 per person is required to participate in this activity. Please arrive at 2:30pm promptly, any persons late will miss the first game, as you will be in teams of 5/6 for that day.

Parents needs to collect their children between 6:30 and 7pm.

All parents & helpers would have to pay the full cost if they wish to participate separately in the bowling but are most welcome to come and watch. The cost for adults are listed in the leaflets.

Click here for more details

06/12/07

Please be advised that the next payment is now due for the period from 8th December 07 until 15th December 07. Please ensure that your child brings £4 to cover this period this SATURDAY (08/12/07)


05/12/07

Dear Parents/children =-
Please be remided that we will be breaking up for the Christmas period. The last day for football training will be on the 15th December 2007 at 2:15pm – 3:45pm.
Football training will start again in the New Year on 5th January 2008 at 2:15pm
Please be advised that the next payment is now due for the period from 8th December 07 until 15th December 07. Please ensure that your child brings £4 to cover this period.
Those players who still owe money please bring this with to update your payments.
If for any reason your child can not come to football Please could you advise me by email or phone 2 days in advance

10/11/07

Players of the week


03/11/07

Football Fitness: Important part of Football Training session...


03/11/07

All home work needs to be in next Saturday for a chance to be entered into the winners competition. Any one who does not bring in there homework will be asked to do 50 press ups, 50 sit-ups & 5 laps around the pitch. All of you have had plenty of time to do this homework.

Those of you who have mislaid their homework, can print out from here

20/10/07

A REMINDER THAT PAYMENT OF £10 IS NOW DUE ON THE 3RD OF NOVEMBER
A £2 ADMINISTRATION CHARGE WILL BE ADDED EACH WEEK FOR ALL LATE PAYMENTS.
Those of you who have already paid in advance, this does not apply to you


20/10/07

Team,
A reminder that homework should be in before the 7th of November and all questions should be answered in full.

Please make sure that if you are not available for football training that you email me suresh5@sky.com or ring me on 07894432222 at least 2 days before.

As the days are getting colder please could you bring an extra layer of clothing to keep warm, though you should be moving around all the time with the exercise which should keep you warm.


08/10/07

I have noticed that some of you are still finding it difficult to do throw-in during a game.Please could you
goto our rules page and read "Throw" and see the illustration on how to take a throw-in; I will be watching you to see if you all have read the information and practiced the proper way to do a throw-in.


20/08/07

Due to one of the players now being available for the tournament on Monday, I have changed 3 players around and added a new player as well. This is now final version for Monday. See the final team


17/08/07

Winners of 5-a side football competition
1, Deepu Saasivan
2, Anu Vaman
3, Manu Dinamni
4, Saju Sasikumar
5, Navas Karim

Runners up
1,Anthony
2,Robin Pereira
3,Joy Benitto
4,Joseph D'Silva
5,Ashish Joseph
6,Paul Pereira
.......................See here for more details


12/08/07

Please be advised that, the 5 A side Tournament will take place at Lanfranc school on the 19th of August, depending on the weather. We may get to use the outside 5 a-side pitch, which is located next to the indoor badminton pitch, If it rains then we will have to use the indoor pitch from 3:30pm onwards as this pitch is been used by the badminton group every Sunday. But if it does not rain then we will be able to use the outside pitch which is available from 1pm.

So keep an eye on the weather! if it rains then come at 3.30pm and no rain 1pm to use outside pitch.

Hopefully we should have 5 teams, each team will play against each other, teams will be in groups of 5 players with 1/2 subs each team will need to pay £15, your teams will be A, B, C, D & E.

Please note that the ONAM SADHYA is on 1st of September from 12pm.
Please also note that football training will continue at 2pm after the onam Sadhya at lanfranc


28/07/07

Dear Team,
Several players were missing today without informing me of there whereabouts, as we are getting closer to the tournament date I would appreciate that every player makes every effort to advise me of their availability for each week, otherwise you may be excluded from the football tournament in August. This is because we need every player available each week to practice with each other in their teams to assess balance of the team layout.

Today it was very difficult due to players missing and not keeping me informed.

Please make sure you wear the correct colours for your teams each week running up to the football Tournaments. Thank you.

Players of the week - 28/07/07

Suresh (Coach)


24/07/07

Teams of this years Onam Football competition has been decided - See here

20/07/07

Team,
I have been informed by KCWA that we are unable to use the Pitch at Lanfranc School Tomorrow as a private function has booked the whole school, due to this we will forward all payments by an extra week. KCWA & Lanfranc school would like apologises for the short notice and inconvenience. football training will be back on 28th of July at the normal time.

14/07/07

See updated pages:
Team Photos
Player of the month
Player of the Week

06/07/07

Please remember to come wearing your football team shirts this Saturday for the team photo shoot,

Please turn up at 2pm. so we can start the training session on time. I will putting each of you in your new teams this Saturday for the forth coming Onam tournaments.

ALSO A REMINDER THAT A PAYMENT OF £10 IS NOW DUE THIS SATURDAY. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU BRING THIS WITH YOU, OTHERWISE A £2 ADMINISTRATION CHARGE WILL BE ADDED FOR EACH WEEK PAYMENT IS NOT RECEIVED.

02/07/07

Dear Team,

We are getting closer to our Onam celebrations and during this time we will be holding our annual KCWA 11 -side Football Tournaments. I will be selecting 3 teams from the under 8-12 and 2 teams from the 13-17 year old groups. The new teams will compete against each other, and the winners will receive trophies, the runner up teams will receive achievements medals awarded to their team.

The tournament games will be played on 27th of August, this date is to be confirmed. The Onam Fun day also falls on the 27th which is the Bank Holiday Monday; The Onam Program is on the Sunday 2nd of September. These dates are not confirmed yet, but we will advise you closer the time. If we do not get enough time slots on the 27th of August to play all the games, then we will be playing one game on the 25th of August.

Firstly please could you all advise me if any of you will not be available on 25th August & 27th of August, so I can work out how many players we will have for the forth coming tournaments.

I have selected all the teams who will be playing against each other; you will be able to view your teams later at this site.

All members of the team should make sure you are wearing correct coloured tops. Match and kit information will be at this site soon.

Suresh
(Football Coach)

PS: If any of you are interested in participating in indoor 5-A-side football, which is part of this year’s KCWA Onam sports competitions, please contact me as soon as possible.
There is a an entry fee to this competition, this will be advised here soon.

Thanks

30/06/07

I would like to inform you all that (football is played all year round) despite different types of weather we have here, I will try to notify you all if football Training is cancelled due to any issues with the school pitch.  Please have a read below of the issues regarding playing football in wet weather. Please ensure that all children do attend football training as they will need to get use to this type of football.

 

Thank you

                                               

 

One thing which undoubtedly affects football games in the UK is the wet weather. Rain before a match can make the surface very soft, and make it difficult to keep your footing. Players generally change the studs on their boots when the conditions under-foot are wet. Longer studs mean they can get more grip on the surface.

Many pitches will have underground drainage systems to take excess water out of the ground, however at smaller venues, this luxury isn’t available, and the pitch can have water sitting on the surface, which will affect the run of the ball played along the ground, and therefore increase the skill and control needed by the players.

Visibility
Heavy rain will also have an impact on visibility, making it harder for team-mates to see each other and their opponents, and also make it more difficult to see the ball. All of these factors will mean players will have to think about their moves a lot quicker. Fog and mist will also affect visibility and for the referee this can be crucial because it is important he sees what is going on in the game.

Cold weather
Cold weather is quite frequent during a British winter, so the players should be quite used to it. Some players wear additional clothing to keep their body heat warm and some wear gloves to keep the chill off their hands. If wind is included in the equation, the situation can be a lot more unpleasant, and it makes it increasingly important for the players to warm-up correctly so they don’t pull muscles, which are more likely in colder conditions. The coldness can cause the loss of body heat and if the players aren’t prepared for this, it can be quite dangerous for their health

Wind
The wind can also play a big part on the game as it can affect the direction the ball goes. Kicking the ball off the ground in the wind involves a lot more skill as the players have to take into consideration which way the wind is blowing, because it will carry the ball.

Tactically, it might be decided to keep the ball low to the ground in very windy conditions to increase the chances of holding onto possession of it. For goalkeepers it can be very difficult to save balls which swerve in the wind, and when they are trying to take a goal kick, the wind can carry the ball, possibly reducing the advantage such a situation.

Dry and hot
When the weather is dry, the ball can again be quite difficult to control. The ball can bounce along the surface, so the skill of the players is again called for. If the surface is particularly hard, many players will wear moulded studs on their boots, because otherwise blisters can be a problem. Some clubs spray their pitches just before a game when conditions are particularly dry, to make it a bit quicker.

Hot conditions and even humidity will mean increased perspiration for the players, and therefore an increased risk of dehydration. It is therefore important for them to replenish liquids at every opportunity. This heat can also increase the chance of the players suffering with cramp, which can end the game for an individual in severe cases.