Unique footy/futsal opportunities - Pro & Amateur. Volunteering, Tours, tournaments & training camps. Playing coaching
Football development
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Adventure Kicks ©, the Football, Futsal & Rugby division of Sandbaggers Ltd, offers players of all abilities the chance to visit and play against local teams. We work with local partners to offer our packages ensuring our Clients get a real taste for the country they visit. We also offer Player and Coaching opportunities providing an excellent chance to improve your playing/coaching skills, experi
ence football in a different culture to your own, something impressive to add to the coaching CV and of course the possibility of a permanent role. As well as fixing full itineraries for you or your team, we also arrange competitive (and friendly) tournaments featuring local opponents. Presently, we have teams in Mongolia and Gambia just itching to play against you. Most of our clients enjoy a couple of days in the countryside, soaking up rural culture or engaging in community projects. We round off the action with a medal ceremony & celebratory dinner. We also cater for individuals and/or teams wishing to attend our training camps where you can train and play with local talent. We are currently recruiting for our tournament trips to Mongolia or training camps in The Gambia and welcome inquiries from teams, groups and individuals of all abilities who’d like to take part in these unique offerings supported by our local partners. Our sporting trip itineraries are headed up by Martin, who can be contacted at [email protected]
Through our local partnerships we endeavor to support local and national sport development, where possible. All of our trips incorporate community engagement projects. You’ll be given the opportunity to visit these projects, meet the people involved and play some football with them. We offer you the chance to hand out kits to local teams where replica kits are not readily available. In recent trips we have taken out old, unused or unwanted kit to Mongolia so they can be re-distributed to local teams and communities.
Great opportunity for coaches to work with Scotland's only UEFA B futsal coach.
📢 Coaching Futsal workshop 📢
Details of the next edition of the successful Coaching Futsal workshop held at on 5th April. Get in touch for more details or to book your place.
Couple of pertinent features with the news the SFA is considering banning heading of the ball for u12s.
Futsal: the thinking player’s game that doesn’t hurt the head
By Jamie Fahey
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jan/16/futsal-the-thinking-players-game-that-doesnt-hurt-the-head
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Futsal - it may also provide a safer option for children;
"The futsal ball is always played on the ground & the probabilities of ball headings, which are a serious issue for kid's brain development (de Menezes, 2015; Moser & Schantz, 2002) are very limited."
The full study, funded by UEFA, was first presented publicly at the 2017 Conference & can be accessed here;
https://t.co/7TbEaT0fS8
With a smaller, heavier ball, the game is played on the ground, which means less worry about head injuries
An evidence based approach to decide what to play.
“The mathematical reason for great players coming from futsal: they touch the ball 6 times more per minute & acquire more speed to plan play in such small spaces"
https://t.co/3njw31Trcg
““Hay una razón matemática: los jugadores de sala tocan seis veces más el balón por minuto, adquieren más velocidad para planear la jugada en un espacio tan reducido. Los grandes jugadores vienen del fútbol sala”: página 94 de “Objetivo: Generar talento” de José Antonio Marina.”
AK FUTSAL
A few weeks off now from Scottish futsal League - Glasgow but nice to do so undeafted and top of the league after 6 games. Super proud of the players many of whom stuck with the club last year through a difficult period, dug in, fought for each other and are now reeping the rewards.
Long way to go but we've built a real platform for the season.
Best of luck to the mens futsal in the this weekend. Looking forward to watching the games via the BBC.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/50506749
Northern Ireland v Scotland followed by England v Scotland in the Four Nations Futsal Championship - watch live coverage.
We take a break from futsal and look forward to participating in the st Andrews multi cultural football cup event this coming Sunday.
Delighted to have been invited back to the SFA GRASSROOTS annual multi-cultural football festival taking place on Sunday, 1 December.
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AK player Greg is running the great Scottish half marathon for because a close family member suffers from the condition. See below his charity link ⤵️ we'd be grateful if you could donate and / or share.
Greg is raising money to help MS Society Scotland
New training block starting soon. If you are interested in attending the futsal sessions please get in touch.
Great wee promo video of English futsal champions attending the UEFA futsal champions League draw last week.
https://youtu.be/DcpQclN--VY
UEFA Futsal Champions League draw for the preliminary and main rounds of the 2019-20 competition. The draw was held at UEFA HQ in Nyon, near Geneva, Switzerl...
AK player's Ben Cairns and John McCallum showing support for at Friday night's Scottish cup final.
Photo by
North v South select squads ahead of the final. services.
Congratulations to AK player's Ben Cairns and John McCallum who represented the South select squad at the Scottish cup final last night. Fantastic achievement for both player's who've had a great season for the club.
Congrats on the win too. Top effort troops!
AK FUTSAL update.
Having won our first two championship phase games we followed up with two defeats. A 2-1 loss to Persian athletic (still not sure how we lost) and a 4-1 loss to Slovak lads (again, scoreline not reflective of the game). In our final game we beat Cardo 3-2 making hard work of it in the end.
Our final position was 3rd meaning we'll need to wait another year for a chance to return to the super league.
Although ultimately we were dissappointed I think that showed the progress made. Our second half versus Slovak lads was the best futsal I witnessed this season and I watch a lot of super league games. So whilst results didn't show this as a successful season our development certainly has.
We start our league cup campaign on Wednesday.
Many congratulations to Slovak lads on winning the title.
Small sided game's.
Let kids play...play the game...but what game?
This is intrinsically linked to the governing body and how they view, help and support futsal. First of all the sport needs to be recognized for what it is. Some level of Socratic debate would go…
AK FUTSAL update.
After starting SFL Glasgow with 7 successive defeats our squad of committed and courageous futsal player's went on to win 4 of the last 5 game's to finish 8th in phase 1. This was enough to earn a place in the premier Division for phase 2 where the top 6 play each once to decide the league championship.
2 game's in we've won 2 game's, the latest against Edu sports academy a group with player's playing in the lowlands league. This puts us in a position to fight for the league title and an opportunity to compete in the SL playoffs. Fair to say it's been a sensational turnaround for the group.
Our good friends in Brufut are hosting this event. We wish them every success.
We've used Alistair at a few of our events and would fully recommend.
Top Piper
Top bloke
Please see the link to his piping services page.
https://www.facebook.com/AMBagpiping/
Glasgow based musician, providing traditional Scottish music at events around Scotland, the UK and a
Interesting report. Something for current youth coaches to be tested against.
We see a lot of clips of academies proudly showing off player's doing 'rotations' but lacking basic principles...as basic as using the sole and receiving on the safe side. If these basic techniques are being missed player's are not being equipped for the demands of the game.
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Swiss national futsal team promoting futsal ahead of their world cup qualifiers. They take on Scotland next week.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2341532402653496&id=1252176904922390
This was quite exceptional.
It's worth mentioning the Airdrieonians Trust will be returning to Mongolia this year to continue the great work initiated on their first trip in 2015.
You can find details of the trip and how to get involved at the following link:
http://www.sand-baggers.com/airdrieonians-2019/
2015 trip highlights.
https://youtu.be/M6KmWWAJ1JY
A ten day fully supported tour of Mongolia, featuring two pre-arranged football matches and visits to the Gobi Desert, and Northern Mongolia.
Dream big...Go BIG
Can't forget this special crossbar challenge moment....
https://youtu.be/44UI_wX9nXY
History made as a Scottish amateur team took on a representative side of current Mongolian national champions, khoromhom. stage set. Mongolian national stadi...
A wee mini futsal tournament held in Mongolia.
https://youtu.be/rueXBU9ZcqU
A selection of footage from futsal events in Mongolia during our trip in January 2015 ranging from locally organsied youth games, coaching sessions and the n...
Promoting friendship, partnerships, commerce and sport. A great starting point for the AK journey.
https://youtu.be/G8REj7OEstM
Some selected photos from our trips to Mongolia promoting Scottish football and culture
Airdrieonians trust tour of Mongolia 2015. Diamond geezers.
https://youtu.be/M6KmWWAJ1JY
This is a short highlights package documenting the Airdrieonians Trust trip to Mongolia. A group of 11 diamond geezers embarked on a trip to play football ag...
Promo for Glasgow girls tour of Gambia
https://youtu.be/X4D02HY21_o
Glasgow Girls FC will head to Gambia in November 2015 for a historic football tour to take on the national team. Please help support the trip and share this ...
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Adventure Kicks Futsal opens their competitive season tonight in defence of the SFL Glasgow summer cup. Tonight's game is against Glasgow futsal club 8.30 at tollcross LC. Good luck. #sal
A great welcome for the Glasgow Girls in Gambia.
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