Dorchester Football centre
Overview:
This Centre is for players who are keen to improve and show a great attitude towards learning. This centre is seen as one of our development centres but players that we feel are ready will be asked to join our Performance centre players for their Saturday games. All players will be offered a minimum of one game a month.
What the future holds
In recent time ps Step into Sport have upped their offering to give players opportunities to reach their full potential. With our players playing in regular games programmes as well as focused learning points in training, the players will really start to push on.
In October 2024 Step into Sport took 5 teams to play in the Barcelona Cup. In October 2025 we are taking 8 teams and in October 2026 we plan to take 10 teams.
Providing opportunities for this many players is something we pride ourselves on and it’ll be a memory they will never forget.
Training Sessions:
All our sessions are led by Head coach Patrick (UEFA B licensed) and his assistant Bailey McNamara. All our training sessions run to a syllabus with weekly planned sessions. Each half term we run to a topic.
Block 1- Fundamental ABC’s and basic skills.
Block 2- Playing out from the back.
Block 3- Keeping possession.
Block 4- Defending as an individual and unit.
Block 5- Creating scoring opportunities.
Block 6- Attacking in transition.
We will always look to adapt our sessions to fit the players needs whether that’s to challenge them more or simplify the session if they are finding it challenging.
During the sessions we will look to coach the coach the groups as well as working 1-1 with players if we feel they would benefit from it.
Pathway
This Centre is for U7-U14 players. Once they have reached the maximum age we will invite them into our Broadstone Centre. Once players have completed their time in youth football we will support them in finding a nurturing U18s or men’s team.
The link
Our Dorchester centre and our Broadstone Centre works side by side, working on the same aspects of the game each week. The benefit of this is when we bring our players together for games, they have all been working on the same coaching points.
Coaching team
Step into Sport prides itself on all its coaches having necessary qualifications and experience for the job they are undertaking. Lead coach Patrick is a UEFA B qualified coach and his assistant, Daniel Walker, is currently undertaking his UEFA B. All our other coaches complete their ‘Introduction to coaching’ qualification and have in date DBS certificates. All staff are regularly kept up to date with First Aid and Safeguarding training. Our current coaching team of 17 coaches work with around 1200 children a week, ranging from 4-14 years old.
Philosophy
At Step into Sport our philosophy is very simple. We believe players are playing to their full potential when they are enjoying their football and playing with confidence. As coaches we do our best to drive this by offering players plenty of positive feedback. If we ever want to give any individual constructive feedback, we will speak to a player separately. We run to a syllabus so players can see a pathway to their development. We stick to one or two coaching points in each session, so players aren’t bogged down with lots of information. A lot of our sessions are game based as we believe this will help improve them at a quicker speed.
COST
The cost for the training sessions is £29 a month. This is a 12-month course. Once you have attended your first session, Patrick will send you a link to set up your payment subscription. Once this is set up, payment will automatically be taken each month. We can cancel at any time.
DATes
Training will run from the 4th of September until the 16th of July 2025. Training will run every week, excluding bank holidays. Throughout August we will take a break.
communication
SIS will use a Whatsapp group chat to communicate with parents for any last minute info.
With regards to training attendance, we use an app called “Teamer”. This is a free app that you can download. We add all training sessions to the app and then when we send the notification out for the upcoming training, you can accept or decline.
