School Sport: Futsal treat for Marshalls Park

Lee Power Tuesday, February 12, 2013
9.28 AM

Pupils train with England coaches

Marshalls Park pupils got the chance to train with England’s futsal coaches at SportHouse in Barking last week.

The Year 9 team were selected, having played the small-sided game the longest at their school, and got to watch the England team train ahead of their friendly international double-header with Turkey, before receiving special coaching themselves.

Oaks Park (Redbridge) and Passmores Academy (Harlow) were also invited and Park’s Keiran Daly said: “It was fantastic. We learnt a lot of new drills that we can use when coaching.”

PE teacher Paul Aylett added: “I would like to thank the parents of the boys, especially Mr Fisher, Mr Daly, Mrs Hughes and Mrs Potts for helping.

“The parents’ help was appreciated as I was in London with the Year 11 GCSE cohort on a student conference.”