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Alan Walker - new Prems Head Coach
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- Published: 20 November 2019
Ferrymead Bays Football is pleased to announce exciting news - introducing Alan Walker as the Men's Senior Mainland Premier League Head Coach for 2020.
Alan has a wealth of knowledge and experience in football, having spent 10 years leading Mainland Football as Federation Development Manager.
As well as introducing a number of new football initiatives in his time at Mainland Football, success was also measured with Canterbury United Pride, National Age Group Tournament and Canterbury United Youth winning on the field, with multiple national titles.
Alan was Head Coach for Canterbury United Youth in 7 National Youth League campaigns, winning 2 titles and being Runners-Up twice, finishing the 2018 season top of the table, but accredited Runners-Up based on a head-to-head result ruling with Auckland City.
Alan has been a Cantabrian for 14 years, originally moving to Sumner and started his coaching in Christchurch with Rangers FC before coaching Coastal Spirit in their inaugural season, prior to moving on to Mainland Football.
He has a father who holds a 60 year Services to Football Award from the English FA and has been immersed in football all his life.
Born and raised in Manchester as a Manchester City supporter, Alan achieved UEFA B License in his late 20's and has gone on to become a NZF Advanced Coach Developer, as well as holding a Oceania/NZF B License, with A License pending.
We look forward to welcoming Alan into the Bays family and continuing to see his passion and love of the game within our senior MPL team.
Summer 5-a-side
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- Published: 08 November 2019
The Club kicked off their friendly summer 5-a-side on Thursday night. It's running for 6 weeks, at Barnett Park, 6.30-7.30, from 7/11 to 12/12 inclusive. It's informal and fun, for all Club members from 14th grade up, boys and girls, men and women. Pick-up friendly football. Good numbers on the first night - over 30 there, with 3 pitches operating. Keen players can just show up and teams can be sorted on the night.
19s Tournament
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- Published: 06 November 2019
We had three teams competing in the Coastal u-19s tournament over Labour Weekend - two boys teams and one girls team - this is the first year we've had three teams there, which was a great achievement.
Our top boys team, the Blue team, lost in a penalty shootout in the semi-final to Coastal, the eventual winners. They then beat University to claim the bronze medal.
The boys White team and the girls Flames team had mixed results - they played a lot of matches over the three days and no doubt enjoyed the experience...
