Welcome to an exciting 2009-10 season for the Lewisham College Football Academy. Our first team will now be playing as Charlon Athletic Trust in the Football Conference Youth Alliance league, and this means that they will be training three times a week and playing home matches at Charlton's first class Sparrows Lane training ground. The first league fixture is against Romford at Sparrows Lane this week.
We have also completed a partnership arrangement with Fulham FC in the Premiership, which will see our goalkeepers start training at Fulham once per week, and two outfield players will go in on trial with Fulham in the first week in November.
Our second and third teams will be competing in the highly respected English Colleges League, and as a results our players will be eligible to represent England Colleges U19 if selected. Three of our players will be going on trial for this at the end of October. As ever we have continued to strengthen our links with non league teams such as Erith Town & Lewisham Borough.
Money is secured for our squad entry to the world's most prestigious U19 soccer tournament, the 2010 Dallas Cup. It runs from March 27th to April 4th, and planning has already started at the Academy. All of our academy will be competing to make that 18 man squad. There are also plans to enter a second European tournament in July 2010 if funds are available.
All the staff want to welcome Michael Boakye to his first full season as a coach for the academy. Michael will manage the third team and his responsibility will be to develop the younger players and prepare them for the demansd of first and second team football. He's an ex-first team player himself and veteran of several Dallas Cups, currently playing at Tooting & Mitchum, so the boys should be in good hands.
Finally, we'd like to congratulate Stefon Halyes, a stalwart of last season's midfield, on joining Salisbury City on a scholarship.
Dan Thomas, Head Coach/John Bennett, Course Director
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