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APRIL 2003

22-Apr-03

FITC

For the home game with Glentoran on Tuesday 29 April, Linfield will be pleased to welcome to Windsor Park as guests of the club, a group of young people from the 54th Belfast scout group.

The boys from the Tates Avenue area will go on a tour of the stadium before watching the game.

We hope they will enjoy their visit to Windsor Park.

10-Apr-03

FITC

For the home game with Omagh Town on Saturday 12 April, Linfield will be pleased to welcome to Windsor Park as guests of the club, a group of young people from the 10th Bangor Junior section company of the Boys' Brigade.

The boys will go on a tour of the stadium before watching the game.

We hope they will enjoy their visit to Windsor Park.

01-Apr-03: Quite a few updates today!!

FITC

• Linfield have been approached by a premier women's football club to integrate into the set up at Windsor Park. We hope to have a women's programme by September 2003
  
  
• Five P7 girls have been identified to go to the Northern Ireland ladies trials
  
  
• Colleges from Birmingham and Stoke-on-Trent will be given a tour of Windsor Park in the next month

MINI-SOCCER

• A number of children have been identified to join centres of excellence
  
  
• The mini-soccer Easter Festival will run between 23-25 April at Midgely Park between 11am and 3pm. Places are limited to 60 children.
  
  The festival will include skills development in the morning and a 'world cup' themed competition in the afternoons. All coaches involved are IFA qualified licenced coaches.
  
  Cost: £5 per day or £10 for all three days. Although not included in the cost, catering facilities will be available on-site.
  
  For further details, contact:
  David Chisholm: 028 9024 4198

CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE

• Linfield under-12s recently defeated Shorts under-13s 4-0.
  
  
• 10s and 12s will be travelling to Letterkenny this month. This has been organised through Tony Gorman.
  
  
• David Chisholm will be travelling to Wigan FC to visit their Academy between 10th and 13th April.
  
  
• Colin McCurdy, Technical Director for the Ottawa area has been visiting the Centres of Excellence to observe the continuing good work there. Colin is a former Linfield player who won international honours with Northern Ireland in 1980 while playing for the Blues.
  
  
• David Chisholm would like to pass on his congratulations to Tommy Wright and Paul Kee on their appointments as Youth Development Officers for Ballyclare and Tobermore/Moyola Park respectively.