TEVERSAL
Teversal Football Club is based in Teversal near
Mansfield in Nottinghamshire. Founded in 1918, they
were first known as Teversal Miners Welfare until
1986 after playing several years previously in youth
football and they re-established a senior team, when
they changed their name to M W Teversal. Three years
later they changed it again to Teversal Grange before
settling for Teversal FC in 2000.
The club is seen as a major part of the community. It is
totally run by volunteers and family of the players who
raise the funds themselves. Even with the senior team,
who made their FA Cup debut in the 2003/04 season, it
is a very family-oriented club.
Scott Simpson, Paul Hutchinson and Mitchell Wilson
coach both the senior team and the reserves, whose
workload is performed to a solid level, achieving top of
the table status for the reserves. Paul Hutchinson also
coaches the U18 squad, while Mitchell Wilson coaches
the youth teams, all of whom are very strong squads
and put their all in, as Mitchell verified when he took
some time out to talk about it saying, “...they give us
100% both in training and on a match day which as a
coach you couldn’t ask for more.”
He also discussed the most rewarding and challenging
aspects of his role within the club, saying, “The most
rewarding aspect of my role as a coach within the
youth section is seeing the excitement on match days
of the kids. However this is also challenging to gain
the correct balance between keeping it enjoyable and
developing them as footballers but also working to the
club aims of progressing the players as high in the
game as they want to go.”
And it doesn’t stop there. Mitchell has achieved
something out of the club as well after starting out with
Tevie Tots four years ago. “My progression has seen
me also managing the senior reserves team and being
heavily involved in the senior set up both on and off the
pitch.”
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