Shelley
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Shelley
COMMUNITY FOOTBALL CLUB
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helley CFC does a fine job of providing people within their
community with the opportunity to play football in a safe and
enjoyable environment. Sport Yorkshire Magazine recently caught up
with their Youth Head Coach Damo Southwell to find out more.
Involvement
He told us, “I have been involved
with Shelley CFC now for ten seasons,
firstly as a player then moving into a
coaching role for the last four years and
now becoming the Youth Head Coach at
the club.
I was first attracted to the club by
a close friend who told me about the
club’s ambition to be one of the top clubs
in West Yorkshire within a five year
period, and also how they wanted to
grow the club from having two teams in
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the adult league to having a successful
youth set up too.”
The Role
“The most challenging aspects of my
role would be trying to find sponsors
because without them or their financial
backing then I don’t believe Shelley
or any club would survive. The most
rewarding aspect for me would have
to be all the kids enjoying themselves
playing the sport they love every week
and that for me is something that all our
coaches at the club should be proud of
because without me or them then the
kids wouldn’t be able to play football.”
Atmosphere
“The general mood at the club at the
moment is really good; we have had a
lot of ground improvements happen
recently to help the club move forward
so that it entitled us to enter our 1st team
in to the North East Countries League
this season.