Fife Coaching Academy
Game within the child
ON THE SPOT
Ross Mathie is the first man to lead Scotland to the UEFA European Under-17 Championship and has a long record in playing and coaching to bring to bear in the finals, not least from his experience of the former U16 event.
Playing career
Having played junior (non-league rather than youth) football, even winning a Scotland cap at that level in 1967, Mathie turned professional in 1968 with Kilmarnock FC in the Scottish top-flight. Having been club top scorer in 1972/73, the striker joined Dumbarton FC and later had spells at Motherwell FC, Berwick Rangers FC and Falkirk FC.
Coaching experience
In 1981 Mathie became a coach at second division Clyde FC before joining the Scottish Football Association a year later to assist technical director Andy Roxburgh. He helped Scotland to the UEFA European U16 Championship finals in 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1996 and 2001 as well as the 1986 U18 finals. In 1989 Scotland hosted the FIFA U-16 World Cup and Mathie assisted Craig Brown as Scotland reached the final, only to lose on penalties to Saudi Arabia. Brown and Mathie had also been to the FIFA U-20 World Cup two years earlier in Chile. Also a former assistant at U21 level, Mathie is back in a final tournament this year after Scotland's three victories in the U17 Elite round
See Ross on the FCA DVD.
Kenny Black joins Techinical Coaching staff at FCA
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Kenneth George Black | ||
| Date of birth | 29 November 1963 | ||
| Place of birth | Stenhousemuir, Scotland | ||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Airdrie United (manager) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps (Gls)† | |
| 1981–1983 | Rangers | 24 (1) | |
| 1983–1984 | Motherwell | 17 (0) | |
| 1984–1989 | Heart of Midlothian | 178 (15) | |
| 1989–1991 | Portsmouth | 62 (3) | |
| 1991–1999 | Airdrieonians | 256 (20) | |
| 1999–2001 | Raith Rovers | 55 (3) | |
| 2002–2004 | Airdrie United | 5 (0) | |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2007– | Airdrie United | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). | |||
NEW CURRENT NORTHERN IRELAND AND OLDHAM ATHLETIC
STRIKER WARREN FEENEY .
| Warren Feeney | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Warren Feeney | |
| Date of birth | January 17, 1981 | |
| Place of birth | Belfast, Northern Ireland | |
| Playing position | Striker | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Dundee United | |
| Number | TBA | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1998-2001 2001 2001-2004 2004-2005 2005- 2007 2007 2007- 2007 2008- | Leeds United → Bournemouth (loan) Bournemouth Stockport County Luton Town → Cardiff City (loan) Cardiff City → Swansea City (loan) → Dundee Utd (loan) | 0 (0) 10 (4) 98 (32) 31 (15) 77 (8) 6 (0) 5 (0) 10 (5) 0 (0) |
| National team | ||
2002- | Northern Ireland U21 Northern Ireland | 24 (3) |
Stevie Tosh
Signs up with FCA.
Stevie at Aberdeen FC
Stevie in action with Gretna in the Scottish Cup Final Vs Hearts.
| Date of Birth: Place of Birth: Position: Previous Clubs: Profile: | 27/04/73 Steven is now with Livingston Fc for the second time in his career. |
CARL FLETCHER PLYMOUTH ARGYLE & WALES
Carl Fletcher (born 7 April1980 in Surrey Heath, England) is a Welsh professional football player. He plays as a midfielder.
Fletcher started his career at English club Bournemouth, making his debut in February 1998 as a 17-year-old. He made 185 league starts for the south-coast club, including captaining the side to a 5-2 victory over Lincoln City in the 2003 Division 3playoff final and scoring 2 of the goals himself, before earning a move to West Ham United in 2004 for £275,000. Carl moved to Crystal palace for £400.000 before the transfer deadline.He was made club Captain by the manager.
He is nicknamed "Fletch" by his fans, like his fictional namesake Karl Fletcher, a character on Sky One'sDream Team.
Carl inform us," John was with me for two years at Bournemouth as Physio, where as a player you get a variety of knocks". " He worked out training and rehabilitation sessions for me which were hard work and coached me through them, but they were all relevant to football, he works hard and has gained a lot of experience,I hope that he gets back into full time football, he would be an asset to any team".
Fletcher has currently gained 15 caps for the Welsh national team.
Richard Hughes
PORTSMOUTH FC & SCOTLAND.
Richard Hughes
Scottish-born and Italian-raised Richard Hughes started his career at Atalanta before moving to Arsenal . After a year in the reserves at Highbury, he moved on to Bournemouth and his performances there earned him a return to a Barclays Premiership club in the shape of Portsmouth.
In 2003/04 he scored the winning goal in Pompey's FA Cup clash with Liverpool and, despite some injuries, he has proved to be a very exciting prospect for the future as well as a very useful member of the first team squad at Fratton Park.
His 2004/05 season continued in very much the same vein. He made 20 appearances and, although injuries hit again, he will be important to Harry Redknapps plans for the Fratton Park side in 2005/06.
When asked about the role of coaching Richard commented,” it is very important to listen and understand, you need to keep fit and work on your own fitness levels away from the ground. You need to practice your skills at home and stay behind after a hard training session to perfect your skills, John helped me with different aspects of fitness when we were together at Bournemouth FC & at International level with the Scotland squad. He knows what he wants and allows the players to develop with guidance”.
“It has helped me become a better player and now i'm in the Premership with Portsmouth.”
Richard With Ryan Giggs 2007
Queen of The South & TRINIDAD PLAYER MARVIN ANDREWS The statement that follows will probably require a second reading, but stick with it because it presages an extraordinary story: Rangers won the Bank of Scotland Premier-league last season because God was on their side. They won it with two minutes of the campaign to go with their fate in other hands. They needed Celtic to fail to beat Motherwell at Fir Park and in the 88th minute, Celtic conceded an equaliser. While some may argue that Rangers’ title was handed to them by Scott McDonald, who went on to win the match for Motherwell with his second goal in stoppage time, Marvin Andrews, Rangers’ centre back, believes that it was handed down by God
Thus when his team-mates were doing their head-spinning laps of honour that day at Easter Road, where they had just beaten Hibernian, Andrews went to the centre spot and knelt down to pray.
If his message needed translating, it was there on the T-shirt that was revealed underneath his discarded Rangers shirt, from St Luke’s gospel:
“The things that are impossible with men are possible with God.”
Four months later, Andrews, 29, is as convinced as ever of divine intervention in Scottish football.
“If it wasn’t for God, we wouldn’t have won the league,” he said. “Because I am a servant, He will never leave me, nor forsake me. He did it for me and the team to show the team that He is God, to show that team that what is impossible with men is possible with God.”
This is the miracle of his left knee. In a match against Dundee at Dens Park last March, he ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament, the kind of injury that used to end a career. The Rangers medical staff were convinced that, if he was to play again, he would require surgery, followed by months of rehabilitation. “I prayed to God,” he said, “and he spoke. God is not deaf, God speaks. Some people cannot believe it, they think He doesn’t reply. But my God is not like that. When I speak to Him, He replies. God told me not to have the operation.“Doubts came, fear came, the devil tried to bring fear into me, just as the Bible said. There were all different kinds of people speaking negatively, speaking fear into me, but I kept holding on to God. This is what faith is about.
”It was a very hard time for me, that was why I had to keep on constantly reading the Bible, constantly praying. God kept telling me, ‘Keep believing, keep trusting. And that gave me strength.” “I’m a servant of the Lord. I’m here to tell people that he is still alive, that we still have the same God that opened the blind eyes and that allowed the crippled man to walk.
“I’m here to continue proclaiming the gospel, to tell people the good news.
