Girls win again well done girls.

Sale United's U10 Girls won the Urmston Town Tournament on Saturday, adding to their collection of trophies for the season.
Not the best of weather, but the girls battled hard throughout the day. Victories against Northside, Unicorn and Broadheath and a draw against Deans in the league stages were enough to secure top spot in their group.
A convincing 5-1 win over Broadheath in the semi and a much closer 1-0 defeat of Deans in the final saw the girls take the tournament overall.
Deans FC will be looking forward to attempting to get their own back next Sunday at the Unicorn Tournament.

New Coaches needed

29 Jul 04 New Managers and Coaches RequiredOur junior squad membership continues to grow and in order to maintain this we are now looking for adults who want to test their skills by becoming the next Alex Ferguson or Kevin Keegan. Our Open Age sides are also in need of extra managerial skills. Full training and support will be given by the Club including sponsorship for any level of the FA Coaching awards. If this would interest you then please get in touch with us for further details on 0161 905 3099.

Sale United Girls

More than 30 kids came along to Sale United this week for the 2nd Week of the Summer Soccer School. All of them enjoyed a combination of football skills coaching and fun and games.
In spite of the hot and sticky weather they were all keen to play football all day, and the old line 'when are we having a game' rang through the coaches' ears from the 9.30 start until they all went home at 3.30. Many of the players will be returning for 'extra weeks' based on their enjoyment of the sessions, and a number of them have already signed-on as new players for next season.

Chief coach and event organiser Phil Dennison, ably assisted by his more youthful coaching team, were kept busy all week but are looking forward to the week's final session on Friday which will consist of a 'Dutch Vision Tournament' with medals and certificates being given out at the end of the day. Based on the effort and skills shown today, they will have a difficult decision to make to choose their player of the week.

Soccer School 2004

More than 30 kids came along to Sale United this week for the 2nd Week of the Summer Soccer School. All of them enjoyed a combination of football skills coaching and fun and games.
In spite of the hot and sticky weather they were all keen to play football all day, and the old line 'when are we having a game' rang through the coaches' ears from the 9.30 start until they all went home at 3.30. Many of the players will be returning for 'extra weeks' based on their enjoyment of the sessions, and a number of them have already signed-on as new players for next season.

Chief coach and event organiser Phil Dennison, ably assisted by his more youthful coaching team, were kept busy all week but are looking forward to the week's final session on Friday which will consist of a 'Dutch Vision Tournament' with medals and certificates being given out at the end of the day. Based on the effort and skills shown today, they will have a difficult decision to make to choose their player of the week.

Transition football

Boys aged 10 but under 11 on 31st August 2004 will move from 7-a-side football to the full 11-a-side game in the coming new 2004/5 season.
To help Clubs and players make this transition Sale United are holding an 11-a-side tournament for these boys over the weekend of September 4th and 5th at the Crossford Bridge site.Squads of up to 20 players will be allowed, to enable as many boys as possible to take advantage of this unique opportunity. Squads will be competing for the “Eric Speake Cup” in memory of our former Club Secretary and Open Age team manager who sadly passed away after a short illness in August 2003.
Cost of entry into the competition is £60 and an Application Form can be downloaded from this site. As the tournament has been postponed from the original date in August, the deadline for application forms has also moved to 3rd September - however you must register your interest before 1st September by phoning the club on 0161 905 3099

2005 Soccer School

Two of Manchester United’s rising young stars, Chris Eagles, along with Youth Team player Fraser Campbell, took a break from training to assist the presentation of the final awards at the end of Sale United’s six week Soccer School program which ended last Friday at our Crossford Bridge Ground.
Chris has already broken into the First team squad and only two weeks ago played in the 3-0 victory against Dynamo Bucharest in the qualifying stage of this year’s Champions League campaign. Fraser is one of the more senior Academy players playing at Under 18 level.

Back row, second from left Stewart Hamer, Chris Eagles, Fraser Campbell, Phil Dennison flanked by two junior Soccer School helpers..
Front row: Some of the special awards winners at the final week of the Soccer School program.
For the 30 youngsters attending the final week of the Summer Soccer School it was a highlight to meet the two professional football players who were willing to take questions about their life playing for one of the World’s leading football clubs. The inevitable question of whether they had met Wayne Rooney was just one that was put to Chris.
This was the first time that Sale United had staged such an extensive Summer Soccer program and Phil Dennison, the Soccer School co-ordinator said that he had been taken aback by the improvement in skill of many of the players, especially the ones who had previously had very little experience of the game. He was also pleased about the number of players who now wanted to sign up to become members of one of the Sale United junior football squads.
Club Chairman Stewart Hamer thanked Phil and his coaching team who despite some poor weather during some of the past few weeks had worked extremely hard to give the youngsters such a varied program of activities. He hoped that similar programs would be set up in the future.

Eric Speak cup

The Eric Speake Cup (4 Sep)
Seven teams from around the Greater Manchester area took part in the inaugural 11-a-side football competition for Under 11 players at Sale United’s Crossford Bridge Ground last Saturday.
This competition has been set up in memory of Eric Speake a former stalwart of the Club who sadly passed away just over twelve months ago after a short illness. It had been staged particularly for this age group who this season have to make a difficult transition from 7-a-side football to the full 11-a-side game, For instance, it will be the first time they have to come to terms with the off-side rule. All the teams did very well with this.
Unfortunately Sale United’s own teams could only make the semi-final stage of the competition and it was Chaddy End who swept the board with both of their sides reaching the Final. Broadway Celtic took the third placed position.
Club Chairman Stewart Hamer presented the awards saying that the competition had been an ideal way to celebrate Eric’s memory . He said he didn’t think that Eric would have been too disappointed that the home side didn’t win the trophy, the important thing was that over 100 lads who wanted to play football had had such a tremendous day