Changing rooms with hairdryers and full-length mirrors would help to encourage women and girls to take up sport, a poll published last week suggests. More than half of those surveyed would take part in sport if they could style their hair afterwards. Fifty-six per cent of girls aged 10 to 15 said that hairdryers were essential and 91 per cent cited private cubicles as a must-have.
Beer and cider companies which sponsor sports clubs could be responsible for making Britain’s binge drinking culture worse, a leading medic has warned. Speaking in response to a study that showed a link between alcohol sponsorship and heavy drinking, Professor Ian Gilmore, president of the Royal College of Physicians, called for a debate on whether such deals should be banned.
Elite Soccer Drills The game’s top football players possess remarkable speed, agility and coordination as can be seen through their precision passing, incredible ball control and an almost uncanny ability to anticipate and react to the opposition’s moves. Although the sport’s best players can make these skills look easy, mastery of each comes only as a result of dedication, commitment and countless hours of practice. In Elite Soccer Drills, renowned US coach Mike Matkovich shares the same drills he has used in developing some of soccer’s premier players. The 82 drills emphasize execution in high-level play while addressing the finer points of passing and receiving, attacking and defending and heading. Table of Contents Chapter 1. The Importance of Self-Training Chapter 2. Speed, Agility, and Coordination Chapter 3. Juggling Chapter 4. Dribbling Chapter 5. Passing and Receiving Chapter 6. Heading Chapter 7. Attacking and Defending Chapter 8. Crossing and Finishing Chapter 9. Conditioning With drills for both individual players and teams, as well as practice tips and coaching suggestions, Elite Soccer Drills is the perfect practice …
With the huge sums involved in staging landmark sporting events don’t rule out a Chelsea MBA appearing on the syllabus If anyone had any doubt about the world-changing nature of sport and the huge sums involved in staging landmark sporting events, the Beijing Olympic Games was as powerful a rejoinder as could be imagined. From the vast infrastructure projects to the iconic stadiums, Beijing spared no expense. London 2012’s £9 billion budget seems like loose change in comparison. What both the Beijing and London Olympics prove is the closeness of the relationship between big business and sport. Once unlikely bedfellows, they are now bosom buddies. Indeed, the United Nations has calculated that sport may account for almost 3 per cent of global economic activity. In the UK sport is thought to generate around 2.5 per cent of GDP. This close link between sport and business is being validated by MBA programmes with a sport element. Sport management is increasingly featured on MBA programmes – after all, huge projects requiring vast sums of money need the …
The Academy was officially launched on the 19th November, at a special event held at Lord’s Cricket Ground in London. The event was presented by Martin Havenhand, the Chair of the National Skills Academy, who introduced a number of speakers including Lord Young – the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Skills and Apprenticeships, Gerry Sutcliffe – the Minister for Sport and Frank Dick OBE. The initiative was set up to address the skills gap in the sector and help fill the deficit of qualified coaches and volunteers in the run-up to the London 2012 Olympics. The academy aims to provide a single point of access for training 85,000 new entrants, existing staff and volunteers each year by 2013. Florence Orban, interim chief executive of the skills academy, said: “The skills academy will bring clarity to a confused training picture. Currently, learners have to choose from around 490 existing qualifications specific to our sector and these have historically been delivered through an uncoordinated mix of providers. ”It can be very confusing and that makes it …
