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28<br />
On the Ball<br />
A local football club is<br />
appealing for new players to<br />
join their Women’s Walking<br />
Football sessions.<br />
Women Warriors Walking<br />
Football Club, who are based<br />
at the Winstanley Warriors<br />
football complex on Little<br />
Lane in Goose Green,<br />
launched earlier this year<br />
and their Friday afternoon<br />
sessions are now open to all<br />
women, regardless of age<br />
or ability, and sessions are free. Walking football is an<br />
excellent way of staying fit and healthy and is one the UK’s<br />
fastest growing sports.<br />
Sessions are run by experienced female coaches who<br />
are practiced at coaching from beginner level of walking<br />
football. Each session will include a warm-up and<br />
30-minute dedicated coaching session on a 4G pitch to<br />
help you develop skills followed by a small-scale group<br />
game. Free coffee, tea and biscuits are available after the<br />
sessions.<br />
As walking football is played at a slower pace with only<br />
limited physical contact the aim of the club is to make the<br />
sessions safe and enjoyable for all players.<br />
<strong>Local</strong> <strong>Life</strong> caught up with Coach Paula Johnson at a Friday<br />
afternoon session, who told<br />
us, “Many of our players were<br />
denied the chance to play<br />
football at school and had<br />
to play netball or hockey<br />
instead. They love football,<br />
they follow football and we<br />
just give them the chance to<br />
play football”.<br />
Paula, an FA Approved<br />
Playmaker Coach who has<br />
played for Manchester<br />
City Ladies, and has also<br />
represented England at Women’s Walking Football, added<br />
“Our hosts Winstanley Warriors have been so helpful and<br />
have provided us with all the equipment we need, along<br />
with a chance to play at these superb sporting facilities<br />
at Little Lane”.<br />
Sessions take place at the Little Lane Complex (WN3 6PZ)<br />
every Friday between 2.30-4pm and all players from the<br />
open age group (18+) are welcome to come along and<br />
join in. For more details join the Facebook Group ‘Women<br />
Warriors WFC’, or email Paula at warriorwwfc@outlook.com.<br />
And for those men (50+) who would like to try Walking<br />
Football - Winstanley Walkers FC are based at the same<br />
Little Lane Complex and their sessions take place every<br />
Monday and Wednesday from 10:30am until 12:00 noon.<br />
For details email Steve Halliwell on winwalkfc@gmail.com<br />
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