Levenmouth Primary Schools Olympics

7 aside Tournament

Participating schools were :- Buckhaven, Methilhill, Parkhill, Kennoway, Coaltown of Wemyss & East Wemyss.

Games were played at East Fife Football Club training pitches during Thursday 24th & Friday 25th May.

On Thursday 24th May 84 pupils represented their schools from primary 4 and 5 pupils.

On Friday 25th May 90 pupils represented their schools from primary 6 & 7.

Both days were a great success for all the boys and girls showing their football skills which was a great credit to their fitness and team spirit in supporting each other.

A full itenerary of scores and winners will follow shortly from the school representatives.

On behalf of East Fife Football Club I wish to record the clubs commitment to future competitions involving all of Levenmouths primary schools as these young people are the future supporters and who knows maybe players of our club.

The work preparing for such an event is as always dependent on volunteers and my heartfelt thanks go to Dave Brodie, Peter Wright, Jamie Small, Colin Cameron & Robby Hunter.  Also to my co-Directors John Donaldson, Eugene Clarke & Dave Marshall.

With best wishes, Harry Blyth (Community Director)

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The usual car boot sale will be held at Bayview Stadium, Methil on Sunday, 3rd June at 9am. The pitches are still only £10 - the event is properly stewarded - huge free car parking space - toilet facilities. No need to book - just come along and pay the steward.

All welcome.

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Our under 16’s and under 17’s have recently returned from a week long football training camp inBulgaria. This follows a highly successful trip by our under 19’s last October.

We returned to the same location, Hotel Olymp in Teteven, close to the country’s capitalSofia.

We flew out of Manchesteron Saturday 7^th April arriving in Teteven late at night.

The Sunday consisted of a light training session, in torrential rain, with rest periods in the afternoon and evening.

On the Monday the players endured a double training session, one in the morning and another in the afternoon.

Both the under 16’s and under 17’s played 2 games each against Bulgarian opposition. On the Tuesday both teams played fixtures againstStoykovAcademyteams, the Academy teams are selected from the best players from within the Bulgarian youth set up.

Our under 17’s played first, in the 1^st half of their game they played against the Academy 17’s but the in the 2^nd half the Academy completely changed and fielded a team of under 21’s. Our guys held out well and earned a well deserved 0-0 draw.

The under 16’s were next up on the Tuesday again against the Academy youngsters and were narrowly beaten 2-1 but put in a good performance.

The Wednesday consisted of a morning training session and an afternoon gym instruction session.

On the Wednesday evening we had an outing to one of the Bulgarian cup semi-finals between Litex Lovech and Locomotiv Plovdiv, this came about because thePlovdivteam were staying at our hotel in preparation for the semi final.

The atmosphere at the match was passionate to say the least and had to be stopped just after half time following a barrage of flares thrown onto the pitch by thePlovdivfans.

Locomotiv were the underdogs in the match but went on to win 1-0 with the final to be played on 16^th May.

On Thursday we again played 2 games against the local under 16 and under 17 opposition, although there was some serious doubt regarding the age of some of the opposition players, but again our boys more than held their own. The under 17’s performed well and drew 1-1. The 16’s were more successful triumphing 2-1 in their match.

Before we left for home on the Saturday we arranged a “friendly” match between the 16’s and 17’s. Although this was a friendly game it was very competitive and ended with an impressive 3-2 victory for the under 16’s.

Throughout the week the players were advised on various aspects of full time football. This included talks on nutrition, their diets were strictly monitored, need for extensive rest periods, They were also instructed on how to conduct a full stretching and warm up programme.

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