U9s Football update.

ACE U9s played Immaculate Heart at home on Thursday, November 14th.

The game at times was fast and furious. Yasa opened the scoring for ACE with a blistering top corner goal which was applauded by both sets of parents watching. Immaculate Heart equalised some 5 minutes later. ACE were attacking often with several near misses. Our defensive players with Ethan, Daniel and Gryff were staying strong and clearing away potential problems.
 
A fast attack and ball through to Yasa once again hit the back of the net.

Immaculate Heart equalised in the last few minutes of the game.

Special thanks to parents and  family members who continue to support the children and school at these events.

ACE U9s are still unbeaten since June!

Final score 2-2

Girls glittering performance!

ACE girls proved their worth in an away game against Carr Manor, on Thursday. 7th November.

ACE scored first and then Carr Manor equalised. This was closely followed by another ACE goal. From this point on ACE produced a glittering performance with 5 goals from Erin and 3 goals from Amy. Another first class performance by Bella in defence.

We made some excellent passes which allowed ACE to storm to victory. Training session did come into play.

Well done girls so proud of you all!

U9’s football.

On Tuesday, 22nd October ACE hosted Gledhow Primary, for an U9s fixture.

This was an extremely competitive game with both teams giving their all
in the game.

ACE hit the net first, with a goal
from Yasa . Gledhow then equalised. ACE scored again from Nivan, and celebrations bought lots of energy. Towards the latter end of the game, Gledhow scored again.
Yasa was voted player of the match by the opposing time. 

We would like to thank all ACE parents for their fantastic support in all our recent games. Once again we had a good crowd! 

The final score was 2-2.

Road to Wembley.

Some of our Year 5 & 6 football team were selected to take part in the Road to Wembley football tournament this week which was held at Boddington Football Hub.This competition is always fun, energetic and is a great opportunity to see children from all over the city of Leeds compete and play against each other.

Our first game saw us beat St Therseas 2-0, our second game ended as a draw against Talbot 2-2. We then had an unlucky loss against St Augustines who were a fantastic team 2-1 and then our final game of the group stage was a success as we beat Meanwood 2-0. We qualified to the second round in third place.

We had to play St Augustines again in the second round and this time it finished as a 0-0 draw. Then we had an absolute storming end to the second round and beat Talbot 5-0. These results meant we finished the day in second place! Unfortunately only the first place team qualified through to the next stage but we are super proud of our team for putting on brilliant performances and really taking on what they have been learning in training and putting this into competition settings.

Leeds United scouts came to have chats with both Oscar and Jeremiah and invited them to go and join their programme. This is an amazing opportunity and a credit to all their hard work.

A special shoutout goes to Miss Backhouse who took the team at the last minute and also to Ben Chambers dad who helped Miss Backhouse coach the team throughout the day.

Football weekly round up.

Tuesday 
ACE U11s played against Alwoodley and once again stormed towards victory with a 3-0 win. Oscar’s safe hands as always made it very difficult to score. Goals by Harlee 2 goals and Cristian.

Tuesday 
ACE Girls played their first ever game together against Alwoodley. The girls lost 2-3 after a great fight. Bella was outstanding in defence. Amy with Erin proved to be hard to contain. Erin scoring once and Amy forcing an own goal by Alwoodley. Suraiya was very lively throughout the game. 

Friday 
ACE U11s were in action again on
Friday against St Urbans. ACE were off with power, speed and skills with a dramatic 10-1 victory. Harlee scored 5, Dominik 3 and Ben
2. 

Brilliant efforts by all, once again! 

Football success!

U11s:
ACE hosted St Paul’s on Tuesday, and the boys worked hard. Jeremiah scored early and at half time the score was 1-0.
The second half saw St Paul’s pull a goal back . The last 6 minutes of the game produce 2 more goals from ACE from Harlee and Joseph. Oscar once again was strong in goal.

Winning score 3-1 ACE win. 

U9s
ACE hosted St Urbans, and what a spectacular game it was. Yasa scored first, Gryff jumped in to slot another , Ethan took a long range shot and scored. William without question player of the match scored 4 goals. A special mention to Josiah from Y3, it is evident his confidence is growing! 
Matthew’s goalkeeping skills were once again keeping ACE  safe.

Winning score 7-1 ACE win.

England star visits ACE!

Year 2,  had a special visitor on Tuesday 8th October, Josh Cosgrove. He plays  U17 and  U18 for England, in both beach and indoor Volleyball. 

He leaves on Sunday to represent England in Denmark, where he will be playing  against Norway, Sweden, lceland, Denmark and the Faroe Islands. 

He had a great time at school, and commented on the children trying really hard to get to grips with a “Dig Shot”.

ACE U9s Football Tournament!

On Tuesday, 24th of September,  ACE hosted an Under 9s football tournament with Power Play, one of our partnership links, Steven Bailey from Powerplay is a parent at school and he helped to organise the event, provided medals and the trophy, as well
as some football cards to give to all the children who took part. 

We were delighted to have the following school with us,  Alwoodley, Meanwood,
St Urbans, St Paul’s and Primley Wood. The sun was shining and the atmosphere was friendly, calm and very competitive.

ACE l and ACE 2 were drawn to play each other.
In the semi finals and it was a tight game. ACE 1 scored and took their place in the final along side St Paul’s who knocked St Urbans out in an exciting penalty shoot out. 

The final was very competitive but Yasa scored to allow the ACE I team to lift the trophy. champions again for the Under 9s squad. We had some new Year 3 children, on both teams and they looked very comfortable with their new roles. 

We would like to thank all staff, from all the schools,  who worked so hard to make this a fun event.  The children were amazing and Bradford Park Ave provided the referees.

Fun Run!

Some of our KS2 children were chosen to go on a Fun Run reward trip as they had excelled in the Summer 1 half term. The children had lots of fun racing each other and other schools around the 2km circular route. We were then lucky enough to have some time left over to go and play in the park.

The children were so thankful and grateful to be taken on the reward trip.

Legend Lee Burgess visits ACE!

On Tuesday 23rd January 2024 Lee Burgess visited ACE and told a substantial audience, including the current football team, all about his life as a professional footballer right to his development as a leading coach. 

Lee Burgess was Academy Director for ESPZEN Singapore in association with Real Madrid FC Football foundation. He managed 700 children from age 6-16 and 50 coaches. He was also responsible for the safe delivery of training all over south east Asia and organised tournaments in Bangkok & Phuket. He won the south east Asia league with the U10 in his first year. 

Lee was an academy coach at Leeds United for 8 Years. He had UEFA B – UEFA A for children. He had 2 years work experience at Blackburn Rovers FC, coaching in their academy. He also played professional football at Bradford City and Hull City.

The children and parents were really engaged and even got the chance to ask any questions they had at the end.

We would like to thank Lee for taking the time to come and speak and inspire our ACE community.