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Arklow United schoolboys/girls teams would like to welcome back their players for the new season and welcome all the new players and families to our club. Arklow United is a family club and will always have a place for kids to come and play football in a safe and enjoyable environment.

We would like you to ask your friends to join us and hopefully get as many kids playing football at Arklow United. You are role models for your friends and hopefully they will see the fun you have at this club and join us. There are NO TRIALS for our teams!

Now is a great time to join our club - just look at what we achieved over this summer:
1. Our association with Glasgow Celtic has seen over 75 players last week on a soccer camp with 5 Glasgow Celtic Academy Coaches
2. Our Under 14 team have just arrived back from a week with Glasgow Celtic where they got to train and live like a professional footballer
3. Our recently constructed flood lit Astro Pitch in Ferndale Park

We invite all kids to come down and join us for one of our training sessions listed below and view our excellent facilities

At long last the wait is over...Arklow United’s second Glasgow Celtic “Train and Play the Celtic Way” soccer camp kicks off this Monday morning.

All players are to be at our club house for registration at 9am on Monday.

Any players registered for the camp who are Arklow United players MUST wear club training gear for the first day of the camp. Players should wear shorts, socks, shin-guards, jersey (or t-shirt) and football boots.

This is an exciting time for the kids and the club as the kids will be the first to use the newly constructed state of the art Astro Pitch. This is another superb addition to our Ferndale Park grounds and one that will benefit all club members for many years to come.

The players and committee would like to take this opportunity to thank the senior committee past and present to making this project happen so that we could offer more places on this year’s Glasgow Celtic summer camp.

Finally we remind all players and parents to ensure that you bring the following each day and that they are clearly labelled with your name:

·         Plenty of Water

·         Packed lunch

·         Rain gear

·         Sun Cream (hopefully you’ll get to use this!!)

The camp runs from 09:00 till 3pm on Monday and 10:00 till 3pm Tues till Fri. Please ensure you arrive a few minutes early each day as the coaching sessions start at 10:00 sharp.

All at Arklow United would like to welcome the Glasgow Celtic coaches to Arklow and Ferndale Park. Best of luck to everyone involved.

Arklow United - Special guests of GLASGOW CELTIC

Introduction of Arklow United to the fantastic Glasgow Celtic supporters at halftime in the Glasgow Celtic Vs Saint Johnstone match

Arklow United schoolboys/girls have successfully completed a deal with Glasgow Celtic that will allow them exclusive access to academy and development coaches with coach education, summer camps, match day experiences and residential camps also available for their players. Arklow United have decided to open the summer camp up all clubs in Wicklow in the spirit of football in the community. Further details will be announced soon on our club website www.arklowunited.com

This exciting link between the two clubs will offer the Arklow United coaches and players an opportunity to learn from the coaches of one of the most highly regarded academy's in the UK with Celtic coaches providing their services to the club in Arklow. This is an exclusive deal for Arklow United and has being a long time in negations as both parties wanted to be sure that that it would be beneficial to the kids. Celtic have identified a small number of clubs in Ireland that they will deal with directly that best match their principles of football for everybody in the community and Arklow United best matched those principles after several fact finding visits.

To kick start this relationship Arklow United where special guests of Marc Conroy Senior Football Development Officer for Glasgow Celtic and Jose Romero Community academy coach recently in Glasgow. As special guests they took in a tour of the stadium and some private training from Jose. The kids aged from 6 to 14 where then taken to the match against Saint. Johnstone and watched as Robbie Keane and company notched up 3 goals in a convincing win. But the highlight of the weekend was at half time taken to the pitch at Celtic park and being introduced to a crowd of over 30000 fans. After being announced to the crowd as the new community club Celtic have developed links with in Ireland and receiving a fantastic reception the kids took their leave.

A truly memorable weekend matched by a very special occasion.

Arklow United would like to thank each of the players for their exemplary behaviour over the weekend and a special thanks to the parents for their support and help over the weekend. A special mention must be made to Mark Anderson (Arklow United), Marc Conroy (Celtic) and Jose Romero (Celtic) and the rest of the Glasgow Celtic staff for making a truly memorable weekend for our players.  

  The FAI, in conjunction with the WDSL will be implementing a new program called "Don't X (Cross) The Line" on an initial trial basis for the Under 8 league. Following a workshop led by Paul Martyn (F.A.I. Volunteer Education Co-Ordinator) on the aims of the campaign we have decided to implement this program for our U8, U9 & U10 teams.

We will be presenting the program to all parents and players of these age groups in the coming weeks and explain what the program is hoping to achieve and how parents/players can contribute to is success.

The main aims of the “Don’t X the Line”:

• To eradicate aggressive and abusive behaviour from players, coaches and spectators
• To promote zero tolerance of defamatory comments or language towards referees,  fellow players, coaches and other supporters
• To promote an environment for sportsmanship and fair play in underage football
• To provide education to adults and young people on the importance of respect and tolerance in football
• To encourage safe participation for players, coaches, referees and spectators

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