FAI to launch centralised coaching scheme to rectify disparity

“Over time, we want clubs to take more responsibility for that development but at the moment we need to work together.”

CENTRALISED COACHING SCHEME: The FAI will next month begin a centralised in-house national development training programme by assembling 250 of the best 14-17-years-old boys and girls at Abbotstown. Pic: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

The FAI will next month begin a centralised in-house national development training programme by assembling 250 of the best 14-17-years-old boys and girls at Abbotstown.

Association coaching staff will spend 45 days per year of tuition with the players during school holidays – October and February mid-terms, Christmas, Easter and an extended six-week summer block.