First day of Training

Day 2:

After a sleep that didn't feel quite long enough, everyone was up for 7:30 am wake up call to be ready for breakfast.
The group trudged sleepily to the dining hall for a classic English Breakfast. (Yes that does look like ham on their plates but English people call this bacon! They obviously don't know what they are missing and the kids were not impressed!) 😀

After breakfast, the players looked forward to a day of morning and afternoon training. In typical English weather fashion, day 1 of training brought wet and rain all morning and beautiful clear skies for the afternoon.
With such a large group, they split their time. Half stayed at the Lancing College training grounds for the morning session.

As a group we huddled up to officially meet the. Coaching staff and broke into teams with their individual Brighton  coaches for the week.

 The goalkeepers also broke off separately and received goalie specific training in the morning session.

Meanwhile, a little rain  couldn't stop the groups from enjoying their first training session with their new coaches.

After the morning session, the kids dried off, ate lunch and relaxed before splitting up again for their second training session of the day.
The girls groups and young boys headed over to the Brighton and Hove Albion training ground for their second session. Clear blue skies and turf fields really marked a change from the wet morning session.

Two of the women's Professional first team Brighton players also came and spoke with the girls teams about playing professional soccer. The girls were able to ask questions about their development path, training life, nutrition and what it was like to play soccer full time.

After a great day of double session training, everyone looked forward to dinner and ending the night with an entire group activity of kickball to really tire them out before bed time.

Tomorrow we head down to Brighton Pier in the morning before playing our first games in the afternoon.