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In all this doom and gloom, BBC 1 Local News program Look North has decided to show the brighter side of the economy, by running a week of good news stories. Steve from our team was interviewed this week, to talk about what QuickPlaySport and Kickster is doing for Grassroots football in the region.  We are continually working with clubs, coaches and regional FA's to improve the quality of football training for juniors everywhere.

You can see the profile, which goes out on Look North, BBC1 throughout the day on Friday 10th April... however, don't worry if you miss it or if Look North isn't your regional news show, we'll be putting the footage on our YouTube Channel as soon as we get a copy. Watch This Space!
 


QuickPlaySport has provided goals to the guys at the Football Africa Project, which are as we speak being taken around Africa on a mission to raise AIDs awareness on the contintent. Here's their plan:

-To travel through 8 countries in Africa: Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Botswana & South Africa
-To play football as a way of breaking down barriers and as a form of communication
-To use art and film to record the process and our individual personal journeys
-To use Tackle Africa training materials to coach people about the dangers and prevention of HIV and AIDS
-To leave footballs and football shirts in as many places as we can

What a great idea... and we've supplied the goals for the job. Videos & Pictures coming soon.

Please show your support for the project by going to the Football Africa website and making a donation. http://www.footballafrica.org.uk



Great News!  Kickster was featured on BBC2's Sunday morning show, Something For The Weekend. The show contacted the QuickPlaySport team to feature Kickster in their Gadget slot and gave it a fantastic review.  Tim Lovejoy and his two daughters played with the goal and thought it was "a brilliant peice of kit".  Remember to watch videos of Kickster in action on our YouTube Channel: QuickPlaySportdotcom a video of the show will be up there soon.

28th FEB UPDATE!  A video of the review is now up on our YouTube Channel... Have a look at it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFl2e0SOpJs&feature=channel_page



We're really pleased to have one of the best Goal Keepers in the World endorsing the Kickster Portable Goal. Brad Friedel, who's having a fantastic season at his new club Aston Villa, only last week set a new record of 167 consecutive Premier League appearances (and growing). He is arguably one of the greatest players of his generation and he's now joined the QuickPlay team to support and improve grassroots football everywhere. You can learn to be like him with Kickster.

What does he think of Kickster? Simply put "QuickPlay Goals are the best on the market"- you can watch his video here and see other Kickster YouTube videos here.
We've uploaded some great videos of the Kickster Football Goal in use onto YouTube.

Just go to the QuickPlaySport YouTube Page here or just copy this text into your browser:

http://uk.youtube.com/user/QuickPlaySportdotcom

Here's an article written about Quick Play Sport recently on Sheffield F.C.'s website...

Sheffield FC joined QuickPlaySports at Meadowhall on Monday to celebrate its 151st Birthday and enjoy a good old penalty shoot out using Kickster portable goals.

Kickster is the Worlds Most portable goal and they teamed up with the World’s First football club to collect Boots for Africa and have an enjoyable indoor football event – the winner being Isaac Platin age 7.  Isacc will be invited to Sheffield Football Club where he will meet the players and collect his replica shirt.
...See the full article here Sheffield F.C.

Recently Dave was good enough to keep goal at the opening of the Crown Paint store at Brentford, supported by Quick Play Sport. Dave thought the Kickster goals were great and was really happy with to have his photo taken with us. Dave's former clubs include Newcastle United, Chelsea, Southampton, Nottingham Forest, Portsmouth, Tottenham Hotspur, Brighton & Hove Albion and Wigan Athletic.

He became the first goalkeeper to save a penalty in an FA Cup final when he blocked John Aldridge's spot-kick for Liverpool in 1988 and in doing so helped Wimbledon secure a famous 1–0 win. He was also the first goalkeeper to captain his team in an FA Cup final. Dave won two caps for England and went to the 1990 World Cup.




Neville Southall With Kickster
Neville Southall MBE recently kept goal for Quick Play Sport at Wakefield, for the Netto national sales and marketing meeting. Neville said about the Kickster goals: “they are brilliant. There’s nothing like them on the market, they’re ideal". Neville has been described as one of the best goalkeepers of his generation and won the FWA Footballer of the Year award in 1987. He was awarded the MBE in 1995 for his services to football.


Southall joined Everton in 1980 and went on to make a club record 578 appearances in the Football League and helped the team to win a number of honours including the league championship and FA Cup on two occasions each and the European Cup Winners Cup. He also played internationally for Wales, winning a record 93 caps. Since his retirement as a player Southall has managed a number of non-league teams and has coached the Welsh national youth teams.


A slow motion still from behind the ball firing machine.
We've been in the lab with Sheffield Hallam University's Sports Engineering at Centre for Sport and Exercise Science (CSES), testing our goals to world record speeds! The aim of the day was to test our current Kickster goals and our new (top secret) design using CSES' ball firing machine, testing the goals to football shots fired at 90mph!... that's faster than Steven Gerrad can kick it! We also used super slow motion cameras to see exactly what happens when a goal is scored. It was a great test for the goals which they passed with fying colors. Our friends at Fable Films even caught on camera for us...

you can watch the video here.




Quick Play Sport were invited by Aston Villa's Goal Keeper Brad Friedel to take our Kickster Portable Goals out to the USA to his Premier Soccer Academies (PSA) in Lorain, Ohio- for the PSA World Youth Tournament. The tournament involved a week of matches between a group of world class youth teams. The eight teams which participated included three national teams (Chile,Nigeria, and Venezuela), Chivas and Club America from Mexico, Blackburn Rovers, Colorado Rush Select XI from the USA and the PSA Academy Team. It was a great honour (and great fun) to support this event.

Kickster received more great feedback from all the kids and adults at the event and from Brad himself. It's fantastic that players of all ages and abilties (from amateur all the way up to the premier league) are endorsing the Kickster Portable Goal.



Kickster at SAFA's Academy Experience 2008
It's been a busy summer for the Quick Play team, we've not stopped since the massive success and great feedback from the Grass Roots Football LIVE show, but we did find some time in August to make our way down to Hastings for the Southern Association Football Academy (SAFA) Soccer Skills Academy Week, where 100 of the best youth players in the South East UK came for an intensive week long Academy training session. It was a fantastic to see them being put through there paces with actual set pieces used in the premiership! Quick Play supplied four Kickster football goals for the event which were used by the Under 12's in training drills and games. Jim Coulston Head Coach at SAFA said: "the Kickster goals are great, they're exactly what our coaches need and the speed and ease of assembly makes them ideal for us at here SAFA".
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