Welcome to John Ritchie’s JR-Coaching website. Good coaching, teaching correct techniques and habits, within a professional and safe environment are aimed at helping young players pursue their passion for the game. Ability alone is no guarantee for success: hard work, a good attitude, a healthy lifestyle and discipline are all required to be the best you can be. At JR-Coaching our aim is to inspire you to achieve your goal, to be passionate about playing, about enjoying life, health and football.
"Football's not a game, for some it’s more than that. Coaching's not a job it’s a passion. Coaching is the next best thing to playing. I love working with young players, to help them live their dream."JOHN RITCHIE
21-Jan-2012 - Friday's Just4Keepers session eventually beat the weather after being cancelled twice by Fife Council then back on. I thought it was the hokey cokey club!
Scotland U16 Goalie Video on YouTube
11-Jan-2012 - A video showing JR working with the Scotland U16 goalies as they warmed up using Rebound Net has been added to the JR-Coaching YouTube channel and can be found at http://youtu.be/Ri2UH_q29Bw.
JR-Coaching YouTube channel
01-Dec-2011 - JR-Coaching now has a YouTube channel and this will be used to show videos from training sessions etc. The YouTube channel can be found at http://www.youtube.com/user/JRCoaching1 and there will be content on it very soon.
JR's Update 30th November 2011
30-Nov-2011 - Monday - I Paid a visit to both Central Park and McDiarmid Park on Monday to work with the young professional players at Cowdenbeath FC and St Johnstone FC as part of the Scottish FA Apprenticeship in Sporting Excellence Scheme to which I'm one of the A1 assessors used by the SFA .
Monday's J4K classes were well attended and finished just in time to miss the rain!
Tuesday - Set off to watch the Brechin City v St Johnstone Forfarshire cup game at Brechin only to get as far as Dundee and then get a message saying the game was postponed due to a waterlogged pitch. Encountered first snow of the winter lying on the motorway at Kinross.
Thursday sees me in at Dunfermline Athletic FC to conduct a SVQ session with young pros. Also see my wee pal Mo "Shuffly Feet" Hutton the Pars Kit Manager. Then it's on to Forfar to take the goalkeeper training with the Forfar Athletic goalkeepers.
Welcome to John Ritchie’s JR-Coaching website. Good coaching, teaching correct techniques and habits, within a professional and safe environment are aimed at helping young players pursue their passion for the game. Ability alone is no guarantee for success: hard work, a good attitude, a healthy lifestyle and discipline are all required to be the best you can be. At JR-Coaching our aim is to inspire you to achieve your goal, to be passionate about playing, about enjoying life, health and football.