09-Mar-2009 - Easter School Holiday Course see full details of the Goalkeeper Coaching week to be held at Pitreavie Sports Fields Dunfermline on the Holiday Courses page.
JR Off To Austria
09-Mar-2009 - March 17, JR is off to Austria to with Scotland U17’s to play games against Austria, Italy and Georgia in the Elite Qualifying Round of the UEFA Under 17 European Championships.
JR To Mentor Coaches
09-Mar-2009 - JR has been invited by Alan Morgan Regional Football Development manager at SportCentral to be coach mentor to six coaches who are aspiring to gain their Level 4 Award on the SFA Youth Licence. This will involve working closely with the six coaches, paying them six visits each between now and December to watch them deliver training sessions and giving feedback to prepare them to undertake the Level 4 Award in the early part of next year.
JR Delivers SVQ Training
09-Mar-2009 - In March JR was invited by the SFA to deliver the SVQ Level 3, Excellence in Sport Award to the young professionals at senior clubs. JR paid his first visit to St Johnstone FC to work with the apprentice professionals.
JR On Scotland U15/U17 Duty
09-Mar-2009 - From the 15th to the 18th February JR was with the Scotland U17’s preparing for a friendly international game against Germany played at Almondvale Stadium Livingston. Scotland lost a closely fought encounter by 1-0.
The following week JR spent two days at the National Sports Centre in Inverclyde Largs with the U/15 squad. This was a gathering of over forty of Scotland’s best young players at this age group to select a team to play two games against Belgium in April.
JR's Match Analysis Role For Forfar
09-Mar-2009 - JR is now doing match analysis for Forfar, he now goes and watches Forfar’s opponents the week before they play them and compiles a full report for manager Dick Campbell to use in his preparation for the forthcoming game.
JR Appointed Scotland U15 Goalkeeping Coach
09-Mar-2009 - In February JR was appointed goalkeeping coach to the Scotland U15 team as well as the Scotland U17 team.
JR's Malta Trip
09-Mar-2009 - JR enjoyed a successful trip to Malta as goalkeeping coach to the Scotland U17 team to play two international friendly’s in preparation for the European Championship games to be played in Austria in March. The team enjoyed the experience of training at Liverpool FC’s youth academy prior to travelling to Malta.
JR Trains Forfar Athletic Goalkeepers
09-Mar-2009 - In January JR took the Forfar Athletic Goalkeepers for training sessions at Aberdour where Forfar were training due to bad weather and Aberdour being the only venue that was frost free.
Launch Of JR-Coaching Academy
12-Dec-2008 - As from 1st January 2009 JR-Coaching will begin to function as a coaching academy. Courses and events planned to start in 2009 will be posted on this web site.
Free Goalkeeping Sessions
12-Dec-2008 - Are you the next Craig Gordon? Would you like to be coached by one of Scotland’s Top Goalkeeping Coaches? Check out the Just4Keepers page and sign up for two free sessions.
Free Christmas Coaching for Goalkeepers
12-Dec-2008 - John Ritchie is to deliver a free, two day coaching event on the 22nd and 23rd of December 2008 for Goalkeepers who are currently training with Just4Keepers.
John Ritchie Goes West
12-Dec-2008 - John Ritchie has been invited to deliver a two day coaching event as part of the player development programme to the Youth Goalkeepers at Ayr United FC Youth Academy on the 29th and 30th of January 2009.
JR Coaches Forfar Athletic
12-Dec-2008 - Recently Dick Campbell the manager at Forfar Athletic FC invited John Ritchie to take his first team squad for a training session. JR conducted the session under floodlight at Station Park, Forfar and thoroughly enjoyed the experience of going back to Forfar, where he was once Assistant Manager.
Carols Parreira, Brazilian World Cup Winning Coach
12-Dec-2008 - JR was recently invited by the Scottish Football Association to attend a presentation by Carols Parreira the Brazilian World Cup winning coach. Mr Parreira spoke for over three hours to an audience of Scotland’s top managers and coaches on how to prepare a team to win the World Cup.
JR On International Duty
12-Dec-2008 - JR has been invited to be the Goalkeeping Coach with the Scotland U17 boys national team when they travel to Malta in January 2009 for an International Tournament.
