Football and Young People Football, like all sports, provides an excellent pathway for children and young people to learn new skills, become more confident and maximise their potential.
Through participation, children can learn and develop life skills, have fun and enjoyment, make friends and experience life in a way that can enhance their personal growth throughout their lives.
People become involved in football for young people for a variety of different reasons.
They come from a variety of sporting backgrounds and take on various roles within clubs and other football organisations. Yet irrespective of their role or responsibility, they all share the common goal of providing football opportunities for young people.
Sullane FC wants football to be safe, it wants football to be fun and wants to ensure that no matter what level of the game young people are involved in, it takes place in the spirit of ‘FAIR PLAY’.
Our club encourages young people to achieve and demonstrate enjoyment, equality and fair play. Through this, they will come to realise that standards of behaviour are equally as important as sports performance.
Sullane FC encourages children to:
• Do their best – put in their best effort.
• Improve and develop their skills.
• Make friends.
• Play by the rules.
• Appreciate/accept everyone in the group, regardless of ability, gender, religion, race, etc.
Sullane FC encourages its’ child players to realise that they also have responsibilities to treat other children, referees, fellow players, coaches and volunteers with the same degree of fairness and respect.
In this regard children should undertake to:
• Play fairly, do their best and have fun.
• Make high standards of Fair Play the standard others want to follow.
• Respect opponents, they are not the enemy, they are partners in a sporting event.
• Shake hands before and after the match, whoever wins.
• Give opponents a hand if they are injured, put the ball out of play so they can get attention.
• Accept apologies from opponents when they are offered.
• Respect fellow team members and support them both when they do well and when things go wrong.
• Treat players from minority groups with the same respect you show other people.
• Be modest in victory and be gracious in defeat “BE A SPORT”.
• Approach the club Children’s Officer with any questions or concerns they might have.
Coaches and parents should encourage children to speak out and support them in doing so.
Children should not:
• Cheat.
• Use abusive language, or argue with, the referee, officials, teammates or opponents.
• Use violence, use physical contact only when it is allowed within the rules.
• Bully (Including via phone, social media, etc.)
• Tell lies about adults or other children.
• Spread rumours.
• Take banned substances to improve performance.
• Keep secrets about any person who may have caused them harm.
We must come together as a club and society in creating a welcoming place for all, and to promote a culture of respect that supports and builds on the skills of all its people regardless of ethnicity, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, disability or family status.
