The U11 girls have staretd there season with the first away game at Burnham Juniors. It was a great game with plenty of action and good skills from both teams.

All the girls did well with goals from Sophie and Iris. Charlotte was given player of the match for her commitment and solid defence. Well done to Grace who played brilliantly in her first game for the team!

Thanks to Laura who has taken on the team as coach. The girls love her enthusiasm and knowledge.

Also, thanks to Burnham Juniors for a great start to the season at a beautiful venue (and for the bacon butties).

Maidenhead U13 Girls started the season with a bang with a 6-1 over Tilehurst Panthers Reds. What made the result all the more remarkable was that last season we lost both Berkshire League Division 1 matches to Tilehurst by an aggregate score of 7-1.

Emily McMaster started things rolling with a penalty, swiftly followed by a score from Rebecca Hesketh. Lily Gibson then scored a brilliant hat trick. To finish things off, Sofia Lacey scored a remarkable volley from distance…..with her left foot.

Today wasn’t about the goalscorers only though. The defensive unit of Emily McCartney, Dani Yakubovich and Laila Knowles was strong, plus two girls covered goal keeping duties with our regular keeper away and substitutes bought energy when they arrived.

After the summer off, and just one full training session for pre-season, the girls are back with a bang!

U13 Girls back with a bang

On Tue 19th June Maidenhead U12 Girls played a friendly against Chelsea FC Foundation Berkshire U12s in Reading. In 2017 the Maidenhead girls had played against and lost to Chelsea Academy players at a tournament. The Maidenhead U12 girls were therefore expecting a serious examination of their footballing skills!!

Straight from the kick off Maidenhead Girls used their control, accuracy and power to surge to a 5-0 lead at half time. In the second half they added one one goal to win 6-0 overall.

The Maidenhead U12 Girls were disciplined and determined and the Chelsea girls team had limited chances on goal.

Maidenhead goals were scored by captain Sofia Lacey (2, including one penalty) Lily Gibson (2) and Charlie Potter (1) plus Emily McMaster (1). It was a great team effort overall and we had top support from Nerys Gibson and a number of parents on the night. We hope for another match in the future.

6-0 winners against Chelsea Foundation Berkshire U12s!

Winners!

A Maidenhead Girls U11s team consisting of 3 U10s and 5 U11s won the Tilehurst U11s Girls tournament in style on Sun 10 June. 20 teams entered the tournament including 3 Tilehurst U11 girls teams…

Players were: U10s Maddie Sturt, Sophie McMaster, and Millie Cleary. U11s were Jess Buckley, Lily Gibson, Amelie Checkley, Grace Gibson and Emily McMaster.

The team were unbeaten through 11 matches in total including 9 group games playing teams including Laurel Park, Kew Park, Ashton, Thatcham and Newbury and Wokingham. They managed to win three games 5-0 within the 7 minute matches….Maidenhead beat Wargrave 2-0 in the semi final and won the final 1-0 against a strong Tilehurst team with a cracking solo goal from Maddie Sturt.

It was a remarkable achievement as some of the girls hadn’t played in many tournaments before and for some of them they were team mates for the first time.

Overall the team scored 28 goals and conceded just 2 through brilliant goalkeeping and great defence rotating – our defence was rock solid! Top scorer was Emily McMaster with 13, followed closely by Maddie Sturt with 10 and Lily Gibson with 5. Well done to all the girls and supporting parents. Next Tournament up is Maidenhead…..

Footy fun!

U12 & U11 teams played over the 27 & 28 May weekend at the annual Denham tournament. The standard of girls football overall was really high across the tournament…..venturing into London past the M25 means teams (in other age groups) included youth teams from QPR, Arsenal and other London areas. Indeed the U12 winners came down from Cambridge.

The U12s played 5, won 3 and lost 2, missing out on a quarter final place by one goal difference only. Ironically a team we beat in the pool made the final! It was a great learning experience for the squad on the day. Some of the U12s then supported the U10s in the afternoon and enjoyed the onsite BBQ.

The U11s won 4 pool matches and lost 2. In the QF they went a goal down but came back with resilience (and some of the skills Coach Andy had trained on the Friday night) to win 2-1. They lost the SF 1-0 and were really proud of their attitude, commitment and the fun had on the day. Plus the cakes and strawberries and cream

Over both age groups (U12 and U11) overall there were goals galore from Emily McMaster (14), Lily Gibson (3), Sofia Lacey (1) and Charlie Potter bagged 2 goals on her club debut, including one spectacular one. Welcome to the team Charlie! Goal Keepers Matilda, Sofia and Emily (McM)  did a great job overall with 7 clean sheet games and overall defence was solid with only 7 goals conceded over both the U11 and U12 tournaments. A great achievement with such high standard players there …we’ll be back for a brilliantly organised and well refereed tournament next year. Thanks to parents for all the support…

PS And Fulham won on the Saturday at Wembley …. 🙂 …Sarah

Throw!

Action

Great fun

SUNDAY 20MAY – THATCHAM TOURNAMENT AT NEWBURY RUGBY CLUB

Maidenhead Boys & Girls FC had the following girls teams playing at this Girls Only Tournament:

U15 Girls – AM

We only had 5 girls for this 6aside tournament and despite asking the other teams at the Managers’ Meeting to go down to 5 players against us only 1 of the teams did.  Real shame and not typical of the other age groups at the Tournament at all.

The team was:  Lauren Moriarty, Jess Southby, Aya Ounzi, Ariela Veizaj and Izzy Copper and the Manager was Laura Palfrey

U14 Girls  – AM

Team was:

• U14s:  Priya Handa, Amelia Gilbert, Olivia Brienza, Maizy Scott
• U13s:  Gemma and Emily Harvey

U12 Girls – AM

Team was:

• U12s:  Emily “Oonagh” McCartney, Rebecca Hesketh, Nerys Gibson
• U11s:  Matilda Walker, Lily May Shepherd, Georgina Evans and Amelie Checkley (these U11s played again in the U11 Tournament in the afternoon)

The team played well, but didn’t make it through to the knockout games.

• Won 1 game v Thatcham Town – cracking shot from Rebecca Hesketh
• Drew 2 games 0-0
• Lost 2 games 0-1

U11 Girls – PM

Team was:

• U11s:  Matilda Walker, Lily May Shepherd, Georgina Evans, Amelie Checkley, Lily and Grace Gibson, Laura McAllister

W1, D2, L3 – 2 goals to Lily May Shepherd and 2 clean sheets for Matilda Walker

U10 Girls – PM

Team was:

• U10s:  Lizzy Ainscough, Amy Martin, Ellie Godleman, Charlotte Hesketh
• U09s:  Iris Gannon, Olivia Lacey

Charlotte’s older sister Rebecca who had played in the morning but being U12 couldn’t play in the afternoon with the U11 team, stepped up to be the Manager of the U10 Girls (under my supervision!) and did a great job as the U10 team won their group with 11 points for 3 wins and 2 draws.

• Game 1 – Drew 0-0
• Game 2 – Won 1-0 v Tilehurst Panthers – goal by Lizzy Ainscough
• Game 3 – Won 2-0 v Oakley Unicorns – goals from Amy Martin and Ellie Godleman
• Game 4 – Drew 0-0 v Winchester City Flyers

Everyone got awarded a Win against the team that didn’t turn up

They then met AFC Reading in the Quarter Final and after drawing 0-0 it went to penalties and Maidenhead only got knocked out on the 6th round of penalties.  AFC Reading went on to win the competition.

U09 Girls – AM

Team was just 2 girls!!:  Iris Gannon and Luisa McAllister

Having warned the organizers the day before that we only had 2 girls to bring, they encouraged us to come anyway and appealed to the other managers to lend us players which they did.

Our girls had a great time and we got to meet several players from these other teams:  Thatcham Town, Thatcham Tornadoes and Winchester – who all lent us players throughout the tournament.

All the girls participating got medals at the ceremony later and when it was Maidenhead’s turn we invited all the girls who had played for us to stand on the podium with our 2 girls which filled the podium up!