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New Addington Little League Football

National Tournament:

Every year all 30+ Little Leagues are invited to enter a football competition known as the National tournament. This is an event which commences in March or April and goes through to the Final which is usually held in May, depending on the number of teams taking part. In our League we appoint a National Squad Manager whose job it is to select and train a squad of players drawn from the six Main teams. This is an unenviable task because the manager is restricted as to the number of players he/she can select in each age group and there are sometimes very difficult decisions to make on which boys to include in the final squad. Naturally all the boys have hopes they will be among the chosen few but non-selection is a small part of life’s learning process.

The Tournament Organisers draw up a fixture list that includes leagues in the south London, Birmingham and Midland areas but generally it is not until the semi-final stage that teams might find they are drawn to play against teams from the different areas.

This is a photograph of our 2006/07 squad, Our 2007/08 squad is shown further down this page:-

The squad players shown above are, in alphabetical order:- Jack Allan, Stevie Baillie, Mitchell Braim, Ryan Cosstick, Lewis David, Calvin Doyley, Shaun Frank, Glenn Harris, Aarron Henery, Aaron Hutchings, Harry Jeal, Todd Joyce, Josh Peterson, Rola Petit, Bobby Stone, Charlie Stone and Ryan Suggett

The 2007/08 competition.

This year on Saturday 5th April we travelled to Morden to play in a first round group of four teams which included Greenvale, West Sutton and Wimbledon.

It has to be said that despite regular training sessions and taking part in a couple of friendly matches our players just didn’t turn it on as we know they can, consequently they didn’t get through to the next round. It was not that there was much to choose between the standards of play by any of the four teams; it just seemed that our lads were more inclined to play as individuals and less as a team. 

The results of these games are shown below; the results of matches in the other groups can be found on the main Little League web site: www.littleleaguefootball.com

Greenvale New Add. W. Sutton Wimbledon Greenvale   3 - 4 0 - 0 1 - 1 New Add. 4 -3   1 - 0 2 - 0 W. Sutton 0 - 0 0 - 1   1 - 0 Wimbledon 1 - 1 0 - 2 0 - 1   Points 6 0 4 8

This is a photograph of our 2007/08 squad. With the managers Tony Sales and Jimmy Killick are players (in alphabetical order) Billy Atkinson, Stevie Baillie, Daniel Dixon, Zak Enness, Luke Farrell, Ryan Fowler, Frankie Greenslade, Gary Hall, Glenn Harris, Aarron Henery, Reece Hill, Harry Jeal, Macauley Jenkins, Billy Sales, Ryan Suggett and Connor Valerio.

The following action shots were taken at the 2007/08 event:-