Pro11 Trials Recensioni 

My son attended the under 14s session on the 15th Nov at Derby Racecourse, welcomed and introduced by the lady on the tent, explaining everything to expect and how the day would run.

After a brief induction my son went to the pitch for the under 14s welcomed by the coaching staff putting on the session, made to feel at ease, have fun and get the most out of the high standard of coaching on offer. Through the drills and small matches my son was pushed, encouraged and praised for trying things expressing himself, as well as explaining what and why things are done and the possible positives it creates in game scenarios.

After the session they had a brief talk about the session and cool down as a group. The Pro 11 staff, coaches were top draw and every detail was on time and well managed.

At the end the lads were encouraged about their footballing journeys and that regardless of the outcome of the session to keep enjoying their football and development. My son received 2x Cat 1 club interests and came away from the day, motivated, excited, driven and encouraged with his experience with the training session. Thank you all those involved at Pro 11. Highly recommend the training and experience.

Open, honest communication with us before the day was essential to give us confidence that the event would be the right one for our son. The session was extremely well run and the goal keeper coach was very careful to provide helpful feedback. He was encouraging and supportive. Overall it was an excellent experience. Highly recommended.

My son really enjoyed his first time with pro11, the coaches was really friendly and engaging with the kids. Plenty of scouts on show to get their little faces lit up.

My son left with multiple scouts taking interest in him with already attending a session the following day.

Get involved and give your child the opportunity.

Thank you pro11.

A great afternoon of football- well organised and seamless.
My son enjoyed it and has had interest shown following on from the trial.

I brought my daughter along to the south west trails on Friday (31/11) and I have no complaints about the coaches or the trials as a whole, all seemed to be well organised.
We were just a little disappointed that it was quite a poor show for girls - we believe there was only 4 there in total and my daughter was the only girl in her group. I choose to bring her as football really is her happy place and for someone who struggles socially and has some anxieties she really shines and feels confident when on the pitch - she loves being part of her local team! We felt this would be a nice experience and confidence boost for her and although she did get stuck in and didn’t give up she did find it tough being the only girl in her group (u10-11) as was quite clear that a few of the boys didn’t want to pass to her meaning she didn’t see as much of the ball as she’d have hoped and she was played out of position for the majority of the time. Once she was moved into midfield but a minute later one of the boys from her team tapped her on the shoulder and sent her back to defence which disappointed her as she didn’t have the chance to play where she feels comfortable.
Overall what we’d like to say is for it to be better advertised to girls or possibly some girls only events in the future, as one parent approached me on the day whilst we were queuing to come in and asked what age girls were trialing and when I said the same as the boys they seemed surprised which then made my daughter panic that I’d made a mistake and booked her into a boys only event and I had to get the advertisement up to show her it said boys and girls!

I attended the event at Bristol with my ex foster child who lives with his mother.

He's completely self taught in relation to football and is a ridiculously strong centre back, but also, very resilient and able to maintain the games pace throughout.

When the event ended, in order to help finish my aim of boosting his confidence whilst also trying to show him the main aim of what he needs to focus on, I spoke to coach Dan, who was looking after u14, u15 and u16.

He asked for my lads bib number, and then rolled his eyes, scrunched his face, made an excuse that there's loads of boys and he can't remember everyone and then more facial expressions, before finally saying "I really don't know, but you didn't do anything wrong because I would remember".

Now, whilst it hasn't ruined the experience for my lad because I'm clever enough to deal with his emotions, I found this really quite upsetting, I know defenders aren't the most exciting role on the pitch, but they are crucial to important robust gameplay and a team is not useful without a strong defence, I would have expected the coaches to have some sort of understanding of the lads they are "watching" throughout the drills and play, in order to give some useful feedback at the end, rather than the drivel that we recieved about how u15's don't talk enough and how you need to not fall into the trap that you can't commanding your line.

I hope that in the future, Dan spends a little less time massaging his ego, by talking to the scouts that were walking around with extremely wet clipboards, and more time focusing on the children he is meant to be there for, when they come knocking for feedback.

My lad has never played for anything other than an extremely low ranking local youth team, purely due to his background and inability for his family to travel to the "better teams".

He is completely self taught, he's never done drills, or training like he has done at this event, yet not only did he keep up with many lads who no doubt play at a higher level, and with older ones, but was outshining them at times and was communicating, albeit not as loudly as he could.

During the game he was crucial in stopping multiple balls coming into the box, and it would have been good to know from the coach what his actual improvement areas would be for his position, given in the second game, two goals were scored, and goals are conceded as a team, so he would want to learn from that.

Whilst I appreciate you can't watch "every player" all the time, to get absolutely no personalised feedback was quite disheartening.

That said, the event itself was brilliant, the training was at the level that my lad should be doing in his local youth team, but also the intensity of the games didn't phase him and proves to me and his family, that perhaps he is "held back" from better challenges, that will only further improve his skill and awareness if given.

I hope that Dan reads this as intended, it's constructive, friendly and not intended to be offensive, I just expected something more personal, I'm glad you didn't lie and pretend you'd seen something, hence why the honesty means only 1 star is lost in the rating.

What made my experience great, was the amazing coaching and how fun it was. The standards were really high and the coaches knew what they were doing and what we did in the first training actually even helped in my games but not only that the team is amazing when you message them they reply with respect and they are just a very supportive group

We signed up to the trial in Flint for my 9yr old son. It was our 2nd time at a Pro11 event and this was very well run like the other in Liverpool. Good coaches and drills, also very good communication throughout the trial both to Ralph and me. It was a great day as Ralph was noticed by a local team and he's been invited to training and has also played one match against another good academy. I certainly would recommend Pro11 to anyone interested in furthering their childs football experience.

Was well organised football trial. As its was summer holidays was not so many plyers, but was a lot of scouts from different clubs.
Also what like in this trial, that at the end they say who got scouted.

We had an amazing experience at Chiedoziem Brian Anyanwu's trial at Rectory Park on the 25th of July, the whole family, mother, all his siblings and I his dad that accompanied Chiedoziem thoroughly enjoyed the event, the Pro11 staff were, receptive, warm and entirely professional, at the end of the even, we were able to interact with the coaches on Brian's performance.

Very well run trails day. Communication up to and during the day were great.
The day itself was fun and enjoyable for my son. you could see the "scouts" walking around and in discussion with the coaches for each age group which was a great motivator for the kids (especially my son).
The fact they (PRO11) also provide direct 1-2-1 feedback on the day from their coaches to the kids is fantastic. Regardless of the end result getting something back from the coaches is worthwhile - some other trials companies don't.

Comms at the end of the day are great too - on our day due to the scouts still watching a few older players they didnt call out numbers, but seemed to suggest that is something they normally do - so youd get instant feedback, which is good if so.

all in - an enjoyable, well organised day with friendly, helpfull people.
Thanks for everything.

This is a great opportunity for the kids but once identified by the scouts it’s not possible to get the scouts follow them for full matches. The scouts don’t respond to emails or calls and this create disappointment to the kids. The organization could consider having full matches so that next decisions are made on the trial date. We are asking if you could provide us an opportunity for the scouts who showed interest in our son can get to see my son in another match and make a fair judgement of him. However , the proposal could be at their organized friendlies that is much more precise and they are in control and that they will be sure to see him. Is this possible?

It was a good experience and there was loads of scouts from different clubs

Great coaching throughout the session from Chris. Really helped the lads out

We attended the recent trials in Leeds and were really impressed. The coaching was very good and there were lots of scouts in attendance. My son received a referral for a pro club, so we are just waiting to hear back. Would definitely recommend!

Great set up and well organised day.
The timeframe in contacting us with details after the trials was speedy also. My son really enjoyed the afternoon, great successful experience.
We would definitely recommend.

It was a welcoming environment, children engaged and interact with each other , trials runs smoothly and professionally. Wish my son was scouted for Manchester United or Manchester City. Just disappointed with such. Will continue to try untill he's successful. In addition, he had 3 interest , Chester FC , ISports, and Port Vale. He's successful with a conditional offer with ISports of a place of their football and scholarship programme when finishes year 11. He went on trial at Chester FC twice and once at Port Vale. I must extend my gratitude to Pro11 for the experience just wish my success was permanent.

It was a fantastic, well organised event that gave my grandson a educational experience.

Everyone was really friendly and helpful, starting with Nicola. I was sceptical about how many scouts would be there and if it was just a money maker. I was interested most in just gaining feedback at the end of the session. It turned out that there were more than 10 scouts, with lots of kids getting interest from them, including my son. He has interest from 2 clubs and a company arranging scholarships in the USA. My cynicism was unfounded and the whole operation was very professional and supportive.