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Football legend trains BSS youngsters
Wednesday, 06 August 2008

Budding Beckhams were given some top tips by a football legend at a Horsforth college.

Captain of Nottingham Forest's Double European Cup winning side John McGovern came to Trinity and All Saints College to meet football-mad youngsters at the International Confederation of Futebol de Salao.

The soccer school develops the football skills of young people and is based on techniques developed in Brazil with a smaller, heavier ball.

It was founded by Leeds Trinity graduate Simon Clifford following a period in Brazil.

He originally set up Brazillian Football Academies and Soccer Schools in the UK.

 
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"I’ve met many great people in sport but one who now stands out as truly inspirational is Simon Clifford. A former teacher and soccer nut, he left teaching to set up the Brazilian Soccer Schools from his base in Leeds.

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