About Us
The Coventry Sphinx Juniors FC (CSJFC) club was founded in 1997. The guiding principles were to be an emphasis on football skills, teamwork and a development programme for personal and social responsibility. A major part of this development programme was to be the opportunity for the players to progress from junior football into the senior game.
Since 1997 the club has grown from a single
team playing in the U10 age group to a club with teams ranging from
U8 to U18 year olds, with over 200 children, Where as in 1997 the
club had a single FA qualified coach, we now have the following
qualifications on the club roster:
111 fully qualified FA certified coaches
The club allocate a budget, to be used to subsidise training course fees for our coaches and managers and for spending on training manuals, videos and equipment. As part of our commitment to the social development of our players, both as individuals and team players we insist on a very strong sense of personal and group responsibility. This ranges from a commitment to training and teamwork, to acceptance of the published club constitution and code of discipline, including the acceptance of the decisions of officials, both on and off the field of play. This ethic can be seen in both the players’ attitude to the game and their opponents and to our disciplinary record on the field.
A major part of the club’s policy is the commitment to helping the players grow both as footballers and individuals. This means that those who show the required dedication and skill can continue in the game, where they will have the opportunity to play in the floodlit and perhaps higher levels of the sport. It also means that those who choose to stop playing football with the club will leave the club as better prepared and more socially aware individuals than they would be had they chosen not to play the game, or to have played for another club. Hence, the widely admired Drugs Awareness Programme run by the CSJFC. This is to be accompanied in by an Alcohol Abuse awareness evening for the older age groups, Dario Gradi from Crewe and several football managers attended previous workshops.
The commitment of the CSJFC to the rules and principles of the game are further reinforced by the fact that the club has been awarded the FA Charter. Further to this we have put in place the procedures and processes that will enable the club to apply for the prestigious Investors in People Award.
All of the above activities form part of an integrated approach to the game and are recognition by the club, its managers, coaches and committee of the responsibility they hold for the development of its players, whatever their age. This responsibility can only be effectively met, if all concerned in the activities of the club, act with integrity and honesty towards each other and those we meet on the field of play.
All involved in the running of the CSJFC recognise that we can only teach our players that fair play can win, and honesty does pay, if we can show them that we ourselves believe these things. This can only happen if we act in accordance with those principles and within the rules of the game, otherwise all of our efforts on and off the field of play are for nothing.
