Midlands Universities League reaching Playoffs

The Midlands Universities League reaches the business end of the season with five of the eight playoff places decided. Loughborough U19s, Leicester 2s, Nottingham 1s, Warwick 1s and Coventry 1s have all booked their places in the Playoffs which start in February.

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England training camp dates postponed

This year's England training and selection camp on 4th and 5th January have been postponed due to the postponement of the Regional Tournament. These dates are now provisionally booked for Regional tournament.

The new dates that are being scheduled for the England training camp are the 1st and 2nd February 2010. These dates will be confirmed in due course.

British University Games - dates confirmed

England will travel to compete in this years British University Games in Scotland. This years sees Ireland complete the quartet of teams from the British Isles. This will be a chance for the England team to defend the title it won in 2008 in Edinburgh. Many of that team have gone onto great things including; Exodus Geoghaghan (Wolverhampton Uni) now a pro at Peterborough United, Rob Taylor (Worcester) at Port Vale, Johnny McClaughlin (Leeds Met) at Bradford City, Bradley Pritchard (Loughborough) and Alex Rodman (Notts Trent) doing well in the Conference with Tamworth. Both Exodus and Johnny also went on to represent Great Britain at the 2009 World University Games.

The dates for the tournament are Monday 12th - Thursday 15th April

This year will be yet another competitive tournament and a chance for the squad to compete in the only current home nations tournament at Senior Level.

England visit the Islands - dates confirmed

England will play two of the British Islands this season. They will travel to Guernsey twice in what has now become an annual fixture for the group. The first game will take place on Monday 8th February. This second date is yet to be set.

England will also play the Isle of Wight on Satudary the 8th May, where they will face Lee Bradbury's team for the first time.

Regional tournament

The regional tournament sheduled for 21st and 22nd December at Warwick has been postponed due to bad weather. No new date has been set yet. Players from Universities throughout England representing the south, north and midlands were set for the two-day tournament. The tournament itself is a big chance for the players who mad it through November trials to represent the English Universities programme in 2010.

The past two years have seen the South and Midlands win the tournament, so can the North complete the loop?

Keep an eye out on here for updates.

Exodus gets first goal!

Peterborough United got their first win under Mark Cooper. Exodus Geohaghan gets his first goal and the winner in the 2-1 home win over Watford. Exodus headed home a cross from former Non League player George Boyd.

One week to go - Will it be the North?

21st December sees the beginning of the annual Regional Tournament. In the first year the Soouth won the tournament and last year the Midlands produced two very spectular performances from the Midlands to take the title. So it looks like it is the turn of Northern Universities to take the regional tournament. The tournament is a chance for the 62 players to stake their claim to be in the England training and selection camp on 4th and 5th January.

We wish all the players and the staff the best for the two days.

Uni stars in England futsal victory!

HE players Matt Aldred (Loughborough) and Tom Obasi (Manchester) represented England Futsal in Libya as they overcame the African Champions. Both were involved in the International Futsal friendlies which took part over two days at the Tripoli Grand Hall Arena, Libya. The scores were as follows:

Libya 1-1 England, Friday 4 December 2009
Libya 1-2 England, Saturday 5 December 2009

Matt Smith turns pro in Australia

Matt Smith (UWE Hartpury) has made the leap to professional footballer in the Australian A league with Queensland Fury FC, where he will ply his trade with Robbie Fowler. Matt represented won a National title with UWE Hartpury, represented England Universities in 2007 and went onto play for Great Britain in the World Student Games in Thailand in 2007. We all wish Matt well in this great opportunity. See link below

http://www.northqueenslandfc.com.au/default.aspx?s=newsdisplay&id=31078