YORK Cubs Junior Football Club will be running a six-week goalkeeper coaching school next month.

The club have teamed up with Salamander IT and Business Solutions to provide the coaching school in response to the Football Association's call to grass roots football to produce technically able young players.

Laurence Beardmore, practice director of Salamander, is a newly-qualified FA coach, who helps run York Cubs Under-9s, who were double league champions last season.

Beardmore said: "This project is a way for us to put our sponsorship into a local sports initiative which will really make a difference in junior football."

Former Leeds United Academy coach Rob Whitwell will run the course, which will be held on Knavesmire in York.

Graham Reeds, secretary of York Cubs and of the York Mitchell Sports Football League, said: "We are delighted to have Rob for this course. He is a coach of the highest quality and the young 'keepers are bound to learn a great deal from him."

The course will start on Saturday, January 12, and will take mini soccer and 11-a-side 'keepers from U9s to U13s.

The sessions will start at 10am for mini-soccer 'keepers and 11am for the 11-a-side group.

Numbers for the free sessions will be limited to eight girls or boys in each group.

Anyone interested in the course should email graham.reeds@dsl.pipex.

com, giving brief details of the child's name, age and experience of playing in goal.