Player Profile - Gabriel - 3yrs 11 months

Thank you to the lovely, nearly 4 yr old, Gabriel (with a bit of help from his parents) for answering our questions. 

May you be a safe racing driver when you grow up!

Name: Gabriel Taylor

Age: 3 years & 11 Months 

Venues attended: Takapuna & Northcote Int.

How long have you been coming to Little Kickers? 2 years

Favourite Little Kickers game?   "the running around one" ( relay race) "and the one where Mat says 'Gabriel on blue and Marco on red' and then you score a goal!"         

  

What do you like best about Little Kickers? Wearing my football kit & fast yellow shoes, and scoring goals.

                                                                    

What do you want to be when you grow up?  A racing driver.

Favourite healthy food?  Carrot & Cucumber.

Who is your favourite coach? Coach Anna & Coach Mat

What do you love? Batman Lego & Pepper Pig  

Parents Perspective on Little Kickers:  We love LK. Apart from being a fun thing to do with Gabriel every Saturday morning, It's been a great way for him to develop his physical strength and balance skills progressively as he grows.

The Little Kickers team would like to wish you a very happy and special 4th Birthday 

Player Profile - Lucas G - 3 1/2yrs

We have the adorable 'Super Hero Lucas' as our Player Profile from Mt Eden...

Name: Lucas Gibbons

Age: 3 1/2yrs

Venues: Mt Eden

How long have you been coming to Little Kickers? 2 years

Favourite Little Kickers game?  Scoring goals!

What do you like best about Little Kickers? Playing with the other kids and having a lot of fun

What do you want to be when you grow up?  Super Hero – like Super Man!

Favourite healthy food? Sushi

Who is your favourite coach? Andrew!

What do you love? My Mummy and Daddy and my little sister Pippa

Dad's Perspective on Little Kickers:  It’s great to see Lucas learning skills and coordination in the drills. He really loves it and likes playing with the other kids in his class.

Thank you Lucas (& Dad) for answering our questions, I hope he does grow up to be a Super Hero of some sort!

Player Profile - Zac - 3yrs

Player Profile - Zac- 3yrs 

For our final player profile of the year, we have Zach from our North Shore franchise, an aspiring fireman and doting big brother =)

Name:  Zachary Hyde

Age: 3

Venues of Little Kickers attended: Mairangi Bay & Takapuna

How long have you been coming to Little Kickers? 1 1/2 years 

What is your favourite little Kickers game? Running races

What do you like best about little kickers? Playing games and my super fast team

What do you want to be when you grow up? Fireman

What’s your favourite healthy food? Bananas. I eat one before every soccer time

Who's your favourite coach? Coach George

What do you love? My baby sister coz then Santa will bring me presents

Parent says: Love it, keeps him active and is developing a love for all sports.

Player Profile - Dejaun - 5yrs 

Introducing our player profile this month!

A future sprinter in the making, please welcome Dejaun from one of our Auckland Central East franchise!

Name:  Dejaun Naidoo

Age: 5 

Venues of Little Kickers attended: Meadowbank, Glendowie

How long have you been coming to Little Kickers? 14 months 

What is your favourite little Kickers game? The jet plane game and learning new tricks

What do you like best about little kickers? Playing a game of soccer at the end in a team

What do you want to be when you grow up? A sprinter like Usain Bolt!

What’s your favourite healthy food? Apples, strawberries and cucumbers

Who is your favourite coach? Coach Raphael

What do you love? Listening to music, dancing and soccer.

Parent says: 

Little Kickers is a great way to develop ball skills in children in an enjoyable way. Children go through drills and learn how to control the ball without even knowing it as they having so much fun. Our son has grown from skill to skill and it is great to now see him developing a team player spirit as well! Dejaun looks forward to his soccer game every week and so do we!

Player Profile - Aston & Sienna - 6yrs

We have 2 player profiles in one post again this month but this time we have TWINS! Introducing Aston & Sienna...

Name:  Aston and Sienna Pickmere

Age: 6

Venues of Little Kickers attended: Mega Kickers Mt Albert/ Previously Takapuna

How long have you been coming to Little Kickers? 

2 Terms

What is your favourite little Kickers game? 
Aston: Leap Frog    
Sienna: Crab Game

What do you like best about little kickers? 
Playing games

What do you want to be when you grow up? 
Aston: Scientist  
Sienna: Vet

What’s your favourite healthy food? 
Aston: Pears, Feijoas  

Sienna: Nectarine

Who is your favourite coach? 
Aston: Coach Andrew and Coach Raphael  
Sienna: Coach Raphael 

What do you love? 
Aston: Trashies  
Sienna: Chasing the coaches to put the balls away.

Parent says: 

Really good for honing their skills playing on the quick surface.  The kids confidence has improved and this is reflected when playing games on Saturdays.  They love Mega Kickers and will be back for preseason training early next year.

Player Profile - Stella & Julia - 4 & 2yrs

Player Profile - Stella & Julia - 4 & 2yrs

We have 2 player profiles in one post this month, sisters, Stella & Julia, who attend our sessions at Takapuna.

Name:  Stella & Julia Burns

Age: 4 & 2

Venues of Little Kickers attended: Takapuna

How long have you been coming to Little Kickers? 
Stella since she was 2 
Julia since she was 18months (Total 2 yrs for Stella and 1 yr for Julia)

 What is your favourite little Kickers game? 
Stella: Big kicks and being the goalie 
Julia: Big kicks and jumping

What do you like best about little kickers? 
Stella: Seeing my friends and the coaches 
Julia: Wearing my goal shoes!

What do you want to be when you grow up? 
Stella: A mummy 
Julia: A fireman

What’s your favourite healthy food? 
Stella: Spinach lasagne & spaghetti bolognese 
Julia: Porridge

Who is your favourite coach? Stella & Julia: Daddy, Nicky & Lisa

What do you love? 
Stella: Reading books 
Julia: Staying up late

Parent says: 

We love taking the girls to "goal" each Saturday morning. They always enjoy themselves and we have watched them learn not just skills like big kicks and little kicks but also colours, counting, and more importantly, how to follow instructions, listen to teachers, and play well with others.

Player Profile - Siddraj - 3 1/2yrs

Player Profile - Siddraj - 3 1/2yrs

Introducing our July player profile! 

Please welcome our Rock Star Mighty Kicker from the One Tree Hill sessions!

Name:  Siddhraj Sinh Solanki

Age: 3 1/2

Venues attended around the world: One Tree Hill, Auckland

How long have you been coming to Little Kickers? Since last 1.5 years

 What is your favourite little Kickers game? Running like Airplane and doing big kicks randomly

What do you like best about little kickers? Getting the stamp, mummy clapping when I do a Goal

What do you want to be when you grow up? A Rock star

What’s your favourite healthy food? Steak and Carrot

Who is your favourite coach? Coach Raphael

What do you love? Loves playing different instruments - Loves music

Parent says: 

I started Little kickers for Siddhraj when he was quite young and timid was not sure how this would work out for him, thank God the coach from day one (Yvette) was so child friendly and today Siddhraj does not like to miss a single class. I feel proud when he does those balance on the Ball to show his friends in preschool and never misses a catch while playing with them, I like how he makes an effort to score a goal and feels happy about it. When he shows his little kickers pictures and some different tricks with the saoccer ball to our friends they call him Ronaldo in the making.

Thank you Little Kickers. God bless.

Player Profile - Finlay - 3yrs

Player Profile - Finlay - 3yrs

Our player profile is a Junior Kicker from the Glendowie sessions. A matured little man who loves his "big kicks". Check out his awesome interview:

Name: Finlay Leary

Age: 3

Venues attended around the world: 

Would love to say Stamford Bridge or Wembley but so far only Stadium backyard and Glendowie. 

How long have you been coming to Little Kickers: 

My dad has been taking me to little kickers for about 10 weeks now.

What is your favourite Little Kickers game:

I love to run and kick the ball as hard as I can so the last game of running and shooting in the goal is my favourite. I like how each week the games change so we have new things to do.

What do you want to be when you grow up: 

I want to be an astronaut and drive a rocket ship to Mars to visit the Martians. My Dad says I am going to play for Chelsea.

What's your favourite healthy food: 

My favourite healthy food at the moment is eating Feijoas off our tree.

Who is your favourite coach: My favourite coaches are Raphael and Siobhan.

What do you love: 

I love hunting for crickets under the stones in my garden, finding massive crabs at the beach, doing `big kicks, and big whacks’ with my ball and bat, and riding my bike.

Parent/s perspective on Little Kickers:

As a parent I appreciate all the effort and thought that has gone in to designing different activities for the kids that don’t just concentrate on kicking a ball but also incorporate listening and learning skills. I also think Rafael and Siobhan are brilliant with the kids during the activities, and all three of the little kickers team at Sacred Heart on Sundays including Ruth are welcoming and incredibly friendly.

Player Profile - Emma - 3

Queen Emma’s Player Profile

We had the pleasure of asking Emma some questions in our Player Profile, read Emma’s answer to ‘what do you want to be when you grow up?’ – what an awesome answer!


Name: Emma
Age: 3 years old
Venues of Little Kickers attended ? Meadowbank Primary
How long have you been coming to Little Kickers? Approx 6 months.
What is your favourite little Kickers game? Airplane - you just stand up and fly around like an airplane!
What do you like best about little kickers? Goal time!!
What do you want to be when you grow up? A Queen Bee.
What’s your favourite healthy food? Carrots or Prawns.
Who is your favourite coach? Coach Rachael.
What do you love? Playing with my friend Sophia.

Your Mum and/or Dad’s perspective on Little Kickers: Little Kickers has been great for Emma. She's learnt how to follow and execute very specific instructions. The exercises are at a level that the kids can understand. The coaches are very patient and enthusiastic.

Player Profile - Daniel Doherty - 4

I have had the pleasure of coaching Daniel Doherty while a Junior Kicker at Takapuna, he has now moved up to Mighty Kickers and continues to thrive at Little Kickers with Coach's Nikki & Lisa.

Here is Daniel’s Player Profile Interview ...



Name: Daniel Doherty
Age: 4
Venues attended around the world: Takapuna (Auckland, New Zealand)
How long have you been coming to Little Kickers? 2 years
What is your favourite Little Kickers game? “the drills that involve scoring goals and the warm up when you run around the cones and jump over the cones marked out.”
What do you like best about little kickers? “Kicking the soccer ball around.”
What do you want to be when you grow up? Doctor
What’s your favourite healthy food? Chicken Nibbles
Who is your favourite coach? Coach Nikki & Lisa (and Yvette when she comes)
What do you love? Mummy, Daddy, Natalie and all my family. Also I love playing games.

Daniel’s Dad says: It is a great activity and has really helped develop Daniel’s co-ordination. He looks forward to soccer every Saturday and the games and activities are lots of fun. The coaches offer good encouragement and Little Kickers has helped his confidence a lot.