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Florida Celtic SC Player in Scotland

This past week our U15 girls player Isabel Garcia went to Scotland and trained with the Celtic women’s professional team for the week. Isabel was chosen by Celtic coaches from summer camp to train in Scotland, and it is a once in a lifetime experience to train with the academy and professionals from a UEFA […]

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Celtic FC Coach Willie McNab Visits Florida

As part of our partnership with Celtic FC in Glasgow, International Youth Director Willie McNab paid a visit this week. In this visit Willie had two on field coaching sessions, private one on one coaching sessions, and trained both boys and girls in the CDP program. Also plans and discussions were held for taking the […]

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USF Women’s Player Trains with Celtic Girls

USF standout and Guatemala Women’s National Team player Daniela Andrade joined the U11 girls for a training session Tuesday Night.   Daniela is a starting wingback for both USF and her country’s national team.  She ran an hour and fifteen minute session with the girls, and finished with a 15 minute question and answer session.    The […]

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Celitc Florida girl does well in Scotland

This past week Bria Riancho traveled to Scotland to train with the Celtic Women’s team. Bria earned this honor by being picked by Celtic coaches at last summer’s Celtic summer camp. At Celtic, Bria trained with the 1st team and worked very closely with Gemma Fay,  who is the most capped player on the Scottish Women’s […]

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Great Presentation by Greig Robertson on “Positive Parenting”

On July 11 Celtic FC Youth Academy Head Coach Greig Robertson gave a well attended presentation at Belleair Town Hall that covered a variety of topics related to club. He discussed the importance of parents being positive role models. He also discussed the vision of Celtic FC as a football club, and the relationship between […]

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Summer Camp Player makes Scotland visit

Celtic FC Florida held its second International Development Academy soccer camp in early July and three players were chosen to travel to Scotland to train at the Celtic Academy for a week.  One of the three, Owen Huffman, travelled to Scotland on November 2, 2013 for a week of training with Celtic and experience Scotland […]

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Scotland Trip August 2013

On August 1st, the U14 girls embarked on a once in a lifetime trip over to Europe to both visit and train with the parent Club. The team had the opportunity to be fully integrated with the Celtic youth academy system. The girls trained in first class state of the art training facilities and were trained by […]

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Scottish Football Development Director meets with Celtic FC Florida Coaches

Jim Fleeting, the Scottish FA Director of Football Development and former Tampa Bay Rowdie met with Celtic FC Florida. He addressed the coaching staff with an hour long presentation about coaching development. Topics such as the 7 E’s (Engage, Educate, Equip, Encourage, Empower, Energize and Elevate) were presented in detail. This was a very informative […]

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Footballs Next Star…… TV Show

Fox Soccer Channel will be screening their new show  Football’s Next Star, on January 13th. This new series is set in Scotland and features Celtic and Grieg Robertson who visited us in late 2012. http://msn.foxsports.com/topics/m/video/69477876/football-s-next-star.htm

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Celtic Academy Director Visits Florida!

Celtic FC Florida recently had the opportunity and privilege to have Greig Robertson the Celtic International Academy Director over from Scotland. This visit was very timely with the Scottish giants celebrating their 125th Anniversary that same week. Greig started his week by watching a number of our competitive teams play against local opposition in league […]

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Players Travel to Scotland

This past spring, a select group of Celtic FC Florida players and their parents had the incredible opportunity to tour Scotland with our Director of Coaching, Jimmy McDonald.  Jimmy and the group were guests of Scottish Premier League Champions Celtic FC for their Scottish League Cup Championship game against Kilmarnock. With a training session scheduled with […]

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