By Kirra Livingstone
THE Sunshine Coast Goanna’s women’s team are training with A Grade NPL side Souths United FC in preparation for the First Nations Indigenous Football Cup on November 3-5.
Goanna’s President Wayne Alberts said some players from the Goanna’s also play in the Souths United team and were able to organise fortnightly training sessions.
“It was fantastic, some of the girls from the Goanna’s don’t play in the NPL but they adapted quite nicely, it was good to see,” he said.
“We’ve got a few girls who live down that way as well from the Goanna’s, so it was only fair to train down there one week then come to the Sunshine Coast to train the next week.”
Through this special training, Alberts said both the men and women have benefitted from training with different coaches this year and been challenged in the process.
“Speed is a big factor of what they have learnt so far, it’s good to get down there for the girls and the men to see how different coaches do their training sessions differently,” he said.
“In the training sessions they were doing speed work, ball work, technical and passing skills, just all different kinds of training drills.”
The First Nations Indigenous Football Cup will play out at North Lakes and will see 12-14 teams in each division battle it out for the cup, which the Goanna’s men’s side are the defending premiers.
Wayne said he is quietly confident both the men’s and women’s Goanna’s teams will do well again this year and highlighted the positive mood amongst the players.
“We are all just really looking forward to it, the teams are pumped, I can’t believe how pumped they are for this tournament,” he said.