BROMSGROVE Sporting Football Club has shared its delight after announcing the launch of its new Under-21s development team.
The club hopes this new team will help keep talented young players in a Sporting shirt to continue their development after the age of 16.
Speaking on the new team, club director Iain Queen said: “As a board, we identified this as a key area which the club needed to develop.
“There is a huge pool of local talented players who the club are losing at 16 years old to many of our neighbouring clubs.
“Our focus is to create a platform to allow us to retain these players by giving them an opportunity to progress into our first team.”
Bromsgrove Sporting say the relationship between them and the Colts ‘has never been stronger’ and this plan aims to bridge the gap between the youth set-up and the first team.
The newly formed team will play in the Midlands U21 Development League at the Victoria Ground. The team will also give any first team players the opportunity to regain or build their fitness if required.
Sporting have announced the appointments of Mark Reeve, Stuart Carson, and Ricky McNamara as coaches for the new squad.
“All three coaches have fantastic experience in youth football and, importantly, are Bromsgrove based people.
“This is another positive step in what the club is developing off the field.
“We have no doubt that the Bromsgrove Sporting community will come out in force to support what will be the future of our club,” added Iain Queen.
