Dennise Robinson has taken a step closer to fulfilling her aspirations to coach football at a national level, when she was selected from hundreds of young people internationally to participate in the Arsenal Football Club Gap Year programme. She packed up and moved to London where she has almost completed stage one of the program, gaining F.A (Football Association) coaching qualifications and the coaching footballers with disabilities module.
She is about to begin the teaching English as a foreign language course which will help her in the next stage of the programme. Dennise has also managed to fit in some coaching in North London schools with tamariki and rakatahi aged between 7 and 15 years on behalf of Arsenal.
She will soon find out which country she will travel to next as part of the programme which provides an opportunity for her to coach within a wider range of community programmes and football schools with one of the clubs international partners.
It’s a very exciting time for Dennise. She is loving the experience and has learnt so much already through the Arsenal Football Club.
Dennise Robinson.