2012 Community Awards - FA Legends meet grassroot heroes

Friday 04 May 2012

Ian Rush, Liverpool legend, met players and coaches from Parkdale Sidac, a regional FA Charter Standard Club winner in last year’s awards and took part in a squad training session.

Another Liverpool legend, John Barnes, visited FA Charter Standard club award winner Evergreen Youth FC in Hertfordshire, giving the young players a team talk and took part in a Q & A session.

World Cup 1966 hero Martin Peters headed to Waveney Youth FC in Lowestoft - a FA Charter Standard Community Club winner – where he handed out medals at the club’s seasonal awards event. FATV captured the day here in our Lowestoft video.And McDonald’s Director of Football and England’s 1966 World Cup hat trick hero made a hat trick of trips to Maltby Juniors in Sheffield, Nuneaton Town FC and Barming Youth FC in Maidstone – meeting players, coaches and having a kick about himself to help encourage people to nominate their grassroots heroes for the FA Community Awards.

Nominations close on 11th of May and a shortlist of candidates will be selected by a judging panel which will include Sir Geoff Hurst in the search for the winners of these prestigious awards.  The eight national award winners will then be announced at The FA Community Awards presented by McDonald's ceremony in October.

There's still time to vote, nominate your hero now!