Airdrie youth footballers celebrate summer of successes

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Players and coaches at a busy Lanarkshire youth football club are getting set for the new season after a busy period of some impressive successes on and off the pitch.Airdrie community club has a string of age-group teams and a growing number of footballers – and leading the way last term was the double-winning 2010 year group.They won both their league title and cup competition to enjoy stellar double success, described by their coaches as “a magnificent achievement”.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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It was a fitting finale for the existing side, as club spokesperson Billy Barclay said: “This the end of an era for some of this team as many of them now step into the world of pro-youth football, and we wish all the boys every success in their futures.”The preceding weekend had seen 35 players from the 2013 year group participate in the Fleetwood Town cup festival, their nine-a-side debut after making the step up from two years of playing sevens and which saw them play “amazingly well and put in some outstanding performances”.