Can you play football? A new online service for grassroots football managers

Online, May 10, 2010 (Newswire.com) - London, England. May 10, 2010. Grassroots football managers who don't have time to organise themselves let alone a large squad of players can now reduce the time it takes to run their team with www.canyouplayfootball.com. This new service allows managers and coaches to organise their team online with the world's first free personal football organiser.

Dave Evans, founder of www.canyouplayfootball.com, told us why he gave up his job in the Capital Markets a year ago to develop the system "I have been involved with grassroots football for 30 years, as player, senior team manager and in recent years, youth team coach. Anyone who has managed a squad of players will tell you - your week is consumed by texting, calling and emailing players to check availability before spending the night before the match scrolling through your inboxes in hope you have enough (or not too many!) players for the game. Our research showed that on average, a football manager spends over 5 full working days on this task alone each season. I wanted to develop a system that freed managers from this administrative task so they could concentrate more on coaching players and improving their team's performance."

After 12 months of research and development, www.canyouplayfootball.com is now live allowing managers to organise their team online in just seconds through an innovative two way messaging system that automatically updates the team sheet based on player availability. Reminders are sent to players who don't respond so all that's left for the manager to do is log-on before the match and print the team sheet. The system also tracks team and player stats throughout the season for analysis and end of season awards.