If there’s one age group where the football fever is in full flow, it’s our Tamborine Mountain Eagles U8s. In 2024, the club boasts FIVE U8s teams, competing across multiple divisions in the MiniRoos competition.
For our U8s Eagles teams, football is pure joy. Played on quarter-sized football fields with no offsides and smaller goals, U8s football provides end-to-end entertainment. With seven players per team, you can expect lots of goals, lots of dribbling, and lots of enthusiasm from the boys & girls.
With so many teams, we get a mixed bag of results. We’ve experienced some epic victories this year, and some educational defeats. For the players, it doesn’t phase them either way. They’re just here to play football and get better!
The important thing to remember about U8s football is that the priority is development, not results. It’s better for the players to lose and to learn than to win for the sake of winning. With no league tables, ladders, or Grand Finals, football at this age is about fostering a passion for the game while developing core skills.
Our U8s train every Wednesday with dedicated coaches focused on instilling the foundations of football into our future generation of players. From passing, dribbling, shooting, and defending to their positioning, roles, and responsibilities, our volunteer coaches put time and effort into creating a football curriculum that is fun, engaging, and informative.
We recently had a U8s team compete in the Logan Lightning Twilight Tournament, where they did the club proud with an incredible effort against some of the toughest U8s teams in the region.
Overall, the boys and girls give 100% every week, improving week to week and always helping each other out on weekends when one team is short on players. They show outstanding sportsmanship, compassion, and enthusiasm every weekend and walk off the field after every game with beaming smiles and vibrant attitudes. They embody the true spirit of junior football, and we can’t wait to see their continued growth.
Story by Chandler Milligan
