Touchline View: ​Youth Football is about more than results

This is the first edition of Damien Hillen’s weekly column focused on youth football and sport in general. Damien is a UEFA A Licence Coach, former First Team Coach at Newry City AFC, current Academy Director at Newry City AFC, and one of the founders of Windmill Stars Youth Academy. He has seen first hand how football and sport can shape young people in terms of confidence, discipline, resilience, attitude, and ambition.