Football for fun available to students at GCU

A first year Law student has kicked-off his time at University by helping reform GCU Students’ Association’s Recreational Football Club.

William Keiss linked up with students from a variety of programmes, including Computing and Nursing, after doing his research before starting at GCU in September.

He said: “When I was applying to different universities I made sure I checked the different societies available. I saw that GCU had a Recreational Football Society at one point, which ended up disbanding. It peaked my interest because it’s always something I enjoyed; the ability to have a place to play football in a relaxed environment.

“When I arrived here during Freshers’ Week, I started to make friends and threw the idea around of us starting it. We got a group chat going and I think there were 15 people interested in showing up, and that was just within our first year friends group!”

With GCU already having it’s own men’s and women’s football team, William's keen to give students the opportunity to play football in a non-competitive environment.

He explained: “It’s different from the football team where they play competitive games. It’s not really about training or fitness, this is more just the idea of doing it for the fun of it. Recreational means non-competitive for the most part. You can obviously be competitive in a five-a-side game, but that’s not the aim. The aim is just to play football and enjoy that rather than focusing on winning.”

William added: “It’s open to anyone of all ages and ability. We’re going to try and meet a couple of times a week.

“We’re currently playing on the pitch at the back of the Students’ Union, but we’ve been talking about moving to the Firhill Complex because that would allow us to get two games going at once and mean that no-one is sitting on the sidelines.”

Interested in getting involved? Get in touch with the Recreational Football Team via email - RecFootball@GCUstudents.co.uk

By Ross Clark      
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