An under-12s disability football team has started training in Cwmbran.
The side is part of Llanyrafon FC’s set-up- and is the fourth team they run for players with disabilities.
The new side was set up six weeks ago and trains at Cwmbran Stadium from 5pm to 6pm every Wednesday.
Marcus Hall, club coach, said: “Even though we’ve been going six weeks you can see the progression already, even just the way they pass the ball.
“As you know, as a kid, we all used to do it, the old toe poke. They’ve started controlling it.
“Even some of the players were reluctant to talk when they first came here, to do with their mixed abilities and neurodiversity.
‘Neurodiversity’
“They’re coming along now, they’re speaking to myself, they’re speaking to Rhys [another coach], whose looking to take on the under 12s.
“It’s coming along slowly but steady, slowly but steady wins the race.”
He has plans to enter the team in the South Wales Pan-Disability League in September 2026.
Llanyrafon FC has an under-16s side and two senior sides with around “50 players in total” training each week.