Ascot, Berkshire, SL5 9QY
About Us
The Coaching Team
The Academy staff are all very carefully selected, read all about them below.
Ady Milne – Academy Director
UEFA B Qualified Coach, with over 35 years coaching experience, and has also held posts of Head of Youth Football at a couple of community football clubs. Ady has experience of coaching and managing in the UK and in a total to date attended over 50 International tours and tournaments.
Ben Sawyer
Ben manages the Academies and works in all areas of the academy as well as delivering football at all levels of the ACS International School in Egham, St Marys School, Ascot, St Georges School Ascot and Charters School. Ben will also join us in Sweden at the Gothia Cup.
Leighton Rudd
Leighton is a great young coach and also a local goalkeeper who helps out with the main academies, holiday camps, private coaching sessions and runs sessions at our Goalkeeping Academy. You can also book birthday parties where Leighton will lead the parties brilliantly.
Silas Woolway
Silas is a local coach who also has coached at Brentford FC and currently at Woking FC. Silas works on our projects at both ACS and Charters School along with all of our academies.
Hannah Morrison
Hannah is an excellent coach who helps at our Junior Academies and delivers fantastic sessions at the Girls and Youth Academy as well as running Girls football sessions locally. Hannah will attend with our girls team in Sweden in July.
Ciaran McGuire
A teacher at a local school, Ciaran is a superb goalkeeping coach and a great addition to the coaching team. He will continue to work with the older goalkeepers at the academy in the current academic year.
Luke Russell
Luke continues as part of the coaching team at our highly popular Goalkeeping Academy and we look forward to working with Luke this academic year. Luke also heads the U13 squad going to Sweden in the Gothia Cup. He is an avid Brentford FC fan following them all over the country.
Laura Judge
Laura assists the excellent staff of St Marys School Ascot with their sessions and matches and also helps run birthday parties and 1 to 1 sessions.
Sam Swyer
Sam is an excellent goalkeeping coach and also assists with the holiday camps. Sam represented Phoenix Football Academy at the Gothia Cup in Sweden in 2024 and is a great role model both on and off the pitch.
Nathan Nicholls
A keen goalkeeper, Nathan has been working with us in the goalkeeping academy for a couple of years and although now at university is a regular back at the academy when he is able to, providing an excellent set of sessions to our younger goalkeepers and lots of fun at the camps.
George Weir
George is a PE support teacher a a local independent school and helps run the junior academy. An excellent addition to the team and I am sure we will see George assisting with other projects in 2025.
The Sports Therapy Team
Neil Mason
Neil and his physiotherapy team look after the physiotherapy advice and support for our older Academy players. Neil runs his own physiotherapy clinic and is also an experienced goalkeeping coach, having previously worked at Brentford FC. Neil can provide us with vital physiotherapy analysis of players as they develop through their key years.
Charlotte Hopper
Charlotte is able to provide Sports Therapy support for the academy and also works at a local football club along with working full time at a well renowned Sports Therapy clinic.
All the Academy staff are carefully selected and all possess varying coaching qualifications and all hold a valid DBS certification.
Interested in coaching for Phoenix Football Academy? Please send us your CV to info@phoenixfootballacademy.com.