Welcome to Signol Athletic Junior Football Club
Welcome to Signol Athletic Junior Football Club, proudly serving Stockport! We offer football programs for all ages, from Soccer School to Open Age teams. At Signol Athletic, we develop skills, foster teamwork, and instill a love for the game.
Signol AthletiC Jr FC
The club is named after its founder Anne Signol, who is a very prominent member of the local community and is known as the Founder and Head Physiotherapist (MACP, MCSP, HCPC, FMHA, MBRAC, KHT) at The Signol Centre – one of the longest established physiotherapy and acupuncture practices in the Stockport area.
​Anne was a physiotherapist at Stockport Infirmary treating asthmatic children. At the time the procedure was for the children to be treated once a week to aid their breathing and improve the lung capacity.
Once a week didn’t seem enough, so as she owned the Signol centre gym in Romiley, Anne got them to go to the gym for half an hour each evening to practice the exercises.
On Saturday they had to show her what they had done so that she could note their progress, one hot June the boys were fed up as the girls were dancing and doing gymnastics so she took them to the park with a football for a kickabout and that was it.
John Wyatt whose mother Val worked with Anne said he would train the boys and they could play friendlies.
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The children chose the name Signol Athletic and the team was born in 1980.
