Fleeting Idea to Change the Long-Term Future of Our Nation Interview Why Sfa's Director of Development has Made Children's 'Physical Literacy' His Primary Concern

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JIM FLEETING is up out of his seat, one minute throwing an imaginary ball against a wall, the next volleying it . He is animated and loud, banging his fists against a table. Anyone looking in through the windows of his Hampden office might imagine that this grandfather had lost his marbles, but the staff who work around him know this behaviour is par for the course.

The SFA's director of football development is talking about what he sees as the essence of this country's sporting problem: too little physical education in primary schools, no "physical literacy" among our children. Few things get Fleeting more worked up than this.

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Fleeting Idea to Change the Long-Term Future of Our Nation Interview Why Sfa's Director of Development has Made Children's 'Physical Literacy' His Primary Concern

He passionately believes that various football, sporting and wider social problems flow from the fact Scottish children are not physically educated at primary age. Without that, the damage is done. Between eight and 12 are the "window" years for optimum physical education.

When children have core balance and co-ordination it is far, far easier...

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