COACHES

Between our two senior, C-licenced coaches are almost three decades of coaching experience and five decades of playing experience.

Perhaps more importantly, our single greatest goal is to ensure that each player wants to return next week. It’s that simple.

We’re not into elitism. We’re about instilling the love of the game into players who want to become better footballers. We’re about the improvement of every player in a physically and socially safe and healthy environment.

PYTHONS FC is what football in Canberra is all about - it brings people together for the love of the game.

Darren Power
Technical director / Senior coach

Qualifications
- C Licence
- FFA Grassroots Certificate
- FFA Laws Of The Game Certificate
- FFA Skills Acquisition Certificate
- FFA Game Training Certificate
- St John Ambulance CPR / Basic emergency life support / First aid

With a long family history of football in Australia (his grandfather was drafted from England to play in Australia in the 1960s and his father was a local footballer, too), Darren has played in Canberra since his early teens, including in first-grade squads. He has coached local teams for over 10 years, including Capital Premier League and National Premier League squads.

Chris Sheedy
Senior coach

Qualifications
- C Licence
- FFA Grassroots Certificate
- FFA Laws Of The Game Certificate
- FFA Skills Acquisition Certificate
- St John Ambulance CPR / Basic emergency life support / First aid

At his best, Chris was selected for the NSW Schoolboys team. At his worst, he was a member of a Brindabella Blues FC Masters squad that lost 19 games in a row. In between he played with and coached for numerous clubs in Sydney, London and Canberra. In the last four years the teams he has coached have won over 90 per cent of their matches. But no matter the result, he has loved every minute, as have his players.

James Power
Assistant coach

James is known locally as a fearsome striker. The goal-hungry 12-year-old was selected for the 2019 season into a National Premier League team. James also plays basketball at the National Premier League level. But while he’s a wily opponent on the field/court, outside the game he’s a supportive big brother, as his younger sisters would attest. James enjoys working with and caring for children, who respond very positively to his gentle, brotherly approach.

Sam Sheedy
Assistant coach

Sam has played in the National Premier League for the last five years and this year joined a men’s U23 National Premier League squad. Sam loves nothing more than sharing his skills by having a kick in the backyard with his little brother. Coaching groups of young boys and girls, he says, is simply a bigger and better way to do that. Sam is also a Level 4 Referee.