Football training for Sion Hill youth

The Sion Hill Football Club and the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation are partnering in a Youth Development Football Programme.{{more}}

As part of the national thrust towards building from the bottom, Sion Hill kicked off the SVGFF initiative last Monday, August 18, at the Sion Hill Playing Field.

The Youth Football Clinic runs until August 28, thereafter will be convened every Saturday, thereafter.

The SVGFF has provided balls, cones, bibs, ladders, hurdles, among other equipment necessary for such a programme.

The Sion Hill set up also seeks to rekindle the sporting traditions, as the community has been without its playing field for the past three years.

Holding its own, the resource persons for the Sion Hill clinic are drawn from the community. The clinic is run by Paul Farrell, Kamara Doyle, national player Theon Gordon, Gary Constantine and Rohan Thomas Jr.

Farrell and Doyle are fresh from the Olympic Solidarity Football Course and have immediately taken up the challenged posed by Alvin Corneal, the course facilitator. Gordon, Constantine and Thomas are students pursuing Physical Education studies at the Ibero University in Venezuela.

The SVGFF will on September 6, officially launch the programme, which caters for Footballer of both sexes from the age of nine to sixteen.

The other zones include Layou, Campden Park, Marriaqua, Kingstown, Bequia and Barrouallie.

But it will not be all about Football as the young footballers must maintain an accepted level of academic performance as well as must have regular attendance and good conduct as their respective educational institutions.

It is expected that the zones will from time to time engage each other in small sided competitions.(RT)