Digicel Kick-start Clinics return to SVG

Over the next three weeks Digicel, with the assistance of the St Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation, will host a series of local clinics to select 30 of the best youngsters to participate in the Digicel Kick-start Academy, to be held on May 4 and 5.{{more}}

Pre-Clinic No. 1 (Central Zone) was held on April 9, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Victoria Park Playing Field.

Pre-Clinic No. 2 (Leeward Zone) will take place on April 16, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Campden Park Playing Field.

Pre-Clinic No. 3 (Windward Kingstown) has been scheduled for April 23, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Biabou Playing Field.

A release from Digicel said the SVGFF has once again come forward willingly to assist and support the Kick-start programme by providing a slate of qualified coaches to be the selectors at these pre-clinics. The selectors are: Cornelius Huggins, Wayde Jackson, Wesley Charles, Keith Ollivierre, Kevin Richardson, Fabian Guerra and Urtis Blackette.

There have been many success stories that have come from the Kick-start Clinics in St Vincent and the Grenadines. Scholarship opportunities and foreign based training camps are standouts of the achievements gained by participants in the programme.

At last year’s Digicel Academy, the MCFC coaches selected players from the Caribbean to continue training with them for a week at their City Football Academy, an elite training and youth development facility in Manchester, England. While there, they got the once in a lifetime opportunity to experience life as a professional footballer – learning the tactics and strategies employed by Manchester City FC first team players.

The Digicel Kick-start Clinics programme is a once in a lifetime opportunity for thousands of aspiring young footballers. Through the Kick-start Clinics, participants not only learn football skills and technical abilities, but also develop an ethos of professionalism and a good attitude – key attributes of successful people across all walks of life.