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Hearts of Oak Masters, Corriverton Links FC hold Annual football camp

Jul 14, 2011 Sports

By Samuel Whyte
The Annual Hearts of Oak Masters Football Club “teach them Young” football summer camp will be expanded this year. Apart from its traditional New Amsterdam base the camp with also be held this year for the first time at Corriverton in conjunction with the Corriverton Links Football Club.
The camps will be staged this year from Monday July 18 to Friday August 19 at the Scot Church ground Princess Elizabeth Road, New Amsterdam.
This is the 12th Year of the programme which will be held five days weekly from Monday-Friday from 09:00hrs -13:00 hrs. President of the Hearts of Oak Football Club Neil ‘Grizzly’ Humphrey will be in charge of the New Amsterdam session, while Michael DeSouza will be in charge of the Sessions at Corriverton.
During the camp the youths will be taught the finer points of the game which include both theory and practical.
The practical sessions will entail showing the youngsters the various ways in receiving, passing, shooting, taking, dribbling, Goalkeeping and throwing the football among other points. The youths are also expected to be schooled in Discipline, etiquette, good table manners and general education with Physical fitness also expected to be an integral part of the sessions.
According to coordinator Neil ‘Grizzly’ Humphrey the main aim of the programme is to have the youths better able to appreciate the rules and regulation of the game, improve their knowledge and skills and understand general sportsmanship and have a better human relationship with others and improve their discipline generally.
According to Humphrey during the camps the youths will be involved in exchange visits and at the end of the camp they will be presented with certificates and other memorabilia, while the more outstanding players will be selected to participate in a tour to the either Georgetown or the Corentyne where they will participate in a number of goodwill games.
He is expecting a good response as school is out and the programme has now become a part of the youths annual out of school package.

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