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Walks say one walk in the park made him the player he is today
One of Guyana’s best junior rugby players, Breon Walks would have never been the player he is today if he
Breon Walks
had listened to his friends and had lacked self-esteem. Walks, who represented Guyana on more than one occasion, said that he was unsure on whether he would have been successful at the game.
“I never thought I was capable of playing this exciting game called rugby, my friends used to always say that I was too small in body structure to play the game but all it took me was one walk in the park to play the game before I officially started playing with the Guyana Defence Force last February.”
The twenty years old winger revealed to Kaieteur Sport in a candid interview yesterday that his first National team was the Caribbean fifteen’s Championships at the Guyana National Stadium in April last year.
“After playing for two months my first experience playing at a National level representing Guyana was on home soil at the Stadium…it was one of the best moments ever in my lifetime and one memory I will cherish as I continue the trail of life,” the player said.
The winger, who is currently a soldier with the Guyana Defence Force for two years and nine months, attained another golden opportunity to embody the land of many waters at the recently held Pan Am Games in Mexico last October.
Despite the team not being successful in winning most of the games, Walks still thought the opportunity was a great one, since he needed the exposure at an International Level to expand his wealth of familiarity on the game.
Walks added that with the two teams he made in his career to date, he grew to love the game although it has its physical threats and he always try in every game to make his team be or become successful.
Disclosing to this publication about his plans for this year, the player said that his focus would be better ball control; “I need to be extremely focused for this year and I also need to gain better ball control whilst on the field.”
The player who once played football for Plaisance and ran sprint races for Royalites Athletic Club hopes that one day someone will see his talent and give him a scholarship where he can migrate to study and play the sport at the same time.
Meanwhile, the player is of the view that one of the requirements for the new year for rugby should be more game exposure locally, “… more games should be played locally for the players to develop their skills, probably the government and other business organisations should come on board to assist in taking the sport to another level; the Rugby Organisation has been trying but I think more hands can join to make the game a bigger success. (Juanita Hooper)
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