By Colin Bynoe Jr

OVER 100 registered aspiring footballers will be engaged in a four-week long football training camp, courtesy of the Hearts of Oak Masters Football Club.

The camp, which spanned across two decades, will continue to “Teach them Young” in its bid to identify and develop disciplined young people.

This exciting instructional football training camp opened last Monday at the All Saints Ground and will conclude on August 17.

The sessions cater to kids from 6 to 16 years old, but it was noted that any person desirous of learning more as it relates to football can join the camp. The aim of the training camp is to expose all involved to the rules of football, techniques of the game and actual game scenarios, along with several life skills.

Speaking to Chronicle Sport, Kenrick Bowry, senior member of the Hearts of Oak Football Club, expressed his excitement for this edition of the camp.

“This is a regular programme for us; our purpose is to teach youths the basics techniques in football. We have people from the refereeing council who will be coming to teach the kids the laws of the game; we also have facilitators who will be sharing on morals and discipline”.

Bowry pointed out, too, that their focus is not just football, “We will be having the Fire Department speak to the youths on fire prevention, while next Tuesday we will be having the Guyana Police Force ‘B’ Division to deal with the road safety aspect of our training.”

The young trainees will be placed into the following groups: 8 years and under, 9-12 years, 13 years and older, which will allow them to engage effectively with their age group.

For this year’s “Teach them Young” camp the Ministry of Social Cohesion has showered its support towards the Hearts of Oak Masters Football Club’s annual venture. Other notable donors include New Building Society (NBS), Dave’s Photo Studio, Young’s Studio, and Bob Supermarket.  Sessions start from 09:00hrs to 12:00hrs daily.

In attendance at Monday’s launching was Region Six sports organiser Godwyn Allicock, who gave the feature address and declared the event open.

Also in attendance were the coaches/facilitators of the training camp, Kenrick Bowry, Colin Bowry, Neil Humphrey, official from the Berbice Football Training Academy, Randy Sears and other officials of the Hearts of Oak Masters Club.