Freeport Rugby Football Club’s Youth Football (‘Soccer’) Programme for
boys, known as the Grand Bahama Soccer Academy officially kicks off on
Wednesday September 3rd from 5pm.
The Programme is now into its thirteenth season and is aimed at boys
from the age of 9 upwards.
The Academy aims
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To provide quality coaching
that engages, challenges and inspires young athletes to reach their highest
level in the sport of soccer utilizing the best facilities on the island
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To provide an environment where
young soccer players build character through the development of important
life skills such as responsibility, sportsmanship, work ethic and
teamwork;
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To provide a pathway open to
all young soccer players who wish to participate, allowing them to reach
their full potential through identification, education, and competition;
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To partner and
complement similar community programmes at the YMCA and within the schools
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To create an environment that
facilitates the growth of the sport of soccer and fosters a love of the
game.
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To encourage and provide
support allowing our athletes to achieve academic success
To date over twenty of our
players, who have passed though the programme, have successfully entered colleges on
soccer scholarships with some
now even playing professional
soccer in the US and Europe !
Programmes offered at this stage will be
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9 to 11 – Coach
Mark
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12 to 14
- Coach Brad
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15 plus –
Coaches Adolfo and Coach Jake
It is the ambition of the Coaches to to introduce
and re-enforce key basic soccer skills such as
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Touch and Ball control
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Passing
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Running with the ball and dribbling
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Shooting
These skills will then be honed through
regular practice and game-like situations and then, as the boys progress and
develop, more tactical and higher level skills will be introduced.
The Academy runs every Wednesday commencing
September 3rd from 5pm until 6.30pm with additional and later
sessions being organized on other nights depending upon age groups at Freeport
Rugby Football Club.
Grand Bahama Youth Soccer on Facebook
or www.rugbyfootballbahamas.com
Email:
markhardy242@yahoo.com
