Grand
Bahama Island - On location at the Freeport Football Rugby Camp, the
Premier League once again makes this annual favourite summer camp possible for almost
two hundred children. The camp caters to boys and girls ages six to
sixteen years. Many local coaches assist with the program, which ran for five full days.
This year two coaches from the English Football Association (FA) were on hand to offer the same skills offered in the UK.
The Bahamas
Weekly News Team, along with Coach Robbin bring you video interviews from
Luther Blissett, record
goal-scoring former England international player and annual camp coach; local coach and Grand Bahama Girls' Soccer Development Program coordinator, Mary Woodside-Knowles;
Jamie Godbold, coach from the FA and second year
lead coach for the Grand Bahama camp; and first time visitor to Grand Bahama, Tom Hartley, FA Skills Coach from London.
The camp's
major sponsor is Sir Jack Hayward, and other appreciated sponsors are Star General Insurance, Pelican
Bay Hotel, Grand Bahama Port Authority, Polymer International,
Cafferata and Co, Coldwell Banker James Sarles Realty, J.S. Johnson,
Pub at Port Lucaya, and Sunny Isles.
