Man­ches­ter Unit­ed coach­es Kevin Ward and Ea­mon Mul­vey will be joined by At­lantic sports am­bas­sadors An­drew Lewis and Meris­sa Aguilleira, in lead­ing the na­tion's top pri­ma­ry school foot­ballers in­to sport­ing ex­cel­lence at the At­lantic Foot­ball and Life Skills De­vel­op­ment Camp from to­day un­til Tues­day, at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Port-of-Spain.

Now ex­pand­ed in­to a five-day for­mat, the an­nu­al foot­ball camp aims to de­vel­op the tech­ni­cal and so­cial skills of the top 25 boys and 25 girls of this year's At­lantic Na­tion­al Pri­ma­ry Schools Foot­ball League as well as the coach­ing skills and tech­niques of pri­ma­ry school teach­ers and coach­es.

Olympic sailor, Lewis and West In­dies Women's cap­tain, Aguilleira, will be on hand to speak to the chil­dren about lead­er­ship, as well as about cop­ing meth­ods to deal with the chal­lenges of achiev­ing aca­d­e­m­ic and sport­ing suc­cess.

The At­lantic Foot­ball De­vel­op­ment and Life Skills Camp will adopt a holis­tic ap­proach con­sist­ing of tech­ni­cal train­ing ses­sions as well as life skills and mo­ti­va­tion­al ses­sions for the chil­dren. On Sun­day, the third day, ex­hi­bi­tion games will be played be­tween Tu­na­puna Boys RC and Long­denville Girls and the camp par­tic­i­pants.

On Mon­day, the chil­dren will re­ceive cer­tifi­cates of par­tic­i­pa­tion and the top six play­ers on the camp will be an­nounced. Then, on Tues­day, coach­es Ward and Mul­vey will host a clin­ic for lo­cal coach­es, which will fo­cus on mod­ern coach­ing meth­ods and prac­tices and tech­ni­cal train­ing.

This is At­lantic's fourth year spon­sor­ing the camp, which is fa­cil­i­tat­ed by the Man­ches­ter Unit­ed coach­es. An ex­pe­ri­enced skills de­vel­op­ment coach for the last nine years, lead coach Mul­vey has an in­ter­na­tion­al coach­ing li­cence (DFB Ger­many), as well as an 'A' Li­cence Youth Li­cence. As­sis­tant coach, Ward has been a skills de­vel­op­ment coach for the last five years and a Man­ches­ter Unit­ed Acad­e­my coach for the last nine years and al­so has the 'B' Li­cence Youth Li­cence cer­ti­fi­ca­tion.

Lo­cal con­sul­tants Dol­ly and As­so­ciates will con­duct the Camp's life skills com­po­nent. This will in­clude such top­ics as in­ter­per­son­al skills, eti­quette train­ing, con­flict res­o­lu­tion and bal­anc­ing school life and sports.

The At­lantic Foot­ball and Life Skills De­vel­op­ment Camp sup­ple­ments the an­nu­al At­lantic Na­tion­al Pri­ma­ry Schools Foot­ball League by fur­ther de­vel­op­ing the foot­ball skills of se­lect­ed tal­ent­ed play­ers and en­hanc­ing their skills in life man­age­ment. The ini­tia­tive con­tributes to the sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment of foot­ball in T&T and al­so LNG pro­duc­er At­lantic's aim to equip fu­ture gen­er­a­tions of ath­letes.

Par­tic­i­pants

Boys

De­clan Luke (Mon­trose Gov't), Mal­ick Robin­son (Mon­trose Gov't), Kee­lan Bur­nette (Cara­pichaima RC), Ameil Weekes (Va­len­cia South RC), Bran­don Dookhier­am (Biche RC), Je­re­mi­ah Williams (San­gre Grande Gov't), Nick­ell Alexan­der (Ari­ma New Gov't), Tyrique Suther­land (Tu­na­puna Boys RC), Aden Williams (La Hor­quet­ta North Gov't), Ky­lon Brath­waite (Whim AC), Os­hea Williams (Bon Ac­cord Gov't), Quin­cy Win­ches­ter (Pa­tience Hill Gov't), Je­re­mi­ah John (Moru­ga RC), Akeem Joachim (St Mary's Gov't), Je­re­mi­ah Ottway (Ma­yaro RC), Ezekiel Keasar (Point Fortin RC), Jamol Trim (La Brea RC), Ja­mal Matthews (Siparia Boys RC), N'kosi Corbin (East­ern Boys Gov't), Isa­iah Vin­cent (Di­a­mond Vale Gov't), Jarique Williams (Sa­cred Heart Boys RC), Ter­ron Ce­les­tine (St Agnes An­gli­can), Isa­iah Gomez (Vos Gov­ern­ment), Mo­lik Khan (San Fer­nan­do Boys RC), Dan­tay Gilbert (San Fer­nan­do Boys RC).

Girls

Tia McGilvery (Long­denville Gov't), Ave­o­la Abra­ham (Long­denville Gov't), Brit­ney Her­bert (St David's RC), Spe­cial Fafe, Man­zanil­la Gov't), Fay Anne John­son (Nar­i­va Gov't), Kay­la Ba­boolal (Biche RC), Crys­tal Gibbs (St Mary's Chil­dren's Home), An­nali­cia McMil­lan (Bon Air Gov't), Sha­keema Alexan­der (La Hor­quet­ta North), Shan­ice Ay­oung (Ma­son Hall Gov't), She­vi­ca Per­saud (Pen­te­costal Light Min­istries), Aniy­ka Sil­van (Ma­son Hall Gov't), Sheng Ec­cles (St Mary's Gov't), Jayriel Charles (Moru­ga RC), Chris­sy Mitchell (Ma­yaro RC), Keko­la Bho­la (Ica­cos Gov't), Tishelle James (Ica­cos Gov't), Kay­la Gar­cia (Pe­nal RC), Natisha Jules (Care­nage Girls Gov't), Aisha Neck­les (Care­nage Girls Gov't), Maria Ser­rant (Di­a­mond Vale Gov't), Shantel Wil­son (Vos Gov't), Nata­nia Lal­loo (Vos Gov't), Nat­i­ca Noel (Mon Re­pos RC),

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