BFA salutes Pro Shottas

BFA's Sherlock Yarde (l), with Jonathan Bryant (c) of 8000 Inc, and Pro Shottas head coach Greg Castagne (r) at a Press briefing (Kenmore Bynoe)

Sat, January 08, 2011 - 12:02 AM

CHAIRMAN of the Barbados Football Association’s (BFA) youth committee, Sherlock Yarde, has welcomed the AC Milan Junior Camp that will be held in Barbados in October.

Yarde, who is also the BFA’s senior vice-president, also lauded the involvement of Pro Shottas football academy in youth football.

“The BFA is very grateful and supportive of the efforts of Pro Shottas to bring such a high-profile football club like AC Milan to conduct such a camp in Barbados,” he said at the Press launch on Thursday at South Beach Hotel.

“It is not a one-off situation and it is also good that it will be a continuous programme, thereby giving the junior players of Barbados that opportunity to be coached by personnel of the highest calibre,” said Yarde.

“And I believe that it can only improve the standard of play of these young players.

“I hope, though, that as a result, the players would be motivated, and in the very near future that we can see the fruits coming from the programme, whereby we will see a mass exodus of our young players going into the universities and also into professional contracts.”

Yarde said one of his dreams was to watch on television at least a half-dozen local players, in the Spanish, Italian or English leagues, some time in the near future.

“I hope that this camp achieves the aims and objectives of the Pro Shottas Club, who have been doing very good work over the years to help youth football in Barbados,” he added. (EZS)