Jamaica’s nationwide soccer staff captain, Andre Blake, has hailed the first-ever Andre Blake Goalkeeper Clinic as a powerful success.
The 2-day clinic came about on the JFF/Captain Horace Burrell Centre of Excellence on December 14 and 15, attracting over 20 goalkeepers from the Manning and daCosta Cup, together with two feminine goalkeepers from the Reinas Academy.
This invitational clinic offered aspiring goalkeepers with the chance to obtain world-class coaching from a roster of completed coaches. The teaching staff featured Phil Wheddon, coach of Blake’s Philadelphia Union, Andrew Sewell, Jamaica’s Underneath-20 Goalkeeper coach, Neo Oxford from the Reinas Academy, Robert Beckford from Kingston Faculty, and senior Reggae Boy Jahmali Waite.
Seizing alternatives
For Blake, the clinic’s success was evident within the dedication and focus displayed by all of the members. He expressed his hope that the goalkeepers would return to their respective golf equipment and colleges geared up with a deeper understanding of the areas they should enhance with the intention to attain the following stage of their careers.
Blake, who has expertise taking part in on the highest stage, shared his information and emphasised the significance of seizing alternatives to assist gifted people who would possibly in any other case go unnoticed. He harassed the worth of enhancing each nationwide and private growth by means of initiatives like this.
The clinic’s coaching routine encompassed numerous facets of goalkeeping, together with dealing with, diving, cutbacks, repositioning, purposeful play, and an elevated give attention to footwork, given the evolving nature of goalkeeping.
Members spoke extremely of the clinic
Members spoke extremely of the clinic, with Clarendon Faculty’s beginning goalkeeper, Roshae Burrell, commending Blake’s teaching abilities and describing Coach Phil as a wonderful mentor.
Hydel Excessive’s Tajarie Lee expressed gratitude for the dear classes realized in the course of the clinic, vowing to use them to his future coaching and matches.
Nationwide Underneath-20 Coach Andrew Sewell, who served each as a trainer and a pupil in the course of the clinic, praised the skilled and top-notch expertise. He counseled Blake for taking the initiative to arrange such a much-needed occasion.
The Andre Blake Goalkeeper Clinic was made doable by means of the beneficiant help of organizations just like the JFF, ISSA, The Sagicor Basis, Spectrum Methods, PrintWare Tech, Tru Shake, Powerade, Wata, Courtyard Marriott Resort, Leep Advertising, and Uhlsport.
