Grenada: A well-known Goalkeeper and Coach, Phil Wheddon, has arrived in Grenada to conduct the “Goalkeepers and Goalkeepers Coaches Clinics” from Wednesday to Saturday at Queen’s Park. He was welcomed by the soccer affiliation with greetings and a short ceremony.
Grenada Soccer Affiliation is all set to kick off 2024 with a collection of clinics with World-renowned goalkeeper coach Phil Wheddon. The clinics are aimed to offer skilled coaching to the sports activities individuals with totally different periods. It should additionally help within the growth of the game and golf equipment of the soccer in Grenada.
Phil Wheddon is the director of Goalkeeping at Philadelphia Union with its nice historical past in a number of worldwide occasions. He’s the one goalkeeper coach in historical past to have coached the US Males’s and Ladies’s Nationwide Group in a FIFA World Cup.
He has coached in three world cups and introduced house two Olympic Gold Medals. As per his data, he educated a number of famend athletes, akin to Hope Solo, Briana Scurry, Tim Howard and Kasey Keller. His coach, Andre Blake- Jamaica’s Nationwide Soccer Group’s Captain, additionally gained the 2022 Allstate MLS Goalkeeper of the Yr award.
The schedule of the clinics has additionally been introduced. The session will begin on January 3, 2024, from 9 am to 12 midday. The session will function the coaching of the nationwide crew, Goalkeeper Coaches and Goalkeepers.
On the second day, the periods shall be held at two totally different timings for goalkeeper coaches and membership goalkeepers. The primary session with goalkeeper coaches shall be held from 9 am to 12 midday, whereas the second session with membership goalkepers from 4 pm to 7 pm.
The third day will function periods with all secondary college goalkeepers from 2 pm to five pm, and the final day will consist of coaching with all goalkeepers and coaches from 9 am to 12 midday.
As per the soccer affiliation, Wheddon will improve the sporting expertise of the footballers in Grenada and pave the trail for skilled and worldwide ranges.
Notably, the Grenada Soccer Affiliation acquired coaching from coach Wheddon final 12 months in November. The periods of his teaching have been held from November 11 to fifteen, 2022.
