The Digicel/JFF Grassroots programme continues on Saturday, January 25 with the staging of a grassroots activity involving one hundred (100) children from schools in the parish of St. Elizabeth. The children attending are from primary schools in the Black River; Santa Cruz and northern regions of the parish.
The Digicel/JFF Grassroots programme continues on Saturday, January 25 with the staging of a grassroots activity involving one hundred (100) children from schools in the parish of St. Elizabeth. The children attending are from primary schools in the Black River; Santa Cruz and northern regions of the parish.
The activity will take place at the Lacovia Community Center and will begin at 10:30 am with a Coach’s educators session and end with a festival where the kids are introduced to basics of the sport in a fun environment. The techniques focused on are dribbling; running with the ball; juggling; shooting; goalkeeping; passing; controlling and heading.The Coach educators will participate in a two hour workshop where they are taught the methodologies involved in coaching young children. These sessions are held to ensure the programme is sustainable over time.
One of the goals of the grassroots football programme is to equip parishes to continue the activities in small zones within each parish after the national staff from the JFF has left. This has now begun to take shape, the latest being in Clarendon where on January 18, fifty (50) kids participated in a grassroots football activity in Lionel Town and were coached by eight coach educators. The children were from basic schools in South Clarendon. The parishes of St. Ann, St. Thomas, St Catherine, Trelawny, Kingston and St. Andrew have also been conducting localised grassroots programmes for children aged 6-12.
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