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File Image: A soccer ball in a net.
Manchester United Academy coach, Michael Fogarty, is conducting soccer clinics and workshops at Ga-Dikgale, outside Polokwane in Limpopo.
He’s in the province to lead the programme as part of the rural development soccer tournament.
Fogarty has expressed concern about a lack of basic resources for football development.
“It shocks me that they lack resources when there are many people pulling together to get these opportunities. On day one, the coaching was to get an idea. In sessions, they just had blank faces because they didn’t have cones or a particular ball skill. For children to develop, you need to let them play and you need to allow them to make decisions,” says Ga-Dikgale.
More than 40 soccer players are benefiting from the programme. Some of them have expressed excitement.
“We are learning passing, receiving and spacing and also shifting the ball. We are learning many basic things. He is teaching us a lot of stuff. like how you receive a ball and how you connect with the players off the pitch and on the pitch. I am feeling happy. I have learned how to pass a ball, how to mark and how to trap a ball to open a space. I am feeling happy cause one day I want to see myself at PSL playing for Orlando Pirates,” says a soccer player.
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