The fourth Greensprings Kanu Football Camp has come and gone but the memory during the one-week clinic would remain with the visiting British Coaches, who believe some of the participants who become stars in years to come.
Also for emerging as the best player at the camp, 12 year-old Similoluwa Gbenla has been awarded scholarship throughout his secondary education by the management of the Greensprings School.
The camp which concluded it fourth edition at the Lekki campus of Greensprings in Lagos has over 100 participants drawn from Lagos, Ogun, Abuja, Rivers among others taking part in the one-week exercise.
The camp was handled by British Coaches from English Premier League side, West Bromwich Albion.
Coaches at Greensprings Kanu Football
According to Richard Holmes, the talents displayed by the students were exceptional while efforts must continue to nurture them to stardom.
“The footballers are great and they are very keen. Even when we finish coaching them, they still carry on playing all day. We train them four hours a day, so for them to carry on is brilliant. They are very good players, the equipment and facilities is great and everybody here is fantastic and it has been really good,” Holmes said.
On the uniqueness of the camp, the coach said: “The most unique thing is definitely the players. It is brilliant to see coaches listening to what we’ve got say and wanting to learn because as a coach, you never know everything.”
You learn a new thing and for the coaches to come along, see them watch my session and ask me questions not only help them but also me because they might ask me a question that will make me think about whatever I have done and if I don’t have answer, I will have to ask myself. To help them also help me make a difference because when I leave Nigeria, the coaches can carry on coaching the kids and making difference in a positive way.
For Adrian Dove, the facilities provided by Greensprings were fantastic, adding that this help to bring put the best in the students.
“The facility is great and it is incredible. The grass pitches is great for the purpose they are used for. The goal posts are very good and I think everything is fantastic even the halls we are staying in are just what we need so it is really good and the school is great. I think it is the passion for the game. The children are willing to learn which I think it is a good thing because if you got children who don’t want to be here, it will be hard for us. We’ve got children who are really passionate about what they want to do and they are going to do well with football.
In his submission, Ashley Hodgkins, who was making his second visit to the camp described this year’s camp as unique.
“The facility has definitely improved from the last time. I have been able to come here for the second time and I can see the ability from this year and the last time and the boys are very fit and very good in terms of technical ability. They love to play on the floor a lot and hit the ball very well and they have really impressed me this week. This week the children have had 18 hours of coaching time. Back home in England, the professional players wouldn’t get 18 hours a week of coaching so I think they had a lot of good coaching,” he said.
Hodgkins added: “They camp is good for the youth teams, the national teams and if we see players like we’ve got in the older groups, they can go to England have opportunity to play in the Premier League. When we get back home we can speak to the academy at West Bromwich Albiom and see what they can do for players to give them choices.”
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