Njeru centre to host age group camps

Jun 30, 2010

FUFA will start holiday training camps for age group national teams in a bid to develop talent and form a base for the senior team, The Cranes.

By Norman Katende
and Bruno Mugoda


FUFA will start holiday training camps for age group national teams in a bid to develop talent and form a base for the senior team, The Cranes.

The local soccer federation boss Lawrence Mulindwa said this at the commissioning of the new artificial turf pitch at the Njeru Technical Centre on Tuesday.

“This is a blessing to us. We will be holding holiday clinics for the age groups from here. We now have the facility which is ours and that is what we have been looking for. We can say the road of nurturing talent from a tender age to the senior national team starts now,” said an excited Mulindwa. The holiday camps will attract the U-13, U-15, U-17 and U-20 teams for both boys and girls.

FIFA specialist in artificial pitches Eric Harrison received the facility from the contractors Greenfield international. It was part of the Win in Africa for Africa FIFA project, aimed at building technical manpower. It cost about sh1.4bn.

“We expect this project to develop many talents to feed the national teams. If you want to maintain this field from 8-10 years, you must avoid uninvited people on the turf,” warned Harrison.

State sports minister Charles Bbakabulindi cautioned the federation against holding musical concerts on the pitch.

This is the second artificial turf in the country after the hockey pitch at Lugogo.

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