Friday, August 25th 2007

Article at Daily Express

Gilkock – A go at Danish soccer drills

Allan Nevado, student of the university of Ballerup Seminariet currently in The Gambia on attachment spent two weekend days at the Gilkock Football Academy.

            Allan an undergraduate at the Department of Youth, Sports and Games at the university but in deep love with the game of football wasted no time in responding to the call of the academy for technical tutorial session.

            Allan confessed that the standard of the interns at the Brufut based academy is higher compared those of their peer in Denmark but was also quick to add that the interns need to learn to work as a team, one of his sessions centred on team work. He noted that it is important for players of a young age to be taught how to accept their teammates and always learn to say thank you, keep it up or try hard next time.

            After the practical session on Sunday, Allan went into a lecture session with the interns of the Academy; it got described as educative and interactive.

            Max Jallow whom facilitated Allan’s’ visit to the academy thanked the coaches and players for their perseverance and quickly advised the players on the need for commitment to the game,stating that they respect their coaches and fellow players and finally the need to maintain discipline at all time.

            Sang Mendy, public relation officer, thanked Allan for coming to their aid, he then appealed on Allan to always find time to visit when opportune outside his tight academic schedules, Mr. Buba K. Jallow and Alieu Sanneh, Technical Director and Coach respectively formed part of the two days session.