Football school to polish talent

Football school to polish talent
TEAM HERALD
sports@herald-goa.com
PANJIM: Footballers Beto and Barreto have taken a further step to develop football by starting a football school to unearth young gems between the age group of  6-12 which will function along with the Brasil Futebol Academy and will be headed by the Brazilian management whose objective is to align the Brazilian style of play from the childhood.
The school will be headed by BFA Academy manager Glauco Moraes, who has enormous amount of knowledge and experience in football, also having worked with some of Brazil’s great footballers who are now internationally acclaimed stars namely Lucas Leiva of Liverpool, Anderson of Manchester United and Ronaldinho Gaucho at Gremio FC.
The aim of the school is to make football more beautiful, more entertaining thereby encouraging young players to imitate and align the flamboyant Brazilian style. The school will be offering youngsters an opportunity to improve their game and to play football in the Brazilian way and will be groomed to perfection in such a way that they will be directly absorbed into the Academy.
“Football isn’t just about techniques and skills; it’s about enjoyment, fitness and social skills.The players here will enjoy the beautiful game, have fun and also make friends,” said Beto.
Youngsters will be divided into three categories of different age groups with different training module – 6 to 8 – basic training, 9 to 10 – developmental stage, 11 to 12 – advanced training
Strong emphasis will be placed on developing the technical skills of every child. Skills from basic to complex will be broken down into easily learnable phases for children and then these moves will be taught and repeated many times in small games.
Beto remarked, “We believe that children do not spend enough time training. They may spend a lot of time playing matches, but generally children do not spend enough time working on their skills. As a result, BFA Football School plans to change the way that football is played, thereby changing the way that we train children to play the game. However, this cannot happen without children spending increased time practicing their skills.”
The sessions will last for two hours and will be entirely devoted to training core skills. The school which will operate on a fee basis will open on January 2 at Chowgule Sports and Fitness Centre, Margao. They will train on artificial football pitch on Mondays and Wednesdays from 4 to 6 p.m.
Those six and above may call on 0832-2217008 or contact Elton de Sousa on 9850859497.