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SOME of the country’s leading junior football coaches will this schools’ holiday conduct two coaching clinics at Belgravia Sports Club under the BN Academy soccer development drive.Zimbabwe Soccer Coaches Association boss Bhekhimpilo Nyoni as well as former Black Rhinos captain Gift Kamuriwo will be among the coaches that will conduct the clinics under a programme that has already produced such stars as Kaizer Chiefs’ Matthew Rusike and Elijah Soko, who is now at Dartmouth College on a football scholarship.
Nyoni is fresh from an enriching short course conducted by FC Barcelona coaches in Harare last month and the BN Academy founder says he hopes to share the nuggets he picked up from the tiki-taka experts.
The first phase of the coaching clinic runs from tomorrow until Friday while the last one is slated for September 1-5.
“I will be directly involved throughout the whole programme. As you know I was part of the local coaches who had a lifetime chance of attending a coaching seminar conducted by the FC Barcelona coaches and I will be imparting notes from that experience. Our emphasis is on teaching the youngsters the basics because without a good foundation nothing concrete can be built,” said Nyoni.
Nyoni, a member of the Zifa High Performance Technical Committee, added that efforts to rebuild Zimbabwean football should start at the grassroots level.
“We need a production line, there are no short cuts in football,” he said.
BN Academy has benefited immensely from its dense network in the United States of America where they have sent emerging footballers.
Tinaye Agere
Online Reporter