Cook to conduct trials

Sports Reporter
AMERICAN soccer coach Jeff Cook will conduct trials for budding footballers at Belgravia Sports Club in Harare tomorrow with some getting an opportunity to earn a scholarship to the United States.
The experienced coach started the trials at Bantu Rovers in Bulawayo and is expected in the capital tomorrow.
The selection will focus mainly on junior players who will get scholarships to pursue both academic and sports at United States colleges.

Cook has previously visited the country at the invitation of Bantu Rovers director Methembe Ndlovu whom he coached for several years in the National Collegiate Athletic Association soccer league in the United States.

According to information made available on the BN Academy website, Cook arrived on Tuesday in Bulawayo and spent a week at Bantu Rovers before heading to the capital where he will assess players at Belgravia tomorrow.

Cook regularly visits Zimbabwe and has facilitated scholarships for several juniors who include former Zimbabwe youth internationals Lucky Mkosana and Elijah Soko, both of whom are now turning out for Dartmouth University in Hanover. Mkosana, formerly of Bantu Rovers, was named Ivy League Player of the Year in 2011.

Soko who left for the US last year, is a product of the BN Academy and turned out for the Lloyd Mutasa’s Young Warriors at the Caf Under-17 championship in Algeria in 2011.