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Curtworth Masango
Zimbabwean clubs continue to embrace technology with a number of clubs now using the GPS vests for data collation.
Prime Time Academy is the latest to make use of the devices that will help in player development and catch up with the developed world.
Premiership clubs like Bulawayo Chiefs and Ngezi Platinum as well as Golden Eagles in the lower division have been using the technology.
A number of teams are finding the value of investing in sports science.
Prime Time Academy introduced the new system during their training session at Belgravia Sports Club at the weekend.
Coach Lawrence Nyarumwe says these GPS tracking systems help the coaches in analysing data that helps them to track the development of players.
“Football players wear these vests for us to monitor a lot of technical things including acceleration, distance covered, time taken on drills, touches, recovery amongst all other things
“The GPS vest works together in hand with the whole apex system to capture data and transfer it to our computers or phones so that we can translate it.
“It helps us to keep track with day to day-to-day performances of a player on whether one is improving or going down as will be having all the statistics at hand.
“We as Prime Time Academy want to take our players abroad, so it’s a good platform to shape our players in modern ways such that they quickly adapt wherever they go.”
Nyarumwe added that they are urging youngsters to shun drugs and abuse substance abuse while showing them they can earn a living through football.
“The majority of the boys we have here are between ages 15 and 20. Mainly, they are the boys who are affected by the abuse of substances and drugs.
“We try to teach them not just about football but life skills in general which includes life outside football. “So, in our day-to-day training sessions, we sit with them and talk to them, warning them to stay out of drugs and abuse of substances.
“Sport require one to be fit. If you are to be on top of your game on a daily basis you have to be on top in terms of health and everything,” he said.
Online Reporter