PRESS RELEASE
GFA and JASON ROBERTS
FOUNDATION TO TWIN OPERATIONS IN 2011
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, February 5, 2011 - Grenada Football Association (GFA) and the Jason Roberts Foundation
(JRF) have agreed to combine their efforts to improve the sport in Grenada.
The Jason
Roberts Foundation has for the past three years hosted football clinics and competitions
aimed at developing basic skills at the youth level.
The GFA
President Cheney Joseph and CEO of the Jason Roberts Foundation, Otis Roberts met
recently and discussed the development of a grass-roots-type football programme
which will focus mainly, on talent identification at an early age.
The
Football programme will also train and use local coaches.
The GFA
“Seek and Identify” programme is expected to kick-off by March this year when a
comprehensive Youth Development Programme designed by GFA Executive Member, Bruce
Swan will be unveiled.
The meeting
between the GFA President and Mr Roberts pledged to ensure creative and
sustainable ways of combining operations to enhance the programmes of the GFA
and the Jason Roberts Foundation.
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