MBU aim for long-term benefits with coaching clinic
Despite Montego Bay United’s (MBU) withdrawal from the 2018/19 season of the Red Stripe Premier League, chief operating officer and director of administration, Sandra Christie, is hopeful things will get better for football in Jamaica. She said the club will continue seeking to establish itself on the international stage.
Christie, who said MBU are refocusing their original vision, which she said is to build and empower a nation through football, is excited about the exclusive coaching development seminar being held at WesPow Park, Montego Bay, which started on Wednesday and ends tomorrow.
MBU, in collaboration with the Jamaica Excel Sports Management (JAESM) is hosting a football coaching and management seminar under the theme, “Improving the Coach to Improve the Player”, directed by Academy Manager of English Football League One, Gillingham Football Club (GFC) UK-based Bryan Bull, in the UK.
“We want to see the young talents get fished out of the communities and get the opportunity to showcase their talents. This is why we are changing our presentation, by putting our energies where it need to be, which is improving the coaches to improving the players like you see here today.
“Primarily, it is to refocus our energy on building the standard and presentation of football in Jamaica. If it means we have to use our resources to this end here, that is what we will do,” she added.
NOT LIMITING ITSELF
Christie was asked about what type of competition the club would be participating in for the 201819 football season. She told STAR Sports that she cannot speak for the president Orville Powell. However, she pointed out that MBU is not limiting itself to just thinking about competing in competitions.
“By virtue of that, MBU is now established by setting the players and talents that we have on the global market. We believe we are open to competing in almost any avenue we are able to apply. We perceive that, like with the seminar and the relationship that we are trying to establish with the UK in Gillingham FC, other opportunities will present itself,” said Christie.
“It may just be that for this year having suspended our Premier League participation, that we may focus our energy on finding what the other avenues for competition are. But we are not limiting it to Jamaica, and by no means are we limiting the players that come to us,” she added.