KSAFA partners with int’l sponsors for youth competition
KBravo made the comments after both Campbell and Blackwood failed in the justconcluded drawn three-day practice game against New Zealand ‘A’ in Queenstown. Opener Campbell faced just five balls in making four runs before he was bowled by fast bowler Blair Tickner while Blackwood, who batted at number six, faced 10 balls ingston and St Andrew Football Association (KSAFA) General Secretary Dwayne Dillon said the association, in collaboration with an international partner, will host a brand new youth competition for its clubs next year.
The tournament, which will be separate from KSAFA’s regular youth competitions, will be staged at a centralised venue.
Dillon also pointed out that the competition will be technology-driven to give coaches the opportunity to register and store statistics from players to aid their development and use as future reference.
“There are some competitions that we are planning next year, U11, U13, U15 and U17, and we are planning a number of things for this league, which will be heavily technology-driven.
“We will be utilising the technology that is standard to professional teams abroad. There will be statistics on everything, we will have cameras that can give updates, how many passes, how many dribbles and such.
GET RESULTS ELECTRONICALLY
“All those stats will be provided for all of the teams because the matches will be properly covered with cameras and they will get results electronically,” he said.
KSAFA is targeting the UWI/JFF Technical Centre as the centralised venue for the competitions. However, teams will be required to pay an entrance fee, which will go towards providing two sets of gear (home and away) and socks.
The competitions will be played over six months, every Saturday. However, KSAFA will only facilitate the tournaments, as the association’s overseas partner will be the ones organising and running the event.
“Although it is a KSAFA competition we have some partners from overseas, they are the ones that will really run the competition. We are just outsourcing it to them, so they will need about two to three months to prepare everything,” he disclosed.