With the light showers refreshing and adding much beauty to its greenery, the Ronald Webster Park is the ideal location for the Fifteenth Annual Football Summer Camp now in progress with close to 300 Primary School children of varying ages participating.

The 10-plus players with Coordinator Colin Johnson

The training camp, organised by the Anguilla Football Association, is being sponsored by Caribbean Lottery for the third consecutive year.

Other senior players

Noted sportsman and Camp Coordinator, Colin Johnson, told The Anguillian on Wednesday, that there were three age groups of children involved in the camp: 4-6 years, 7-9 years and 10-plus years. “This is the largest turnout we have had since we started the summer camp over 15 years now,” he stated.

Some of the 7 - 9 players

“The camp is a great benefit to the children,” he went on. “First of all we are exposing them to football; we are helping to develop the sport and, above all, we are teaching them fair play, discipline and organisation.”

A game in progress

The summer camp, which began on Monday, will run for two weeks, ending next Friday, July 24.

Johnson is among a number of other coaches working with the young and excited boys and girls, dashing across the park for play at the shrilling sound of the whistle.

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