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The Spanish topflight league hosted the first of 'hopefully' many more week-long training camps in Kenya.
LALIGA East Africa representative Alvaro Abreu has hailed the impact the first-ever LALIGA training camp held in Kenya last week will make in developing grassroots football in the country.
Held at the Aga Khan High School in Nairobi, the camp attracted 100 kids in the Under 9, Under 11, Under 13, as well as the Under 19 category
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Each category had 25 players who got the experience of a lifetime to use the camp to help take their game to the next level both tactically and technically.
“It has been something unique and historic given it was the first LALIGA camp held in Kenya,” Alvaro told Pulse Sports.
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“It is a big milestone and something we are going to repeat in the coming years and something that will bring Kenyan and Spanish football together.
“Initiatives like this will make it easier to collaborate with the local partners and we are going to explore different ways to bring kids to Spain for different programmes and different trials, for example in our High Performance Centre."
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The Spanish top flight partnered with Kenya’s AIR FC academy to host the inaugural camp, with all participants receiving a certificate of participation signed by the LALIGA Director for Africa.
“It has been months of hard work with local partners to arrange the best venues and make sure all the sides get the best experience out of the Spanish methodology with our coaches who are coming from the high performance and all the camps we conduct all over the world.”
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Aside from the camp, an Under 17 Kenyan footballer will get the chance to travel to the LALIGA High Performance Centre in Madrid, Spain in order to help take his game to the next level, something Alvaro is proud of as the fledgling footballer has benefitted from the league’s commitment to developing grassroots football in Kenya.
“There is a Kenyan kid that is going to be the first one in the LALIGA academy residency programme from the country. We are starting something good. Grassroots is one of our priorities for the season and we will continue working hard on it.”
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Half of the kids in the LALIGA camp came from disadvantaged backgrounds but were sponsored in order to participate in the programme.
Two Spanish coaches from the High Performance Centre were in the camp, exchanging ideas with six other local coaches.
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“The feedback I have received from our coaches has been amazing. They told me that local coaches were very eager to learn new strategies, ideas, and tactics, and they (the LALIGA coaches) have learned from the local football coaches on things that work better here on organising and planning the talent already there, so we are very proud of managing the talent here in Kenya.”
Kids who qualify to take part in the High Performance Centre programme in Madrid get sports scholarships to go to study in the USA or sometimes get scouted by teams around Spain and Europe if they impress enough.
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Although the camp was mostly attended by boys, a couple of girls in each category also got to participate.
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