Academy Sports Club, one of Cayman’s leading football youth programs has kicked off plans to introduce a new in house football league for players aged 6 to 8 years old.
The new in house league will be called ‘Academy Junior League’ and will run on Saturday mornings from 8:30 to noon.
The club has been offering a junior program for quite a few years for young football players aged 4 to 12.
“We will now expand and restructure that program so that the 6 to 8 year olds will now be organised into teams with uniforms and play games on Saturday mornings. The younger players of 4 to 5 years old will continue to play, learn and have fun as part of our regular junior football program”, explained Academy Head Coach Virgil Seymour.
Mr. Seymour said that the reason for introducing the in house league format for the 6 to 8 year old age group is that some of the younger players tend not to get the opportunity to play in the primary school league due to their age and stage of development.
What we are doing is complementing the PFL league which continues to have our full support”, said Mr. Seymour.
Those younger players can now play and have fun in the Academy Junior League and when they are a bit older they can transition to playing for their primary school’s under 9 teams.
Academy also notes that sometimes the schools have a lot of kids interested in playing for the team and some of the younger ones end up not getting a chance to play due to limited spots available.
“With the Academy Junior League we will try to help by bridging that gap so that those young players can still have fun playing during the school year”, said Mr. Seymour.
“We are encouraging all PFL coaches to refer those younger players to us so they can have a chance to play football during the school year”, he added.
The Academy Junior League plans to start on Saturday October 4th . Team uniforms will be provided by Academy and each team kit will be based on the world’s top club such as Barcelona, Real Madrid, and others. Parents with young kids born in 2006, 2007 and 2008 should contact Academy at Academysportsclub@hotmail.com for registration details before September 30th.
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