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Thursday, July 23, 2009

Chelsea Development Camp, 6 - 10 July 2009

The Squad: Ben, Matt, Kevin (from Chelsea), Elliott, Max, Joe, Gabe, Sos, Jak
Oli, Edde, Tyler, Mat, Reecey, Tahra and India

In the second week of the school holidays, from the 6 to 10 July, fifteen players from Dayboro participated in a 5 day Chelsea Development Camp at our very own Colin Thiele Park. The squad trained for 3 hours each day under Coach Kevin, who is a qualified coach from the UK. Kevin is in Australia for a couple of months (in the English off-season) with a group of coaches from Chelsea conducting courses around Queensland organised by Football Coaching International.

The boys and girls were thoroughly entertained for the week with a mixture of drills, technique development and small sided games. The squad represented their club excellently and their behaviour, enthusiasm and skill was praised by their coach. Congratulations to all those players.

If you read the U10, 11 and 12 match reports below you will see how each player from the camp has made valuable contributions to their team's performances since the camp.

At the end of the week each player was presented with a Chelsea FC Certificate and Medal and Kevin was presented with a Dayboro Dingoes club shirt to show off to all his mates back in the UK.

Some might see this as an opportunity of a life time, but with any luck the camp is likely to return next year!

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