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Nov 21, 2012 Sports
Courts Pee Wee Schools Football finalist Marian Academy is leaving nothing to chance and Head Coach Denis ‘Chow’ Hunte has embarked on vigorous preparations ahead of Saturday’s clash against Tucville for the coveted title.
Kaieteur Sport caught up with Hunte, who was seen spearheading a training session yesterday at the YMCA ground where the players were busily engaged in learning how to shoot the ball accurately in addition to improving other deficiencies.
According to Hunte, Saturday’s final could go either way, but he believes that despite his school being the underdogs they will rise to the occasion and be a difficult proposition for their opponents.
No stranger to winning titles, having guided Pele, one of the leading local clubs to numerous junior titles in the past, Hunte though not willing to make a definitive prediction, expressed confidence that Marian Academy will produce a gutsy performance that could surprise many.
“We are playing team football and we will not be relying on any particular player to win the title for, but rather we are focusing on good team play,” Hunte told this newspaper.
Quizzed on the focus of the session yesterday, Hunte related that the players have a tendancy of exhibiting poor judgement when the ball is in the air, especially when executing a header or a kick and his concentration is to rectify that deficiency.
Asked to pinpoint some players who will be expected to play huge roles for them to stand a chance of beating Tucville, Hunte pointed to players such as Shemroy Holder, Diarra Thomas, Matthew Klautky and Tyrese Jeffrey as those on whose shoulders most of the burden will rest.
Hunte said Thomas has a wealth of experience at the higher level and should have been more dominant in the competition, but so far he has lacked the consistency and a better showing should not be far away.
Responding to the relevance of the competition, Hunte said it is extremely important that the sport gets back into the school system since it helps to bridge the gap between the junior and senior levels, a component that has been missing for quite a few years now.
“It is almost embarrassing to witness a player at the senior level not able to maintain possession of the ball or make an accurate pass and this is simply because most of them are only playing the game seriously in their late teens which makes it more difficult for a Coach to teach the fundamentals at such a late stage,” Hunte pointed out.
He felt that is the reason why so many of our locally-based players are finding it difficult to maintain possession and construct passes when they reach the higher level, a development caused by the absence of football on the school’s curriculum.
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