UWI confirmed as site for Football Academy

[Mac]

This choice for the location of the national football training center and academy is a very goo move. Good overall synergy potential. I hope that his gets done quickly.

Taken from www.jamaicaobserver.com

UWI confirmed as site for Football Academy
...Institution unveils wider plans for Sports Centre of Excellence ANDREW HANCEL, Observer staff reporter hancela@jamaicaobserver.com
Friday, June 27, 2008


Principal of the UWI, Mona, Professor Gordon Shirley (right), shows a blueprint to (from left) FIFA development officer Harold Taylor, Sports Minister Olivia Babsy Grange and JFF president Captain Horace Burrell at the Mona Visitors' Lodge in Kingston yesterday. (Photo: Joseph Wellington) The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona Campus, will be the new site for the National Football Academy after two failed attempts.

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[Mac]

Taken from www.jamaica-gleaner.com

JFF finds another home for academy
published: Friday | June 27, 2008
Kwesi Mugisa, Staff Reporter
A MARRIAGE, of sorts, between the Jamaica [COLOR=orange ! important][COLOR=orange ! important]Football[/COLOR][/COLOR] Federation (JFF) and the region's premier academic institution, the [COLOR=orange ! important][COLOR=orange ! important]University[/COLOR][/COLOR] of the West Indies (UWI), is expected to produce several fruitful and lasting benefits to the sport of football over the next couple of years.
A match made in heaven seemed to be the consensus of several JFF, UWI and government officials on hand to launch the project, expected to get off the ground in the next few months, at the Mona Visitors' Lodge at UWI, yesterday.
An immediate result of the union will see the much-discussed JFF Academy, last earmarked for Malvern in St Elizabeth, finally [COLOR=orange ! important][COLOR=orange ! important]find [COLOR=orange ! important]a [/COLOR][COLOR=orange ! important]home[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] on 6 1/2 acres of land donated by the institution. The move falls in line with a broader goal by UWI, which involves enhancing the institution's sports credentials.
Other developments
Other developments include the remodelling and further development of the UWI Bowl, which is expected to see the building of a US$5 million lighted mini-stadium with a mondo track, the expansion of current pool facilities and enhancement of the Sir Frank Worrell cricket ground.
Falling within this umbrella of development will be the US$2.5 million JFF academy, which will primarily be funded by the FIFA Goal project.
Originally, the academy was expected to be located in Portmore, and a groundbreaking ceremony was held there attended by FIFA president Sepp Blater in 2003.
However, after taking over office in 2004, the Crenston Boxhill-led JFF administration saw a move to St Elizabeth as more in line with their vision of what the institution should be.
On returning to office in November, Captain Horace Burrell's team found the location to be unsuitable and sought FIFA's permission to once again relocate the academy.
With permission granted to the JFF a little over a month ago, the property at Malvern will now be sold and the money from that, plus an amount not yet handed over from the goal project, will be put into the UWI site.
Second project
In addition, the JFF has put in a successful [COLOR=orange ! important][COLOR=orange ! important]application[/COLOR][/COLOR] for a second Goal project, worth $400,000, which will also be funnelled into a phase of the proposed UWI academy.
"This is a significant day in the development of Jamaican football. Obviously, a synergy formed with this noble institution means the sky is the limit for football," said the JFF president.
Minister of Youth, Culture, Enter-tainment and Sport, Olivia 'Babsy' Grange, said the partnership had the full support of the government.
"Locating the academy at UWI will no doubt add tremendous value to both institutions. The government is in full support of such a partnership," Grange said.
Increased [COLOR=orange ! important][COLOR=orange ! important]sponsorship[/COLOR][/COLOR]
The minister also took the time out to announce that the JFF would now benefit from an increased sponsorship amount from the Sports Development Foundation, which would be in the region of $150 million for the next few years.
Meanwhile, UWI also unfurled plans to fully develop an Institute of Sport and Medicine, which will provide care for injured athletes and is expected to aid in physical develop-ment with, among other things, an indoor pool for physical training.

[Don1]

Silence of the Damned?

This choice for the location of the national football training center and academy is a very goo move. Good overall synergy potential. I hope that his gets done quickly.

Taken from www.jamaicaobserver.com

UWI confirmed as site for Football Academy
...Institution unveils wider plans for Sports Centre of Excellence ANDREW HANCEL, Observer staff reporter hancela@jamaicaobserver.com
Friday, June 27, 2008

Principal of the UWI, Mona, Professor Gordon Shirley (right), shows a blueprint to (from left) FIFA development officer Harold Taylor, Sports Minister Olivia Babsy Grange and JFF president Captain Horace Burrell at the Mona Visitors' Lodge in Kingston yesterday. (Photo: Joseph Wellington) The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona Campus, will be the new site for the National Football Academy after two failed attempts.
The announcement came during a press briefing yesterday at the Mona Visitors' Lodge, where the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) and the university signed a co-operation of agreement.

One notices that the critics of the UWI - "the intellectual ghetto" - are silent re this move to partner with the JFF in our football.

hmmmmm

[Assasin]

the anti Burrell crew also very silent.

good move all round.

[Muadib]

Once again, you don't have a clue what you are talking about.

Check the threads again.

Last edited by Tilla ??

Hmmm

[Don1]

Once again, you don't have a clue what you are talking about.

Check the threads again.

Last edited by Tilla ??

Hmmm

maybe I missed a voice of the damned... sincere apologies if so.

[Muadib]

When Satan damn mi.. ah good ting dat.

[Don1]

When Satan damn mi.. ah good ting dat.

I guess even Satan has a devil

[Muadib]

Yuh second guessing yuhself ?