00:00Former Trinidad and Tobago captain Clayton Morris has been running a football clinic
00:05on Sundays at President's Grounds with the curtains coming down on August 25th.
00:09The sessions are being conducted in memory of his nephew, Nicol Morris, who had an untimely
00:13death.
00:14Yes, it's painful to lose a loved one, but I see it more important for the children of
00:19St. Anne's to have something positive to identify with.
00:23Because the way my nephew's life ended, it really brought a lot of discomfort and disbelief
00:33to the children of St. Anne's.
00:35So I think with this initiative, coming and bringing football back into this community
00:41is the ideal opportunity and the best timing to give the children, provide a positive environment
00:48for the kids of St. Anne's.
00:50Morris says he came out of the St. Anne's community where sport and culture were things
00:54he looked forward to when growing up.
00:56As such, he too wants to do the same for the younger generation.
00:59Because when I look back, I had role models in St. Anne's in the likes of Gordon Husbands,
01:05who represented Trinidad and Tobago, and his father, who also represented Trinidad and
01:10Tobago.
01:11So, you know, coming out of it, as we say, diamond in the rough, I am seeing a lot of
01:15kids here with talent, that they too could be another Clayton Morris, another Gordon
01:21Husbands, another Gordon Dudley Husbands.
01:24Morris has a passion for working with children, and it's something he plans to continue doing
01:28for a long time.
01:30Following the pain of losing the 1989 World Cup qualifier against the USA, this is seen
01:34as an ointment for the wounds.
01:36As an employee, a petrol train, going into the prison, and when I went into the prison
01:42and I saw what these guys were doing with limited resources, you know, I really found
01:48my purpose.
01:49And it's there I started really living my purpose on this earth, and, you know, coaching
01:55football for me is a passion.
01:56I do it with a passion, and again, going into the prison and see what football, what sport
02:02did for those guys.
02:03Because a lot of them said, if they had the opportunity, what I brought to them in the
02:08prison with teaching them football and more about life, then, you know, I have no choice
02:15now but to say I love what I do.
02:18Morris will start back his clinic in the middle of September under the Clayton Morris Academy,
02:23and it will include children from Belmont and surrounding areas.
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