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  • 1 year ago
This one's all about the future generation.

Former Trinidad and Tobago football captain Clayton Morris has been running a football clinic for young children at the President's Grounds in St. Ann's, with the intention of making well rounded individuals.

Morris has his clinic on Sundays and he's been impressed with the talent available in this country.
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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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