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Well here's a Soca Warrior that keeps fighting even after his playing days.

As Former Strike Squad Captain Clayton Morris is urging the youth to put down the guns and play football.

Morris is insisting that his newly formed football clinic has the tools to implement change through the fun side of the game.
Transcript
00:00Well, former national football captain Clayton Morris is holding on to the mission for change.
00:05He believes that the battle is on to keep the youth away from violence.
00:08His main weapon to tackle the problem is football.
00:12Through his coaching clinic, which is currently ongoing every Sunday in St. Ann's, he believes
00:16he is causing change one day at a time.
00:19Firstly, he's trying to get them to enjoy playing the game first before implementing
00:23structure.
00:24We're trying to get them to enjoy it, right, first thing I try to get them to.
00:28So we're doing a lot of fun things, I do a lot of fun games, you know, like we brought
00:33something we call dead cockroach, where they're running down the center and the coaches trying
00:39to hit them with the ball.
00:40If you get a lash on your foot, you hop, then again, next left, you're crawling, you're
00:44crawling on all fours and then you get a lash again, you turn over and you're like a dead
00:48cockroach.
00:49So we're doing a lot of things with fun, right?
00:51But as I say, come January, it will be structured where we're emphasizing a lot on the motor
00:58Morris says the nature of violence has now changed and it's a battle to stay alive.
01:03What I realize is that you have a trend now.
01:07The moment anyone gets angry with another person, the first thing is is violence.
01:13And my thing is to let these children know most of us, I said, the under 10 children
01:18know that that is not the way because I remember growing up as a kid, we had plenty disputes
01:24about plenty different things and we would fight and fight.
01:28And then after we sit down on some mango and have up each other, you know, so my thing
01:32is to let these children know what is happening in the country now where somebody just got
01:37in a gun or they're telling somebody or they're hiring somebody to take another person like
01:42that is not the way.
01:44Morris is not alone in his quest for change in a project that started in his initiative
01:48to help reform individuals behind bars.
01:51Sergio Dufour, TV6 Sport.
01:54For more information, visit www.fema.gov
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