06 May 2014

Sports should be taken seriously as it no longer only fulfils enjoyment, but is also a source of employment.

Shoshong MP, Phillip Makgalemele said this over the weekend (May 3-4) during a football clinic for Kgamane Memorial School, Shoshong and Mokibe primary schools.Makgalemele said the football clinic was an effort to raise football stars of both sexes.

“Therefore the younger generation should be taken aboard as a way of keeping active, healthy and encouraged to make a living in the future,” he said. Makgalemele voiced his concern that over the last five years there has not been any football stars emerging from Shoshong constituency.

He said the time was now that they groom the stars for the future.
He said the young footballers should be focused, saying their self-confidence and esteem would be improved and that they would be socially developed through playing football.
 His desire, he said, was that each of the selected students should have a complete soccer attire.

He also said the school football clinic programme would be extended to other schools in the constituency. Makgalemele also advocated for a Botswana football museum to be built in Shoshong.

He said the museum would exhibit memorabilia of Batswana heroes.The president of Footballers Union, Mmoni Segopolo said the union focuses on general interests of football players.

Segopolo also said the union was primarily established to increase solidarity and equality.
He said for that reason they would be willing to travel all over Botswana as a way of facilitating and coaching young footballers in the country. 


Among instructors mentoring team were former and current players, coaches who provided hands on teaching of skills fundamentals as well as position specific training, they promoted physical and mental well-being of young players.


The union has the likes of Thabo Motang, former Zebras goalkeeper, Tshepo Motlhabankwe, Onalenna Tshekiso, Ernest Amos who also incorporated safe tackling techniques into the students.


The clinic was followed by football matches that saw Kgamane Primary School walking away with P250, position two was Shoshong primary taking P150 and Mokibe primary came third and won P100.



Kgamane Primary School players got awards for best midfielder, leading goal scorer and goalkeeper for boys’ players and Shoshong primary player got an award for best defender. Each student walked away with a P50 cash prize. Ends