00:09The Cristiano Ronaldo gold celebration was fitting as one of Portugal's top clubs,
00:14Benfica, are in town as part of a partnership with the UE Faculty of Sport. Players from 7 to
00:2017 will have the opportunity to absorb tactical and technical development, awareness, teamwork,
00:25discipline, and importantly, the values and methodology associated with the Benfica Youth
00:31Academy. And Benfica coach Jao Rosmanino gave his assessment of the talent he's seen so far.
00:37They are very physical, very physical players, very, very fast. But again, we need to work the
00:44rest, all the rest, how to be in the field, because our way to see the game is not only
00:50about
00:50inside, it's outside as well, the values. I'm not saying that they don't have those values,
00:55they have it. But I think the players here are very fast, very physically. What in terms of playing
01:02the game is not helping them, because they want to do everything very fast, very, very quick. And
01:09sometimes they need to think the game, to think the best options to make inside of the drill of the
01:15game
01:15or the game. So, so far so good. But again, we need to work them in our way to see
01:22the game.
01:23And with big clubs called in for the next potential star in the sport,
01:27the Benfica coach pointed out it takes more than just talent.
01:30I don't think it's difficult to find the talent. I need, I think it's, you need to have the right
01:36persons on each sport, because we believe that talent is everywhere. We just need to find it,
01:42of course. And to find it, we need to give the opportunities to the kids to show up, to show
01:47what
01:47they have. So I don't think it's hard to find the talent. I think it's hard to shape the talent,
01:53because talent is everywhere, like I said.
01:55After previous camps in Jamaica and Barbados, the Benfica-UE partnership has made its way to TNT,
02:01and Dean of the Faculty of Sport, Dr. Roy McCree, expanded on the objectives of the partnership.
02:07And one of the ways we have decided to do this is establishing international partnerships,
02:15just as the one we are seeing here with the top international teams and organizations,
02:20like Benfica, in order to give our young players and young talent that opportunity to develop very early
02:29on. So we have a history of producing talent, but now that talent has an opportunity to play in
02:36professional leagues that previous generations didn't have that opportunity. You know, it was
02:41North America was our camp. Now Europe, you know, Asia, you know, the sky's the limit in terms of the
02:48opportunities for our present-day players to develop and to become, you know, the messes of the world,
02:53to become the Dwight Yorks, you know, of the world. Okay, we have that track record, we have that history,
02:58and camps like these, you know, help further to nurture that talent.
03:03Terence Clarke, TV6 Sport
