We left a little bit early to head down to the waterfront, luckily we did as I decided to try and beat the traffic by going the long way around to find there was no turning from that side of the road, oh well still early and enough time to kick a ball about. The kids finally showedup, we were a little bit short on numbers and me and Harry didn't recognise half of them, we still had about 35 kids. We mentioned the week before last that our translators had gone walk about, well 1 didn't turn up and the other just sat away from the pitches which was disappointing. Most of these boys don't speak any English the others speak very limited English, numbers, colours and a few football terms, this meant doing any activity that was slightly difficult would be near important, also the boys we hadn't seen before seemed to be quite disruptive. We were asked to work with the coaches and pass on a few drills, but with neither in sight and the session failing because of the poor behaviour and lack of communication it became slightly pointless putting on an in depth high quality drill. We don't like doing it but after half an hour we gave in and played games, the boys started to concentrate more and played some good football. It was a shame, great conditions and boys that have talent but they didn't want to be coached and the coaches didn't want to learn so we did what was best. If you go abroad and there's language issues kids that want to be coached will pick up exactly what you mean with lots of gestures and demonstrations those that don't it's probably easier just to give them an organised game. We have definitely tried to give every kid an opportunity to be coached before going into matches.
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