The first ‘One Belt, One Road’ cultural football camp organized by the Shanghai freelykick sports development pvt. concluded on a grand note in China recently. Over 80 students from Sri Lanka, Serbia, Panama, Kenya and the hosting country China participated.
This camp provided training and football knowledge to students between the age of 9 to 12. Altogether ten students from Sri Lanka participated along with Swarnamali Wijesinghe, the head of freelykick branch in Sri Lanka and Palagasinghe the head coach. The Lankan squad included six students from St. Mary’s National School, Hambantota (A.G. Janith Chamika, M.M.R.M. Badallage, T. Ravindu Lakshan, M.M. Shenas Masthoor, H. Mohomod Athif and I. Imshath Kamil), two students from Al-Akbar College - Ambalantota (Musthaq Jazeel and M.R.M. Riyath) and M.F.M. Falil from Tzu Chi National School, Hambantota.
The aim of this winter camp was to promote China’s exchange relationships and to integrate with the Belt and Road countries. Through this they created cross- cultural interactions among the young and also comprehensively enhanced the overall literacy among young people in terms of cultural awareness and teamwork, National spirit and world vision of the younger generation.
These students were involved in activities like Chinese wushu,Chinese wrestling, specifically soccer training and were given training and fun challenges to improve their skills and to enhance their understandings. The chairman of Shanghai Football Association, Zhu Guang said that they hope to widen their scope attracting more countries in future events.
The One Belt One Road initiative will further continue by deepening links with many more countries like Czech Republic, Slovenia, Russia, Jamaica, Chile and Argentina and will conduct a Summer Camp, Winter Camp and a Transnational League Tourney in the future paving a greater platform to youth world-wide.
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