Two lucky youngsters from Singapore will be spending a week at a Manchester United Soccer Schools Residential course after impress…

Two lucky youngsters from Singapore will be spending a week at a Manchester United Soccer Schools Residential course after impressing at the recent course there.

Loo Yi Wei, 15, and Dylan Leong, 8, earned a trip to the Residential course after coming out top in their age groups on the 5-day skills course. The youngsters were among the 158 children, aged 8-16, who took part in the course, held at Safra Tampines, Singapore.

Loo Yi and Dylan will now represent their city-state at the 2009 MUSS UK Residential course, alongside players from over 70 different countries.

Guest of honour at the inauguration of the latest course was Mr Zainudin Nordin Mayor of Central CDC and Deputy President for the Football Association of Singapore. He said: “By having Manchester United here, we hope that this will attract more people to participate and raise awareness for football development.”

Head coach for the course, Robin van der Laan, said he was delighted with the success of the Singapore course.

“Manchester United’s global support is huge, so it’s always nice to be able to take a piece of the club closer to fans unable to get to Manchester to watch the team,” he said. “The club has a unique, attacking style of football and the Soccer Schools aims to pass playing the United way onto youngsters – all across the world.

“Our courses are not only about helping the development of young players. It is as much about helping them develop as young people. And we always aim to help the local coaches by passing on our expertise, in order to help support the development of the game in the region.”

Emma Savage, general manager of the Soccer Schools, added: “We enjoy a huge following in Singapore, so this was a chance for our fans to interact with the club and its philosophy.”

For more information on MUSS Singapore visit, www.muss.sg

Singapore success

19TH DEC 2008

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