Buruj Management To Organise Skill Test For Players Ahead Of Next Engagements

The management of Buruj Sports Academy will this Sunday take their players through series of skill test exercises to ascertain their level of understanding and application of the basic rudiments of the game.

The session which will see the players measuring themselves against the Eko Football Stars will be the first since they arrived from the United Kingdom, where they featured in the English and Welsh Super Cup and it is geared towards preparing a new team for their next engagements this year.

The CEO of Buruj Academy, Salaudeen Waheed, opined that the technical crew of the academy have been mandated to carry out the exercise for both the new and old players in the camp against a team that can expose the hidden weakness in each player and Eko Future Stars have been chosen based on their understanding of the game as the opponents of the day.

“It is important to conduct skill testing in addition to fitness testing to determine the skill level of our players. In a nutshell, skill drills can be incorporated into the training sessions and possibly individualized training for those lacking certain skills. There are some standard soccer skills tests and also many other variations that coaches around the world use” he disclosed.

Speaking further on the importance of the exercise in determining the level of readiness and understanding of every player, he explains:

“Sunday’s exercise will not just be a friendly match. Testing for skills in football can help in talent identification/discrimination; measuring pre-and post-intervention and measuring individual strength and weaknesses. So we are going to take it seriously even far more than we have ever done before as we package a new team for our next outings,. We chose Eko Future Stars because we know the kind of opposition they can give us so that we can achieve our aims maximally “he concludes.