Clifford new scout for American college initiative

Clifford Adams.

Published on 29/12/2012 09:01

A BALLYMENA man has been chosen to help head-hunt Northern Irish talent for football scholarships in America.

Clifford Adams has been named as Soccer Innovation’s representative in Northern Ireland.

Soccer Innovation is a football-specific scholarship placement service, made up of former student-athletes, professional footballers and coaches in the professional game who assist aspiring student-athletes through the process of securing a prestigious Soccer Scholarship in the USA, hoping to put them on the correct career path to enhance their long-term options.

A Soccer Innovation spokesman said: “Gone are the days where young adults have to leave the island to attend trial matches on the main land adding in extra expense, we will now be holding trial matches in the local area to make it as easy as possible to attend these.

“We believe this is a fantastic opportunity to gain an education parallel to your football career, as well as staying connected to football in the UK during your studies.

“Scholarships provide the opportunity to combine a quality academic education with developing your soccer through access to outstanding facilities, excellent coaching, and good competition, not to mention the better climate.

“You will also pick up invaluable life experience that will stay with you regardless of your chosen career in the future.”

Notable players who have come through the US collegiate system include, former USA national team captain Claudio Reyna, Clint Dempsey (Tottenham) and Maurice Edu (Stoke City).

Soccer Innovation will be in the Co Antrim area early in the New Year to host a Showcase Trial game and identify any suitable candidates. To secure your place in a trial game contact Clifford Adams on 07800 646871 or email cliffy.adams@yahoo.co.uk with any enquires you may have.

Sport

Looking for...

Featured advertisers

Jobs

Search for a job

Motors

Search for a car

Make Model Price from Price to

Property

Search for a house

Buy Rent

Bedrooms Price from Price from Price to Price to

What is a Cookie?
What is a Flash Cookie?
Can I opt out of receiving Cookies?
About our Cookies

Cookies are small data files which are sent to your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome etc) from a website you visit. They are stored on your electronic device.
This is a type of cookie which is collected by Adobe Flash media player (it is also called a Local Shared Object) - a piece of software you may already have on your electronic device to help you watch online videos and listen to podcasts.
Yes there are a number of options available, you can set your browser either to reject all cookies, to allow only "trusted" sites to set them, or to only accept them from the site you are currently on.

However, please note - if you block/delete all cookies, some features of our websites, such as remembering your login details, or the site branding for your local newspaper may not function as a result.
The types of cookies we, our ad network and technology partners use are listed below:
- Revenue Science ►
  
  A tool used by some of our advertisers to target adverts to you based on pages you have visited in the past. To opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Google Ads ►
  
  Our sites contain advertising from Google; these use cookies to ensure you get adverts relevant to you. You can tailor the type of ads you receive by visiting here or to opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Webtrends / Google Analytics ►
  
  This is used to help us identify unique visitors to our websites. This data is anonymous and we cannot use this to uniquely identify individuals and their usage of the sites.
- Dart for Publishers ►
  
  This comes from our ad serving technology and is used to track how many times you have seen a particular ad on our sites, so that you don't just see one advert but an even spread. This information is not used by us for any other type of audience recording or monitoring.
- ComScore ►
  
  ComScore monitor and externally verify our site traffic data for use within the advertising industry. Any data collected is anonymous statistical data and cannot be traced back to an individual.
- Local Targeting ►
  
  Our Classified websites (Photos, Motors, Jobs and Property Today) use cookies to ensure you get the correct local newspaper branding and content when you visit them. These cookies store no personally identifiable information.
- Grapeshot ►
  
  We use Grapeshot as a contextual targeting technology, allowing us to create custom groups of stories outside out of our usual site navigation. Grapeshot stores the categories of story you have been exposed to. Their privacy policy and opt out option can be accessed here.
- Subscriptions Online ►
  
  Our partner for Newspaper subscriptions online stores data from the forms you complete in these to increase the usability of the site and enhance user experience.
- Add This ►
  
  Add This provides the social networking widget found in many of our pages. This widget gives you the tools to bookmark our websites, blog, share, tweet and email our content to a friend.
- 3rd Party Cookies ►
  
  We use Advertising agencies to provide us with some of the advertising on our websites. These include (but are not limited to) Specific Media, The Rubicon Project, AdJug, AdConion, Context Web. Please click on the provider name to visit their opt-out page.

Clifford new scout for American college initiative

Top stories

Sport