About forty boys from Victory Valley, Wismar, Linden recently received gifts and are now in a football camp which also aims to help their general development.
The August 4th presentation at the Mackenzie Sports Club, organized by the friends of the late Richard Thompson saw the launch of a football summer programme for the boys. They are being coached by Compton ‘Chatta’ London, who grew up in Linden but lived in the United States of America for several years before recently remigrating to Linden. Members of the Milerock Under-thirteen team and their coach, Errol Dainty also attended the event.
Brenda Blair-Bailey, who travelled from the United States to be part of the ceremony, said that she felt committed to carry on Thompson’s legacy because he was a very close friend, whom she saw a few days before he died. Stating that Thompson’s death touched her,
