The Craig Bellamy Academy in partnership with SSGI has just completed their first few weeks of school and football training and the Academy boys are full of energy and enthusiasm for 2011 and for their second term in Tombo. Last term, the boys participated in approximately 150 hours of technical and tactical football training under [...]
As the Craig Bellamy Foundation (CBF) League moves into its third calendar year, a great deal of progress has been made by the social development football league in Sierra Leone. This season alone, the League has involved over 1680 youths, 88 teams, 100 youth leaders and a significant number of communities, schools and families across [...]
The adoption of the new resolution, “Sport as a means to promote education, health, development and peace”, by the UN General Assembly last week marked a significant step for the sport for development sector. The resolution encourages the use of sport as a vehicle to foster development and strengthen education, prevent disease, empower girls and [...]
FREETOWN – 1 July, 2010 A WARM welcome awaits the first generation of Academy boys from the Craig Bellamy Foundation and official partners Security Support Group International (SSGI) when they return to Freetown from Ghana on 1 July, 2010. Youngsters from the first ever Football Academy in Sierra Leone, who went through a vigorous selection [...]
Craig first visited Ghana to spend time with his first generation of academy boys and then travelled onto Sierra Leone to see the progress of the academy, meet the boys parents, local press, partners and watch league games. Both the Times newspaper and the BBC travelled with Craig – here are their excellent features: The [...]
The Craig Bellamy Foundation (CBF) is pleased to announce that the first ever Craig Bellamy Foundation Challenge Cup will take place at the Right to Dream Academy on Wednesday 26th May 2010. The Challenge Cup will be an annual event and from next year take place at the CBF academy in Sierra Leone. This years [...]
Kelsey Sullivan, volunteer at Right to Dream in Ghana: Right now at the Ghana academy we have 11 boys from the Craig Bellamy Foundation, Sierra Leone. They are truly small boys, about 10-12 years of age. They are a new breed, funny as anything, spiritual, energetic; tell you how it is, and a so much [...]
As the finishing touches are put in place in preparation for the opening of the Academy in May 2010 in Sierra Leone we have launched our new website profiling our academy players and development league.
80 teams have taken part in the first season of Sierra Leone’s first ever youth league. The finals were played in Freetown on 6/7 Feb. Champions at U12 level were Syke Rangers – who also won the fair play trophy.
Last night in Manchester players, friends and legends gathered to support the Craig Bellamy Foundation. Craig spoke passionately about the reasons why he had started Sierra Leone’s first elite academy and development league.