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Seals Off-season NewsNovember 16, 2007
Seals Tryouts in Nigeria
 Saturday November 17th, there will be a game staged at the National Stadium in Lagos, Nigeria to look at players for the Seals and the Seals U20 team. This game was organized by a local Nigerian agent working with Ken Boardman of San Francisco. Ken, as some of you may remember, is a Nigerian player who had a distinguished career here in the United States at USF and professionally. Ken is now an international businessman who travels frequently to Nigeria. He will be at the tryout on Saturday and will evaluate the players as candidates for the Seals teams. Many of these Nigerian players have been writing us for years to see if there's some way to get to the United States to play for the Seals. This is their chance. We're very grateful to Ken for having organized the tryout. Ken tells me that there is a lot of interest by Nigerians in playing in the United States. In order to build a relationship between the two soccer communities, ours and the Nigerian community, Ken is looking into the possibiity of a Seals tour of Nigeria before the World Cup in 2010 in South Africa. Seals Camp in Manchester, UK  The interest in registrations for this camp continue to grow on the part of players and coaches. We are getting inquiries from all over the UK and France. Also, John Brooks, head cooach of Dominican College will attend the camp and live with the players in the bunkhouse. The interest by UK players is growing because the interest by UK players in the United States is growing. Paul Sapsford of Holy Names University turned his program around overnight by his recruiting strategies that includes the hosting of tryouts in the United States for UK players. He has large groups of 15-18 players coming in periodically to play games and get viewed by American coaches. Ours is a reverse opportunity where the American coach can see UK players on their home turf. It's a lot cheaper for the UK players than flying to the United States, so it seems to be attractive. Interested players and coaches can send their emails Seals in Brazil  The Seals are currently in discusssion with a group of Brazilian football people who are interested in bringing US Players to Brazil for a variety of reasons ranging from training opportunities to signing contracts with major clubs. This is a primarily a teaser statement at this point, but there is already minor movement. We're talking to them now about sending young players down to train in the 2008 season. The major members of the group are attorneys who played for the Seals in the past. Ricardo Zambo and Eduardo Alburquerque played for the Seals during our 15-3 division finalists 1993 season. Eduardo had just finished his career with Palmeiras and was on his way to completing his education as an attorney. Ricardo and Edu have partnered up with well known and well positioned Brazilian footbal people. We'll withold some details for now but it promises to be a great opportunity for American players. |
