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Orgill leaves for Canadian football programme
Orgill leaves for Canadian football programme
Paul Reid
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
ORGILL... was spotted by club scout Thomas Niendorf during the CONCACAF Under-17 final round tournament played here in Jamaica in April-May
PORT ANTONIO, Portland - Jamaica's national Under-17 captain Dever Orgill will leave the island today to join the new Elite Soccer Development Programme at Canadian professional club Vancouver Whitecaps.
The 17-year-old, who represented Titchfield High in the previous two ISSA daCosta Cup schoolboy football competition, will be accompanied by Herbert Ashley and is expected to stay in Canada until next June.
Ashley, who is the president of Progressive FC, the Portland FA Division One club that Orgill represents, is expected back in the island next week after ensuring the teenager is settled into his new surroundings.
Vancouver's Elite Soccer Development programme started earlier this month and is modelled off the European professional club system and Orgill will be one of the first batch of students.
While he will train daily with the Vancouver professional team, Orgill will attend classes at the Burnaby Central Secondary School and according to documents obtained by the Observer from the Whitecaps, his tuition of C$12,700 has already been paid by the football club.
According to a letter sent to the Canadian High Commission in Kingston by Bob Lenarduzzi, president of the Whitecaps, Orgill was spotted by club scout Thomas Niendorf during the CONCACAF Under-17 final round tournament played here in Jamaica in April-May.
In that tournament, Orgill was outstanding in Jamaica's 3-2 win over the United States, the island's first and only win over the CONCACAF giants at any level of competitive football.
Orgill, who scored 22 goals in his 22 appearances in a national team, was the Portland FA Player-of-the-Year for the 2005 season, the same year he scored eight goals in an Under-15 game for Progressive in a 9-1 thrashing of Milan, and went on to score in all 10 games in the season.
Orgill actually started playing for the Under-17 team earlier in the season, scoring a hat-trick on his debut.
Orgill copped the Golden Boots Award for the 2005 Caribbean Football Union's Under-15 tournament held in Trinidad after scoring 12 times in six games.
Paul Reid
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
ORGILL... was spotted by club scout Thomas Niendorf during the CONCACAF Under-17 final round tournament played here in Jamaica in April-May
PORT ANTONIO, Portland - Jamaica's national Under-17 captain Dever Orgill will leave the island today to join the new Elite Soccer Development Programme at Canadian professional club Vancouver Whitecaps.
The 17-year-old, who represented Titchfield High in the previous two ISSA daCosta Cup schoolboy football competition, will be accompanied by Herbert Ashley and is expected to stay in Canada until next June.
Ashley, who is the president of Progressive FC, the Portland FA Division One club that Orgill represents, is expected back in the island next week after ensuring the teenager is settled into his new surroundings.
Vancouver's Elite Soccer Development programme started earlier this month and is modelled off the European professional club system and Orgill will be one of the first batch of students.
While he will train daily with the Vancouver professional team, Orgill will attend classes at the Burnaby Central Secondary School and according to documents obtained by the Observer from the Whitecaps, his tuition of C$12,700 has already been paid by the football club.
According to a letter sent to the Canadian High Commission in Kingston by Bob Lenarduzzi, president of the Whitecaps, Orgill was spotted by club scout Thomas Niendorf during the CONCACAF Under-17 final round tournament played here in Jamaica in April-May.
In that tournament, Orgill was outstanding in Jamaica's 3-2 win over the United States, the island's first and only win over the CONCACAF giants at any level of competitive football.
Orgill, who scored 22 goals in his 22 appearances in a national team, was the Portland FA Player-of-the-Year for the 2005 season, the same year he scored eight goals in an Under-15 game for Progressive in a 9-1 thrashing of Milan, and went on to score in all 10 games in the season.
Orgill actually started playing for the Under-17 team earlier in the season, scoring a hat-trick on his debut.
Orgill copped the Golden Boots Award for the 2005 Caribbean Football Union's Under-15 tournament held in Trinidad after scoring 12 times in six games.
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