{"id":187122,"date":"2014-12-11T04:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=187122"},"modified":"2014-12-11T04:00:07","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T18:00:07","slug":"soccer-pro-conduct-football-clinics-tinian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/soccer-pro-conduct-football-clinics-tinian\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer pro to conduct football clinics on Tinian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_187130\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-187130\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a attid=\"187130\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Soccer-pro-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Soccer-pro-pix-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Professional soccer player and program head for the Pilipinas Dragons Football Club Nii Ayi will conduct clinics on Tinian this week. (Contributed Photo)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-187130\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-187130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professional soccer player and program head for the Pilipinas Dragons Football Club Nii Ayi will conduct clinics on Tinian this week. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nFootball clinics will be conducted on Tinian this week by professional soccer player and program head for the Pilipinas Dragons Football Club Nii Ayi.<\/p>\n<p>After completing a training course in Guam, Ayi will be bringing his skills to Tinian Premier Football Club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI took my FIFA Grassroots Course in Guam and I feel like taking this opportunity to give to the kids what I learned from my FIFA instructor from Malaysia,\u201d he told Saipan Tribune in an interview. <\/p>\n<p>Ayi, a sports scientist and licensed coach, will host classroom interactions with local coaches to guide them on how to organize and plan a football program and training session. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will have presentation with the schools on Tinian to help the kids  improve their football lifestyle on and off the pitch,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation will take place throughout the week at the Tinian Junior and Senior High School campus at 10am, along with an afternoon field session at 4pm.<\/p>\n<p>Ayi said the organization is a unique one as it is primarily run by parents who \u201clove the game and see their kids playing long term\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>This is Ayi\u2019s first visit to the islands, as the club was founded just recently. However, clinics and offices have been established globally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe help the less privileged kids, who can\u2019t afford to buy their own football kits, play football by providing them kits and organizing charity matches for them,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Pilipinas Dragons also offers scholarships to eligible high school students interested in the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Ayi\u2019s trip is sponsored by Mizuno sportswear, which also donated soccer balls, vests, and training shorts to the Tinian club along with the PDFC.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Football clinics will be conducted on Tinian this week by professional soccer player and program&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":187130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[679,51,163,232],"class_list":["post-187122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-football-2","tag-guam","tag-kids","tag-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}