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Cuban Coaches in Suriname Organize Sport Events in Different Districts

SURINAME, May 18, 2010. The Directorate of Sports in Surname organized a sport event in Wageningen on Saturday 15 May to scout new talent. Similar events were already held in the districts of Coronie and Marowijne. According to the Directorate of Sports Cuban, coaches have been actively scouting for new talents in Coronie and Marowijne, and will do the same in the district of Nickerie. The Cuban coach Avilio Vega Tamajo who is now working in Coronie will go to work in Wageningen soon.

The planning is to establish athletics clubs in Wageingen.

Since the arrival of Cuban coaches in Suriname, there has been much progress in athletics. Mark Dompig, a member of the athletics club Profosoe, acknowledges this. “The added value of these coaches is that they are practical and innovative. When we would have to buy an expensive piece of equipment for USD 250 for a specific kind of training, the Cuban coach replaces this with a bottle filled with sand. And it works!”, says Dompig.
In Profosoe, the positive influence of the Cuban coaches is noticeable by the increase number of children who attend the training sessions. “Throughout the week some hundred children come to train “, says Ruben Vaarnold, a Surinamese coach. Just like Dompig, he is also happy with the Cuban coach Oriol Hernandez Blanco whom has been appointed by the Directorate of Sports to help upgrade the level of several athletic clubs.

The Directorate of Sports informs that Blanco will be present Saturday in Wageningen for the scouting event together with his Cuban colleague Lazaro Calderon Munder whos I working with youths in Moengo and Albina.
Director of the Directorate, Mike Watson, said during the teach out for the Inter Guyanese Games that the presence of Cuban coaches in Suriname is the result of the evaluation the Directorate of Sports made about the development of athletics in the Caribbean.  From this evaluation, it was learned that Trinidad and Tobago uses Cuban coaches so Suriname decided to also take this approach. According to Watson, the cooperation with Cuba was established by the Cuban ambassador to Suriname.

Deputy director of Sports, Rudi Esajas, acknowledged the technical cooperation and says that the technical cooperation started with a pilot project of one year with the arrival of the athletics coach Blanco in Suriname. Blanco specialized at one of the sports universities in Cuba in sprints (100 m, 200m, 400 m). His employment was a success and resulted in an extension and expansion of the project with two other athletic coaches specialized in long distances.
Meanwhile also a Cuban volleyball coach and a chess trainer of world class have come to Suriname. The sport associations (volleyball association, athletics association and the chess association) make good use of the Cuban expertise, as do the members of the sport associations such as club Profosoe.(Cubaminrex- Embacuba Suriname)

 

 

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