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YOUNGSTERS at the Corofin Harps club showed last week that they can put their best foot forward and not just to play soccer.
Members as young as five, their older clubmates and parents set out on a sponsored walk to buy kit and equipment for the underage teams.
The little lads needed tracksuits, goals, and footballs – all the paraphe- nalia which will be necessary when they take to the field this coming
season.
The members and their parents set out to cover five miles and have already raised ©2,500 with more money coming in from sponsorship all the time.
“We’re hoping to raise about €5,000 in total from it to kit the kids out properly,’ said manager Keith lee
This will be the first year that the club will have an under eight team and they are also taking part with the under 11 and 12 teams in the soccer
blitz this year.
Soccer aS a game is growing fast in popularity amongst the Corofin youngsters.
Last year, Keith and fellow man- agers, Wille Treacy, Alan Higgins and Alan Cherryman, had just ten youngsters in training with the under -8s. This year, that’s grown to 60.
“We’ve also been invited to take part in the half-time National League game with the Limerick 37 at home in the under-10 blitz,’ said Keith.
The young footie fans have already
been measured for their new kit and are looking forward to having it de- livered while they continue with a busy training schedule on Wednes- days and Saturdays.
‘It will be great to see them kitted out. Everyone made such a huge ef- fort to support the walk and the par- ents are absolutely fantastic. They give 110 per cent.’