Three-day Teqball Training Camp organised by the TEQ Sri Lanka at Kilinochchi Indoor Stadium concluded today with great success. The training camp started the last Friday with 41 participants and today it came to the end without missing a single person until the last session. It shows their passion and enthusiasm in the new sport – Teqball in the North.

In the first session of the third day, TEQ Sri Lanka’s very first official t-shirt was unveiled by the International Teqball Coach – Milan Szabo and TEQ Sri Lanka’s Project Manager - Sivarajah Gobinath. Following this, all the participants were issued Teqlanka T-shirts. Then, teqers started the session with a warm-up led by the local coordinator L. Anurakhantan. Milan showed participants some dills to improve reflex touches and then participants also followed the same for an hour. After all practical session, an education session was set up on the “Zero-to-Hero Programme” which was undertaken by Gobinath in their local language – Tamil. And then a discussion session also was conducted to clear participants’ doubts.

Before lunch, coaches and referees registered for the examination. Altogether 30 participants showed their interest to attend coaching and/or refereeing examinations. After the lunch, more than 15 participants registered on the FITEQ and FITEQ Education platforms. Then refereeing examination and coaching examination were conducted.

Finally, the teqball training camp successfully concluded with a closing ceremony organised by the Kili Teq. On behalf of the participants, Mannar Teq Coach Jeramy delivered the vote of thanks. Milan and Gobinath were honoured for their service by the participants. Speaking to the participants, Milan said “I am really happy to represent FITEQ and train all of you here; Also, I believe that you have enjoyed a lot in the last three days and keep playing teqball and enjoy it.” “I am very happy to see your performance within this short time and I am sure you shall keep playing and teqball shall be another popular sport in North”, Gobinath said.

Since the Northern region was badly affected by the war, this programme is counted as one of the social responsibility activities by the TEQ Sri Lanka. TEQ Sri Lanka also believes that by introducing a new sport – teqball to this regional people, we can give confident and hope for a better tomorrow.

As the next, TEQ Sri Lanka has already planned for a couple of TEQ BALL Development Programme under the slogan of “Empowering Sports Culture” shall be held in Colombo for both Colombo district and outstation teqers from April 20 until April 29, 2021. Following this, TEQ Sri Lanka plans to conduct Hon. President Challengers Trophy also in Colombo by the first week of May.

Author: Gobinath Sivarajah – Project Manager/TEQ Sri Lanka

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