Ninety northern youths recently headed south to take up sports as an alternative to using drugs at a camp run by the Pattaya United Football Club.
Coaches and trainers from both Pattaya and Chonburi FC’s ran the Oct. 1 camp for Kamphaeng Phet province youths at the Nongprue Stadium.
Pattaya United manager Songyot Klinsrisouk, with leading Thai football athletes including Sarawut Fuengkaen, Pathipat Amatontree and Wacharapong Buasri, offered a two-hour lesson on all aspects of the game.
Pattaya United manager Songyot Klinsrisouk (2nd left) led the 90 selected youths in the training program.
The program, run with the National Command Center for Drugs for the second year in a row, pointed students from Kampaeng Phet Sports School and other provincial youths toward football as a way to spend their free time instead of using drugs.
