{"id":42641,"date":"2011-08-26T09:23:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T13:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=42641"},"modified":"2011-08-26T09:23:12","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T13:23:12","slug":"young-soccer-player-of-dominican-parents-continues-to-impress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/sports\/young-soccer-player-of-dominican-parents-continues-to-impress\/","title":{"rendered":"Young soccer player of Dominican parents continues to impress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42643\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42643\" style=\"width: 263px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42643\" title=\"jafi\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/jafi1-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"236\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42643\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jafi Alexis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s note: In April Dominica News Online featured 9-year-old soccer player Jafi Alexis, whose parents are from Portsmouth but living in the US, as creating waves in the sport. Jafi has continued impressing everyone who sees him play. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Brazilian Soccer School (BSS) player Jafi Alexis recently returned from a summer soccer camp with the Bundesliga Eintracht Frankfurt FC club, in Germany. Eintracht Frankfurt is one of the top clubs in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>After one week of intense soccer training Jafi received several awards: the first award he received was for achieving a score of 136\/140 for his overall performance on the field.<\/p>\n<p>The second was an MVP award at the end of the week that was received for being the most talented player among a field of kids at the camp.\u00a0 The group included fifteen year olds!\u00a0 The coaches were highly impressed with his individual skills and he was invited back to the club for a two week academy training camp to be held in the summer of 2012. There he will be training with more gifted players.<\/p>\n<p>According to BSS coaching director Horace McFarlane Sr, \u201cJafi\u2019s talent: speed, dribbling skills, coordination and soccer IQ is exceptional and will take him to great heights. Everyone who has seen Jafi play understands that he is a talented player and always leaves an impression. Next year both he and his dad are looking to expand his international soccer experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Germany trip caps a tremendous year so far for the diminutive player from the Bronx, New York.\u00a0 In April, he attended the Mundialito tournament in Portugal, which included teams from Real Madrid, Barcelona, Sporting Lisbon, Rangers, Everton, and Valencia, to name a few and Jafi left his mark.<\/p>\n<p>McFarlane Sr. who is also Jafi\u2019s trainer, said he ran into coach Daniel Goncalves, Academy Coach at Sporting Lisbon, at a conference in New York and asked if he recalled seeing Jafi at the tournament. Coach Gonzalez said that all of the participating team coaches who saw Jafi play spoke very highly of him. The Real Madrid coaches were also impressed by the \u201cMorenito\u2019s performance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jafi is currently looking forward to going back to the BSS fall program starting in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Editor&#8217;s note: In April Dominica News Online featured 9-year-old soccer player Jafi Alexis, whose parents are from Portsmouth but living in the US, as creating waves in the sport. Jafi has continued impressing everyone who sees him play. 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