Soccer players in CBS have taken their skills training online. Just over two weeks ago the association was forced to close down because of the Covid-19 pandemic, but that isn’t stopping them from keeping active.

Darrin Bent, General Manager of the CBS Soccer Association, says with over 1200 members – 400 of whom train through the winter – they had to do something.

Bent says his members and their families are facing many challenges at this time. He says “we felt as a soccer association it was our role to offer, if not a diversion, and something else to think about, but just something else to do.”

Bent says the association’s Technical Director, Andrew Murphy, posted a skills challenge on the CBS Strikers Facebook fan page calling on members to post their own videos completing the task. The response was overwhelming, with hundreds of videos being uploaded.

That’s when they decided to take it a step further.

He says they are now using the Zoom App to include real time training. Bent told The VOCM Morning Show “Andrew displayed the skills and he could interact with twenty four of our young players at the same time who were asking questions and getting feedback.”

Bent says the CBS Soccer Association has also called on the provincial association and Soccer Canada to submit videos to their site.