Harbour View banking on youth for new NPL season

National Premier League outfit Harbour View Football Club is continuing its youth advocacy as the club recently registered 20 young players under the age of 20 to their National Premier League (NPL) squad for the 2020-2021 season.

On Monday, the club introduced nine academy players who have all gained experience and have been developed in European academies in Sweden, Portugal and Barcelona in Spain for the past three to 12 months, as well as at Tournaments and Elite Club showcases over the last two years.

Within the last year, a number of the players who were in Europe have had to return home due to the coronavirus pandemic.

On Tuesday, the club introduced another 11 players who will make up the nucleus of the Harbour View squad for the new season.

Among the emerging 'Stars of the East' are players that have tasted Premier League experience, namely Tafari Chambers, Garth Stewart, Oquassa Chong, Jashaun Anglin and Casseam Priestly.

Also moving up the ranks at the club are Denzil Smith from Wolmer's and St George's College 16-year-old Clarendon College player Anthony Bennett Jr, Tyrese Williams of Kingston College, Tarick Ximines of Jamaica College and Kareem McLean of Denbigh High.

The other players introduced on Tuesday are Rojaughn Josephs, Shawn Daley, Jamon Shepherd, Akeem Mullings, Phillon Lawrence, Sheldon Smart, Troy Nosworthy, Shain Hanson, Dane Golding and Ron-Jay Watson.

General manager at the Harbour View Football Club, Clyde Jureidini, says the club is continuing its policy to expose some of their young talents to top-flight football while broadening the squad base.

"We are adapting to what is the new restructuring guidelines and to continue as we have been doing to expose our youth players after age 17 into academies in Europe," said Jureidini.