Somerset Cricket Club have successfully launched a new girls? football camp.

The twice weekly sessions (Mondays and Wednesdays, 5.30 p.m.) began last week at the west end club, aimed at girls under the age of ten.

Some 20 enthusiastic players have already been recruited with another dozen expected to join the camp which, over the coming weeks, will place special emphasis on the basics of the sport.

According to Michael Corday, the camp?s development coach, the incentive for young girls in the region has immediately taken flight.

?Personally, I think Bermuda is far behind as far as women?s football is concerned. In the US, women?s football is huge and there are just so many opportunities out there in the football arena for young ladies,? said Corday.

?But Bermudians can?t take advantage of this because we don?t have enough young women playing. However, there seems to be a lot of interest out there.?

Corday, who is being assisted by Paul and Lisa Fisher, hopes to see the camp expand to include other age groups.

?Nobody seems to be taking the bull by the horns and so hopefully other clubs will follow suit and before you know it we could have a junior girls league,? he added.

?I know the Bermuda Football Association are trying to implement something and perhaps this may be a way of helping them out.?

Original plans called for the girls? camp to be launched next year. But due to an overwhelming positive response from both players and parents, Somerset officials gave in to demands and launched the programme a year early.

?We have a really good coaching staff and every week we are trying to improve,? Corday continued.

?We (coaching staff) meet once or twice a month to discuss different things and to get everyone on the same page because we also want the programme to be self sufficient.?

There was no word yesterday as to a possible new date for last Friday?s postponed Premier Division clash between Devonshire Cougars and defending league champions North Village at Devonshire Recreation Club.

That announcement, according to one BFA official, is expected to be made later this week.

BFA officials also remained tight-lipped over the abandoned Premier Division match between Dandy Town and Somerset Eagles (January 11) which was halted following an off-the-ball incident which resulted in one player being knocked unconscious.