Catlin’s sponsorship of Bermuda Football Association’s National Academy programme has been renewed for another year at a cost of $35,000, the BFA announced yesterday.Using the slogan “Underwriting Ambition”, Caitlin will completely outfit all the National Academy players with uniforms and kit bags which will carry the Catlin brand on the training kit.Yesterday the BFA Chairman of the Player Development Committee, Mark Wade and National Academy Director Richard Todd confirmed the new initiative for the National Academy which includes a goalkeeping academy, an age-specific weekend mini-camp and a week-long, mid-term school break camp which will run next week at the BFA Field for about 200 academy players.“This year, while continuing the clothing part of the agreement, we have also been able to add a few new initiatives which we are certainly very excited about,” said Wade. “This year we’ve added the goalkeeping academy which is open to all goalkeepers throughout the Island as well as added age-specific mini-camps which compensates for moving the academy to one-day-a-week training sessions.“Our first week-long camp is next week and we have coaches on the Island and at least one coach coming in from Valencia Football Club to help us out with this camp next week and another camp in February. The partnership of underwriting the ambition of our top players in the country continues with Catlin and we just want to thank them publicly, we’ve done so privately already.”The camps will enable the Academy players to receive coaching specific to the Bermuda style of play and how Bermuda’s national teams will approach matches. The theme of the camp is “How We Play” and will cater to boys in three age groups, from 11 to 14, and for girls from 15 to 17. The camp from February 11 to 16 will have the theme “My Position, My Game” and will deal with specialised position training for goalkeepers, defensive play, building the attack in midfield, playing in the attacking third and speed, agility and conditioning.At next week’s camp, boys born in 2001 will be involved in three-hour sessions from 8.30 to 11.30am each day; 1999 and 2000-born boys from noon to 3pm and ‘97 and ‘98 boys from 3.30 to 5pm. The session for the girls will run from 5.30 to 7pm.“We’ve partnered with ABC Football to help provide the resources from Valencia in Spain,” said Todd. “They have two on-island coaches who will be a resource for us and additional coaches will be coming to help support the camp which will be offered to all National Academy players throughout next week.“The theme of the camp is “How We Play” so we have collaborated with the Valencia coaches to make sure their instruction is geared towards the curriculum of the National Academy. We want to use the week to introduce the players to our game style, how we’re looking for our national teams to be able to play.“If we had to do this over weekly training it is going to take a significantly longer period of time but having the players consecutively for five days would allow us to get further down the road in a much shorter time.”Devonshire Cougars have the opportunity to move level on points with Flanagan’s when they welcome Somerset to Devonshire Rec. tonight for an 8pm match.Cougars are presently fourth in the table, one of three teams on seven points, while Somerset are a point back as one a point separates six teams.Cougars are the leading scorers in the division with 11 goals, though they have been leaking goals too, conceding ten in their four matches. Somerset are also aiming for a victory that would move them into second place ahead of the weekend’s matches.