Daniel Tanhai: Volunteer at Canton Liberals Football club explains how his club overcame the challenges faced by covid and shares his aspirations for the upcoming season.
For most coaches organising and coaching training sessions would be enough work in itself
But despite having a Job with British Gas on the side Daniel Tanhai and Canton Liberals have added in provision for their players from senior to junior level through the form of (virtual hats) which were online sessions once a week throughout lockdown to keep the players happy and engaged.
“We were one of the few if not the only grassroots community clubs doing that in the area.”
“We definitely felt a greater duty of care towards the junior level and we’ve done the best we can under the circumstances for them.”
“We’ve tried our best and I think we’ve done really really well.”
Daniel has been a volunteer at Canton since 2017 and has been working in football his whole coaching career with every qualification needed passed by the FAW.
Canton Liberals are a South Wales amateur club based in the premier division. It’s a community football club that runs boys and girls age groups from youth, reserve to first team level.
Daniel spoke about how his time has been with Canton liberals and his aspirations for the upcoming season.
“We have a group of talented lads, playing lower than they could’ve been in terms of ability. But it’s been about enjoyment and sticking together.”
“We want to become a welsh league football club, we’ve got the facilities to make it fit to do so”
“We’re evolving as a club, although we haven’t had success the last few years trophy wise, we want to have success off the pitch in our infrastructure and we’ve certainly done that.”
Canton Liberals will start their preparations for the new season in August in the hopes of getting their hands on more silverware and getting themselves promoted to the Welsh Football League.
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