SAQ® International Backed in South African Parliament

SAQ® International have recently been mentioned and recommended in South African Parliament during a Human Rights debate discussing ‘Children and Youths in Modern Democracy’.

Mark Wiley, Community Safety, Cultural Affairs and Sport lead for the opposition Democratic Alliance party, presented information about the positive effects that SAQ® International’s Early Movement coaching principles are having on primary schools in townships within the country’s Western Cape.

Mr Wiley is a champion of The Mass Participation Programme (MPP) that aims to give as many children as possible the opportunity to participate in regular sports activities and develop life skills through sports programs.

Melton-based SAQ® International has 21 full-time and part-time instructors working in South Africa and they all come from the areas involved in a pilot project being carried out in the Fish
Hoek Valley and Hout Bay areas, near to Cape Town.

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Former Leicester City FC Winger Endorses SAQ®

Former Leicester City winger Matt Piper is the latest football coach to give his backing to SAQ® International.

Piper is familiar with the SAQ® principles since his early days at Leicester City, when SAQ® Managing Director, Alan Pearson, visited the club’s Belvoir Drive training facility.

Now a coach with Leicester City’s under 15 team, Matt talked about how the SAQ® techniques benefited his career.

“SAQ® massively helped my game, with everything; speed, quickness and agility and that’s why I kept up with it. From the youngsters that I’ve coached through to the adult teams, I always try to implement SAQ® into my training schedule.”

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