Launch of Hisham Abdeen Rugby Football Academy a red letter day

By Srian OBEYESEKERE

It will be a red letter day in the rugby football career of veteran Hisham Abdeen who will take his star studded career as player and coach into another lane when he launches the country's first ever finishing schhol in rugby - the Hisham Abdeen Rugby Football Academy (HARFA) on Wednesday December 17.

Unparalleled as a player, who won the admiration of his international foes in his hey day as a brilliant wing three quarter, Hisham summed up his latest effort in the following words,"I'm giving back to my country what I learnt from the game through such an academy which will importantly finecomb talent with accent on the rural youth. HARFA will be a fully fledged finishing school of rugby that will tap latent talent from as tender age as 9 in so much as fine tuning youngsters and even lasses to potential national players

For this I have a handpicked team of trainers, both men and women to serve HARFA which would also be equipped with speed trainers and fitness men. The Power World will join me in pruning out six footers."The occasion which will be graced by the rugby family in the country both past and present will be the stepping stone to bigger things in the rugby arena where experts see Hisham's long-term move as very far-reaching in Sri Lanka's endeavour at bridging the gap at South Asian level.