By Graham K. Rogers

As part of its sponsorship deal with the Manchester United Football Club, which was recently renewed for a further three years, Epson has just released information about soccer clinics held in the region in April this year as part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives: in Malaysia and Singapore.

32 specially selected teenagers from each country were able to benefit from coaching sessions given by Ronny Johnsen and Gary Pallister in Malaysia (21 April); and Denis Irwin and Paul Parker in Singapore (28 April).

The Epson press release notes:

The participants underwent an intensive skills coaching session with the MUSS coaches and the legends, learning a range of movements and techniques inspired by the regime used by the Manchester United first team players. The session was designed to encourage repetition of these fundamental actions in a fun and exciting way.

More information about the soccer clinics, including photographs of the events, are online at the Epson site.

Graham K. Rogers teaches at the Faculty of Engineering, Mahidol University in Thailand. He wrote in the Bangkok Post, Database supplement on IT subjects. For the last seven years of Database he wrote a column on Apple and Macs.