Background of Club
The Camdonia Sports Club is a Vincentian non-profit institution founded approximately thirty years (30yrs) ago and is run presently on a voluntary basis by Mr. Keith “Mamadilla” Ollivierre a former national player, teacher and presently coach of the club. During the club’s history, it has gone through several names. Initially, the club was called “Youth Strikers” and was then o
rganized and ran by a teacher at the Lowmans Leeward Anglican School Mr. The component of the team at that time was players from the above mentioned school and a few schools from Kingstown. The team took part in several competitions and performed extremely well. Telesford migrated and the team after a while became part of a community group called “Campden Park Progressive Organisation” (C.P.O.) at that time some of the members had already departed, but the core still remained. After Keith entered secondary school and became a member of the Inter-secondary School team “Intercol” coached by former national player Tyrone “tweety” Spence, the club “Youth Strikers” was still up and running and was becoming a force to be reckon with especially in the South Leeward Competition. The persons in charge at that time were Deniston “Smokey” Alexander and Dean “Chinnyman” May. After the dismantling of the combined team “Intercol”, Keith rejoined the club and at that time was just entering his peak, playing for the National Team and one of the big Clubs in Kingstown, Roseans, and was again an integral part in reshaping the team. After a while several new players joined the team and there was a general consensus to change the name of the team. The persons in charge of things at that time were Roland Small, Allan Alexander and Keith Ollivierre. The new name “Chelsea” was first given by Bernard “Pa” Alexander and was agreed upon by the rest of the persons present. So from then forth, the team was referred to as the “Chelsea Football Team” and in some cases was regarded by media personnel as the “family team” because of its composition. After the name change, the team was becoming a strong force to be reckon with, winning its first big championship, that is the South Leeward Football title around 1995. In the next two years, Chelsea was a household name and chalked up a large following. In representation, the team was in the fore front, representing south Leeward in every major tournaments organized by the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Football federation (SVGFA).
