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Best centre given green-light

Bermuda Football Association have been granted planning permission to build a $1 million FIFA funded headquarters to be named in honour of ex-West Ham hero Clyde Best.The Clyde Best Centre of Excellence will be a two storey building, located on the same site as BFA Field, complete with changing rooms, offices, a conference room and a storage area on the upper level.Designed Botelhowood Architects, the complex will also have a laundry room, bathrooms and car park with spaces for 27 cars and eight motorcycles.The plans for the multi-purpose building were first submitted in September 2010. A revised application, with more details about the proposed building and a slightly modified plan with the building shifted to add a balcony, was received last month.Former BFA president Richard Calderon first unveiled the plans for the centre more than a year ago.He said it was fitting that Best’s name would sit above the new facility which would also be made available for the clubs to use.The big striker scored 47 goals in 186 matches for Hammer between 1968 -76.He was one of the first post-World War II black players in British football.