The Confederation of African Football will organize a course, refresher course for instructors, in Egypt from 28 April to 1 May 2009, which will attract 35 instructors from 30 countries.
The objective of this course, according to Bester Kalombo, CAF Refereeing manager, is to brief instructors on the CAF panel the new approach in handling, teaching and learning materials.
“There are so many emerging issues in the development of referees. In addition to technical or mental preparation, we have now developed physical fitness instructors, as these aspects complements each other,” said Bester.
Kalombo noted that a lot has changed since the last evaluation course held four years in Benin and Nigeria for francophone and Anglophone instructors respectively.
Amongst others, the programme of course will include informig the participants on FIFA refereeing assistance program, taking a look at the law 11 and 12 of the Laws of the Game, introducing match analysis as an instructional tool and also match analysis as a test of acquisition knowledge in the laws of the game.
“There will also be an open discussion on the view of the instructors regarding what topics should be included in the next programme to be designed from 2010,” said Kalombo.
Earlier this month the Confederation of African Football organized an evaluation course for Francophone coaching instructor on CAF panel in Morocco, from April 1 to April 5 to keep the participants abreast of latest developments and also to evaluate new instructors in coaching on the newly created regional panel.
More than 29 participants from 26 countries participated in the course.
“The regional panel, a new strategy, is being implemented to add to CAF panels a number of promising instructors from different regions to form a strong catalyst in our determination to build a strong base in our development programmes,” said Abdel Moneim Hussein, CAF Director of Football Development.
“For the past five years, CAF Development division has been working with the instructors to disseminate our activities to their respective regions and countries from grass-root level,” said Hussein.
According to Hussein, the most important issue discussed was CAF licensing system, emphasis was given in the content of manual. These instructors will be in charge of the licensing coordination in the continent.
“The licensing system is a new strategy by CAF to evaluate coaches with grading , in the future only CAF licensed coach will be qualify to coach a team.,” said Hussein.
Hussein said that the participants were delighted to see CAF licensing system being implemented, which is also a boost to the development of football in the continent.
“The next step is the organization for the Anglophone coaching instructors’ course on CAF panel in Uganda.” said Hussein.
Source: CAF official website
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