Coaches laud NFF-CAF training as game-changer for Nigerian football
Football coaches attending a train-the trainers’ course sat the coaching course would improve the standard of football and enhance its development from the grassroots to national team levels. Some of the coaches, who participated in the five-day Elite Instructor Coaches’ Course, under the FIFA goal project, at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja, said on […]
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Football coaches attending a train-the trainers’ course sat the coaching course would improve the standard of football and enhance its development from the grassroots to national team levels.
Some of the coaches, who participated in the five-day Elite Instructor Coaches’ Course, under the FIFA goal project, at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja, said on Friday, that they will impart the knowledge they acquired to their players at training sessions.
Haruna Ilerika, the head coach of the national U-15 football team, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that a new era had come for Nigerian football.
“We had quality resource persons who have tutored us on what is expected of us, and the teaching and training was impacting.
“The essence of the course is to train us as instructors and in return, we will then be training other coaches that will be training for CAF, B,C, D and E.
” It is a very good development for Nigerian football, as every segment of the nation was adequately represented in the training.
“We pray that God gives us all long life, the strength and knowledge to impart to the younger generation,” he said.
NAN reports that the train-the-trainer coaching course, organised by the NFF, in collaboration with the Confederation of Africans de Football (CAF), had 32 coaches participating. The course ended on Friday, Oct. 29.