GRASSROOTS COACHES IN SOUTH EAST BEGIN COACHING CLINIC IN AWKA

REPORTER: UCHE NDEKE

Grassroots football coaches have converged on Awka, Anambra State, for the Nigeria National League One Coaching Clinic.

The one week exercise, which is in collaboration with Berakiah Coaching Clinic organization and sponsored by Aspire Football Club, Adazi Nnukwu, is aimed at developing the skills of domestic coaches in the South East Zone of the country.

The coaching clinic has coaches Victor Nwakamma, Alphonsus Uzodike, Simon Ojun, among others as instructors.

The need to develop the capacity of Nigerian coaches is said to be one of the ways to achieve sustainable growth in football development in the country.

This was why the Nigeria National League One (NLO) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Berakiah, a coaching clinic organization and ABIGOL Grassroots coaching clinic in 2021.

To match words with action, domestic coaches from the South East Zone of the country are converging on Awka, Anambra State to undergo a seven day training that is expected to improve their skills.

One of the instructors and former Golden Eaglets Head Coach, Alphonsus Dike, who described the programme as laudable, said the aim was to expose the coaches to the rudiments of football, which they woul in turn transfer to the players for the overlap development of the game.

The Vice Chairman, Anambra State Football Association, Mr. Aniekwena, while declaring the clinic open, commended the sponsors for selecting FIFA barged instructors, who are well experienced coaches, to come and guide the upcoming ones on the fundamentals of football.

He expressed the hope that the Governor Elect, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, would leverage on the gains of the present administration to at least give the state one football team that would be representing Anambra in football competitions.

The Coaching clinic is expected to have an impact on My Anambra Football Super League, which will kickoff soon after the ongoing Anambra State FA tournament