Imo FA partners with Ave Int/Berackiah Int for grassroot coaching refresher course

Posted : 15 October 2023

The Imo State Football Association has partnered with Ave Int/ Berackiah Int for the training of grassroot coaches in a one week refresher course program designed to help coaches at the grassroot level attain optimum performance for a better footballing community.

The newly elected Imo FA chairman Barrister Ifeanyi Dike ( Fela ) in his opening address thanked the partners Ave International, Berackiah International and ALGON Grassroots football coaching 2023 for collaborating with the state FA for the conference.

Dike also thanked the coaches for showing up despite the inconvenient situation and finally extended his appreciation to the gentlemen of the press.

Dike also pointed out that Imo FA will go to any length to ensure the development of football at the grassroots which is part of the reason for this clinic. He also believes that by educating the grassroots coaches, it will also help revive sports at the grassroot level.

CEO of Berackiah international Mr Wonders Nwigbe gave the detailed benefits of the exercise.

“Take into cognizance, the fact that when you go into the rural areas, you would notice that some individuals without coaching license and training will pick up a whistle, gather a group of boys together to train and automatically become coaches.

"Normally that is the order of the day, now we have come to change that narrative by organizing what we see as refresher course training for all coaches.

"This program will come with certificates that can only cover the third tier level of football in Nigeria and outside Nigeria.

"Which means a coach with our certificate can coach NLO clubs and then outside the shores of Nigeria can also coach in a similar third tier division.

"We have been able to partner with NFF and also UEFA by signing an MoU for 10 years and by the virtue of this we will still seek an extended partnership when this partnership expires.

"This partnership will enable you coach teams in the NLO and also third tier clubs in Europe.

"The refresher course will last for one week and will include both theory and practical trainings.

"There is something in the pipeline we are working on. We are working on making this program a full fledged course. We have applied with NIS and we are waiting for the feedback. It will take awhile but we hope it gets the desired result but for now, it is a refresher course.

"We have partnered with Ave International for this program and that is why we are making it very affordable. The registration fee will be N40,000 Naira.

"ALGON has come in to subsidize the actual cost for the trainees and that is why we pegged it at this amount.

"With the help of the Imo state FA Chairman, we will bring the training for coaches here in Imo state," Nwigbe concluded.

Also adding his voice to the fray was the marketing manager, Ave International, Okechukwu Ovuegbe AKA FIFA.

“This collaboration and training will further enhance football grassroot development which in turn will have the desired results. Ordinarily we would have made it a free training but we realized that, people don’t value anything except when they pay for it. So that token payment will significantly become a symbol of the commitment," Ovuegbe concluded.

The partners entertained questions from both the coaches present and members of the press and were adequately briefed.

Imo FA partners with Ave Int/Berackiah Int for grassroot coaching refresher course

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