Registration for Advanced Level One coaching course closes today
Coaches intent on being a part of the first Jamaica Money Market Brokers (JMMB)/Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) and University of Technology (UTech) Advanced Level One Coaching Course in 2010, will have until today to submit registration forms to the JFF.
The JFF/UTech/JMMB Coaching School will host the course from April 9 to May 9, 2010. Classes will be held at UTech on Fridays 1:00 – 5:00 pm, Saturdays 9:00 – 5:00 pm and Sundays 9:00 – 2:00 pm.
Each application must go through an approval process with successful applicants being advised of the outcome, but will only be considered registered if their course fees are paid by April 1. Successful applicants will form the fifth batch of students to the JMMB/JFF/UTech Advanced Level One Course. Four such courses were held in 2009 with two Advanced Level two courses being held earlier this year.
Participants in the course will be exposed to over 52 hours of instruction split into two modules, basic coaching sciences and technical football preparation and laws of the game.
Upon successful completion of the course, which includes a practical and theoretical examination, candidates will be in receipt of an Advanced Level One certification.
Among the lecturers are Dr Winston Dawes (sports medicine, the female athlete, and the young athlete), Dr Heather Little-White (nutrition), Dr Neville Graham (anatomy, physiology), Ms Kadijah Richards (sports psychology), Roy Thomas (methodology of skills teaching, principles of coaching, fitness development, exercise physiology), Bradley Stewart and Wendell Downswell (technique development).
Each student will be required to pay a fee $25,000. That figure will cover the cost of course material and water.
Registration took place through the JFF and interested individuals were required to provide a passport-sized photograph, TRN number and educational certificates for registration.
In setting up the coaching school, the federation is looking forward to ushering in a new era in the development of football in Jamaica, as the country seeks to recreate and build on its successes in the 1998 World Cup Finals and the years following in which Jamaica was ranked as high as 37th in the FIFA world rankings.
