Football coaching course starts today
THE first Advanced Level One Football Coaching Course of the JMMB/JFF/UTech Coaching School will begin today at the Faculty of Science and Sport at the University of Technology.
Some 20 coaches have applied and have been approved to attend this course which will run for six consecutive weekends at the same venue, to end on May 20.
Football coaches in Jamaica must be registered on the JFF coaches database and must hold specific levels of certification to be able to coach football in Jamaica.
The school, which is sponsored by JMMB, was inaugurated in 2009 and has so far certified 400 coaches. Manning and daCosta Cup coaches (Advanced Level One) and National Premier League coaches (Advanced Level Two) have dominated the participant list over the past two years.
The JFF is on record as announcing that focus is now turned on community and club coaches, coaches of female players and coaches at the preparatory and primary school levels. All coaches in these categories have to be accredited at Advanced Level One for September 2012.
However, any coach at the Manning and daCosta Cup levels, who is not currently at Advanced Level One and intends to coach for the next schoolboy season, will have to become certified as the Federation will have a zerotolerance to non-compliant coaches.
