AIFF Media Team

NEW DELHI: The All India Football Federation is all set to organise the second AFC A-Certificate Course of the year beginning Friday (October 18, 2013) at Trivandrum, Kerala.

The Course will be conducted by AIFF Technical Director Mr. Robert Baan to begin with and will be succeeded by Mr. Vincent Subramanium from Asian Football Confederation (AFC).

The Course will be hosted by the Kerala Football Association and will last for 29 days till November 16, 2013.

A total of 24 participants have been selected for the Course. The AFC ‘A’ Coaching Certificate Course is for Coaches who hold both the ‘C’ and ‘B’ Coaching Certificates.

Selection of participants is based only on the recommendation of the Instructors. The duration of the Course is 27 days, with a minimum of 148 hours.

The Course is designed to educate Coaches in tactical and advanced Technical requirements of teams and team management. Students are examined on the practical and theoretical aspects of the game, and are required to submit and present a dissertation.

The candidates selected for the same are as follows:

Luis Mario Aguiar, Levino Pereira and Lino Pereira (Goa); Narayana Menon, Xavier Pious, P.K. Rajeev, V.P. Shaji, Bino George, Jo Paul Ancheri (Kerala); Gautam Ghosh, Satyabrata Bhowmick, Bastab Roy; Achinta Kumar Belel and Anita Sarkar (West Bengal); Kamalkanta Singh (Assam); John Kenneth Raj and C. Ravi Kumar (Karnataka); Arindam Biswas (Pondicherry); N. William Koso and Roko Angami (Nagaland); Bitan Singh and Surmala Chanu (Manipur); Bobby Nongbet (Meghalaya); Mita Michiteru (Japan).