AIFF Media Team

NEW DELHI: The AFC Instructors Course for India ended successfully on Friday (March 28, 2014) in Goa. Mr. Narayanan Nair Sivaji stayed the Course Instructor.

Mr. Sivaji a seasoned AFC Instructor from Singapore presided over the 10-day affair which consisted of various situations and cases studies for the potential Coach Instructors.

The Course also educated the participants on various methods, systems and >

A select number of AFC A-Certificate coaches with the potential to become AFC instructors were invited for the Course from all across India.

“This Course is very effective in terms of assessing upcoming coaches, United SC Coach Ananta Kumar Ghosh told www.the-aiff.com. “This is my first AFC Instructors Course. It was a very fruitful course with interactive sessions on how to educate C and B License Coaches. I am grateful to AIFF for taking me into consideration.”

“It is very important to have local instructors who can train upcoming Indian Coaches. You cannot expect foreign coaches to be brought in every time to train young coaches. It also helps if you have a local instructor passing on the knowledge and expertise in local dialect,” added Ghosh.

Coach Santosh Kashyap stressed on how interactive the sessions were which helped the participants to learn faster.

“Our Instructor from Singapore made the sessions so interactive and interesting,” Kashyap said. “I guess all of us picked up things very fast thanks to him. I have attended a similar Course in Uzbekistan in 2011 but this experience was unique. I am thankful to Scott (O’Donell) for nominating my name. Having Indian Instructors is so important for developing more Indian Coaches.”

Chitra Gangadharan, the Indian Senior Women’s National Team Goalkeeping Coach who was also the only female participant informed that this Course would help her train a lot of women coaches who find their going difficult due to language problem.

“There are a lot of women coaches for whom language is an impediment. In order to overcome that problem we need Instructors who can train them in their local dialect. I feel having more number of Indian Instructors will be hugely beneficial in this regard.”   

The following Coaches attended the Course:

Gautam Ghosh, Hilal Parray, Tarun Roy, Sajid Yusuf Dar, Chitra Gangadharan, Narayana Menon, Surinder Singh, Shakti Chauhan, Ananta Ghosh, John Kenneth Raj, Cajetan Fernandes, Matheus C. Costa, Thomas Joseph, A. Robin Charles Raja, Santosh Kashyap, V. Soundarajan, Naushad Moosa, Mariano Dias and Syed Sabir Pasha.