AIFF Media Team

NEW DELHI: India now has nine AFC Professional Coaching Diploma Coaches in its ranks after Khalid Jamil, Mariano Dias, Santosh Kashyap, Hilal Parray and Thangboi Singto successfully completed All India Football Federation’s first-ever AFC Pro Diploma Course held from July 2013 – November 2014.

Previously Savio Medeira, Derrick Pereira, V. Soundarajan and Hering Shangpliang were the only Indian AFC Professional Coaching Diploma Coaches.

Among the 12 participants, Scott O’Donell, Karim Bencherifa and Arthur Papas also successfully completed the Course.

Stanley Rozario was awarded a Pro-Pass (FAME) which means he has to re-sit one more practical examination.

The Course was conducted by former Indian National Team Coach Wim Koevermans, who is also a UEFA Pro License Instructor.

AIFF also conducted two AFC GK Courses in Kolkata in November this year.

Of the 18 participants for the AFC GK Level 1 course, 14 Coaches successfully passed (with one Pro-Pass) while four candidates among four passed the AFC GK Level 2 Course (with two Pro-Pass).

Both the AFC GK Courses were conducted by experienced AFC GK Instructor Yong Wai Hwong from Malaysia.

Meanwhile, starting January 1, 2015, AIFF have made it mandatory for all aspiring coaches in India to pass AIFF D-Certificate course before appearing for the AFC courses starting with AFC-C.

List of successful Pro-Licence Coaches: Kahlid Jamil, Mariano Dias, Santosh Kashyap, Hilal Parray, Thangboi Singto, Karim Bencherifa, Scott O’Donell and Arthur Papas.

Pro-Pass: Stanley Rozario.

List of successful Coaches who passed Goalkeeping Level Goalkeeping 2 Course:

Tanumoy Basu; Sandeep Singh; Virender Singh and Hameed KK.

Pro-Pass: Fysal K. Bappu and Tapan Chakraborty.

List of successful Coaches who passed Goalkeeping Level 1 Course:

Nongthonbam Puthiba Metei; Thatheus Khyriem; Siddique Abdul Azim; Shaikh Mohammed Qadeer; Parshuram Salwadi; Shafi Kalavath Ali; Gavin Elias Araujo; A. Cleofas; Bobby L. Nongbet; Subrata Das Gupta; Gumpe Rime; M. Zakeer Hussain; Kishore Chavan Shivaji Rao and Kaushik Paul.

Pro-Pass: Ronibala Chanu