AIFF Media Team

All India Football Federation will conduct the 2nd AFC B-Certificate Course of the Year in Goa from October 13 to November 3, 2013. The Course will have participants from all over the Country through nominations from various State FAs.

All India Football Federation’s Technical Director Mr. Robert Baan will be Course conductor and he will be assisted by Mr. Scott O’Donell, Director, Coach Education, also the Technical Director, AIFF Academies.

The Course which will span for 22 days will have theoretical and intense practical sessions. The AFC ‘B’ Coaching Certificate is for Coaches who already possess the ‘C’ Certificate. It is designed to educate Coaches in the advanced techniques and skills of the game and to help them develop a better understanding of individual or groups of Players, tactics and mental requirements of the game.

The list of participants attending the course is as follows:

Mario Soares, Bibiano Fernandes and Kanan Priolkar (Goa); Indranil Chakraborty, Kabi Sarkar and Biswanath Kundu (West Bengal); Nipendra Das and Akshaya Das (Orissa); Hameed K (Kerala); Padyut Gogoi and Uttam Singh Negi (Delhi); Zaki Hussain (Railways); Caetano Pinho (WIFA); Trevor Carvalho (Nagaland); Anil Tamang (Sikkim); Alison Kharsyntiew and F. Kharpan (Meghalaya); DR Praveen (Pondicherry); Shaukat Hussain and Intikhab Alam (Jammu & Kashmir); A. Shantha Kumar (Karnataka); Dinesh Parmar and Ajay Tiwari (Gujarat); Pinkumoni Hazarika (Assam).