British FA to Train Coahces from Ghana, Nigeria & Cameroon

COACHES from Nigeria, Cameroun and Ghana will today converge in Lagos for the First National Grassroots Football Coaches workshop.

The workshop which is being jointly sponsored by the British Council and Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) with organisation by the Nigerian Grassroots Football Federation (NGFF) is expected to attract 16 coaches from host Nigeria while Cameroun and Ghana are expected to send in about six coaches each for the programme.

The coaches will receive instructions from Mrs. Sue Law who heads the British Football Associations technical department. Law is to be accompanied to Nigeria by another member of the British FA.

Prominent among the Nigerian coaches expected at the workshop which will take place at the Union Bank sports complex in Surulere are ex-international Fatai Amoo and Uche Eucharia who once featured for the female national team, the Falcons.

Some of the other coaches expected are Spiff Nelson, Kingsley Osakwe, Joy Etim and others.

President of the Nigerian Grassroots Football Foundation, Alhaji Agboola Dabiri disclosed that former Super Eagles coach, Paul Hamilton along with the ex-Golden Eaglets handler Fanny Amu will be part of the workshop as observers. Dabiri added that the former chairman of the Nigerian Coaches Association, Austin Akosa and the Nigerian Institute of Sports instructor, Theophilius Tella will also play the role of observers at the workshop which ends on January 27.

The NGFF president described the British Councils gesture to sponsor the programme as most timely, moreso as Nigerias coaches stand to derive immense benefit from the modern techniques which the instructors will impart in them.

He noted that this is the first time the workshop will be taking place in Africa. The last edition of the programme was held in Romania.