Kumasi, Aug 15, GNA - A two-week Confederation of African Football (CAF) License 'B' course to build the capacity of Ghanaian national team coaches and holders of CAF License 'C' has opened at the Ghanaman Soccer Centre of Excellence at Prampram in the Greater Accra Region.

Forty five coaches are attending the course which is being sponsored by CAF in collaboration with the Ghana Football Association (GFA).

Mr Ben Koufie, a FIFA/CAF Instructor, is the course director with the other resource persons including Mr Anthony Adusei, a CAF Instructor and Deputy Course Director and Mr Francis Oti-Akenten, also a CAF Instructor and Technical Director of the GFA.

Topics to be treated include "Today's football and the modern trends of football", "The work of the coach", "Game techniques and principles", "Factors affecting performance and how to read and analyze the game" and "The coaching of young players."

Mr Adusei told the GNA Sports in Kumasi that the programme has been designed by CAF, using developments at the recent FIFA World Cup championship in South Africa as a case study.

He said a critical look at the championship indicated that formations, techniques and psychology of the game were gradually changing and "we therefore have to be abreast of these dynamics."

He said Mr Kwesi Nyantakyi, President of the GFA, in a solidarity message reminded the participants of the plans been put in place to ensure stringent measures to debar coaches without the requisite certificates and qualifications from coaching any Ghanaian Club by 2011.

The measure, he noted, forms part of plans to inject sanity into the technical aspect of the Ghanaian game to help produce quality players for the benefit of the nation.