Participants of the FA course have been challenged to aim for much bigger things in coaching. English FA resource person at the recent workshop Jamie Houchen says the participants have demonstrated their keenness to learn and would be useless if they do not put into good use what they learnt.
OFC’s technical director Jim Selby also sounded similar sentiments before he left on Friday.
He says it would be sad if in the next couple of years, everything has gone back to square one.
“I would like to challenge you to put into practice what you learnt and ensure there is growth,” he adds.
Meanwhile, Alan Gillett and Jamie Houchen have returned to England following a week of hectic sessions at the Alan Boso Academy.
The Solomon Islands Football Federation will send it’s senior women’s team to participate in the World Cup qualifying tournament in PNG in April.
Confirming this undertaking, SIFF General Secretary Eddie Ngava says he had opted against the original plan not to send its women’s team after OFC consulted with him in Auckland recently.
He says only PNG and New Zealand confirmed their participation, however, FIFA has indicated to the OFC that it will lose its automatic entry into world cup if only two countries participate in the qualifiers in PNG.
The OFC therefore nominated Solomon Islands and Tonga to make up the number and Ngava is confident the country’s senior womens team will perform well in that competition.
He says the girls will play three international matches which is a perfect build up for the Pacific Games in Samoa.
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SIFF President Martin Alufurai will formally sign an agreement with the PNGFA to extend its technical programme to Bougainville in April.
This technical programme includes coaching and refereeing and the OFC will provide additional funding to SIFF for this.
If agreement is formalized, SIFF will invite participants from Bouganville to attend its coaching and refereeing programmes here.