The aim is to optimise the performance of the team and to develop the full potential of each player – training, developing, directing, advising and correcting players and helping them progress in life.
The FIFA MA Youth Course, held last week in Lae, Papua New Guinea, saw 22 participants complete a workshop covering all of these factors.
The participants learnt a great deal about many new aspects of coaching, as well as the responsibilities required for the successful running of Development Centres and Centres of Excellence in their respective regions. This also included both theory and practical sessions on coaching tactics and skills, facilitated by FIFA instructors Didier Chambaron, also OFC head of coach education, and OFC player development officer Daniel Shirley.
All the participating coaches are now equipped to identify players and organise two or three sessions a week in their respective region for the Development Centres and Centres of Excellence. PNGFA have identified player development as a key objective and will take full advantage of any assistance provided by OFC and FIFA to help prepare the next generation of young players.
Chambaron facilitated the week-long workshop and believes Papua New Guinea contains a great deal of potential in terms of coaches.
“By appointing these development officers for the workshop, it will surely build their knowledge of coaching to help build a specific framework to develop better players at the different age groups,” Chambaron says.
“This course was very successful in terms of building the foundations of a new player development plan and it’s a programme specific to PNGFA. Coaching includes understanding and managing the behaviour, eduational and psychological needs of players. In addition organisation, scheduling of tasks and the supervision of technical, tactical and physical aspects are critical.”
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