TO FURTHER boost the grassroots development program being pushed by Federation Internationale de Football Association, a one day seminar will be scheduled this week for interested football coaches and players.
The course will be for coaches of grassroots players aged 6-12 years old to further promote football in the country.
Former Japanese football player and technical director of the Japanese football squad Takeshi Ono will be the speaker for the one day event slated on July 16 at the BSU football grounds.
"We want to have as many [participants] as possible because we have to break the 500 kids of San Carlos City in Negros," said Aries Bocalan who recently joined the refreshers on coaches by FIFA in Visayas.
Bocalan, the playing coach of the Goshenland-BUFC Men's Football team who also represented the city in the seminar, explained the new football program will be applied first to 7 and under kids on July 30.
"This new FIFA approach in grassroots football will encourage more kids to get trained in football because it is not tournament oriented but development oriented," said Bocalan.
Ono will also be accompanied by Marlon Maro, a Philippine Football Federation instructor for elite coaching.
The seminar opens at 7 a.m. and will be free of charge. It is also open to all beginners and intermediate coaches and players.
Under the new approach, systems will be implemented where kids will register and will be assigned to teams. Afterwards, they will be ushered to different stations in the training system where they will be coached and mentored on every aspect of their game and skills.
Following the different training systems, kids will be brought to a tournament station where they will apply the coaching they received from the different training systems.
Interested participants may proceed to the BSU football grounds on the July 16 and may call coach Bocalan at (0949)367-0089.
Published in the Sun.Star Baguio newspaper on July 12, 2011.
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