A training course starting in November will give interested persons an opportunity to become certified as a Cayman Islands Football Association licensed coach.
Run by CIFA Technical Director, Professor Marcos Tinoco, the programme which is for nine days including two Saturdays is the beginning of an annual programme designed to take persons in Cayman through the three stages of football coaching licences.
This year participants will study and train for the ‘C’ licence, and while a new batch of beginners are to be taken in for the 2006 course, the graduates from the November exercise will enter the seminar for the ‘B’ licence. By the third year of the programme, those persons with the ‘B’ licence should become fully qualified coaches with ‘A’ licences.
Technical Director Tinoco said that while there are many persons coaching footballers at all levels in Cayman, a number of them never formally received certification. He said the programme is open to officials at all football clubs and primary and high schools in the Cayman Islands.
Beginning on 8 November, classroom sessions of the programme run on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays for two weeks in November from 6pm to 8pm in the VIP Lounge of the Truman Bodden Sports Stadium.
On Saturdays 12, and 19 November there will be field sessions at the stadium from 9am to 12 noon. The course winds up Tuesday, 22 November with an assessment. The course covers over 15 study areas ranging from laws of the game, training methods, fitness, to evaluation methods, injury prevention, and ethics in sports.
Brazilian Professor Marcos graduated from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Physical Education. He also did post-graduate studies in Football Coaching at the same university. He has done supplementary courses with renowned former Brazilian National Coach Carlos Alberto Parreira, and National Technical Director Mario Lobo Zagallo. In addition to training teams in Brazil, he has worked with clubs in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Germany.
The deadline for registration is 7 November, and interested persons can email Prof Marcos at [email protected] or fax 945-7673.
Last season’s league and FA Cup champion football team has changed primary sponsors. Formerly known as Western Union, the team will now be the Money Express Sports Club. Other club sponsors are Super C, Youralis Mini-market, Reid’s Premier Tours, GSH Cayman Ltd., David Peynado and Company.
Officers for the club are: Patrick McField (president), Athelston ‘Playmaker’ Watts (manager), Sylvia Wilks (secretary), Steve Hydes (VP).
Manager Watts says the shake up won’t change the quality of the team’s play this season.
‘We will be great again,’ he said. ‘I guarantee we will be champions again.’
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