FUFA in collaboration with the African football governing body (CAF) has organised a refresher course for Match Assessors at the FUFA Technical Center, Njeru.
Fifty-nine participants are taking part in the three-day course that started on Monday 18th and will end on Wednesday 20th March 2018. Two assessors are from beach soccer.
Rwandese CAF instructor, retired FIFA Assistant referee and member of the CAF Referees committee and IFAB Celestine Ntagungira is taking charge of the course.
‘I thank CAF and the leadership of FUFA for organising such a course which is important because Assessors play a big role in refereeing by improving their as they give feedback to the committee about their work. Assessors are also instructors who must be in line with the trend of football when they get refresher courses to widen their knowledge which they later pass on to the referees. We need to have uniformity in the assessment world over that is why CAF and FIFA encourage such refresher courses‘ said Celestine Ntagungira
L-R: FUFA Development Director Ali Mwebe, CAF Instructor Celestine Ntagungira and FUFA Referees Standing Committee Chairman Ronnie Kalema
‘The role of an assessor is to guide the referees into proper performance on the field of play. They also help the Federation scout young referees from the eight regions. The assessors will be subjected to three exams for assessment on what they have been taught during the course‘ noted Ronnie Kalema who is also Chairman Uganda Football Referees Association (UFRA)
Ronnie Kalema – Chairman UFRA
Ali Mwebe FUFA Development Director
FUFA wrote to CAF requesting to organise this course with an international instructor. We are grateful that CAF responded to our request.
As the Football Development Department at FUFA, we are looking forward to reeping positively from the course with the improvement in the refereeing standards.
FUFA Development Director Ali Mwebe
The assessors have been undertaken through several topics as FUFA and its development programmes, Amendments for the laws of the game, assessment process and the match assessment principles, field activity, understanding the new concept of refereeing, report writing, match debrief by assessor to the referees, preparation of integrated trainings with several practical sessions.
