.Course lasted 2 weeks
.Participants were examined by CAF instructor Tanzanian Sunday Kayuni
.Facilitators were from Uganda
A number of 70 practicing coaches on Sunday completed a two weeks CAF ‘C’ Coaching Course at Fufa technical Turf in Njeru town.
A course fully funded by local footballing body, the Federation of Uganda Football Association (FUFA) and certified by continental body Confederation of African football (CAF) started on Monday 22nd September and it ended today Sunday 05th October.2014.
CAF ‘C’ coaches’ course is one of the highly rated course in the country and Fufa is optimistic this will alter the face of football in Uganda if they want to succeed.
While addressing coaches at the closing function, Fufa Executive committee member and chairman Technical Committee Hamid Juma has cautioned coaches to have ambitions in their careers.
“If you’re here but when you don’t have goals to achieve your in wrong place. As you decided to become coaches, you must bebe having targets where you want to be in the next 5-10 years from now. I will be glad if I found some of you coaching Kenya or Brazil national football team” He cautioned.
Mr. Hamid who was also the chief guest at the closure of the course still asked coaches not to sit on the knowledge they have acquired in this course.
‘Most of you’re interested in getting certificates and thereafter you forget to share this beautiful knowledge with relevant people’.
‘As the federation we have embarked on capacity-building because we know it’s the only way we can change the face of football in Uganda’
‘Many people live in football but lack relevant technicalities to manage and run it smoothly. So it’s our task as the federation to change the way how people think about this beautiful game of football and so here we start with you coaches’.
Meanwhile, Ayub Khalifa [coach Kawempe Muslim] who talked on behalf of the coaches was overwhelmed by the level of commitment exhibited by the class but also cautioned his fellow coaches not to sit on the knowledge they have acquired.
“I want to thank all of you for having been committed since the beginning up to today when we are closing.’My humble appeal to you all is that let us show people out there that we have been empowered with knowledge both technically and tactically’.
‘Also avoid waiting for big jobs to come before you even exercise to know your abilities. Go and start up your own clubs or academies and put this knowledge into use’.
On the same function a Tanzanian CAF instructor Sunday Kayuni just commended coaches for the high level of discipline exhibited.
‘This class has been committed and above all disciplined so can you also show this to anywhere you will be working as coaches’.
