FIFA Technical Leadership Diploma: FUFA’s Football Development Director Mwebe Studies Japanese approach to achieve excellence - FUFA: Federation of Uganda Football Associations

Posted on December 11, 2023 - 10:18 pm by Ahmed Marsha

The FUFA Football Development Director Ali Mwebe joined 24 other Technical Leaders from around the globe to learn more about Japan’s approach to achieving excellence as part of block two of FIFA’s new Technical Leadership Diploma held in Chiba, Japan, between 4-9 December.

Mwebe explored ‘Kaizen’, the Japanese principle of continuous improvement, during the 6-day workshop that included study visits to Toyota, Sumo Training Stables and the Japanese FA.

Achieving excellence in the areas of Talent ID and Recruitment, Coach Education, National Teams and Quality Assurance was also covered by participants who are undertaking the 18-month long course.

With Mauricio Marques- Brazil- FIFA Coach Education Expert ( Head of our Tutor Group) Tutor group is composed of 6 learners

“The block was an amazing 6 days of learning; I was enriched with professional knowledge and best practices in domains of Talent Identification, Coach education and quality assurance. On the other hand, personal development as a technical leader,” says Ali Mwebe.

FUFA has just launched an ambitious seven (7) year Technical Master Plan; and the technical leadership Diploma just came in the right time because it gives a lot of learning insights from the world’s best tutors and through peer-to peer interactions among us the 25 participants.

Read: FUFA Technical Master Plan Launched

Much resources and tools are given via the state-of-the-art learning and resources platform-the FIFA Training Centre. The tools and resources are a basis of best practices all over the world, that can be tailored to our culture and level of football development situation.”

Like block two in Brazil May 2023, Japan has been so amazing. Learning the Japanese culture that is integrated into productivity and continuous/step by step improvement (the Kaizen philosophy), there is no doubt that delivering the FUFA Technical Master plan shall need the ‘Kaizen’ philosophy.

‘One of the factors that have contributed to football transformation is the FUFA’s approach to capacity building. We can only thank FIFA for coming up with this globally recognised Diploma for Technical leader to which our own Ali Mwebe was selected in the pioneer group’ says Edgar Waston, FUFA Chief Executive Officer.

‘Globally recognised qualification’ for Technical Leaders
“We were delighted to welcome Ali Mwebe onto block two of our new Technical Leadership Diploma in Japan this week,” says Jamie Houchen, FIFA Head of Technical Leadership.

“Japan has proved to be the perfect location for block two of the Diploma and the focus on achieving excellence.

“The unique Japanese culture and tradition as well as the focus on long-term planning and total quality management allowed all participants to look at what excellence looks like in a different context. Most importantly, there has been a lot of thorough planning and consideration with regards transferring these lessons back into their own associations.”

The FIFA Technical Leadership Diploma aims to become the ‘globally recognised qualification’ for Technical Leaders working in the game and prepares participants for the distinct challenges and opportunities FAced by a Technical Leader within a Member Association. Five core domain areas are covered: