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Oris Chimenya, 04 October 2004
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National women football coach Stewart Mbolembole is now eligible to train coaches following his successful performance at a just-ended joint Fifa and Caf organised training course which took place in Johannesburg.
Forty participants from 38 African countries attended the course which saw Djibouti’s representative Kamil Mohammed Hassan emerge the best student.
The coaching course, which took place at Sandton Sunflowers Intercontinental Convention Centre, was facilitated by technical directors from Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Swaziland, Tunisia, Benin, Eritrea and Djibout.
The course, called Futuro III Fifa/Caf continental coaching course, took place from September 16-27, and Mbolembole was one of the 15 successful participants.
“The course was very good and I have just finished writing a report to be presented to my bosses. There are many things that I have learnt.
“I am now eligible to conduct coaching courses for anybody in the country,” said Mbolembole in an interview yesterday.
Mbolembole said before he left for Johannesburg, he was told that he was to undergo coaching training as a women soccer coach but was surprised on arrival there to learn that the course was about coach trainers.
Mbolembole said it was not easy for him to pass because the tutors spoke French only which meant having everything translated into English by translators.
“The facilitators told us that they would not give certificates of attendance to any one who would fail so I worked hard,” he said.
On how he would use the skills, the youthful coach said: “What I have observed is that the country needs to have a two-year plan for women soccer if we are to do better. And for now we should not participate in the continental tournaments but should develop our talent first, probably from the schools. With the support of government, nothing is impossible.”
Fam executive member McCollins Chibvunde praised Mbolembole’s success.
“We will have to use him in the development of women football because that is the area where he concentrated. But if he covered other areas such as men’s football, then we will utilise him in training both the senior and junior teams,” said Chibvunde.
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