The Fi­fa Grass­roots In­struc­tors course which end­ed at the Dr Joao Have­lange Cen­tre of Ex­cel­lence on Fri­day is aimed at pro­vid­ing the nec­es­sary guid­ance to coun­tries through­out the re­gion on how to reach out to young­sters who are not priv­i­leged to ac­cess de­vel­op­ment skills at the club or na­tion­al lev­el. This was the feed­back pre­sent­ed by Fi­fa Grass­roots co­or­di­na­tor Jorge Di­az Gar­cia who ar­rived from Spain to over­see the sem­i­nar. Gar­cia point­ed out that the week-long event was one of the more promis­ing ones he had been to and he ex­pect­ed that the re­gion should ben­e­fit from the knowl­edge be­ing passed on.

"What we are try­ing to achieve is a lev­el of un­der­stand­ing for the de­vel­op­ment of the game at the low­est lev­el...the grass­roots lev­el where young­sters can learn the game and un­der­stand it bet­ter through as­sis­tance from coach­es of the var­i­ous na­tion­al as­so­ci­a­tions. "We in­tend to help all the as­so­ci­a­tions but Fi­fa has been say­ing when as­so­ci­a­tions can im­ple­ment mea­sures to im­prove the de­vel­op­ment, then they will give the nec­es­sary as­sis­tance from pro­vid­ing all the equip­ment, the ex­per­tise and even fi­nanc­ing where nec­es­sary," said Gar­cia. Gov­ern­ments are al­so ear­marked to be part of the project. The fo­cus will be placed on teach­ing the game to chil­dren be­tween the ages of 6-12 and coach­es from the var­i­ous coun­tries are be­ing taught on how to pass on the coach­ing skills to oth­er coach­es from their re­spec­tive coun­tries who can then go in­to the var­i­ous com­mu­ni­ties and work.