Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, in a determined efforts to bolster the development of women football in the in the country, has listed 30 women to undergo CAF C coaching licencing course later this month in Abuja
President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau who divulged this in an exclusive chat with Completesports.com, disclosed that all the necessary work has been done by the Technical Department of the country’s football ruling body to ensure that the course hold successfully in this May.
We have blazed the trail in women football in the continent since the inception of the game and most of the players who have made us dominate the continent over the years have retired and probably no longer in football or into coaching without the required training and certificate,” Gusau stated.
The NFF under my watch will help give the women a helping hand in their development and that of the game. We need women coaches to come of age and take full charge of coaching women soccer clubs and the national teams. This first set of women for the CAF C licence will hopefully grow to get their CAF A and B in future.
We have been in communication with CAF on this for long time now and now that their syllabus for CAF C is ready, we are hopeful that CAF will send the men who will conduct the course before the end of the month. We hope to start with 30 women and see how it goes” the NFF boss reiterated.
In a related development, the NFF Technical Director, Austin Eguavoen told Completesports.con that the syllabuses for CAF A and B for male coaches have been approved the Confederation of Africa football and there are the likelihood that the courses might hold alongside the women CAF C licence session.
The former Super Eagles coach explained that the inability to organise the CAF licensing courses since 2018 was because CAF insisted on developing a syllabus for the course with the intention of ensuring that the coaches are properly trained and certified.
“CAF are not happy with previous licensing courses held in some countries including Nigeria where over 100 coaches are registered with all of them passing the course,” Eguavoen explained.
Now they have introduced a syllabus which every coach must excel in before being licenced to coach at higher level. We have submitted our syllabus and they have given approval, so we are all set for them to give us the exact date.”
