Football Kenya Federation (FKF) has launched the Confederation of Africa Football (CAF) D coaching course at the Ligi Ndogo grounds in Nairobi.
The federation’s chief executive officer Barry Otieno has urged coaches to take coaching so professional to enable them raise the standards of football in the country.
While opening the coaching proramme today, Otieno said that as part of their larger vision to create good coaching they have organized for CAF D License coaching course for existing coaches and former players.
“Basically, this is to try and improve on the number of coaches we have trained and ensure that players at the youth level are managed by people who have knowledge on how age0group training should be done.”
Otieno said they hoped to train more coaches at the top level, adding plans were at an advanced stage to roll out Caf A and Caf B courses in the near future.
“The vision is to have at least 10,000 maybe within the next eight years, have at least 100 or so at Caf A, 200 at Caf B and 500 at Caf C so that coaching is not an issue and clubs can bring in local coaches who can perform; coaches who can handle kids in the right way,” said Otieno.
“We have upcoming courses in Caf C and one refresher course for coaches who had done Caf C but were not given certificates. Hopefully, we’ll apply to Caf to have a Caf B and then a Caf A,” he added.