The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) will commence the inaugural women’s only Concacaf W Level C Coaching Cours ethis week, which will attract the participation of 24 aspiring tacticians from the various sub-associations.
This was disclosed by an official release from the federation. According to the release, the forum which will be staged at the National Training Centre, Providence from November 24th-29th, will be supervised by the entity’s Coach Education Department. The participants will be former players, current players as well as club, school, and community coaches.
Practical and theoretical sessions will be administered by GFF Acting Technical Director Bryan Joseph and coach Linsworth Gilbery. The aforesaid duo will be guided and supervised by Concacaf’s Technical Expert and Coach Developer, Anton Corneal. “Guyana is the fifth country in the Concacaf region to conduct the female-only Level C coaching course which aims to provide over 300 women across the region with the opportunity to initiate their pathway into coaching”, the release stated. According to Joseph, “The vision of President Forde is to raise the standard of Women’s football across Guyana by investing heavily in the education and certification of our female coaches.
This course is just the beginning of the long-term support and investment the GFF technical department plans to make in our dedicated female coaches. The knowledge and experience these coaches will gain from this course will have a tremendously positive impact on the quality of players they will go on to develop in the coming years, which will contribute vastly to the improvement of our national teams.”
