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| Nevin Ibrahim and SAFA Pinkie Lehoko © PSL |
The CAF Refresher Course in Management and Administration will not only be beneficial towards federations but laso to professional football on the African continent.
This is the view of Botswana and Gambia delegates Neo Gabalebaletse and Abdou Salaam Jammeh.
Both said this at the opening of the SAFA-hosted course in Sandton - Johannesburg on Wednesday morning.
"Our football is still semi-pro, and I believe that I can contribute to the development of the game by sharing the core of the knowledge I will acquire through this course,' Gabalebaletse, an official of the Botswana Football Association (BFA) told the official PSL website.
"I will call for a seminar with the clubs when I get back," the former Francistown Football Association and Task FC official added."This can definitely help so that clubs get to know what it definitely takes to run a football club in the modern era."
Meanwhile, Jammeh is also confident that the course will stand his country's football in good stead.
"We are not doing too bad on the field in our league, but need a lot more on the adminnistrative and management side," he said.
"Ours is a league that is very youthful as a result of the sound development programme that we have been following over the last decade or so."
The Gambia's Under-17 and Under-20 national youth teams have been regular participants in FIFA and CAF competitions, emerging champions in the 2005 CAF Under-17 tournamnet and beating the likes of Brazil in the 2005 FIFA Under-17 competition in Peru. The Under-20 side has qualified for the 2007 FIFA Under-20 tournament in Canada.
The Under-17 side has now qualified to play in the CAF Under-17 tournament to be held in Algeria.
"The consequences of a sound youth development programme mean that we have a youthful league that has seen the young players metarmophisise into players who will also make an impact on the international stage."
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