TTFA stages third ‘A’ License Course
TTFA stages third ‘A’ License Course
The TTFA hosted the opening ceremony of its third A License coaching Course at UTT, NAPA in Port of Spain on Monday
Attending is former Jamaica Reggae Boy midfielder and head coach Theodore ‘Tappa’ Whitmore and other coaches from St Vincent, St Kitts, Antigua/Barbuda, Belize and Barbados.
Concacaf Senior Development Manager Andre Waugh is also here for the proceedings along with former head of coach education for the Brazil Football Confederation and FIFA Instructor Mauricio Marques who will serve as an instructor.
Jim Loughlin, a member of Concacaf’s coach education panel and Manager of coach education for the Canada Soccer Association is also attending.
Several local and regional coaches are participating in the course including members of the national men’s senior football coaching staff led by Head coach Angus Eve and his assistant coaches Derek King and Reynold Carrington.
The eight-day face to face segment of the course will cover a lot of topics such as leadership, attacking in the opponent’s half, player development and modern trends in the game. The course will continue over the rest of the year with different segments.
TTFA Technical Director Anton Corneal is the main facilitator of the course along with England’s Tony McCallum and Marques.
“Since the inception of the course it is really for the Caribbean. It is for us also, but we have to embrace the Caribbean.”
“I think that it is important for T&T and Jamaica to make sure that we don’t go ahead alone, that we can walk with the others and how we can possibly help we can help.”
Corneal, who is elated to see Eve and his team taking part, spoke about some of the main topics.
“All of them (are important). One would be leadership, how we lead. We have systems of play because we have this influx of systems of play. Modern trends in the game (will be looked at). We will look at the 2023 Gold Cup (and) we will look at the last World Cup, some of the modern trends that we are seeing.”
