Unlicensed coaches can’t handle clubs in Ghana — Ghana FA

Unlicensed coaches can’t handle clubs in Ghana — Ghana FA

The Ghana Football Association (GFA) says it is aggressively building the capacity of coaches in the country in line with its Club Licensing Regulations to help raise the standard of the local game.
According to the GFA General Secretary, Mr Prosper Harrison Addo, the association was working with a plan to ensure that in the next few years, no untrained and unlicensed coach will be allowed to handle any league club in Ghana, including teams at the juvenile level.

Mr Addo revealed at the maiden Metro TV-Graphic Sports Forum held in Accra last Tuesday that Ghana currently lacked a lot of trained and licensed coaches at the lower levels of football for which the FA was aggressively tackling the issue with a number of training programmes at the FA’s development centre at Prampram.

Coaching is very key and the plan is that no club in Ghana will play without trained and licensed coaches, and we are stretching it down to the juvenile level,” he said.

The GFA’s chief administrator said the FA appointed Prof. Joseph Kwame Mintah as its Director of Coaching Education to oversee the training of coaches at all levels, in collaboration with the FA’s Technical Director, Mr Berhnard Lippert and the UEFA assist programme.

In the last three weeks, the FA run refresher courses for CAF License A and CAF License B holders to build their capacity ahead of the new season.

Explaining further, he indicated that a few changes had been made to the Club Licensing Regulations in line with new directives by CAF, to ensure that only CAF License A holders or those with higher equivalent from Europe or South America were allowed to handle Ghana Premier League clubs as head coaches or as assistant coaches respectively.

Source: Graphic online

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