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Bukhosi Mangena
Sports Correspondent
CAF instructor Gibson Homela has blasted Zifa’s latest minimum coaching qualifications saying they were anti-development.Zifa last week announced new coaching requirements for national teams, Premier Soccer League clubs, tertiary, primary and secondary school level.
Primary school soccer coaches must now have at least a Zifa Level 1 licence, a requirement Homela attacked as neglecting grassroots development.
Homela feels coaches with a higher level of technical knowhow should be the ones coaching at primary school level to impart proper football basics at that tender age.
“I’m completely against Zifa’s reasoning of having low level coaches teaching primary school kids the basics. At that age, children must be taught to grasp proper basics, which will make it easy to coach and mould them into good players as they grow older,” said Homela
“Zifa should have required that coaches with Level 4 and Caf C be the ones that administer proper basics to these kids if ever we want to move forward in terms of development.”
Under the new Zifa requirements, a national team coach must have a minimum qualification of a Caf A licence or better, while PSL coaches need a Caf A licence or Caf B licence and working towards attaining a Caf A licence.
Assistant coaches are now required to have at least a Caf C licence. Goalkeepers’ coaches in the PSL must have a Caf C licence and a goalkeeper coaching certificate.
Division One coaches need a Caf C licence or Zifa Level 4 certificate, while assistant coaches must have at least a Zifa Level 4 certificate.
The Division One requirements also apply to coaches in the Second Division and tertiary institutions. Assistants will be required to have at least a Caf C licence.
Division Three coaches should have a Zifa Level 3 certificate and their assistants a Zifa Level 1 qualification.
Secondary school coaches need a Zifa Level 2 qualification.
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