Golden Jaguars head-coach Jamaal Shabazz, Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Assistant Technical Director, Bryan Joseph and Fruta Conquerors head-coach and President of the Coaches Association Sampson Gilbert, are currently participants in the inaugural TTFA A-License Coaching Course in Trinidad and Tobago.
GFF General Secretary Ian Alves during an invited comment said, “All the attendees were specifically invited by the TFFA, it’s not the federation who decided on anyone. The people were individually invited and the GFF has no involvement in selection. We have three Concacaf B-License holders at the moment, Bryan Joseph and Sampson Gilbert are two of them. Anything before that I can’t speak to.”
The maiden TTFA A-License Coaching Course which is the first of its kind in the region, commenced on July 4th at the National Academy for the Performing Arts (NAPA) in Port-of-Spain. Apart from Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana, representatives from seven other Caribbean nations are involved in the seminar. They are St Lucia, Jamaica, Dominica, St Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados and the British Virgin Islands.
Among the course facilitators are FIFA’s Head of Coaching and Player Development Branimir Ujevic, TTFA Technical Director Anton Corneal, former England U-17 team head coach and English FA John Peacock, and Senior Regional Coach Development Manager for the Football Association of England Tony McCullum.
According to the TTFA, “The main aim of this course, of which the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT) is a major supporter, is to educate coaches on the modern trends of the game, focusing on the practical and theoretical aspects of coaching, with an emphasis on leading the elite player and team at an advanced level.”
