The Deutscher Fußball-Bund (DFB)-Ferwafa coaching course for Rwanda climaxed last week in different Provinces of the country. Speaking at a press conference to end the three-week training course at Ferwafa head quarters on Friday, national football body, vice president, Veduste Kayiranga hailed the Germany coaches for their efforts in passing skills to the Rwandan young coaches. “Throughout harsh and bad weather conditions in Rwanda, these foreign coaches tried their best in passing the coaching skills to our national coaches,” Kayiranga said. Kayiranga further encouraged the local coaches to pass their skills too to the growing young footballing community of the country. “Each of you should initiate a football team which will take part in next year’s third division national league,” Kayiranga told the local coaches. The Germany coaches have been in the country for the past three weeks to conduct coaching course for all coaches in the country. The course has been under the DFB cooperation with Ferwafa. The five professional Germany coaches have been in the country for the past one month, training local based coaches for a period of three weeks. The DFB coaches are; Aloys Stroh, Ernst Effers, Aundreas Spier, Nicolas Adam and Michael Geugelbach. Both Stroh and Adam have the professional highest level of coaching while the rest have the A coaching licence. With the help of five local coaches who underwent training in Germany early this year, the DFB coaches passed the skills to 375 national coaches. Local coaches who helped the DFB coaches to pass skills to respective foreign coaches in five Provinces of the country include; Vincent Mashami, innocent Nsabinka, Theoneste Ndugusaba, Hassan Muhire, Sosteine Habineza and Aloys Kanamugire. The DFB coaching course is one of the many grants that Ferwafa is receiving from the Germany football body aimed at developing football standards from the grass roots levels to an outstanding level in Rwanda. The Ferwafa Technical Director, Michael Weiss who was the chief coordinator of the coaching course said, “The local coaches have been trained with the basic skills and they should act as representatives in developing football from the grass root levels,” Weiss added.Weiss added that the main target was to develop both girls and boys in the sport as well as better coaches who will propel the country to the next level of football. “Improving the coaching level in the country will ensure everything to become more professional,” Weiss also encouraged the Ministry of Youth, culture and Sport and Ferwafa have to set up a monitoring system of monitoring young talents in the region.Ends
