Dhaka – The Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) has included three auxiliary support programmes in its 12 strategic objectives as part of a master plan to develop the level of football in Bangladesh.BFF included these three programmes — Coach Education and Development, Referee Development, and Medical and Sports Science — with its recently launched third phase of the fundamental development initiative to create a support mechanism and educational opportunities for all levels of football.Phase three addresses issues that have typically been the obstacles to overall football development in Bangladesh.These include coaches’ inability to foster youth development programmes and meet with the demands of coaching, lack of experts in key specialist areas and lack of coaches in specialised developmental areas (grassroots, youth or elite level).Whatever the number of coaches there were, did not fully appreciate modern training philosophies and methods that help each individual player reach their full potential, said a BFF media release on Tuesday.According to all the development plan models (Germany, Belgium, Iceland, Japan and Korea) that inspired the federation’s plan, developing the instructors’ ability is essential to developing the overall quality of the game. Developing the quality of coaching at national and grassroots level would lead to better players, which would result in success.The third phase will be the time when the federation stresses on coaches’ education and development to make sure there are a sufficient number of accredited instructors and coaches at all levels of the game.This is set to begin soon in 2017 and will continue until it can make sure of a constant flow of certified instructors corresponding with the increasing volume of players.The third phase of the football development envisions periodic monitoring of players with latest methods of fitness and conditioning to ensure match fitness at the highest levels.UNB news agency
