Fufa, UBSA empower beach soccer coaches for 2020 Afcon

KAMPALA. The news of Uganda hosting the lucrative 2020 beach soccer Afcon tourney was received with a pertinent question back in November – will we be ready to host a continental showpiece?
Fufa and the Uganda Beach Soccer Association (UBSA) were optimistic and have now started making baby steps towards making the continental showpiece a success by taking 30 coaches through training techniques aimed at arming them with the new trends and rules of the game.
“We have organized this course to catch up with the global technical changes since the last one we held was in 2015. It is this same course we shall use to grade and license coaches after the exams they did at the end,” UBSA chairman Deo Mutabazi revealed.

He added; “the coaches went through the new Fifa coaching manual, latest laws of the game and we believe that this will end the endless clashes between coaches and referees evidence in the national beach soccer league.”
Mutabazi believes that Uganda, already qualified as hosts, will not be merely participating but competing and that includes making thorough preparations in administration and management – courses that are underway.

Galacticals player coach Abdul Karim Kibalama, one of the beneficiaries of the cost shared four-day course that started at FUFA Special Interest Group offices in Lungujja Kampala with theoretical classes at ended at Lido beach in Entebbe with the practical sessions, was thrilled by what he learned.
“I studied how to adjust the team training program, pre-match analysis, indirect or direct attacking, how to motivate players and making players understand club targets, and nurturing young talent into stars,” he told Daily Monitor.