Former coach of the National Basketball team, the D’Tigers, Ayo Bakare, has been listed among the experts expected to handle proceedings at the four-day Lagos State Basketball Training Workshop holding on November 15 to 18.
Bakare has also confirmed his attendance while applauding the Lagos State Basketball Association, led by Babs Ogunade, for initiating the training with Dynaspro Sports.
Bakare will be bringing to fore during the training his more than two decades of experience as club coach as well as his technical know-how at national team levels.
Also joining Bakare during the training workshop is Coach Oliver Babatunde Johnson, an America-born tactician, who has been involved in the game for several years in Nigeria.
According to LSBA, the benefits of the four-day training include the certification of coaches in the state while only certified coaches would be allow to handle teams.
Moreover, the Technical Director of LSBA, Gbade Olatona, said the exercise would provide an opportunity for schools to develop a relationship with the association to ensure genuine technical development of the sport.
“Some of the benefits for attending the four-day Train the Coaches ‘above the rim’ programme include certification and licensing of coaches that perform satisfactory while licensed coaches will be endorsed to teach our school children the game of Basketball. Only licensed coaches will be allow to accompany school teams playing in all state-organised competition for primary, secondary and tertiary levels,” Olatona said.
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