The Nigeria Football Federation has concluded all arrangements to organise a seven-day D-License coaching course in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja from March 4, 2024.
Continental football-governing body CAF has given approval for the course in which 40 nationwide will participate.
The practical and theoretical sessions are scheduled for the NFF/FIFA Goal Project at the Package B of MKO Abiola National Stadium, Abuja.
Resource persons include NFF’s Technical Director and former Super Eagles’ captain and coach, Augustine Eguavoen; highly-respected Coach Henry Abiodun; Director of Sports Medicine of the Federal Ministry of Sports Development, Dr. Paul Onyeudo; former Super Eagles’ star, Edema Fuludu; former FIFA referee and Special Assistant to the NFF General Secretary, Mohammed Adebayo Ameenu; and; former Deputy Director, Technical of the NFF, Dr. Robinson Okosun.
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Eguavoen will speak on: “Physiology of Football,” while Onyeudo will take the participants on: “First Aid and Injury,” and Dr. Okosun, a renowned psychologist, will speak on: “Psychology.”
Ameenu will speak on” “Child Safeguarding.”
Coaches Ibrahim Gwadabe and Lawrence Ndak will also be involved as resource persons.
The NFF organised a CAF coaching instructors’ course last year, and is already in the advanced stage of plans to organise higher-grade coaching courses in the course of this year.